TEXT-MODE — beautiful tumblr of ASCII/ANSI-influenced art #

Rex Sorgatz revisits his tiny, remote hometown — technology changed it, but in unexpected ways (via) #

I Have No Idea What This Startup Does and Nobody Will Tell Me — tell me we're not in a bubble again #

NYMag on Social Autopsy, an anti-harassment startup gone wrong — it's easier to fall for conspiracy theories than understand the complexity of online harassment #

Velocipedia — realistic renderings of bicycles drawn from memory #

manygolf — Desert Golfing as an MMO #

The Humans Hiding Behind Chatbots — more artificial artificial intelligence #

Jen Lewis photoshopped Kanye and an artist reportedly made $100k off it — perfect encapsulation of how attribution works on the internet in 2016 (via) #

Slither — like Agar.io meets Snake #

UC Davis paid $175k to downrank pepper spray results — a good time to revisit it from multiple angles #

Kite — interesting networked coding utility, if you're comfortable with the privacy issues #

A Neural Network Playground — tinker with machine learning in the browser #

Radiooooo — bizarrely great music recommendations with a quirky interface #

The Verge on the history of content moderation on major social networks — challenging and expensive at scale, with traumatic impact on moderators #

The Guardian's deep dive into harassment and abuse in their comments — analyzing 70M comments, women and minority authors were targeted disproportionately #

Gender and age breakdown of dialogue from 2,000 films — clever methodology maps character names in screenplays to IMDB actors #

Scan of Alan George's Treasure Hunt — from the 1940s, quite possibly the first choose-your-own-adventure/game book (via) #

Emoji miscommunication — the same emoji appears wildly different on various phones and browsers #

Conceptual strategies of Twitterbot poetics — Twitterbots are contemporary, populist poetry #

Koyannistocksi — "Koyannisqatsi reconstructed shot-by-shot with modern, watermarked stock footage" #

Simone Giertz's Popcorn Machine — my favorite robot maker teams up with Adam Savage and Tested #

Neven Mrgan on the costs of Cuprimine — a drug he needs to survive now costs $44,000/month in the U.S., $36 in Australia without insurance #

BABYMETAL appears on Colbert — I wonder what most viewers made of their U.S. television debut #

lyrical school's RUN and RUN — watch this on your phone #

L.A. Times profiles Anita Sarkeesian's new project — one day left to fund the Ordinary Women series, which is about to hit its goal #

Command — Slack-like commands in the browser #

Medium adds new tools for publishers — new designs, revenue options and archive importing preserving timestamps and links #

Trump Minus Tan — warning: can't be unseen #

The glEnd of Zelda() — Tom 7's badass hack to automatically emulate NES games in 3D #

Zelda 30 Tribute — voxel WebGL fan remake, disable Flashblock for audio #

HTC Vive's "mixed reality" release trailer — the best demonstration of what good VR feels like without actually experiencing it #

Techies — interview series with underrepresented people working in tech in Silicon Valley #

xkcd's Garden — give it light and time #

Wasted Hours — I identify with this a little too much #

We Are What We Build — Eric Meyer on #663399becca and #gamergate #

Sand Marble Race — I picked the winner, time to go to the track #

World-record blindfolded run of Super Mario Bros. — capturing the flag at 8-3 in the nick of time, and the final win against Bowser, are both incredible #

Tom Scott on base64 and YouTube video IDs — in one take, too #

perfectly emulated human body #1 — view in the Javascript console, press "x" to interrupt #

Guardian analysis of the Panama Papers — 12 national leaders using offshore tax havens to hide funds #

Dirty Little Secrets — Fusion's analysis of the Panama Papers, a leak 100x bigger than Wikileaks #

AP style to lowercase "internet" and "web" — most of the resistance is from older net users, who still think of it as an invention and a place #

Pilot episode of The Foo Show — Tested's Will Smith is doing a TV show in VR; don't miss where they jump inside the game set #

Reddit's Robin — their sequel to last year's thebutton, another game-like experiment in online social dynamics #

Laughter Doesn't Scale — Paul Ford on Gmail Mic Drop and Internet Jackass Day #

Google pulls misguided Gmail Mic Drop prank — read the whole thread starting here, as it unfolded #

Online casino funding massive Eve Online war — MMOs continue to be weird, but Eve is particularly so (via) #

Cabel Sasser finds the proverbial "uncle who works at Nintendo" — shorthand for that non-existent family member with insider information in the gaming industry #

Microsoft adds Linux commandline to Windows 10 — whaaaa, official support for native bash and Ubuntu Linux binaries in Windows #

A day in the life of a young black male engineering student — infuriating story of dealing with systemic racism while trying to cash a money order #