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 #

GMUNK's Sub.Division — "a series of perceptual landscapes where graphic complexity emerges from the structure of simplistic three-dimensional forms" #

Pinboard's heroic and lazy stand against IFTTT changes — I love IFTTT, but this is a bummer #

Seth Bling turns Super Mario World into Flappy Bird — first-of-its-kind code injection, by hand, on an unmodded SNES console #

Holoportation — combining 3D capture with multiple participants with an augmented reality display #

How to Make a Bot That Isn't Racist — superb Sarah Jeong piece on bot ethics with four of my favorite bot creators #

Moogfest's Substrate — interactive musical experiment #

Angola Internet users organizing on Facebook to pirate files on Wikipedia — given free access to a tiny handful of site, they're making the most of it #

Smarter Every Day on 3D printing magnetic fields — I fully expect these to be a mundane part of everyday life in a few years #

How Netflix uses computer vision to generate promo images — detecting faces, bodies, and other focal points #

Making Day of the Tentacle Remastered — it's out now for PC, Mac, and PS4; worth it for developer commentary alone #

Legalize It All — starts with a shocking quote from Nixon's Watergate co-conspirator, making made headlines on its own #

Elastic Terrain — play with wobbly mountains #

San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam — GTA V hacked to follow a single deer as it randomly roams the landscape #

Adventures in Narrated Reality — experiments with using machine learning for writing prose, poetry, and other texts #

The Gif Connoisseur  #

Cabel Sasser on Firewatch, one month later — interesting postmortem from Panic's first foray into videogame publishing #

Julie Rubicon — short fiction, totally not written by Robin Sloan, about Facebook on Facebook #

The end of Emojitracker — Twitter's killing "elevated" access to its streaming API #

The Walk of Life Project — making every movie better, one Dire Straits song at a time (via) #

Bass cover of "Donald Trump Says China" supercut — related: Publio Delgado's Harmonizator series #

A poem made entirely from SXSW 2016 panel names — "Lifehacks for Dads Who Do Fifty Percent: Big Data Will Choose the Next President." #

NYT's 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going — some great music writing in here #

Responsive pixel art — designed by Marcus Blättermann #

DeepDream VR — try it with Cardboard, if you have one #

David OReilly announces Everything — his ambitious followup to Mountain #

The covert 3D scan of Nefertiti bust appears to be a hoax — I should have questioned this myself, but I assumed they did lots of post-processing cleanup (via) #

Rotoscoping the Muybridge horse — love all the different student interpretations (via) #