Stripe Atlas — targeted to non-US businesses, but seems pretty damned useful for U.S. businesses too #

Evolution of Web Design — 2003 was a dark year #

No Small Parts: Crispin Glover — Brandon Hardesty's web series on character actors is so good #

Reagan and WarGames — incredible story of how '80s government security policy was influenced by the film, though he wasn't the first to report it #

Paul Ford on Racter, a 1980s-era chatbot — don't miss the scan of the book it wrote, worth it for the illustrations alone #

Refurbishing A 1927 Switchboard — the interface for this incredible game, Hello Operator #

Artists covertly scan bust of Nefertiti and release data to public domain — "the one object in the museum's collection off-limits to photographers" #

The Simpsons Sphere — 360° video of 500 episodes at the same time; try it in the YouTube app on your phone #

The Maker — "the simple story of one man's enduring passion" #

How Google's Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls — still feels like bad practice that Google indexes content that isn't freely available on the web #

The Outpost Is Here — the absurdly great launch lineup for XOXO's new shared workspace in Portland #

Codeology — gorgeous visualization of Github projects by size and languages (via) #

Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens — as much about how people make money on Tumblr, and Yahoo's attempts to thwart it #

Kendrick Lamar at the Grammys — barnburner of a performance #

The Brain — a neural network built in Quartz Composer #

A Large Dataset of Object Scans — more than 10,000 public domain scans #

The New Yorker profile on TMZ's paparazzi infrastructure — great quote from Alec Baldwin in there #

Smell Dating — from Useless Press, a "publishing collective that creates eclectic Internet things" #

OK Go's zero-gravity music video — how it was made, and why the video is Facebook-only #

Zebra — painful new game from Bennett Foddy; epilepsy warning #

Blab — Twitch meets Hangouts #

The Life of Pablo Generator — make your own Kanye album cover #

Creative Cloud for Mac update deletes the first hidden folder in root — for Backblaze users, it's the folder containing backup drive metadata #

Quartz's delivers the news with a chat-like UI — interesting approach to news app design #

Internet Archive adds Windows 3.1 software emulation — start with the Windows Showcase before deep-diving the rest #

Ezra Klein on the rise of Donald Trump — New Hampshire crosses the line from comedy to terror #

Jezebel on Samantha Bee's new show — the debut episode is a barnburner #

The First 100,000 Funded Kickstarter Projects in 100 Numbers — it took 121 days to hit 100 funded projects, only three days for the most recent 100 funded #

How to Snapchat Like the Teens — surprisingly informative, while also making me feel like I'm a warm corpse #

XOXO Outpost — if you're in Portland, applications are now open for our shared workspace, opening this week #

Soylent Dick — part of the Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon #

Polygon Shredder — source code here, but good luck understanding it #

Transparent LCD displays in the wild — coming soon to pretty much everywhere #

The Malware Museum — safely run vintage DOS viruses in your browser #

Trump Donald — best on a desktop browser #

DeRay Mckesson on why he's running for mayor of Baltimore — pretty excited about this; related: Campaign Zero's ten steps to ending police violence in America #

Bill Wurtz explains the History of Japan — better than it sounds; all his videos are pretty great #

Anil Dash on "never read the comments" — persuasive argument that the common in-joke normalizes online harassment #

The Michael Jackson/Sonic 3 videogame conspiracy — Sega continues to deny Michael Jackson's work made it into the game, likely for legal reasons #

Polygon's review of The Witness — Jon Blow's epic, seven-year followup to Braid is out, and it's something special #

After 15 years, AbeVigoda.com updated — RIP #

The Chickening — Nick DenBoer and Davy Force bat-shit insane remix of The Shining #

Spherical Droste video — navigate with the mouse, or watch in VR; related reading #

Track-by-track breakdown of making David Bowie's "Heroes" — analyzing the master recording in-studio with his long-time producer, Tony Visconti #

#screensaverjam entries — a game jam inspired by classic screen savers, over 30 viewable in browser #

Bypassing YouTube's ContentID with mouth sounds — I highly recommend turning on the auto-generated captions #

Donald Rumsfeld made an iOS game — using the preferred business model of war criminals everywhere (via) #

Breakdown of Amazon's social engineering backdoor — damning transcripts of customer support handing out customer details #

Oscars make changes to diversify membership — a good start, though may not have much impact until the industry changes #

Shamchat, random chat with roleplaying — hilarity ensues #