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) #

The Guardian on the global economic downturn for millenials — "In the US, under-30s are now poorer than retired people" #

500 1990s Desktop Wallpapers — the original vaporwave (via) #

Data analysis uncovers crossword puzzle plagiarism scandal — the data and source are available on Pwanson's site #

Fileship — hold digital files hostage until your client pays up #

TensorFlow for Poets — beginner's guide for the machine intelligence library #

Wait But Why's Tim Urban procrastinates his TED talk about procrastination — gripping reading for anyone with a fear of public speaking (via) #

Vox on the rise of American authoritarianism — "Donald Trump could be just the first of many Trumps in American politics" #

Life and Death in the App Store — a depressing case study for bootstrapped paid iOS apps #

Wintergatan's Marble Machine — performative music instrument built from 2,000 marbles and 3,000 parts #

Vandelay Industries — a Slack bot that searches every line from Seinfeld and posts an animated GIF #

How Gawker trolled Donald Trump into tweeting a Mussolini quote as his own — Twitter bot making headlines #

New York Mag on Weird Facebook — related: Ted Cruz is the Zodiac Killer #

Postmortem 2021: How AI Won — Diana Kimball's speculative fiction memo on super-persuasive AI #

The Last Job on Earth — a partnership with the Guardian to imagine an automated future #

Minefield — massively-multiplayer Minesweeper (via) #

"We Are the World" using Face Swap Live — four years after Kyle McDonald and Arturo Castro's demos, real-time face substitution is an app #

PBS Idea Channel on ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? — more than just ironic, it ties into how we experience art online and where we "live" #

Pejac's Heavy Sea — the short film claims no CGI, no Photoshop #

Matt Taibbi on how America made Donald Trump unstoppable — "Trump found the flaw in the American Death Star" #

Sailor Mercury on the intersection of art and technology — art-inspired technology gives us new ideas instead of incremental improvements #

Playthings — cheeseburger drums and gummy bear xylophones on a day-glo VR island #

Metafilter's Gopher server is back after 15 years of downtime — there's no Gopher client for Chrome, but you can use an HTTP gopher proxy to browse it #

Boston Dynamics' new demo of their Atlas humanoid robots — that guy with the hockey stick will be first against the wall after the robot uprising #

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 #