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 #

Jon Benjamin tries jazz — he recorded a full jazz album playing piano, but he doesn't know how to play piano #

"Men" by Irene Koh — great personal comics on dating terrible dudes #

Detecting faces in objects and random noise — the averaged photos are haunting and beautiful #

The Verge on how a convicted scammer revealed a secret surveillance device from prison — and used the legal system to hack his way out of federal prison in the process #

Oregon militia organizer angry about dildos — I blame Matt Haughey #

Digital Materiality of GIFs — Sha Hwang's talk about GIFs turned into a remixable NewHive essay #

oh you pretty things  #

RIP David Bowie — heartbroken #

1080plus, wonderfully weird social YouTube viewer — I lost myself in this for an hour last night, VJing retro videos for a bunch of people; desktop only #

How Mickey Mouse evades the public domain — old hat around these parts, but love the visualization #

Bushes of Love — the anonymous creator of Bad Lip Reading knows how to write a catchy hook #

Simulating the World in Emoji — Nicky Case's interactive experiments with thinking in systems #

Oculus Rift preorders start Wednesday — no word on pricing or shipping dates yet #

Of Oz the Wizard — astounding remix of The Wizard of Oz recut in alphabetical order; related: ARST ARSW #

The Website Obesity Crisis — another essential Maciej Ceglowski talk, video here #

butts.lol — Charles Vestal's new year's resolution to draw (at least) one butt a day in 2016 #

Pay Women the Money They Need to Make the Culture — also, the replies to Rachel's query on Twitter turns up so many great responses #

The Trump Diet — Matt Haughey embarks on a high-stakes weight loss challenge #