Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with President Obama — I'm going to miss that guy #

Archillect — this bot is so good, I was convinced it's human; after reading how it works, I'm still not sure #

MVP — short fiction about devs building a game for an audience of bots #

BuzzFeed on the rise of the chanterculture — tying racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic paranoia into meme culture #

A-Frame — shockingly simple open-source framework for making WebVR with HTML #

ClickHole's Glengarry Glen Ross Christmas lights display — please somebody do this for real #

Martin Shkreli arrested on security fraud charges — now's a good time for Wu-Tang and Bill Murray to steal their album back #

Grayout — the new Blackbar prequel for iOS by Neven Mrgan and James Moore #

Star Wars Minus Star Wars — retelling A New Hope without using any images or sounds from the film (via) #

Publio Delgado's Harmonizator series — brilliant free jazz guitar harmonizing found footage on YouTube (via) #

The best Twitter bots of 2015 — my favorites were Deep Forger, YouTube Artifact, and Wow So Portland #

Darth Vader Yule Log  #

Justin McElroy on the current state of the Frog Fractions 2 ARG — pretty sure we're all playing Frog Fractions 2 right now #

Slack's new app directory — officially launching the Slack platform; related: Botkit #

Survey results from this year's Cards Against Humanity holiday survey — correlating penis length and tipping preferences, among others #

A Day in the Life of Americans — simulation of 1,000 people's average day, minute by minute (via) #

NPR's Songs We Love 2015 — 31 hours of music, broken up into playlists #

Undertale is tearing GameFAQs apart — the Kickstarter-funded indie RPG is brilliant; here's a great review explaining why it's finding an audience #

Pilot — each episode is a pilot for a new podcast, from This American Life's Stephanie Foo #

Noby Noby Boy finally completed after 2,489 days of gameplay — released in February 2009, players collectively stretched across the solar system #

Internet Credit Union closes — Brewster Kahle's bank shutters, stymied by bureaucracy #

Farewell, Rdio — export tools and some goodbye analytics; import your playlists to Spotify #

Itch.io launches desktop app — my favorite indie game platform launched an open-source desktop app #

Voight-Kampff Empathy Test 2015 — "You gotta hear both sides." #

Sweaterify — the perfect holiday gift #

Gaby Dunn on the sad economics of YouTube fame — every Just Between Us video gets 100k+ views, madness that they can't make a living off it #

True Love Tinder Robot — my friend Nicole is a goddamned genius #

The Trace on Sandy Hook hoaxers — inside the hateful world of mass shooting conspiracy theorists #

Reality Editor — MIT Media Lab augmented reality project to modify the behavior of connected objects (via) #

Matt Haughey on his GOP dildo project — nothing against dildos, it's a commentary on politicians pandering to gun lunatics #

MRA Dilbert — mashing up Dilbert comics with horrible, real quotes from its creator #

Touch Arcade on Apple TV's App Store and the state of iOS gaming — Apple's cluelessness about games extends to the TV, so much lost potential #

Data Atsume — running analytics on Neko Atsume, the notoriously opaque kitty collecting game #

Motherboard interviews Drew about The Worst Things For Sale — I've been following his work for over a decade, but never knew his last name #

YouTube Rewind 2015 — I've never felt so detached from YouTube culture, I only know 20% of these creators #

Miranda Harmon's comic about Harmontown, podcasts, and depression — no relation #

Anita Sarkeesian on harassment through impersonation — digging into a blatant example of faked tweets on 4chan designed to enrage people #

Serial podcast returns with the story of Bowe Bergdahl — as before, incredible production values and great storytelling, hopefully leaving the ethical issues behind #

Rev. Dan Catt on his Minus Everyone comic bot — "If someone does something simple, calls it art, then that's what it is." #

Yule Log 2015 — short looping animations for the holidays; watch 'em fullscreen with some hot cocoa #

10×15 — ten artists reimagine the cover art for their top ten favorite albums of 2015 #

Kickstarter Fulfillment Report — the full research paper is worth reading too #

New York Mag interviews viral stars of Internet past — Tay Zonday is an interesting guy #

Jury Duty — anonymous and unlisted first-person story of being a juror on a murder trial (via) #

Working videoconferencing and web browser in Minecraft — a Verizon tie-in, but hey, they open-sourced the libraries #

breadfaceblog — "giving the people something they didn't ask for" (via) #

Double Fine funding Psychonauts 2 on Fig — I'm pretty skeptical of equity crowdfunding, but thrilled they're working on this #

Access Denied — stunning John Herrman column on the end of special access for the media (via) #

Computerman — extended remix of the Vid Kidz segment from 1985 (via) #

Deep Forger, making art forgeries from photos with a neural network — want your own? the secret manual has tips for customizing it #