Blake Ross finds the makers of Reload, a dangerous herbal Viagra — using historical whois records, Internet Archive, and searching Facebook by email address #

Ermahgerddon — Vanity Fair interviews the woman from the "Ermahgerd" meme #

Haunted by Data — Maciej Ceglowski compares big data to radioactive underpants; transcript here #

Restoring Wander, a lost adventure game for mainframes from 1974 — predates ADVENT/Colossal Cave; more on lost mainframe games #

Computer Show — Sandwich Video's pitch-perfect 1980s tech show interviews modern startups #

Conde Nast buys Pitchfork — apparently for its "millennial males" #

PCKWCK — serialized novel written in real-time with live comments and webcam of the author #

How WeWork convinced investors it's worth $10B — absolutely ridiculous projections, it's like a bubble inside a bubble; related: The Awl on WeLive #

The Chinese Room co-founder on why she's leaving — the developer of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture on illness, working with publishers, and the games industry #

horse chat — watch me neigh neigh #

Erica Joy on colorless diversity in tech — intersectionality matters #

USGS using Twitter to track earthquakes — tweets mentioning "earthquake" with less than eight words, no links, and no numbers #

Typatone — the video intro is adorable; from the creators of Patatap #

Network Effect — new Jonathan Harris project visualizing human behavior online with YouTube, Twitter, MTurk, Google Ngrams #

Mike Alger's research into VR interface design and usability — followup on his VR interface design manifesto #

karaoke_ebooks — turn a user's tweets into algorithmically-generated rhyming lyrics with music #

I'm Google — Dina Kelberman's ongoing project to manually find chains of visually similar images and videos in Google #

The Beginner's Guide — Davey Wreden's very meta followup to the Stanley Parable, highly recommended #

Unmasking a pseudonymous Twitter user with machine learning — interesting approach, and thoughtful decision not to reveal the name after confirmation #

Weird Simpsons VHS (via) #

Happy "Happy Birthday" Day! — Vi Hart on the oddities of Happy Birthday to You beyond its copyright status #

Tested's preview of the Glowforge laser printer — uses a camera for positioning and tracing imagery, looks so much easier #

else Heart.Break() — gorgeous new cyberpunk adventure game #

Bloomberg Business on clickfraud — related: Maciej Ceglowski's What Happens Next Will Amaze You #

What Shape Is The Internet? — illustrations of the internet from patent applications #

Why Julia Nunes made her older YouTube videos private — she felt her past life online was holding back her changing voice #

Judge rules Warner doesn't hold copyright over "Happy Birthday" — but it's not technically in the public domain, it's an orphan work #

cloud ocr — pick a street, look up, and try to OCR the sky #

CableRobot Simulator — that should help motion sickness from VR, right? #

Scouting NY writes its last post — after seven years of blogging interesting NYC locations, the scout is making his own movie #

Hacker News Simulator — Markov-generated community; see also: Subreddit Simulator #

Moot sells 4chan to 2channel creator — going full circle, now owned by the board that inspired it #

Neurotic Neurons — Nicky Case's explorable explanation of exposure therapy, and how we learn and unlearn #

Ethical Ad Blocker — Darius Kazemi found a unique solution to the ad blocking debate #

Spending Time — an interview/portrait project at XOXO 2015, a sequel to last year's For Yourself #

Kickstarter reincorporates as a public benefit corporation — they don't think or act like other startups #

Marco pulls his iOS ad blocker, two days after going on sale — I'm torn, I think it just delays the inevitable shift to unblockable alternatives to traditional ads #

The Verge on Slack's impact on XOXO — not sure how well it would work outside of XOXO, but it was huge for us #

The Echonest is behind Spotify's new Discover Weekly playlists — this is the first music recommendation algorithm that actually seems to work for me #

frankenSim — from Milo Targett, the creator of Lido Sim #

Using tweets to predict the death of social apps — I'm kind of surprised more journalists don't do this kind of analysis, the Twitter API's great for it #

Byte — like Hypercard meets Mixel, odd and interesting; the API is shockingly robust for a brand new iOS app #

The Atlantic on Archive Corps' intense manual rescue project — the new offshoot of Jason Scott's Archive Team, saving physical materials #

Rachel Nabors on demanding conference codes of conduct — remarkable cluelessness from an established event organizer; also: worthless manfeelings #

Kill Screen on Adam Mathes' Sierra adventure Twitter bots — @quest_glitches is just beautiful #

1 Hour of Binaural Nut Sack ASMR — oh, internet #

XOXO 2015 schedule goes live — pretty proud of this #

Star Wars Ep 4: Laser Moon Awakens — The Auralnauts reimagine the Death Star as a laser tag arena complex #

McSweeney's Interactive Guide to Ambiguous Grammar — how to turn a clear statement into vague and distant nonsense #

Dictionary Stories — very short stories composed entirely of dictionary example sentences #