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 #

Donald Trump says "China" — beautifully edited supercut, love the cadence #

Jim Jarmo's Puntastic — lyrics replaced with social media profile pics; Anarchy in the FB, Tweeted Love #

Amanda Palmer is not crowdfunding her baby — spirited defense of motherhood for independent artists #

Leaving Everywhere — Darius Kazemi made a rant generator about moving away from cities using real census data #

Annalee Newitz's analysis of the Ashley Madison leaked database — Only 0.04% of women ever checked their messages, compared to 64.7% of men #

Wired on the Hugo Awards and sci-fi's culture war — "Some nerds just want to watch the world burn." #

Living with Jigsaw — over a year old, but new to me; part of the short film lineup at Dismaland #

BigRingLover's guide to the J.R.P.G. Torkelson's Lorne of the Rings trilogy — more genius from Neil Cicierega; related: guide to the races of Star Warms #

How Jason Scott and 60 volunteers saved 50,000+ rare tech manuals from destruction — see the before and in-progress photos to get a better sense of the undertaking #

Evan Ratliff's wife found his email in the Ashley Madison database — also: The Awl's John Herrman on the hack #

Real-Life FPS on Chatroulette — surprised they were able to find that many non-nude players #

New trailer for The Martian — finally read the book last month, I'm very excited about this #

The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn't — Steven Johnson on the steady increase of indie artists making a living #

Rex Sorgatz's TV Channel Guide from the Future — "A whole lotta cash is flowing from old television networks to new internet properties" #

Ashley Madison DMCAs journalist for posting spreadsheet column names — also: Sarah Jeong's followup on the copyright status of hacked user info #

vnc-roulette — crawls Shodan for insecure VNC servers and connects you to one #

Burning Man's massive bug infestation — multiple species, some that bite and cause rashes #

Banksy opens Dismaland, large-scale Disneyland satire — the most mediocre place on Earth; love the Cinderella pumpkin crash #

Untold history of the Space Jam website — with original notes and site map (via) #

Ryan North live-tweeted his way out of a hole — like a real-life text adventure game puzzle #

Emoji Mosaic — entirely in JS #

A tour of abandoned college campuses in Second Life — all these polygons will be lost like tears in rain #

Cameron's World — incredible collage of text and images from archived GeoCities pages #

100 Days of Pleasantries (NSFW) — illustrated diary of a stripper's memorable encounters with customers and co-workers #

Cycloid Drawing Machine — digital version of this real-world toy #

Ferrolic — computer-controlled ferrofluid makes a pretty interesting analog display #

Madventure Time — Doof Warrior Marceline is a nice touch #

Overshare: The Links.net Story — the documentary Justin Hall talked about in his XOXO talk is out #

Fax.ink — new art project by YACHT, co-built by Daniel Bogan of The Setup fame #

This Is My Jam shuts down with class — going read-only with a permanent archive and API, open-sourcing the data, export with opt-out #

Glenn Fleishman on the happy birthday copyright lawsuit — he got a copy of the 1922 book that firmly puts the song in the public domain #

SubredditSimulator — fully-automated Markov-generated subreddit, human comments are removed #

Pokemon Palettes — reload for a new one #

Adam Saltsman on bootstrapping his indie dream game — the reality of indie game development: it's really fucking hard #

Rolling Stone on the point of no return for climate change — let's see what the GOP candidates have to say about it... #

Ennuigi — follow a depressed Luigi as he chain smokes and wanders over a crumbling Mushroom Kingdom #

codedoodl.es — creative coding experiments with web technologies #

FBI subpoenas Boing Boing for nonexistent Tor logs — how awesome is it that they run a Tor exit node? answer: very awesome #

The New Devil's Dictionary — Greg Knauss was there first #

Workin' In A Cocktail Bar — see also: Neil Cicierega's "Wndrwll" #