@StayWokeBot — a bot intended to help clue people into issues of social inequality #

Study finds poorly-performing men more likely to harass women in online gaming — I'd love to see this repeated in other competitive online communities #

Out of the Blue — Metafilter's new podcast going deeper on stories surfaced by the community #

Why Are You So Angry? — six-part series on Internet aggression, focused on Gamergate as a case study; good followup #

Final episode of the Double Fine Adventure documentary — one of the best explorations of the challenges of making something, at a particularly interesting time for indie games #

Erica Joy's salary transparency experiment at Google — "People asked for and got equitable pay based on data in the sheet" #

Trolling the KKK with a sousaphone — music request: Yakety Sax at Westboro Baptist Church #

The Mobile Web Sucks — related: analysis of trackers on 20 homepages #

Paul Ford on the Ashley Madison hack — touches on other major hacks and the ethics of outing personal information #

Gawker reports on Gawker resignations — super inside baseball, an existential crisis over whether the site is "too mean" #

Zero-day exploit remotely controls Jeep Cherokees — an estimated 471,000 vehicles are vulnerable, including brakes, transmission, and GPS #

Echochamber.js — from multiplayer to single-player #

The Web We Have to Save — "What are we exchanging for efficiency?" #

Lightyear.fm — terrestrial radio can't make it past a few light years, but who's counting #

mothgenerator — beautiful algorithmic insects #

What happens when you give email addresses to 70,000 trees? — oh, and the trees like to reply #

Patent troll lawsuits hit all-time high — 90% of high-tech patent lawsuits are filed by trolls #

New Yorker on the impending earthquake that will devastate the Pacific Northwest — some light Monday morning reading for all my Portland friends #

Public dataset of every Reddit comment — 1.7 billion comments, also on the Internet Archive #

Linkmoji — emoji short URLs, like so #

The Verge's profile on The Awl — deliberately staying small and focused, excluding an audience they don't care about #

Slack launches emoji reactions and voting — so much more expressive than a fav alone #

Loop Ring Chop Drink — stylish short animation about four dysfunctional strangers in an apartment building #

Nick Douglas on the Facebook "post-memes," a cousin of advice meme — like using cartoon mascots as emoji; related: The Awl on minions #

My GEL talk about videogames and my son — this was a fun one to do, Eliot was in the audience #

Calvin and Markov — Markov-generated comics from Josh Millard, creator of Garkov #

A Holacracy of Dunces — Paul Carr on Zappos' shift to a flat organization #

Reddit mutiny after AMA employee fired — many of the most popular subreddits went private, all the top posts are about it #

Every Single Word Spoken by a Person of Color — minority representation in mainstream films, like Her, Fault in Our Stars, and Noah #

Google's DeepDream open-sourced — incredible nightmare fodder on Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter, and more #

Sarah Jeong on the ICANN's disastrous proposal to kill domain privacy — a number of women's rights and digital rights groups wrote a letter to ICANN #

Augmented reality desktop with Oculus DK2 and prototype color Leap Motion — totally into this, though I'd guess the mouse/keyboard would be more convenient (via) #

On the road with DigiTour, one of several Vine celeb tours — boy bands without the bands, an audience almost entirely composed of young girls #

Hello, From the Magic Tavern — podcast from the magical land of Foom #

John Oliver on transgender rights — upsetting examples of how badly the media and government gets it wrong, and how easy it is to get it right #

GTA: Full House — the side by side cracked me up #

Gay marriage upheld by the Supreme Court — the entire ruling is worth reading, especially the hilariously awful Scalia dissent #

Emotica Online — an editable world made of emoji #

Her Story — the first full-motion video game I've ever enjoyed, highly recommended #

Hallucinating neural network on Twitch — give it something to dream about in the chat; here's how it works #

Transphobic joke detection — bots should punch up #

Building a primitive hut from scratch — Minecraft on extra-hard mode #

Rhyming Keyboard — built with pronouncing-js #

Tinsel — a tool for making phone tree-based games like, say, an audio Flappy Bird #

Who designed the Solo Jazz cup? — fun detective story spawned by a Reddit thread and cult following #

Google Sheep View  #

Fund on Etsy pilot — Etsy gets into crowdfunding #

mcdonalds.hiphop  #

Aaron Meyer's new homepage — try clicking his laptop on the right #

Reddit's former CEO explains the recent subreddit bans — "You are free to be an asshole on Reddit... but keep it on Reddit." #