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" #

mojibar — emoji searcher in your menubar #

Makerbase opens to the public — Gina Trapani and Anil Dash's IMDb for projects; here's me #

Showgoers — sync Netfix movies with friends #

EDGE — The Onion's answer to VICE #

F.A.T. Lab closes its doors — they seem torn up about it, but they made so much great stuff and should be proud #

The Data Drive — cut-and-paste Facebook from a parallel world where Zuck ran off with all of Facebook's data #

Soylent founder on "how I gave up alternating current" — I can't decide if this is real, satire, or just cynical trolling to promote Soylent 2.0 #

Theft, Lies, and Facebook Video — Hank Green on Facebook's deception and lack of accountability #

Rhythmic gymnastics ribbon with a robotic arm — first robots take over manufacturing, and now they're going after our gymnasts #

No one will ever read this but — audio readings of found online writing that each author thought would never be read (via) #

Projection mapping on a moving surface at 1,000 fps — some interesting applications for gaming #

Gamifying Sisyphus — just have him play clicker games instead #

eyeballs.js — JS version of the classic Mac extension #

Bobbie Johnson on people with liberal arts degrees in tech — most of the people I know doing interesting work in tech don't have engineering degrees, or a degree at all #

Blackbox — new startup from the Cards Against Humanity team helping others sell and ship stuff, like Exploding Kittens today #

Citizen Ex's TLD stories — James Bridle explores the origins of .io, .ly, and more #

New evidence appears in Happy Birthday copyright case — nail in the coffin for Warner/Chappell's case #

What do machines sing of? — machine that endlessly sings '90s pop ballads with intonation #

State of Georgia sues Carl Malamud for copyright infringement — for republishing annotations of their legal code, not the code itself #

Les Orchard on the Verge's web tracking — 7MB of Javascript #

PICO-8 — "a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs" #