TNG Edits, "Riker" — a new TNG Edit after five years! the original series of remixes were instant classics #

Mystery Show's debut episode — new podcast from Gimlet and This American Life's Starlee Kine #

On A Plate — short comic nicely articulates privilege #

Deep learning robots use trial and error for motor tasks — we need a word for the feeling when something is equally exciting and terrifying #

Redrawing Shake It Off — 49 animation students each rotoscoped 52 out of 2,767 total frames #

Ta'izz — third part of Maciej Ceglowski's incredible travelogue series #

Flickr faces complaints over offensive auto-tagging in photos — completely predictable outcome for a frustratingly unnecessary feature #

endless.horse — long horse is long #

Sony's secret contract with Spotify — streaming's a good deal if you're a major label, but indies are stuck with paltry royalties only #

Paul Ford on the No Manifesto — the whole Chicago Review PDF is worth reading #

Christina Xu on killing projects with dignity — ending something in a deliberate way is a time for celebration and closure #

Other People's Playlist — Paul Ford on Spotify's social network of related artists #

Timelapse Mining from Internet Photos — clustering 86 million photos found online #

Bizarre easter egg in Kanye Quest JRPG — ASCEND (via) #

Drunk Shopping — get texted something stupid every Saturday at 2am #

A Millennial Revenge Fantasy — "You refused to buy us Lunchables, and now you must pay." #

Roman Mars on the design of city flags — the lovely PDX flag gets a shout-out at the end #

Facebook launches Instant Articles — The Awl's John Herrman had the best thoughts on the implications I've seen #

A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art — part of the reason why I ran my experiment #

It's Not About You — "Sometimes a conversation just doesn't need your input." #

Typedrummer — use parentheses for triplets like this #

Windows 95 emulated in the browser — 47MB download and slow as hell, but crazy impressive #

The Verge feature on startups drawing inspiration from casinos — which, in turn, exploits behavioral psychology to take player's money #

Video game execution watched by 325,000 players — the security lead took over the character in-game, stripped, killed, and deleted him #

Things To Have Named After You, In Order Of Difficulty  #

Seb Lester's hand-drawn versions of famous logos — much more hand-lettering work on his Instagram #

Offworld on Lifeline, iOS game where you text an astronaut in real-time — finished this unusual iOS game this morning, highly recommended #

Super Dino Boys — Paul Robertson's gorgeous series of pixel art shorts for Adult Swim #

VHX announces subscription video sales — a new option for indies to make money from serialized video beyond ads #

Oculus announces Rift's shipping Q1 2016 — you bet I'm preordering one #

Medium adds Creative Commons and public domain licensing — Lessig's excited #

Agar.io — like multiplayer Osmos; see also: Curvytron, addictive multiplayer Tron-like game #

Ryan Gosling finally ate his cereal — Ryan McHenry compiled his Vine videos in a single video on YouTube #

Computer Evolution on "Law and Order" — the epic indexing project ended last week #

Firefox deprecating HTTP — wut (via) #

Bridgy — pull comments, likes, and reshares from social networks to your own site (via) #

NYT Mag on the new generation of civil rights activists — using social media to draw attention to systemic oppression #

Makerbase — Gina Trapani's IMDB-like database for people who make stuff, here's me #

Flickgame — tiny game engine for making simple games constrained to 16 drawings linked by color #

Amit Gupta on quietly selling Photojojo — he sold it nearly a year ago, but was worried about telling anyone (via) #

The Age of Drone Graffiti — just wait until someone combines this with automated drawing #

Let's Play: The Shining — in Pippin Barr's signature style #

Great Moments in Peaceful Protest History — the appropriate way to get what you want #

nytimes.cat  #

How Old? — age/gender detection from Microsoft, with some silly results #

Mountains of Mouthness — occasionally NSFW audio (via) #

Classic films summarized by someone who has never seen them — another Mallory Ortberg gem #

Game of Fear — Boston Magazine profile on the horrific origins of Gamergate #

Nonviolence as Compliance — related: Baltimore Sun investigates police brutality settlements #

Anil Dash on fame without being famous — life online with 550k Twitter followers, a very particular type of celebrity #