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 #

Dooce is retiring from professional blogging — curious to see if subscription funding like Patreon can fill the gap left by advertisers #

Infocom legend Michael Berlyn needs help fighting cancer — Leigh Alexander has more on his lesser-known work #

The Words The Media Industry Prefers — like everything Paul Ford writes, only partly about what it pretends to be about #

Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 — renting GPU instances with Steam's streaming features #

Rhizome resurrected Theresa Duncan's groundbreaking CD-ROM games — playable in the browser in emulated System 7.5.5, try quitting to the desktop when you're done #

The First Apple Homepage — Kevin Fox digs up pre-Wayback screenshots #

Leigh Alexander on simultaneous invention in games — this happens constantly across art and tech #

Don't Cash Crop My Cornrows — a "crash discourse" on cultural appropriation from 16-year-old actress Amandla Stenberg #

David Hasselhoff performs the Kung Fury theme — oh yeah, I guess the new Star Wars trailer came out too #

Maxo's Chordslayer — reminds me of George & Jonathan III #

Reverse engineering WipEout PSX — or just skip to the amazing Three.js model viewer #

The Emularity — open-sourcing the browser-based emulation loader used by the Internet Archive #

Darius Kazemi on automating rhyming quatrains for @SortingBot — follow it to find out your house #

Jesse England's Universal Record — a vinyl disc that vibrates to play any audio on a turntable #

Motherboard on Flash archival efforts — unsurprisingly, Jason Scott's been working on this for years #

Wired profile on Belong.io and Latest.is — the story behind my weird little aggregator #