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 #

Jay Smooth on the murder of Walter Scott — our phones are the closest we have to an airplane's black box #

Fight 215 — Kirby Ferguson video to end mass surveillance under the Patriot Act #

8088 MPH — Jim Leonard explains all the technical firsts in their mind-blowing CGA demo #

OUTSLIDE — gems from SlideShare, a new Tumblr by Neil Cicierega #

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4 — "But you're not you. You're your digital you. Virtually real, controlled by real you." #

Gluten-Free Museum — art without bread #

the button — Reddit experiment in crowdsourced play; any user can push the button, exactly once, to reset the timer #

Matt Stopera's story of becoming a Chinese meme — continuing part one of the Bro Orange story #

Paperholm — a growing papercraft city, one new building per day (via) #

com.google — a $185,000 prank #

Freshman Year — a new vignette game from Nina Freeman #

Feminist Frequency on the Scythian from Sword & Sworcery — first episode from Anita's new series on positive female characters in games #

Pac-Man in Google Maps — I think I love functional April Fools' hacks as much as I hate April Fools' hoaxes #

World of Tomorrow — Don Hertzfeldt's first foray into digital animation is now available for streaming on demand #

Paul Ford's failed quantified self email experiment — "counting things doesn't change them" #

Lost Boys — is it legal to not hire someone based on their garbage views? #

Amazon Dash Button — I hope they extend this to their most popular products #

Exploit Exercises — virtual machines for practicing security exploits #

The Demo — musical theater performance based on The Mother of All Demos (via) #

veryman.expert — when in doubt, hit the "New Friend" button #

Flickr adds support for public domain and CC0 licenses — huzzah #

Easy Cheese 3D Printer testing — from Andrew Maxwell-Parish #

Dan Deacon's "When I Was Done Dying" — nine animators take on the afterlife (via) #

Cassetteboy's Emperor New Clothes rap — this duo's remix work is absolutely next-level #

Pitchfork on the unbearable whiteness of indie — if you don't agree there's a problem, check out the responses on Twitter #

Twitch Plays Pokémon captures all 151 monsters — completed the Pokedex after 39 days #

Dashcam video of teen drivers crashing while distracted — "Self-driving cars can't arrive fast enough." #

Offworld on Jason Shiga's comics — one of my favorite comic artists, I've backed his Patreon since day 1 #

Seven on Seven 2015 — incredible lineup; I participated with Michael Bell-Smith in 2012 and it was a blast #

The User Is Drunk — pay a drunk guy to test your UX #

Tinder API prank connected bros with bros — this is kind of cruel, but the screenshots are hilarious #

Twitter launches Periscope app for live streaming — unlike Meerkat, it supports archiving, but only for 24 hours and not available on the web #

Kickstarter Spotlight — huge redesign for successful projects, shifting focus to the work that happens after funding ends #

Spielberg to direct Ready Player One — Ernie Cline is pretty excited #