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 #

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 #