Vulture on the mystery of The Immortal — ostensibly the worst fanfic ever made, but seems like a deliberate parody to me #

The Book of Shaders — in-progress project to explain the dark art of shader programming #

A Poem Composed Entirely of SXSW Panel Titles — Driving to Retention: a Simple Roadmap; Is Social Good the Next Killer App? #

Patreon acquires Subbable — Jack Conte joining forces with Hank and John Green seems like a solid move #

Ami Yamato — cheeky vlogger that rarely acknowledges she's digital (via) #

Twitter cuts off Meerkat's access to their social graph — gross and disappointing #

Rolling Stone interviews Chris Poole on why he left 4chan — Gamergate and the Fappening in the same week #

Fusion on VCs investing in their partner's startups — the invective from pointing out a potential conflict-of-interest is curious #

Google Code to close — remind me why it isn't standard practice to send archives to the Internet Archive on shutdown? #

Medium launches custom domains for publications — the experimental student magazine that my mom runs is in the beta test #

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality — epic fanfic novel written by an AI researcher, half the length of the whole Potter series, ending this Saturday #

Danny Sullivan on growing a media business without outside funding — sad to see GigaOm shut down this week, but that's lot of VC #

Reply All on swatting — it's amazing nobody's been killed yet #

Jury find Blurred Lines infringed Marvin Gaye's copyright — garbage ruling with a dangerous precedent #

Motion sensing with the doppler effect — using your microphone to detect motion in the browser #

The Intercept on the CIA's attempts to hack Apple products and developers — disgusting new revelations courtesy of Edward Snowden #

Offworld relaunches — headed by Leigh Alexander and Laura Hudson, with a focus on diverse games writing #

Facemoji — emoji on your face, a side project from cacheflowe #

unindexed — a small online community that deletes itself once it's indexed by Google #

Unboxing a tortoise after four months in a fridge — so adorable #

The Dancing Man — I secretly hoped this was how the Star Wars Kid story would end, but no such luck #

#Gamergate is now literally an industry joke — Tim Schafer's been trending on Twitter all day because of this #

Will Hall on Pinterest — spelling bee eliminations, movie theater carpets, and sexy Chewbaccas #

ASCII fluid dynamics — from 2013, but new to me (via) #

Matt Haughey retires from Metafilter — 16 years is a long time, and he's handling the transition in the best way possible #

The Web's Grain — it is what it is #

Double Fine Adventure documentary goes public — I've seen every episode, and it's a supremely watchable journey of making a game #

The Cartoonist Has No Idea How Net Neutrality Works — tortured right-wing metaphors for making people angry at the FCC #

Forbes profile on Notch after Minecraft — you know what they say #

XOXO 2015 — announcing the fourth festival this September #

#HYPERREALCG — David OReilly's Tumblr of photorealistic CG art, with one small caveat #

Wired redesigns for the first time in eight years — the tech notes are worth reading #

Super Hexagon Bot — OpenCV image processing to play a brutally hard game #

User Onboarding — breaking down the UX of first-time users, and archiving site/app history in the process #

Omni Verse's insane movie/TV collages — every couch gag at the same time, Star Wars in 60-second clips, and many more; Fusion dubbed them "superfuses" (via) #

How BuzzFeed handled #TheDress — worth it for the GIF alone #

Nightline on VR from 1993 — with the requisite Jaron Lanier appearance, I love how he pronounces "2007" #

What Color Is This Dress? — bizarre illusion that's split my Twitter stream in two #

Blogging on Medium — "The fundamental unit of the blog is not the blog post. The fundamental unit of the blog is the stream." #

Internet slang in American Sign Language — the difference between a student and teacher of an evolving language (via) #

New Yorker on Google DeepMind and games — the Breakout demo mentioned in the article (via) #

Killing Time at Lightspeed — reading Twitter on a journey where years pass every time you refresh your feed (via) #

Net neutrality wins — go, Team Internet! also: what the rules mean in plain English #

Sans Bullshit Sans — using OpenType ligatures to replace buzzwords with censor bars #

1,000 Chrome Experiments — love the timeline view #

Vicemo — see who's buying drugs on Venmo #

"Stranger danger" is vastly overstated — irrational fears over child safety are skewed by media and bad stats #

Jay Smooth on the craft of being good — assuming you're good and fair and make good, fair decisions can perpetuate the status quo #

"FYI I'M A GRAPHIC DESIGNER" — the portrayal of graphic designers in film and TV (via) #

Craig Hockenberry on Chinese DNS poisoning — well, that explains the DDoS I've been dealing with for the last 12 days #