Matter on the Shut-In Economy — replacing disappearing manufacturing jobs could be a good thing, but needs to be done responsibly #

AV Club's oral history of UHF — I had no idea it was a box office failure, but then again, I was 12 years old at the time #

Making Care of Business — interviews with small business owners weekly; see also: The Distance #

Little Party — weird and beautiful game about your daughter's all-nighter art party #

Warp Door — great blog of experimental games #

Explorable Explanations — also worth checking out: literally everything else Nicky Case has ever done #

PDX carpet named as Grand Marshal in Starlight Parade — god, I love this city #

National Corndog Day — but, but, *every* day is corndog day! #

The Last Mile — Ondi Timoner's short doc on a tech incubator in San Quentin (via) #

No Small Parts — a documentary series on character actors by Brandon Hardesty #

Sext Machine — see also: Sext Adventure #

Stop Robot Abuse — these guys will be first against the wall when the robot revolution comes #

Model View Culture on cultural bias in the Unicode standard — voting rights costs $18,000 per year #

Atari blocks gaming legend Jeff Minter from releasing new game — continuing to dismantle their legacy #

The Worst Internet Things bracket — the March Madness of garb #

Punk Games — Zoe Quinn's manifesto for altgames as punk rock: anyone can do it, and that's great #

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 #