Places I've Never Been — John Green realizes he's selling posters with a quote he never said, and makes it right #

The Ghost in the MP3 — the Tom's Diner video and audio with only artifacts remaining #

HeartForth — emoji-based stack programming language; see also: Emojinal #

InstaDoom — Doom mod adds Instagram filters and a selfie stick #

Vice on Casanova, the 1980s Hollywood party robot — related: Two Panda's robot waiters #

#DaftPunKonsole  #

Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces — "Admittedly, it worked too well and started to conflict with work." #

The Citizen Kane of Supercuts — finally #

Amelia Greenhall's resources for starting a collaborative publication — tons of great advice in here that goes far beyond feminist/tech pubs #

Watch People Code — pulled from the subreddit #

Backchannel tracks down a DARPA challenge troll — from the 2011 un-shredding competition (via) #

I'm an Anti-Braker — I'm so sick of Big Automotive hiding the truth #

Kashmir Hill's CAPS LOCK EXPERIMENT — HACK MAN, the SYSOP of my favorite BBS, used all-caps well into the mid-'90s #

Two Trains — auralization of income equality along NYC subway stops #

Sarah Jeong on the Silk Road verdict — Today In Tabs explainer on the Dread Pirate Roberts #

Make on Katy Perry's Left Shark takedown order against Shapeways — points out that it's a C&D, not a DMCA request, and why that matters #

Jay-Z and Alan Lomax — bizarre copyright story from 2011, new to me #

Way to Go — beautiful web-based art/game pairing video with animation #

Mein Coke — Adam Pash wrote a script to convince Coke's automated campaign to tweet Hitler #

The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence — eminently readable discussion of artificial superintelligence (via) #

How Cards Against Humanity bought, and gave away, a private island — complete with its own secret treasure #

Mallory Ortberg on the Harper Lee interview — the To Kill A Mockingbird prequel is being released under very shady circumstances #

FCC will seek to reclassify the Internet as a utility — this is huge, but I don't expect Congress to swallow it lightly #

Stupid Tricks with Promoted Tweets — I was surprised to learn about "nullcasted" tweets, a way to post semi-private messages on Twitter #

The Creepiest Things You Can Do on Facebook — these are more playful; the creepiest things happen there when people speak their minds #

How to Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps — you may know the author from the Clueless Gamer series on Conan #

White House's 2016 budget data on Github — not a Python script? try reading it on Medium instead #

You Are Not A Content Creator — Jonathan Mann rants on a term that's always bugged me #

Amelia Greenhall on Vivek Wadhwa — or: how to be a fake ally to women in tech #

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S — story of a crazy internationalization bug on Medium #

Ian Padgham's stop-motion films — not clear from the headline, but he made all ten of these #

Plug & Play — surreal iOS game/film about sex and love #

All My Blogs Are Dead — The Awl's Carter Maness on ephemerality in corporate blogs #

SIMPSONS PIXELS — gorgeous pixel-art/chiptune work from Paul Robertson, Ivan Dixon, and Jeremy Dower (via) #

saved by the bell hooks  #

The Gap Between What the Public Thinks and Scientists Know — progress is slow, but the rest of the country will catch up eventually #

Spotify announces Chloe Weil Scholarship — in honor of my friend, Chloe #

Song Exploder examines The Long Winters' "The Commander Thinks Aloud" — from a list of very good episodes, maybe my favorite episode so far #

The Kinspiracy — my little sister spotted a trend on Instagram #

Kill Screen on the return of Grim Fandango — considering its complex history, it's astounding the remastered release happened at all #

MTV wants to go seapunk — leaked design brief from David OReilly #

The Queen of Code — FiveThirtyEight short doc on Grace Hopper, directed by Community's Gillian Jacobs (via) #

Andrew Sullivan to quit blogging — after 15 years and a successful switch to subscription #

Never trust a corporation to do a library's job — my ranting about Google and the Internet Archive for the Message #

Erik Helwig's alternate TV themes — I'm partial to the Friends and Simpsons themes myself #

The Horse Raised by Spheres — finally online, the short films by David OReilly that debuted at XOXO #

Predominantly — color picker meets album finder; try hacking the URL for a cute 404 #

This American Life on Internet rage — Lindy West's interview with a troll is remarkable #

Vine Is A Window — the Vine Year 2 roundup is excellent, just like last year #

Elevator Saga — the elevator programming game #