Beastie Boys musicless party — also great: his MacGyver remix #

Hank Green on interviewing the President — the legacy media reacted with widespread disdain #

BusinessTown — gorgeously-illustrated, worth it for the Nathan Myhrvold parody alone (via) #

Buzzfeed answers a reader question about feminism — refreshing #

Zoe Keating on YouTube strong-arming musicians to join their streaming service — put your full catalog on Music Key for free, or you can no longer monetize your own channel #

The Emularity — surfing the web with Netscape 1.0 on Windows 3.11 and Trumpet Winsock, all from a browser window #

Hacking Super Mario World from inside the game — first time running the insane credits warp glitch on an actual console #

The return of Kottke's remaindered links — it's long past time for me to redesign my site for very similar reasons #

Pirating the Oscars 2015: HD Edition — pirates are now regularly releasing films in higher quality than screeners sent to Oscar voters #

Gizmodo on Oregon's dark, racist past — and, sadly, it's homogenous present #

Next on Black Mirror… — "what if phones, but too much" #

Alex Leavitt's GDC talk on Twitch Plays Pokemon — accessible analysis of the crowd-based gameplay phenomenon #

Pitchfork's conversation with Bjork — don't miss the last part on female authorship and credit #

Moot retires from 4chan — he did it for free #

Paul Ford on the infrastructure behind PAPER's Kim Kardashian stunt — the untold story: Greg Knauss built the whole thing #

Slackbot Bot — every office needs one #

pplkpr — Black Mirror-style art/tech project uses your physical responses to change your social activity #

Matter on the Chaturbate community — mildly NSFW photos; a community with its own currency and cultural norms #

Darius Kazemi on aphorism detection — a momentary glimpse into how he thinks #

Estimating Google+ activity — reading the tea leaves from Google Profiles sitemaps #

Commodore Clicker — deceptively simple incremental game hides a functional C64 emulator #

Tetrageddon Games — the last, best reason to install Flash (via) #

Yo dawg, I heard you liked web browsers — Arachne running in EM-DOSBOX #

Be My Eyes — Jeffery Bennett's dream realized #

What They See — side-by-side shots of figures in artworks and their sightlines (via) #

Backchannel on the future of the blockchain — don't make the mistake of conflating the blockchain and Bitcoin #

Dillon Markey's stop-motion animation with the Nintendo Power Glove — rewired as a Bluetooth keyboard (via) #

Twitter Sort — the latest entry in a long line of terrible sorting methods #

Chris Poole on shuttering DrawQuest — donated remaining capital to charity, gave user archives to Archive.org #

Choose Your Own Adventure game on Twitter — how it was made #

Forgotten MS-DOS Games — a spoof, but I'd totally play any of these: see also: Viscera Cleanup Detail #

Novice Art Blogger — a bot tries its best to describe art #

Talib Kweli on how and why he left the major label system — brilliant writeup of the benefits and compromises of going indie #

Scroll Slow → Have Fun (via) #

Warby Parker's Make Your Own Annual Report — surprisingly light on glasses-related information #

Anxiety Box — Paul Ford on the new episode of Reply All, my favorite podcast #

TASBot runs IRC on an unmodified Super Game Boy — batshit insane hacks; turning Super Mario World into Super Mario Bros #

inflorescence city — I don't know what it is, but I like it #

Attack on Charlie Hebdo — 12 journalists murdered by deluded assholes over some goddamned comics #

Big Boring System — the BBS is Edna Piranha's new project after Meatspace #

They Might Be Giants' Dial-A-Song — a song a week all year, or get it direct from Drip.fm #

IGF 2015 finalists announced — a bright and beautiful snapshot of modern indie gaming #

We Used to be Friends — every episode of the first season of Friends, averaged together #

emoji.ink — emoji drawing tool (via) #

Augmented Hand Series — deform a hand in a box with machine vision #

Excuse-A-Day — great story of a guy who parodied Jonathan Mann, with a surprising ending #

Ev Williams on metrics — measuring views, users, and time are all proxies for value #

The Internet Archive adds 2,300+ MS-DOS games — stunning work, all playable in the browser; Jason Scott wrote about the project #

On Optimism — I consider myself less an optimist and more a magical realist #

indie.vc — very interesting, O'Reilly is experimenting with alternative funding models #