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 #

Ev Williams on Medium's new support for shorter-form articles — a hybrid of Twitter and blogging #

Audiogrep — automatic audio supercuts from the creator of videogrep #

Andrew B. Myers's surreal wallpaper-esque photography — photos that look like vector illustrations; more on his portfolio #

Fusion on tweet deleters — adding automated ephemerality to Twitter #

Lenovo's installing adware, MITM SSL proxy on new laptops — don't miss this fun breakdown of extracting and cracking the SuperFish certificate #

Oliver Sacks on learning he has terminal cancer — "I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can." (via) #

Unhappy Hacking Keyboard — "Real programmers only need a 1 and 0 key." #

Googlifier — Chrome add-on adds googly eyes to photos, or tries anyway #

I Know This — game inspired by Jurassic Park's Unix GUI, hold onto your butts #

Parker Higgins on how the Blurred Lines lawsuit could impact music copyright — musical influence is not infringement #

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) #