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 #

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 #