Forbidden Planet + insipid religious quote

A physical instantiation

Bryce's experimental VC fund gets some press, as does my friend's company

An experiment in alternate venture funding

Speculation on privacy-preserving DNS systems

Software to prevent Windows from upgrading to Windows 10

Trump personally insults the ethnicity of a judge hearing a case against him

Simple installation of OpenAddresses data and Pelias geocoder

Funny because it's true

Good satire on the Gawker suit

Thoughtful Paul Ford piece on Thiel and Gawker

Neat cookie-clicker style idle game, but with factory layout puzzle too

Search aerial imagery for images of things

Dark pattern in the Windows upgrade dialog

A sort of comic novelization

A reddit of things that are confusingly human

A cross-editor way for a software project to define standards for newlines, indentation, etc

1950s comics about the SF past

Taking the piss out of tech interviews

iOS app that displays JSON data. Sort of like a web browser but easier to script

Fun exploration of a forgotten byway of typography

Sales data for a popular mobile game

Thoughtful words from a masterful writer in a medium that should be more popular

Analysis of the software used to steal $951M from a banking network

Brian Eno + Lou Reed together at last

Dank video about vapid culture

A Second Life drama, with swastikas

Guy on Fire

Convenience tools for Python virtual environments

Very strongly worded editorial from a traditional conservative

Nice explanation of meter and rhyme in rap

Google deep learning includes custom low power hardware

Local California politician's public service career ruined by a probably false child porn charge

It explodes!

GA pilot took a look-see during the eruption. /cc @vruba

Neat idea of a table that disappears into the ceiling

Cache of many maps from the Soviet Union

Nice remembrance of an author famous for writing about Antarctica

Part of the effort to add optional typechecking to Python

Generative music toy by a great game musician

A never-implemented game from 1986 based on procedural generation

Google accidentally disclosed an email it didn't want to

Simple explanation of why machine learning uses logistic and sigmoid functions

State effort afoot to make copyright taxpayer-funded works

Somehow CIA loses its only copy of the report documenting CIA torture

Statistics suggest marijuana doesn't impair driving ability

Stats on a gay hookup app, who is willing to show their face

A tool to find the perceptual center of an image

Chilling visualization of American nuclear targets in Russia

Obscure music from the 60s to 80s /cc @celesteramsay

Installment 1 of Maciej's kickstarter travelogue to Antarctica

RIP a great social aggregator

Sea slugs that look like David Bowie

Airports built on top of graveyards

Detailed interviews from the NYTimes

Surveillance vehicles disguised as Google mapping cars

A good day to not forget

Drag queen takes on the bigoted Alabama chief justice

Alternative to Graphite/Statsd

From the shell company scandal: large datasets available for download

Weird prepper video from disgraced televangelist / alleged rapist

Remarkably good weird TV from a few years ago

Nice treatment of words for colors in Chinese and English

Baked in the protocol, including a private key only held by 3 people

Political wonk site, old school web

A self-hosted Disqus alternative

Discussion of popular topics in years of startup applications

Details on the patent troll's favored jurisdiction

New approach for measuring geographic distance, very clever

Command line program for extracting pieces of web pages using CSS selectors

Nicely edited Clinton campaign ad

Schematic view

Reflections on a cultural difference

Alternative async API for Python, more thread-like in how to program it

Replacement implementation of the asyncio event loop; faster

Very honest story about the rise and fall of the community weblog and his personal involvement

Train a neural network then reduce the accuracy of the math and it still works

Thoughtful complaint about contemporary disdain for people who try

Reddit interview with a San Francisco transportation planner

Lovely generative art as tweets

Typeset math cleanly for web pages

Burning Man for the 1%

MacOS system monitor

Parallel Internet for Chinese speakers in the US

Obit of a famous astronomer. "Burnham spent his last years mostly on a park bench in San Diego selling paintings of cats. He died in 1993 destitute and unnoticed" (quote from Sky & Telescope)

Astonishing, well written story about a young man whose father injected him with HIV

Library of Congress heralds the geographer's favorite tropical vacation spot

Creepy Twitter campaign celebrating the killing of Osama bin Ladin

The secret court overseeing the FBI's spying is a joke

Sweet short film about an emotional game experience

Tools for using traditional hard sugar lumps

Detailed breakdown of levels of detail