Hello, From the Magic Tavern — podcast from the magical land of Foom #

John Oliver on transgender rights — upsetting examples of how badly the media and government gets it wrong, and how easy it is to get it right #

GTA: Full House — the side by side cracked me up #

Gay marriage upheld by the Supreme Court — the entire ruling is worth reading, especially the hilariously awful Scalia dissent #

Emotica Online — an editable world made of emoji #

Her Story — the first full-motion video game I've ever enjoyed, highly recommended #

Hallucinating neural network on Twitch — give it something to dream about in the chat; here's how it works #

Transphobic joke detection — bots should punch up #

Building a primitive hut from scratch — Minecraft on extra-hard mode #

Rhyming Keyboard — built with pronouncing-js #

Tinsel — a tool for making phone tree-based games like, say, an audio Flappy Bird #

Who designed the Solo Jazz cup? — fun detective story spawned by a Reddit thread and cult following #

Google Sheep View  #

Fund on Etsy pilot — Etsy gets into crowdfunding #

mcdonalds.hiphop  #

Aaron Meyer's new homepage — try clicking his laptop on the right #

Reddit's former CEO explains the recent subreddit bans — "You are free to be an asshole on Reddit... but keep it on Reddit." #

Minecraft Hololens demo at E3 — won't be nearly as clear as that implies, but makes for an amazing demo #

All six Star Wars films at once — I like the technique they're using for blending, better than averaged #

The Last Guardian re-revealed — incredibly excited for this long-awaited sequel to ICO and Shadow of the Colossus #

MarI/O — machine learning Super Mario World #

XOXO 2015 is live, registrations now open — Zoe Quinn, Kathy Sierra, Talib Kweli, a Suck reunion, and much, much more #

Paul Ford's What Is Code? — a special 38,000 word essay, the bulk of the new double-issue of Businessweek; oh, and it's open-source #

Blade Runner: The B-Roll Cut — 45-minute version of the film made almost entirely from unused footage #

Twitter adds support for importing/exporting blocklists — a nice step #

the button has ended — more than two months and a million presses later #

favicon poetry — write using favicons from around the web #

Let's Consider — navigating phone trees as collective art #

Yahoo closes Pipes — sunsetting the long-neglected service that Tim O'Reilly once called "a milestone in the history of the internet" #

Laughing and crying my way through the new Google Photos — "My grandfather is dying. The cloud is alive. Our future is bizarre" #

XOXO expanding into permanent, year-round workspace — coming this fall, 13,000 square feet of raw potential in Portland #

After Water — Susie Cagle's story of the California drought is terrifying #

Scroll-O-Meter — Sarah Rothenberg makes neat stuff #

DENNIS — interactive, audio-responsive music video; see also: jazz.computer #

Exhausting a Crowd — creepy surveillance art by Kyle McDonald (via) #