Waxy.org: Links Miniblog

Makies (customizable 3D printed doll creator, founded by Alice Taylor)

Euphony (piano visualization built on three.js and MIDI.js, source is on Github)

Paul Lamere calculates the most musical American cities, per capita (using the Echonest API and the top 50,000 artists)

Endless, Nameless (Adam Cadre's new interactive fiction inspired by BBSes and old-school text adventures)

Community's 8-bit episode on Hulu (chock full of retro references, from Mega Man to Minecraft)

Dan Harmon on getting fired from Community (a damn shame, this guy's the soul of the show; I can't believe he only owns 10%)

Benjamin Valentine's PERFECTION (submit your own to see our collective attempts) [via]

Super Chemical Bros. (the classic Star Guitar video remade in Mario) [via]

What Love Looks Like (the physics of relationships)

io9 charts how visions of the future changed over time (tracking how near- or distant-future science fiction is, decade by decade)

How Facebook hacked the NASDAQ button to push an Open Graph action ("Mark listed a company on NASDAQ")

NYT visualization of the Facebook IPO vs. historical IPOs (60% of IPOs since 2010 have had negative returns so far) [via]

Nekogames' Parameters (abstract, but shockingly good, casual RPG; figuring out the rules is part of the fun)

Law & Order & Food ("you have the right to remain delicious")

Ill Doctrine on hip hop conspiracy theories (and, more critically, the rise of gangsta rap and incarceration rates)

Ze Frank on finishing (unblinking inspiration)

Trailer for Ed Piskor's WIZZYWIG (awesome graphic novel inspired by real-life hackers, I highly recommend buying it)

Ignore Hitler (Draw Something spawns a meme; I like the meta one) [via]

Austin Seraphin on learning echolocation (he's a real-life Daredevil)

Mat Honan's feature on Yahoo's mismanagement of Flickr (a depressing read, especially while seeing the team release great new features)

Make interviews Bunnie Huang on the end of Chumby (sad end to a promising product, I received one of the prototypes at Foo Camp in 2006)

Rebecca Sugar's Singles (file under: scenarios I'd like to play in a videogame)

SMBC on hell (sounds about right)

GameBoy Color emulator in JS (the source is on Github) [via]

60,000 Dominoes (65 hours over eight days; the blooper reel was hypnotic) [via]

OAuth Is Your Future (Dan Hon snaps some screenshots from the near future)

Fracuum (winner of Ludum Dare 23; every winner is worth playing)

Welcome to Life ("the Singularity, ruined by lawyers") [via]

BusinessWeek on the post-Kickstarter life of Diaspora (the founders talk about the Ilya's tragic suicide for the first time)

Anachronism detection in Mad Men episodes (language studies from the person who did the frequency analysis for Downtown Abbey) [via]

Verge feature on Scamworld, the inside look at Internet scams (incredibly deep investigation and short film, brilliantly made) [via]

Hartverdrahtet (amazing 4k intro from the PC demoscene) [via]

Mike Birbiglia's short film from This American Life (starring Fresh Air's Terry Gross)

Chris Poole's talk on the shifting meme landscape at ROFLCon (the shift away from interest-based web communities towards social networks)

Robot butt that represents emotions (I'm hoping someone turns this into a drone)

Gina Trapani on the failings of "brogrammer" culture (holy hell, the comments are awful)

Dustin Curtis on pixel fitting rasterized vector images (best explanation of a long-standing issue I've seen)

Mitt Romney bullied gay students in high school (people change, just so long as he takes ownership of his actions; oh, wait)

Walt Disney's Taxi Driver (the scene starting at 3:45 is like a parallel universe remake of Roger Rabbit) [via]

Ben Jackson on memes, the Internet, and the divine ("The memes we choose to elevate to Internet fame are the product of the purest form of democracy ever invented")

Recursive Drawing (watch the video or it won't make any sense)

The Forger (for fans of Kutiman's ThruYOU, found footage beat mashups from Meat Beat Manifesto's Jack Dangers)

Steve Albini AMA on Reddit ("There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me")

Maurice Sendak, rest in peace (goodnight, Max)

Tinkercad (amazing WebGL CAD designer that prints to Makerbot, Shapeways, and Ponoko)

Mechanizing a miniature Main Street Electrical Parade (wonderful attention to detail; watch the finished parade) [via]

LA Times on American Airlines' attempt to revoke its all-you-can-fly passes (the company regretted its short-sighted decision to offer lifetime first-class travel) [via]

Daniel Hooper's proposal for text editing on iPad (if you're jailbroken, Kyle Howells made it real) [via]

Mineception (Minecraft minigame implemented in Minecraft) [via]

Scumbag Steve's Advice for Annoying Facebook Girl (honest advice from an unwilling advice meme star)

Anil Dash on Popchips' racist promo with Ashton Kutcher (a reasoned, thoughtful post with actions that help prevent it from happening again elsewhere)

Reddit users share their deepest, darkest secrets (with anonymous throwaway accounts, some very upsetting stuff in here)

Doodle Music (another gem from Vi Hart)

Deadspin investigates an ESPN freelancer's Internet scams (in a bizarre twist, she also recently stole @OhWonka)

Million Short (experimental search engine removes the top million popular sites from results) [via]

Inc. profile on the Turntable.fm team's struggle to grow (weirdly personal, I imagine neither of the founders are happy about this piece)

The Data Journalism Handbook (free, collaborative, open-source guide)

MAXGIF (silly tool to make GIFs fullscreen, click to get another one)

Nyan Waits

Yancey Strickler digs up never-before-seen Kickstartr (sic) designs (to commemorate the third birthday; related: Perry writes about the origin story)

NYT visualization of three years of Kickstarter projects (companion piece to this article on the insane success of the Pebble watch)

Dan Hon on beating diabetes with data (interesting look at the state of quantified health)

Go Right

Original Atari developer ports Star Castle to the Atari 2600, 30 years later (why this is impressive; order a one here with optional box) [via]

First two seasons of Star Trek played simultaneously (that'd make a great screensaver with this as the background audio)

Music for Programming (hour-long textural mix tapes designed for "prolonged periods of intense concentration") [via]

Nieman Lab on Gawker's new commenting system (seems awkward to navigate and moderate to me, but interested to see how it plays out)

Steven Levy on algorithm-generated news articles (they argue it frees up journalists for actual reporting, instead of routine grunt work)

Light Table, a reactive coding IDE (interesting prototype video)

Microscopia (Ludum Dare game by a first-time game developer)

Building Animusic's Pipe Dream in the real world (making the classic music visualization real; incredible work, though it sounds very different in person)

CSS 3D Tilt (bookmarklet turns any page into a 3D object, with the DOM representing depth) [via]

Descriptive Camera (camera wired to Mechanical Turk; reminds me of Image Search for the Blind)

Best of Metafilter (new blog surfaces the most interesting stuff from the community)

Google Drive launches (5 GB free, and Gmail goes up to 10GB free)

"That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends." (I could've used that speech when I was 14, but I never went to gyms) [via]

A Super Mario Summary (every level from the original SMB, recreated on a single screen each) [via]

Scape (made for the Ludum Dare compo; over 1,100 games were entered!) [via]

VIM Adventures (ingenious short tutorial on vim key controls)

Tweenk (a passively-multiplayer game built on Twitter activity)

MMMMMM (I know the controls seem insane, but stick with it; the level design is devious)

Valve's Handbook for New Employees (fun and interesting glimpse inside their crazy flat structure)

Grow A Face (try evolving the biggest head possible)

5th Ave. Frogger (Frogger cabinet modded to use real-time car traffic from NYC streets)

Ludum Dare 23 interactive keynote (very cute; I'm hoping some people make Playfic games)

Botanicula released (new game from the creator of Machinarium and Samorost; the bundle is a steal)

People Who Don't Know How to Spell "Cologne" (countdown until someone writes a Twitter bot)

Chinese hierarchies of snobbery and contempt (ranking everything from sneakers to World of Warcraft classes)

Summarizing the UC Davis Pepper Spray Report (communication failure at every level in the chain of command)

The History of #1 Projects on Kickstarter (a capsule history of Kickstarter itself; the Pebble watch is up to $4.4M)

Marco Arment on Twitter's patent agreement (agree with the issues, but defensive patents exist to ward off potential attackers with countersuits)

How Fark's Drew Curtis fought a patent troll ("don't negotiate with terrorists")

Twitter introduces the Innovator's Patent Agreement (a contract that guarantees any filed patents will only be used defensively, even if sold)

The centuries-old tech behind the Tupac "hologram" at Coachella (pioneered by Hatsune Miku)

The Republia Times (Flash games puts you in charge of editing a state-run newspaper, with a twist) [via]

SymbolHound (coder-centric search engine that searches punctuation)

Image Error Level Analysis with HTML5 (spotting Photoshop trickery with a few lines of Javascript)

Ten Years of farbrausch Productions on GitHub (one of the demoscene's legendary groups open-sources a decade of work)

MADMEN Bittorrent Edition (on Metafilter, Rhomboid breaks down how the video glitches work ) [via]

Google BBS (functional textmode interface to Google using termlib.js and the Google REST API) [via]

Tug of Store (click as fast as you can; an experiment with the Svpply API by OK Focus)

Why Netflix never used the algorithm that won the Netflix Challenge (with DVD rentals, people were aspirational; with streaming, immediate gratification)

Snowball (Pixeljam takes on pinball)

Printer, an open-source kit for Internet-connected thermal printers (like Little Printer for hardware hackers)

The Intelligent Encyclopedia (visions of an always-connected device from 1982, drawn by Glen Keane) [via]

The Oatmeal's How to Get More Likes on Facebook (funny, that's my strategy too)

Incredibox (animated beatbox engine)

ASCII art animation on Twitter (hold down "j" to advance) [via]

The Listserve (the email version of Twitter's Fame game)

Long, thoughtful interview with Peter Molyneux (extremely frank discussion of why he left Microsoft to start a small indie studio)

Campbell Whyte's 8-Bit Dreams (376 daily drawings inspired by NES games) [via]

InstaBackup (David Smith's free Mac app to download all your Instagram photos)

PONGS (Pippin Barr's 36 experiments with Pong)

Chairlift's "Met Before" (choose-your-own-adventure music video)

Paul Ford on Facebook and Instagram ("Facebook bought the thing that is hardest to fake. It bought sincerity.")

Github adds support for Notch's virtual CPU in 0x10c (I can't believe I haven't mentioned his new game yet)

Hillary Clinton responds to Texts from Hillary Tumblr (memeception)

Froggatto level editor (responsive coding inspired by Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talk )

Adrian Chen tracks down the history and identity of Goatse (with updates from Jay Stile, Anil Dash, and the person who registered goatse.cx)

Disasterpeace's FEZ soundtrack now on sale (beautiful album from one of Kind of Bloop's talented musicians)

Caine's Arcade (the Internet discovers 9-year-old boy's cardboard DIY arcade in East L.A.) [via]

MMO Asteroids, for real (remember that April 1 joke? someone built it for real) [via]

Metafilter's link-rich primer of the demoscene (the Scene.org awards are always a good place to start)

RIP Jack Tramiel, Commodore founder (the Vic-20 and C-64 were my first computers, and changed my life forever)

Facebook buys Instagram for $1B (a small team getting bought by an Internet giant; does that story ever end well for the users?)

Ze Frank's An Invocation for Beginnings (first episode from the reboot of The Show) [via]

LaserTube: Trapped in the Closet (something like this could turn supercut creation into a social game)

Photo Timeline (neat hack using the deprecated Google Image Search API; try it with Apple)

Rev. Dan Catt on the New Aesthetic (best explanation of the trend I've seen so far)

Projection mapping on a human face (here's their demo reel) [via]

Microsoft Research Cliplets (a free Windows tool for making cinemagraph animated GIFs)

Justin Watt discovers Javascript injection on his hotel's wifi (the Courtyard Marriott's wifi provider is inspecting traffic and inserting their own ads)

Jonathan McIntosh's history of subversive remix videos before YouTube (fascinating playlist of 30 videos created between 1941 and 2005)

ADmented Reality (Jonathan McIntosh remixes the Google Glasses concept video with Google Ads)

Google announces Project Glass, their augmented-reality glasses (finally, something to do while riding in my self-driving car)

Why $7.99 beats $0.99 (ending the race to the bottom for iOS apps)

NYT Mag on casual gaming with an interactive illustration (based on Erik Rothoff Andersson's open-source toy)

TypingClub (well-designed touch typing tutorial) [via]

Math for Makers (Greg Borenstein's new project to turn CS research into practical tools for coders and artists; interesting Twitter feed) [via]

Twitter in 1985 (related: text-mode on Tumblr)

Joystiq on Molyjam ("Death magenta is transparent.")

Linux Tycoon (simulating the creation of a Linux distro as a game) [via]

Rear Window remixed into a single panoramic shot (time lapse of a 20-minute installation stitching together all the stabilized backyard footage from the film) [via]

You Are The Road (my favorite of the nearly 300 games created at What Would Molydeux?)

Kill Screen interviews Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe (yesterday, Al came out of retirement on Kickstarter to remake the first Larry game)

Subtle Sans (lovely pay-what-you-want typeface)

wanderdrone (downsampling the world; related: Aaron's New Aesthetic talk at SXSW)

Codecademy adds HTML/CSS lessons (perfect first step for Internet beginners)

Floating Shiny Knot (WebGL environment mapping using Street View photos)

I hereby resign (fictional resignation letter on the liability of Facebook background checks)

Kinect Star Wars dance party (what is this, I don't even)

How Etsy ships (every engineer deploys to production on day one)

Soundtap (browse shows from independent and college radio stations; their March Madness is fun)

MapsTD, tower defense game on Google Maps (brilliantly done and surprisingly fun; try battling in your city with various map tilesets) [via]

Mike Davidson on the Readability controversy (agree with every word of this)

FFFFFAT's subpixel (grid of razor blades turns subway ads into pixel art) [via]

MMOsteroids (a subtle April Fool's prank; spoiler alert) [via]

Criterion Collection releases Kindergarten Cop (about time this understated classic gets the recognition it deserves)

Reddit Timeline (amazing collaborative roleplaying project, transcending April 1 pranks)

1-Bit Camera for iOS (they set up a Tumblr for sharing photos)

Google introduces 8-Bit Maps for the NES (don't miss the promo video and Null Island; finally, some competition for 8-Bit City)

Cult of Mac on a creepy app for stalking women using shared location data (blame the app, not the sharer; Foursquare just killed their API access)

Minecraft Red Rock City timelapse (hypnotic construction of an epic virtual city)

Lost Prince of Persia source code discovered in dad's closet (in other Jordan Mechner news, The Last Express is coming to iOS later this year) [via]

Glitchr (Facebook page devoted to breaking their layout; related: tweets that break Twitter)

Face.com adds age detection to the face recognition API (it already supports identifying mood, smiles, gender, and glasses)

DuckDuckGo's query stats (happy to see a new search engine for power users emerge)

The Verge reviews Paper, a gorgeous drawing app for iOS (love their promo video)

Kickstarter digs into the impact of blockbusters on smaller projects (a rising tide lifts all boats)

Jeff Bezos plans to recover Apollo 11 rocket engines from the sea floor ("celebrity explorers" is an inevitable trend as space and ocean exploration tech advances)

NY Mag on the new young foodies (funny how "foodie" has become a derogatory term for some crowds)

Frank Cifaldi tries to track down the Super Mario Bros. release date (surprisingly difficult, nobody seems to have accurate dates)

Spotting anachronistic phrases in Mad Men using Google Ngram (related: his analysis of Downton Abbey's language)

The Impact of Kickstarter, Creative Commons & Creators Project (beautiful video from PBS's Off Book series)

Quora on watching characters in film based on people you know (including a long story from someone who was fictionalized in Like Crazy)

A Guide to Patterns and Forms in Trainyard (deconstructing one of my favorite iOS games)

Mega 64's Recut of Indie Game: The Movie (if this makes sense to you, and you live in PDX, you should come to the screening tomorrow)

Fame, a Twitter lottery (automatically follows and unfollows everyone in the pool to a random person daily)

Legit (git for humans)

Skills.to (Tasty Labs' new project to tag your friends and find like-minded people; here's me)

BrowserQuest (experimental HTML5 MMO using WebSockets and Canvas by Little Workshop and Mozilla) [via]

OMGPOP developer Shay Pierce explains why he didn't join Zynga ("don't join a company whose values are opposed to your own")

Pippin Barr's Epic Sax Game (love the 8-bit remix of the Eurovision performance)

Tambour (interesting free PC/Mac multiplayer game, attack an opponent with rhythm)

The Fourth Dimension for iOS (love the user reviews)

Racist Hunger Games fans disappointed on Twitter (warning: book spoilers in the screenshots)

Apollo 18+20, an interactive fiction tribute to They Might be Giants (38 games inspired by TMBG's Apollo 18, with every Fingertips game requiring only one move)

Michael Jackson vs. Chris Watson ("Beat It" audio resynthesized using only samples from nature recordings; more algorithmic remix here) [via]

Multiplayer Piano (built with socket.io by Brandon Lockaby)

Screenshots of Despair ("You have no friends.")

AppBlock (block your friends' Facebook apps from accessing your personal information)

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson reacts to being a meme (Watch out guys, we're dealing with a badass over here)

Pentametron (algorithmically-composed sonnets using tweets)

Fish: a tap essay (speaking of Robin Sloan, his newly-released essay-as-free iPhone app)

Nieman Lab on Gawker's editorial strategy (reminds me of Robin Sloan's stock and flow)

Stamen Maps (gorgeous, stylized CC-licensed map tiles using OpenStreetMap data)

Matt Haughey's Lessons from a 40-Year-Old (on "lifestyle" businesses and the risks of taking funding)

Passagebalt (Canabalt meets Passage)

Selfsurfing (Jonas Lund made a Chrome extension that clones his browser; watch him surf until noon tomorrow)

Big Lebowski F*cking Short F*cking Version Without F*cking (Wreck and Salvage remakes the Big Lebowski swearing supercut using the porn parody)

Aziz Ansari pulls a Louis CK (selling it himself as a $5 DRM-free digital download; built by VHX.tv)

wwwtxt (snippets of txt pulled from the net circa 1988-1994; also on Twitter)

How tweeting Deadmau5 led to one artist's big break (love everything about this) [via]

Making a particle system in HTML5 Canvas (playful real-time walkthrough using The Code Player; make your own!)

Girl Walk // All Day (entire 71-minute dance film set to Girl Talk's All Day, filmed in NYC and funded on Kickstarter)

water (live coding d3 sketchpad based on Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle; click a number and hold the alt key)

Free Indie Games (new blog of interesting games by VVVVVV's Terry Cavanagh)

ChirpClock (searching Twitter for mentions of the current time, every second) [via]

F.A.T. Lab's Free Universal Construction Kit (3D-printable adapters between ten popular construction sets; join Lego to Duplo to Tinker Toys to Lincoln Logs) [via]

Putting the I in Story (Matthew Baldwin's personal anecdote about Mike Daisey, and why personal matters)

Way (just download it, connect it to Twitter, and wait; one of the most intriguing games I've ever played)

Microscopic views of the iPad, iPhone, and other portable displays (including the oddball 3DS screen)

Austin Kleon on Bruce Springsteen's SXSW keynote ("Listen up youngsters: this is how successful theft is accomplished.")

This American Life retracts Mike Daisey's Apple/FoxConn episode (they devoted their whole new episode to the correction, here's Mike Daisey's statement) [via]

Browsing the web from behind the Great Firewall of China (perspective from a software developer trying to access tech blogs and other resources)

Militarizing Your Backyard with Python and Computer Vision (using OpenCV and Arduino to shoot squirrels with a water gun sentry) [via]

How Christian Marclay made The Clock (story behind the epic 24-hour long supercut)

The $8B iPod (funny TED talk on copyright math)

Slate on _why's disappearance and his impact on the world (relieved to see he's alive and well, but some think she went too far in publicizing his identity)

Twirdie (iPhone game played by guessing the frequency of Twitter search terms) [via]

Adam Savage on how simple ideas leads to major scientific discoveries (awesome seven-minute talk)

Real-time speech synthesis in 1k of Javascript (limited phoneme support, but still!) [via]

Kickstarter's Double Fine Day ($1.66M pledged to projects in a single day)

Why James Whittaker left Google (a thoughtful piece about the changes under Larry Page)

Dancefloor Diplomacy's "We Are Ready" (live mashup with 20 musicians and 38 songs with no samples)

Stratocam (explore the world through Google Satellite imagery, share shapshots of your own discoveries)

Machine Pareidolia (Greg Borenstein tests face-tracking software on inanimate objects; go buy his book!)

Encyclopaedia Britannica goes out of print (after 244 years)

Village Voice on the NYPD tapes, now confirmed by internal report (a Bed-Stuy whistleblower persecuted for reporting systematic manipulation of crime statistics)

Sounds of the Internet (playlist of websites that auto-play music)

How OpenStreetMap handled Apple's unattributed switch (brilliant work, and I'm so happy to see the project blowing up)

Ben Brown on 12 years of SXSW Interactive (you've changed, man)

David Friedman interviews videogame pioneer Ralph Baer (from his ongoing Inventor Portrait series)

Stephen Wolfram's personal analytics of his life (king of the quantified self)

Narrow the Gapp (Gina Trapani's open data mashup demonstrates the deeply unfair gender pay gap)

PBS short film on animated GIF art (from Under Construction to cinemagraphs)

Biologic by Bloom (free iPad app visualizes your social network as cells)

Emojicons (from the creator of Nonstop Nyan Cat, a community for sharing Japanese-style text emoticons)

Classic Movie Scenes Subtitled for Bros (a taste of On the Bro'd)

Toy Shining (inspired Toy Story/Shining mashup created on the iPad)

2SLEEP1 (hour-long playlist of textmode performances "designed to make you fall asleep")

Idle Screenings (entire feature films split into animated GIFs; also: as Powerpoint decks and starfield screensavers)

Tourney (story of an imaginary graphical text adventure )

Square Register (deeply disruptive to the POS industry; also, anyone in the U.S. can sign up for a free Square reader)

Mari0 released (open-source Super Mario meets Portal mashup, out now for PC/Mac/Linux)

Insider gossip on how Disneyland underestimated demand for their 24-hour leap day event (surreal photos of die-hards sleeping in Main Street Cinema)

Aerial quadrotor bot creators at TED (insane to see them map and navigate new spaces using the Kinect)

Jer Thorp on the Weight of Data (awesome talk from one of the giants of infoviz)

Gorgeous visualization of movie profits and reviews (a huge amount of information displayed in a concise, understandable way)

Pixels and Polaroids (when analog and digital nostalgia combine) [via]

2 Player Productions' behind-the-scenes of the Double Fine pitch video (interesting to see how much thought and effort went into the pitch)

Jake "virt" Kaufman's FX4 (pay-what-you-like chiptune soundtrack to a nonexistent film)

Verisign seizes non-US .com domain on behalf of US authorities (who needs SOPA?)

Cat Fountain (related: Minecraft 1.2 is out with iron golems, cat, ocelots, and smarter zombies)

TV Is Broken (or: why cable is the new landline)

Touch Arcade's behind-the-scenes on Beat Sneak Bandit (one of the most addictive games I've ever played, a brilliant one-button rhythm game)

Robot quadrotors perform the James Bond theme (they play pretty well for mindless killing machines)

A Year of Links (Tom Armitage's physical book of Pinboard bookmarks and the code to make your own)

Scott Schiller's HTML port of Survivor for the C64 (the source is on Github; I loved his making-of photos)

Jesse Thorn's 12 Point Program for Absolutely, Positively 1000% No-Fail Guaranteed Success (some solid advice from inspiring, independent people)

Ze Frank bringing back The Show (yay! all my Kickstarter dreams are coming true)

Swear Cuts (editing this year's nine Best Picture nominees to eight minutes of profanity)

DrunkEliza (written in Entropy, a programming language that decays variables as it runs)

Hexagon (Terry Cavanagh's sadistic 24-hour game for Pirate Kart V)

Admiral Grace Hopper demonstrates a nanosecond (the legendary computer programmer appeared on Letterman in 1986) [via]

Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer discuss adventure games (amazing 35-minute chat; related: they added new rewards to the Double Fine Adventure)

Adrian Chen unmasks the creator of @horse_ebooks (some great Internet detective work)

Coinbox Hero (from the creator of Achievement Unlocked; love the memetastic ending)

Stripe's Capture the Flag (hack six levels and get a t-shirt, and maybe a job)

Kickstumbler (try the video-only mode)

10 Seconds from Every Top 100 Song Ever (grabbing the loudest point is surprisingly useful for spotting choruses)

Google to sell HUD glasses by year-end (coming soon, the entire history of you)

Wired profile on the GitHub team (the article is on Github, and they're accepting pull requests!)

Dutch scientists to create first lab-grown hamburger this fall ($316,000, cheap; take that, Fleur de Lys)

Eternal copyright: a modest proposal (Adrian Hon plays with the absurdities of copyright law) [via]

36 Copyrighted Suns

Peanutty (learn to code while playing puzzles; related: Code Hero)

YouBeMom (4chan for moms; anonymous, ridiculously active, and often brutally honest)

Twitter Friends Map (simple app that I've wanted for ages, spawned from Paul Irish's Lazyweb issue tracker)

Caterina Fake announces Pinwheel (sign up for the beta)

Unmanned, a game by MolleIndustria and Jim Munroe (shave, pilot a UAV, play videogames, sing One Vision, and contemplate your actions)

escapes.js (nice JavaScript library for rendering ANSI art)

Gawker digs up Facebook's internal content moderation guidelines (they use oDesk contractors to moderate flagged material)

John Gruber gets a one-on-one demo of Apple's Mountain Lion (moving much further in the direction of iOS)

Everything Is A Remix, Part 4: System Failure (final episode of the absolutely essential film series; go support Kirby's new project)

2QWOP (finally, multiplayer flailing)

The Verge's analysis on apps that upload your contact list (finally, the data journalism article that everyone wanted after the Path debacle)

Paul Ford's 100 Ways to Say I Love You ("60. Yell it over your shoulder as you are pushed into the squad car.")

Super Mario Bros. Crossover 2.0 (new skins span multiple eras of console gaming)

Texting Level: Expert (Adam Ellis's photo conversation from Vegas to New York)

A Ship Adrift (an imaginary airship piloted by an AI autopilot based on real weather patterns; follow it on Twitter)

Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle (amazing talk that gets increasingly amazing; I want that code editor and iPad app)

iOS '86

The Dark Room (a silly one-room YouTube adventure)

Eclectic Method recreates 99 Problems with film clips (like a frenetic take on Matthijs Vlot's Hello)

Reddit bans child porn subreddits (a near-immediate response to SomethingAwful's campaign)

Wildlife Control's Analog or Digital (HTML5 pixel art video using the Soundcloud API) [via]

Anatomy of a Tear-Jerker (or: why some songs give us chills and provoke an emotional response)

Rise of the Independents (a response to DHH's post on the non-"startup" startup)

Raiding the Lost Ark (incredible fan-made compilation of archival commentary on Raiders of the Lost Ark)