Boxee officially releases new API — the latest release added a new Mozilla-based browser, fixed Hulu streaming, and Pandora support #

A Visit to id Software in 1993 — home video includes 20 minutes of Romero playing a pre-release version of Doom (via) #

BashReduce — Last.fm's MapReduce in an 160-line Bash script (via) #

DeepLeap, the word game — a John Resig experiment on the old Deepleap dev domain (via) #

Super Luigi Bros. — living in the shadow of a famous brother; also: a day in the life of a Goomba (via) #

Joshua Schachter on the dangers of URL shorteners — interesting that Archive Team is already working on crawling the TinyURL db #

How xkcd's Randall broke his laptop trying to turn off Google's SafeSearch — fortunately, there were no sharks nearby #

IF YOU'RE NOT INDIE, F**K YOU — inspired by Samberg, the unpunched guy is Dan Paladin (via) #

UK village mob blocks Google Street View car — "how dare anyone take a photograph of my home without my consent?" #

The Music Explaura, powerful music discovery engine — explains each recommendation and lets you steer suggestions by shifting tag weights or popularity (via) #

Things iPhoto Thinks Are Faces — finding faces in cookie dough, trees, watches, buttons, church, and pants #

Conficker Eye Chart — clever way to instantly diagnose PCs for the virus, unless they're on a proxy #

TinyURL/Bit.ly decoder for Greasemonkey — resolves 13 different URL shortening services, so no more mystery links from Twitter #

Amazon announces Elastic MapReduce service — instant Hadoop cluster, pay only what you use #

Get Down, Goldeneye N64 glitch becomes Japanese meme — more on tilting and the crooked cartridge trick; hundreds of variations on YouTube, mostly from Nico Nico Douga (via) #

Google reveals details about its custom server hardware and datacenters — "It was our Manhattan Project" (via) #

Valleywag on layoffs at Wired.com and Ars Technica — including Lore Sjöberg and Leander Kahney; they cut 25% back in November #

FileFront saved, original founders buy it back from Ziff-Davis — unfortunate timing, the community's still suspicious (via) #

LeechBlock, Firefox extension to block access to sites you love too much — a more flexible, cross-platform SelfControl; can block Google Reader but allow Google #

Legends of Zork goes live — not a joke, though the early reviews are pretty bad (via) #

IJD: Paul Lamere on Echo Nest's new "goodness" API — simulates a Pitchfork music critic, and the demo actually works #

Wrong Tomorrow, database of provable predictions — Maciej hopes to hold pundits accountable #

Blogoscoped rounds up Google's April Fools worldwide — I like the Street View panda #

First! — dammit #

IJD: SEOmoz launches Webfluence, user-generated search engine — what Google would look like if run by SEO jerks; add or remove any result #

IJD: Google Chrome adds 3D web browsing — amazingly, it actually works with real anaglyph red-blue glasses #

IJD: YTMND rebrands as Dogchan — warning: not safe for anyone #

IJD: Improv Anywhere's Best Funeral Ever — poking fun at the criticism they received for Best Gig Ever #

IJD: YouTube videos appear upside-down — add "flip=1" to any YouTube URL #

Guardian UK to stop print edition, switches to Twitter only — Internet Jackass Day in effect #