The Reverse Geocache Puzzle Box — a locked box that can only be opened in a specific location; watch the video interview (via) #

Alex Payne on the new Twitter — he internally argued, unsuccessfully, for decentralization #

Diaspora releases first source code — by the end of summer, as promised in their original project; power geeks, try it here #

SF Chronicle goes inside the French Laundry kitchen — the writer is a trained chef who's worked at Gramercy Tavern and Jean Gorges (via) #

Frank Chimero imagines the Atlantis World's Fair in 1962 — from Lost World's Fairs, experiments in type on the web (via) #

Stamen on their Twitter visualization for the MTV VMAs — this year, they were featured in the main show #

Hyperbole and a Half's The Party — related: an interview with Allie Brosh #

10k Apart contest winners announced — impressive design in Matchuppps, with CSS3 animations, Typekit fonts, and images from the Dribbble API (via) #

The Live Shifter, a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure on Twitter — don't miss the author's explanation on how it was planned and written #

Justin Watt's guide to blogging from the middle of the ocean — he's taking a container ship from Philly to New Zealand #

jsTerm — ANSI-capable HTML5 telnet terminal emulator by Peter Nitsch #

Twitter announces new design — inline images and video from 16 partners, including Kickstarter; they released a growth chart #

Excerpt of Ian Bogost's book on games as journalism — many more newsgame examples in his Watercooler Games archive #

BERG's light painting with the iPad — cross-sections of 3D models shot with long exposures #

SiftLinks, turn links on Twitter into an RSS feed — for you geezers still using a "feed reader" on a "computer" #

Everything is a Remix, Part 1 — new four-part series on remix culture by Kirby Ferguson #

Musopen raises $45k to set classical music recordings free — they're raising money to hire an orchestra to record public domain symphonies #

Burnbit — free service creates a torrent from any web-accessible file #

New Yorker's long, personal profile of Mark Zuckerberg — by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas (via) #

Digital Comic Museum — growing archive of Golden Age comics with expired copyright status #

Guardian on Nokia's failure to support Dopplr — a familiar post-acquisition story; they stated they "will not develop it further at this stage." #

YouTube Time Machine — with a lovely design by Kickstarter's own Andrew Cornett #

Graph Your Inbox — clean Chrome extension adds stats to Gmail #

Marco Arment's list of common words in 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews — awesomem worth the price vs. crashing useless waste of money (via) #

FFFFUUU statue — aka Rage Guy; please make this 3D rendering real #

xkcd on password reuse and evil plans — "it'll be hilarious the first few times this happens" #

Rob O'Hare's playable review of GET LAMP — interactive fiction reviewing an interactive documentary about interactive fiction (via) #

Anil Dash on the cultural implications of forking — and Sippey forked his article (via) #

YouTube Instant — Stanford student's great take on Google Instant lands him a job offer from Chad Hurley #

Bloglines to shut down on October 1 — replaced by Google Reader, and made moot by Twitter and Facebook #

Pixar's Up gets BLAM'd — cutting parody of Disney's awful remixing of classic cartoons #

Inside the Soviet arcade museum — great little trip report; reminds me of the North Korean arcade #

James Bridle's 12-volume set of edits to the Wikipedia Iraq War page — 12,000 changes spanning nearly 7,000 pages #

Monstrous Discrepancies — a comic by Winston Rowntree #

The Room: The Game — based on the truly horrible film #

Cache Rules Everything Around Me — Evan Roth sets his animated GIF collection to music #

Google Scribe, autocomplete any text — for fun, try typing any word and hit enter repeatedly (via) #

OK Trends crunches the data to find what white people really like — as always, funny, insightful, and controversial; don't miss the religion and writing proficiency charts #

George and Jonathan's "The Best Music" — free superhappy chiptune album created with Cave Story creator Pixel's Piston Collage (via) #

MC Frontalot, Jonathan Coulton, and Paul & Storm cover Double Rainbow/Bed Intruder Song — with lead vocals by the very talented Ken Flagg #

Jonathan Blow's anonymous PAX playtest of The Witness — the followup to Braid was at an unmarked table #

Craigslist shuts down adult services section — 17 Attorneys General asked them last month to shut it down #

Health Month — like Epic Win, Buster Benson's trying to turn self-improvement into a game #

There is a Horse in the Apple Store — Frank Chimero is not hallucinating #

Duke Nukem Forever is revived, to be released in 2011 by Gearbox — everyone's favorite vaporware is playable on the PAX show floor, 13 years in the making #

NYC health dept. shuts down underground lobster roll dealer — Jeff Rubin shows how people ordered from "Dr. Claw" (via) #

Copyright holders choosing ad income over cease-and-desists on YouTube — more than a third of YouTube's 2B weekly ad views are infringing videos deliberately left online (via) #

Buzzfeed's "infographic" about infographic spam — thanks to this Reddit user for exposing this unusual SEO trickery #

Six Apart shuts down Vox — less than a month's notice, with export tools to Typepad and Flickr #

LA Times interview with the author behind Slaughterhouse 90210 — interesting process behind her Tumblr curation #