Paul Ford's The Age of Mechanical Reproduction — we love you, Paul #

Anil Dash on the triumph of the animated GIF — the Internet's native art form #

Clay Shirky on the new news environment — another must-read missive on the current state of journalism #

Steve Lambert's most awkward 404 page on the Internet — when you're done, go back Steve's new sign project #

Kotaku interviews Keita Takahashi and Stewart Butterfield on joining Glitch — pass the No No Powder #

RoboHash — unique robots generated from any text (via) #

Katamari creator Keita Takahashi joins Glitch — incredibly perfect fit #

Cory Doctorow reviews "Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling" — clearing samples for Paul's Boutique today would lose $19.8M on sales of 2.5M albums #

Talking Funny — Ricky Gervais, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, and Louis C.K. deconstruct comedy #

Dan Warren's "Son of Strelka, Son of God," a cut-up story narrated by Barack Obama — thousands of audio clips from Obama's autobiography flawlessly spliced together into an entirely new narrative #

Questions asked by Twitter users vs. White House press — related: we released over 29k questions asked by Twitter users in the last year #

Shuu.sh — resize Twitter messages based on posting activity; noisy people get scaled down #

Tesco's virtual supermarket in South Korean subway stations — scan QR codes for home delivery #

MK12's Follow the Sun — if David Lynch made concession stand bumper ads #

Jonathan Stampf's touching photo for Dear Photograph — the rest are all worth seeing #

Google may retire Blogger, Picasa names in rebranding — in other news, Ev, Biz, and Jason relaunched Obvious Corp. #

Cinemagraphs of Dogfish Head's strawberry beer-making process — craft beer and animated GIFs go well together (via) #

SVK — BERG-published comic with character's thoughts only viewable with ultraviolet light #

Physical GIF — laser-cut zoetropes created from animated GIFs #

Chuck Klosterman interviews Al Yankovic — insightful interview that veers wildly from the typical novelty angle #

Cabel Sasser's Fireworks 2011 roundup — FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE #