Verge feature on Scamworld, the inside look at Internet scams
— incredibly deep investigation and short film, brilliantly made via Boing Boing #Chris Poole's talk on the shifting meme landscape at ROFLCon
— the shift away from interest-based web communities towards social networks #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 Laughing Squid #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” #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” #Mechanizing a miniature Main Street Electrical Parade
— wonderful attention to detail; watch the finished parade via Boing Boing #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 Kottke #Daniel Hooper's proposal for text editing on iPad
— if you’re jailbroken, Kyle Howells made it real via berglondon.com #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 #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 Hacker News #Inc. profile on the Turntable.fm team's struggle to grow
— weirdly personal, I imagine neither of the founders are happy about this piece #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 #Super Mario Summary Shame
Is there a word for being totally proud of something and completely ashamed at the same time?
Context: Super Mario Summary reworks every level of Super Mario Bros. on a single screen, turning a side-scrolling platformer into a devious, addictive puzzle. Amazingly, it was built in only 48 hours by Swedish developer Johan Peitz as part of the Ludum Dare game competition. Read his postmortem of making the game.