Fast Company's oral history of SXSW Interactive — nice to see Brad Graham get recognized #

Paul Lamere finds each state's most distinctive band — try the app he made to compare two regions #

Today is the Day Marty McFly Went to the Future — or make your own #

Berg's Cloudwash prototype — a network-enabled washing machine sounds ridiculous, until you see one well-designed #

Demo of the Wolfram Language — crazy ambitious, brain-aching goodness #

Tokyo Train — load up any song as a musical train, remixing it as you drive to your goal #

Tainted Love performed by hard drives — with vocals added by Soft Cell's Marc Almond himself #

Project Tango — Johnny Chung Lee's new project at Google, a computer vision-focused phone #

Typeset in the Future — Dave Addey breaks down typography in sci-fi films and TV shows #

Pomplamoose mashes up Pharrell's Happy and Daft Punk's Get Lucky — live in one take with projection mapping from a single projector #

xkcd's Frequency — visualizing average frequencies using animated GIFs #

Theremin with Web Audio API — or use this one with your hands if you have a Leap Motion (via) #

555 µHz, tweeting Top Gun in its entirely every half hour — a fan is animating the screengrabs #

Selfiexploratory — visualization of 3,200 selfies across five cities #

GIFFFFR — turn YouTube videos into animated GIFs #

Twitch Plays Pokemon Plays Tetris — using the commands from 70k+ Pokemon players to simultaneously control a game of Tetris #

Our Robocop Remake — in the spirit of Star Wars Uncut, 50 filmmakers remake Robocop into a wonderfully NSFW mess #

3D printer modded to play air hockey — related: the upcoming man vs. machine ping-pong match against the KUKA Agilis #

TwitchPlaysPokemon — the madness that arises when 90,000 people play a single game using a chatroom #

FlapMMO — massively multiplayer Flappy Bird #

Crowdpilot — like Romantimatic, people are reacting badly to the idea of augmenting relationships (via) #

Mashable traces the rapid rise and demise of Flappy Bird — current high score: 52 #

softwet — use the keyboard to interact with Caden Lovelace's snapshots from the DOS era, playable with PCjs #

Avery Edison held in Toronto men's prison for visa issues — officials told her partner that "male genitals equals male prison" #

Forcecraft, visualize Salesforce data in Minecraft — soon: LinkedIn endorsements in DayZ #

Siebe de Boer's 3D recreations of famous movie sets — this would be huge on the Oculus Rift #

John Gruber on Microsoft's past and future — lots of people in Redmond should be reading this today #

37signals rebrands as Basecamp, drops all other projects — I really love this approach, even the closures are being handled with love and care #

Mystery signal from a helicopter — parsing data from audio in a YouTube video (via) #

Attending.io — elegantly-designed service for listing free events #

Academic Torrents — community maintained, completely legal reuse #

The Machine Is Bleeding to Death — I wish the Super Bowl were more like this (via) #

Dictionary Domains — Portland's own Justin Thiele reboots a project I started 13 years ago #

Forgotify — listen to the 4 million songs on Spotify that haven't been played once #

Flagsmith — creative use of OpenType for flag creation, from the creators of Chartwell #

Adrian Holovaty on Chicago and bootstrapping — this could easily apply to Portland, or countless other nascent tech scenes #

hey are you cool — one player's encounters in DayZ #

Idle Game Maker — from the creator of Cookie Clicker (via) #

Alexis Madrigal tracks down the teen creators of @HistoryInPics — the only thing saving them from lawsuits, for now, is that it's non-commercial and poorly-indexed #

Candy Quest 3: Edge of Sweetness — Michael Brough takes on Twine; made for The Candy Jam, a statement against trademark trolls #

PBS Idea Channel on the experience of being trolled — Mike Rugnetta's epiphany makes for a very interesting episode (via) #

Boston Globe profiles Darius Kazemi — the prolific bot creator and one of my favoritest people on the Internet right now (via) #

Steve Jobs' first public demo of the Mac in 1984 — unreleased until now, similar to the famous shareholders' meeting (via) #

Backer, crowdfunding for features — originally built to gauge whether App.net should add Bitcoin, they extended it to everyone #

Polygon on the rise of "Early Access" in gaming — a trend that's leaking outside of games #

Greg Knauss on the reactions to Romantimatic — the iOS app sends periodic reminders to express your love, an idea that's proven divisive #

This Is Not A Conspiracy Theory — the first installment of Kirby Ferguson's followup to Everything Is A Remix #

ConferenceCall.biz — can someone recap what's been covered so far, thanks #

Downworthy — a browser plugin to take hyperbolic headlines down a notch or two #

Tracking 20 years of computer history using Law & Order — a preview on Jeffrey Thompson's blog, including every URL ever mentioned on the show #