The Pickle Index — using instant noodles and pickled mustard sales to track population trends in China #

Paranoid Browsing — anti-profiling Chrome plugin searches the net randomly, inspired by Cory Doctorow's Little Brother #

Glenn Greenwald's partner detained at Heathrow for nine hours — UK and US authorities blatantly abusing a terrorism law; more from Greenwald #

Polygon feature on the origins of Missile Command — it was originally called "Armageddon" (via) #

The Verge feature on the future of meat — I'd switch to stem-cell steak in a heartbeat #

Profiling Atherton — spotting racial discrimination with public crime data #

showterm — app to capture terminal activity and easily share it with the world #

A Brief History of Apple's iWatch — Anil Dash's very believable satire of the tech news cycle #

PirateBay releases PirateBrowser — one-click Firefox browser preconfigured with Tor and proxy configurations #

BoooTube, the worst-rated videos on YouTube — that baby yoga video is, uh, something else #

Family shoe store reopened after 40 years — more backstory in the Reddit thread (via) #

Mat Honan on Vine's creative culture — "If Instagram is an art museum, Vine is a block party." (via) #

The Making of Cart Life — last year's IGF winner was the designer's first game; try it for Windows or the unofficial Mac port #

LIsten to Wikipedia — bells are additions, strings are subtractions, the pitch is the size of the edit (via) #

Nimona — adorable webcomic blending myth and modern #

Marco Arment on the Lodsys settlement — file under: our deeply broken intellectual property system #

Future Crew's Second Reality goes open-source — the 20th anniversary of the legendary demoscene production #

DEFCON: The Documentary — Jason Scott was the first to be given all access to film the world's largest hacker con #

SEAPUNK NAMES — you can call me //djCTRL// from now on (via) #

Trailer for Spike Jonze's "Her" — Siri as love interest #

Missed Connection — Craigslist short fiction (via) #

One Second on the Internet — visualization of activity popular online communities #

Grantland feature on the legacy of Harry Nilsson — "a kind of pop culture Zelig" #

WebGL GPU Particles — one million particles, and open-source (via) #

First public taste test of a lab-grown burger — $325,000 to make, funded primarily by Sergey Brin #

Deciphering Beanish — trying to make sense of the artificial language from xkcd's time #

Save the Date — like Groundhog Day meets a dating sim #

Pan Man — every Major Bueno game is a simple treat; try A Second Chance and Moon Waltz (via) #

Califone.Stitches — music video constructed from random images off a subset of Tumblr blogs; sometimes NSFW (via) #

Molly Crabapple visits Gitmo — fantastic story of a disgusting situation #

Nelson Minar on fixing toxic behavior in online communities — most bad behavior comes from normally good people; great talk about the League of Legends tribunal system #

PaperDude VR — Paperboy remake powered by Oculus Rift, Kinect, and a stationary bike (via) #

The Door to the FISA Court — they should number it Room 641B #

Glenn Greenwald on XKeyscore, NSA tool to collect HTTP activity — bizarre to read the very matter-of-fact internal presentation #

Bret Victor's The Future of Programming — inspired by Alan Kay, a time warp back to 1973 to talk about programmer humility #

emojitracker — open-source visualization of emoji activity on Twitter #

Randall Munroe completes Time — 3,099 panels, an artificial language, animated starfields, and more (via) #

Penny Arcade on the Internet's war against creatives — when you live in public, it's hard to block out the tiny, but vocal, minority of assholes (via) #

Forbes on exploits for "smart" home automation systems — many of these are discoverable on Shodan #

NYT on Reddit's involvement with misidentifying the Boston Marathon bombers — includes some new bits about Aaron Swartz and Reddit (via) #

Jennifer Dewalt's learning to code by making a website daily for six months — the coding equivalent of Dance in a Year #

Wired Love — finding love online in the telegraph era (via) #

Sneak peek of Macaw — I'd never considered using a visual code editor until this #

Gamasutra feature on the ethics of "free-to-play" games — like in gambling, there are "whales" who devote huge chunks of their income to virtual upgrades #

The Pixel Painter — Hal Lasko, a 97-year-old pixel artist, draws entirely in MS Paint #

Shinseungback Kimyonghun's Portrait series — averaging faces detected in famous films #

About Pogo — short film on the Australian remix artist #

Scott Pilgrim's Bryan Lee O'Malley interviews Homestuck's Andrew Hussie — great interview that explains why Homestuck's cult following is so huge, but ignored outside of its fanbase #

The Fifth Estate trailer — Wikileaks isn't amused #

Finnegan's Spellcheck  #