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  #

Bee and PuppyCat — new original series from Adventure Time's Natasha Allegri #

Kids react to the controversial Cheerios commercial — this is what hope looks like #

Questlove on Trayvon Martin and race in America — also: Ta-Nehisi Coates on the irony of American justice #

EFF sues the NSA over illegal surveillance — this should be interesting #

Cancer by Ryan North — from This Is How You Die, the new sequel to Machine of Death #

SculptGL — WebGL sculpting tool (via) #

This American Life's best episodes — in honor of episode #500; Ira Glass's favorites and other staff picks #

SoundSlice launches Pitch Perfect, guitar tab store for artists — official transcriptions in the best UI ever made for guitar tab #

Guardian film analysis of critically-derided audience favorites — totally Rad #

Anagramatron — bot cleverly hunts for anagrams in near real-time on Twitter #

The era of constant photography — I keep waiting for a device that records audio or video constantly, stored remotely #

DefCon asks government to stay away — the feds were asked not to attend for the first time, in the wake of Snowden and Manning #

CanaryPW — a search engine for Pastebin and similar anonymous text services #

The Open Game Art Bundle — artists, inspired by Humble Bundle, roll their own #

Alan Moore on crowdfunding — producing work without compromising independence or creative vision #

QWERTY Hancock — interactive embeddable HTML5 vector piano (via) #

Surveillance Camera Man returns — interesting privacy issues of active vs. passive surveillance #

New Yorker profile of Desert Bus — didn't realize my 2006 post played a role in the charity; I've served 9.6 terabytes so far! #

Zombie Google Reader — Mihai reanimated Reader's corpse to read your own personal backup #

Voodoo — easily mix 2D and 3D content on a webpage (via) #

Immersion — MIT Media Lab project to visualize Gmail #

Drone It Yourself — turn ordinary objects into UAVs #

Bret Victor on Doug Engelbart — forget the mouse, Doug was augmenting human intellect #

NYT Magazine profile of ex-Nirvana/Soundgarden guitarist turned war hero — fired from both bands, he went on to become part of the U.S. Army Special Forces #

RIP Douglas Engelbart — watching the Mother of All Demos again today, it's still astounding how visionary he was #

BRICK[bricksmash]SMASH — beautiful meta-Breakout lets you play 16 tiny Breakouts at once #

Marco Arment on the Reader shutdown, interoperability and independence — "Well, fuck them, and fuck that." #

Real-Life Tron on an Apple IIgs — a cycle that escaped the playfield into system memory (via) #

Vi Hart's Twelve Tones — stunning exploration of music theory and constraints #

We Think Alone — Miranda July's weekly email project glimpses into the sent mail of notable people #

Andrew Mason's Hardly Workin' — the former Groupon founder's album of motivational '80s rock is actually real, and out now #

Ending — wonderfully minimalist roguelike puzzler #

Yelp Wordmap — keyword heatmaps in 14 cities #

Digg Reader opens to the public — cutting it close! #

PizzaSkin — skinning 3D models with pizza #

An Open Letter to the Worst Wax Museum in America — those Nacho Libre and Tropic Thunder Jack Blacks look pretty accurate, though #

Google translates "lorem ipsum" — fun with unsupervised machine learning (via) #

Reader Is Dead — tools to download all your Google Reader data, from the former technical lead on Reader #

GigaOm's guide to Google Reader alternatives — I recommend Feedly and Newsblur, but Feedly doesn't export and NewsBlur marks everything read after 14 days #

Internet Credit Union — The Internet Archive started its own credit union #

face to gif — use your webcam to instantly make an animated gif #

Lucky Peach Travel Game — a new game from the creator of Candy Box #

Boing Boing kills blog comments in favor of Discourse — try it here; very interested to see how this plays out #

Exploding Actresses — more silliness from Simone Rovellini #

Help Archive Team save Google Reader archives — six years of archived feeds will be lost when Reader dies in four days #

Supreme Court strikes down DOMA, Prop 8 in huge win for marriage equality — on the right side of history; the decision is an interesting read #

Branch introduces Potluck — semi-private link sharing, surprisingly good so far #