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 #

Richard Dawkins's "Mutation of the Mind" at Cannes — laser owls, pizza, and an electronic wind instrument solo #

A Dark Room — for fans of Candy Box (via) #

Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe — we need to go deeper; play it online with a friend (via) #

U.S. charges Edward Snowden with espionage — boooo #

Call in the Night — experimental project that calls you randomly at 2am and records it for a podcast #

XOXO Is Back — we're getting the band back together #

Kickstarter apologizes for Above the Game PUA book project — bans so-called "seduction" guides, donates $25k to RAINN #

Mat Honan's behind the scenes on the Digg Reader — launching this weekend; hopefully, some good comes out of the Google Reader shutdown (via) #

Feedly Cloud launches, freeing it from Google Reader — fast and solid feedreader alternative to NewsBlur #

John McAfee's NSFW video on how to uninstall McAfee Antivirus — I love that he snorts his bath salts through a krazy straw #

The Deletionist — bookmarklet turns any webpage into an erasure poem; examples: Daring Fireball and me #

Gunpoint recoups development costs in 64 seconds — linkbait headline for the delightful news that Tom Francis will be working on games fulltime #

Maciej Ceglowski on the NSA and modern surveillance — related: using metadata to find Paul Revere #

Battle for the planet of the APIs — "If those services don't trust me enough to give me an RSS feed, why should I trust them with my data?" #

Edward Snowden live Q&A — Cosmo asks the tough questions #

Instant Server — intantly spin up an Ubuntu server with a built-in terminal for 35 free minutes (via) #

Google's Project Loon — high-altitude balloons with Internet access for rural and remote areas (via) #

Matt Haughey on Gmail's Organized Inbox — just enabled it, and it's instantly useful #