Fretboard Heatmaps — famous guitarists visualized, data parsed from 30,000 guitar tabs (via) #

Polygon feature on LGBT indie games — Twine has been transformative for bringing new voices into the fold #

Jay Silver's TED talk on turning everyday objects into computer interfaces — the creator of Makey Makey, which I highly recommend (via) #

Steven Universe pilot — Rebecca Sugar, the artist behind Adventure Time's best songs, starts her own show #

The Lonely Island's "Semicolon" — catchy parody of hashtag rap #

The Girl Who Turned to Bone — how rare diseases are now treated, and how people support each other online (via) #

Daily Dot on the pre-history of Tumblr — interviews with the guys behind anarchaia and Projectionist #

SIGGRAPH's technical papers 2013 preview — someone show these people how to use Kickstarter #

Planet Online — the modern web meets early 1990s children's toy commercials #

How does copyright work in space? — Hatfield negotiated a license directly with Bowie, but it's otherwise complicated #

Limits & Demonstrations — standalone minigame set in the world of Kentucky Route Zero (via) #

Google Poetics — common human search queries as poetry (via) #

Jessica Hische on typography — great overall primer for selecting type #

It's Not About the Nail — "stop trying to fix it" (via) #

LEGO's full-scale X-Wing model arrives in Times Square — a 42:1 scale LEGO model of a LEGO model of a model #

Computer Beach Party — so bad it's good; don't miss Jason Scott's great backstory and interview with the director #

ROM CHECK FAIL — after five years, Farbs' classic retro gaming mashup ported to Flash #

Indie developers can't self-publish on the Xbox One — giving in to pressure from partners? #

NYT asks Scroll Kit developer not to use their name — asking him to take down the assets is fine, but this is overreaching #

Face morphing mirror at Maker Faire — simple idea, great effect #

Soylent, the post-food drink, raises $230k in a day — his blog is fascinating and, of course, there's a subreddit #

Amazon introduces Kindle Worlds, official licensing for fanfic — John Scalzi notes that Amazon gets exclusive copyright and licensors can use your new elements without compensation #

The History of YouTube by the Gregory Brothers — on YouTube's eight birthday #

Google Glass through a toddler's eyes — reminds me of Among the Sleep with Oculus Rift support #

Newsblur redesigns — my pick for a worthy Google Reader successor #

You Must Escape — clever echolocation game mechanic, second place in Ludum Dare 26 #

Dictionary of Numbers — Chrome add-on puts large numbers into human terms (via) #

Flickr launches major redesign with 1TB free space, new apps — looking pretty great #

Marco Arment on the Tumblr acquisition — great early personal history of Tumblr #

Yahoo approves Tumblr acquisition for $1.1B — the community isn't taking it well; let's hope Yahoo learned from their first billion-dollar mistake #

Doodal — now you're doodling with portals #

Bret Victor on drawing dynamic visualizations — I really wish Bret would independently release some of his work as products #

7min — dead simple timer for the Scientific 7-Minute Workout #

Welcome to Google Island — short fiction by Mat Honan, inspired by Larry Page's comments at I/O (via) #

Interview with a Metafilter troll, ten years later — randomly, I'd commented in his first post (via) #

Clipping Magic — remove backgrounds from a browser #

Nintendo claims ad revenue over fan-made YouTube videos — Minecraft was offered the same deal and turned it down #

How index cards inspired Google's new UI design — it's all over the upcoming Maps redesign #

Google adds sending money to Gmail — no fee for Google Wallet funds or bank transfers, 2.9% for credit/debit #

Recurring Developments — visualization of Arrested Development in-jokes (via) #

Kevin Poulsen on Aaron Swartz's StrongBox project — curious that it didn't launch with Wired first #

Social Roulette — 1 in 6 chance of deleting your Facebook account and all posts #

The Atlantic on Chris Hadfield return from the ISS — his Space Oddity cover is just amazing #

GeoGuessr — teleport to a random place the Street View Car's been, and guess where you are #

Who is Kickstarter for? — $400k pledged to 2,200 other projects by the Veronica Mars/Zach Braff first-time backers #

Hyperbole and a Half on depression, part two — 19 months later, a followup to her last post #

Pong in pure CSS3 — no Javascript #

Upstream Color now on sale through VHX — only a month after the theatrical release #

The Humble Bundle Double Fine Bundle — ridiculously amazing deal, and a very creepy Tim Schafer video #

Return of the CSS Zen Garden — revived on its ten year anniversary #