NYT Magazine profile on Y Combinator and demo day — funny that "organically" is a curse word in the valley #

Tender moments caught on Russian dashcams — patiently waiting for a compilation of interesting moments captured by Scoble's glasses #

Jason Collins isn't the first openly gay male in pro sports — the story of baseball's Glenn Burke, who co-invented the high five #

Every Noise at Once — interactive genre map, click the right arrow on any genre to expand it #

Rippln, the worst startup in the history of forever — comically-awful douchebro startup; the YouTube videos are amazing #

Bad Robot Surgery — they should've bought Old Glory #

Nyan Cat and Keyboard Cat sue Scribblenauts for infringement — who owns a meme? both were named by others, and spread only after remixed (via) #

Finding Paul Miller — what he learned from living a year offline #

Disposable Cars — visualizing Car2Go activity in Portland over the last three days #

Nearing the End of Peter Molyneux's Curiosity Cube — before skipping to the last 50 layers today, it was projected to be complete next March #

Vinetune — music video built around tagged Vine videos (via) #

Candy Box — like Frog Fractions, much deeper than it appears #

Pogo's SquareBob SpongeMix — "is mayonnaise an instrument?" #

Let's Free Congress — beautiful visualization of the corrupting influence of money in politics and how to change it #

Light Table 0.4 released — powerful new JS and Python support #

Bret Victor's Stop Drawing Dead Fish — don't miss his "digital puppet show" at 49:15 #

Rhizome's history of ASCII art — part of a three-part series on the history of the emoticon #

Nautilus — gorgeously-designed webzine on science #

Stereoblind gamer sees 3D for the first time with the Nintendo 3DS — I love stories like these, reminds me of Sarah Churman's cochlear implant #

Happy 20th birthday, WWW! — to celebrate, CERN restored the first URL #

Slate on the ASMR phenomenon and YouTube whisperers — what do Bob Ross, haircuts, and PES have in common? this subreddit #

Microsoft's IllumiRoom prototype — apparently just a research project, for now #

CRAPCHA — impossible captchas using Unicode and Font Awesome glyphs (via) #

Twitter: The Comic — some of these just kill me #

The Amanda Palmer Problem — "The web also makes it near-impossible to fall into the arms of just one's fans." #

Richard Prince wins "fair use" appeal — "artwork does not need to comment on previous work to qualify as fair use" (via) #

Building A Human — more genius from Peter Serafinowicz #

Automatically-generated snowball poems — using Markov chains and Gutenberg; this needs to be a Twitter bot #

Monaco — indie co-op heist game; Anthony Carboni's review covers it well #

CraftStudio — real-time collaborative game-making, looks outstanding (via) #

Polygon's feature on the history of Ridiculous Fishing — an unhappy footnote: Vlambeer's upcoming game was already cloned #

Churnalism — Sunlight Foundation tool for spotted plagiarism from press releases and Wikipedia #

Io Echo's Ministry of Love — lovely WebGL music video #

Reddit's apology for the Boston Marathon witch hunt — this WaPo story is the best breakdown of how they tracked them down #

for(){}; — projection mapped videogames on canvas; someone should do this with famous paintings (via) #

Codassium — WebRTC video chat and code editor, perfect for remote interviews #

FriendFracker — irrevocably delete between 1 to 10 random Facebook friends #

ArchiveTeam Warrior — want to help save Upcoming? it only takes a couple minutes to install #

Yahoo killing Upcoming on April 30 — with no on-site notice and no way to backup past events; my thoughts about the closure #

_why's book as a single PDF — he published it as a printer spool and closed his site again #

Play accordion by resizing your browser window — code's on Github (via) #

Nick Douglas breaks down how to make a supercut — nice piece, though there's no guarantee supercuts are covered under fair use #

Boys Clubs — from Apple to Tesla #

Retro Vectors — nicely curated set of royalty-free vector art and type #

Detect pulse with a webcam — works on Windows/Mac/Linux, but requires OpenCV and OpenMDAO #

TowTruck — new Mozilla project to set up real-time collaboration on websites #

TODO CAT — finally, a cat GIF meme-based to-do list (via) #

Empire Uncut trailer — the fan-made sequel to Star Wars Uncut; claim a scene! #

Reddit and 4chan search for the Boston Marathon bomber — the subreddit is a rabbit hole; this is like Where's Waldo meets this Onion story #

Medium buys MATTER — the first Kickstarter-funded acquisition? more perspective from Ev Williams #