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 #

How much would it cost to store every phone call in the USA? — Neil ran the numbers and guesses around 130 TB/day #

Guillotine simulator for Oculus Rift — are we in Black Mirror territory yet? #

How one EVE Online player nearly crashed the market with a single useless item — they're planning a TV series based on player stories #

Dan Kaminsky on Bitcoin — "It would take a massive, society-rending effort against general purpose computing to really keep Bitcoin down." (via) #

Quotes from Silk Road's anonymous founder — more communicative than Bitcoin's elusive creator #

Geometee — procedurally-generated t-shirt designs #

Spelunky Dance — an interpretive dance based on Spelunky, inspired by my tweet, with a cameo by Spelunky creator Derek Yu; the leaked cam #

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) #