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 #

Patton Oswalt's Star Wars filibuster on Parks & Recreation — eight minutes of improvised Star Wars/Avengers fanfic #

CVS BANGERS — Hennesy Youngman hypes up the shampoo aisle on a Tuesday night #

Wired's 20th anniversary issue — from 1993 to xkcd #

Dustforce sales figures — amazing to see what Steam and Humble Bundle have done for indies #

90-year-old woman tries Oculus Rift — indistinguishable from magic #

Disney Star Wars — uneven, but lots of nice touches in here #

Do Not Touch — crowdsourced music video with nearly 7,000 cursors recorded so far #

playfun and learnfun, automating NES gameplay — feed in keystrokes with memory states and let it see the future; source and paper here #

Geo for Bootstrap — pretty sure I used that Kai Power Tools background in 1996 (via) #

Teehan+Lax's Google Street View Hyperlapse — WebGL tool turns Street View into animations like these #

Reasons My Son Is Crying — "I wouldn't let him drown in this pond." (via) #

The New Yorker profiles Notch — coping with the responsibility of sudden fame and wealth (via) #

Jason Rohrer's A Game for Someone — a titanium board game buried somewhere in the Arizona desert, intended to last for 2,000 years #

Listen to Bitcoin — real-time Bitcoin trade visualization/auralizer (via) #

Oliver Kreylos's first impressions of the Oculus Rift — his video from last week showed how future UI could work #

Skype malware pegs exploited CPUs to mine Bitcoins — the dollar is so boring compared to this #

Weird Twitter: The Oral History — "Meet the unwitting pioneers behind the internet's dumbest revolution." #

Felix Salmon on the Bitcoin bubble — great primer on the current state of Bitcoin (via) #

Movie studios order Google to remove their DMCA requests — corporate idiocy or bots gone awry? (via) #

Lawrence Lessig at TED — continuing his push towards removing the corrupting influence of money in government #

The Email Guitar — shred while composing work emails #

Roger Ebert, rest in peace — the balcony is closed #

18 Cadence — brilliant interactive fiction explores one house across a century; cut up stories to share #

An Acquisition Is Always A Failure — Jacob Lodwick reflects on the Vimeo/CollegeHumor acquisition (via) #

David O'Reilly's stunning Adventure Time glitch episode — he tweeted links to download the HD episode all day yesterday #

Disney closes LucasArts — I hope they're open to selling and licensing the IP #

Neurofiction — reactive storytelling based on neural activity (via) #

Rdio introduces Vdio — where are the streaming services that allow individual artists to share their work? #

American Psycho with Huey Lewis and Weird Al — try getting a reservation at Dorsia now #

Prince DMCAs Vine over six-second clips — he made Vine sad #