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 #

xkcd's time — he's been posting one frame an hour for days #

Fictive Kin on the shuttering of Punchfork — after Pinterest acquired them, the founder demanded others not scrape the user data #

Google's Treasure Maps mode for April 1 — I love the Street View filter mixing analog and digital photo artifacts #

Times Haiku — unintentional poetry algorithmically found in NYT stories #

Paul Ford on Bitcoin — decentralizing trust #

Ten Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Startup Success — born on third base #

telnet spaceclaw.net — Flickr as a BBS #

How TurboTax fought free, simple tax filing — repulsive story of corporate lobbying #

Moshpit simulation in JS — don't forget to hit the play button in the bottom right for audio (via) #

What if the Google Reader readers never come back? — entirely likely #

All 6 Star Wars At Once — the first couple minutes are amazing #

Why I Left Google — hate to say, the loss of Google Reader has made me deeply skeptical of the company I once adored #

The Atlantic on Mike Merrill's personal IPO — Panic's own kmikeym, go buy some shares! #

Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost — best thing I read about the whole ordeal #

Apple removes sweatshop game from App Store — the latest in a line of serious games pulled over controversial themes #

World Wide Maze — amazing Chrome experiment turns any website into a 3D maze controlled with your phone #

Dataviz of singer-songwriter quality over time — don't miss the interactive version on Tableau #

Google Images adds animated GIF filter — OMG, you guys; transparent backgrounds, too! #

Jason Molina, RIP — his Songs: Ohia work is some of the most emotive music ever recorded #

PBS Offbook on the rise of webcomics — interviews with some of my favorites #

Leigh Singer's Breaking the Fourth Wall — eight minutes, 54 films #