Google Reader to close on July 1 — horrible, I use it multiple times daily #

Veronica Mars movie launches on Kickstarter — with the creator and original cast in the pitch video #

Leaked audio of Bradley Manning's statement — the full text #

College student asks to accompany Billy Joel — love when this happens; see also: Brubeck, Steel Panther, The Who, and many more #

Curiosity rover finds ancient Mars could have supported life — news conference is streaming now #

OneTab — instant must-have Chrome extension #

The Aleph: Infinite Wonder / Infinite Pity — infinite generative text constructed from Gutenberg and Twitter searches #

simian.interface — stylish abstract indie puzzler #

Jazz that nobody asked for — built around a public domain song and CC-licensed sound effects #

4-D webcam video experiment — Chrome or Firefox nightly only #

Donkey Kong: Pauline Edition — dad modifies the game ROM for his three-year-old daughter (via) #

Tropes vs. Women in Videogames: The Damsel in Distress — awesome first episode from the Kickstarter project that raised the ire of misogynistic gamers #

I Knew You Were Tribbles (When You Dropped In) — needs more Nick Cage, paper towel dispensers, and goats (or all at once) #

Comics Quest — how webcomics make money, a clip from the Stripped documentary #

Who pays writers? — Tumblr blog for tracking publication pay rates; this should be structured data #

Mechanical Turk workers aren't anonymous — in tests, looking up the profile pages of 30% of workers revealed real names #

The Verge interviews emoji's creator — love the comments #

Jim'll Paint It — finally, a drawing of Moby throwing ninja stars at a melancholic badger #

FPS-MAN — Pac-Man makes a surprisingly good FPS #

Corporations as hostile AI — an improvement on Charlie Stross's alien invasion metaphor #

Messages from the Future: How Facebook Died — tech punditry as time-travel scifi; also: the fate of Google Glass #

Amanda Palmer at TED — drawing parallels between couchsurfing, crowdsurfing, and crowdfunding #

Bombermine — massively-multiplayer Bomberman #

Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason's goodbye memo — best sendoff since Butterfield #

We Found Our Son on the Subway — perfect New York story #

Derek Yu's guide to making it indie games — like his post about finishing projects, widely applicable outside of gaming (via) #

archery — GIF art created with Mathematica, source included (via) #

SpaceTop — this looks awkward to me, but makes more sense in the context of Google Glass #

Loom — game toolkit with live editing on multiple devices; free for next 30 days #

Code.org — great video about the importance of learning programming, with tons of solid resources #

Starpilot — a clever or horrible idea, giving the people you fav on Twitter the ability to post as you #

The Ononeon — real is the new fake #

App.net introduces free tier — the only rational move for a social network; love that they started with a paid plan first #

Inside Pop – The Rock Revolution (1967) — Leonard Bernstein on pop; performances by Brian Wilson and a 15-year-old Janis Ian #

Has A Kickstarter Project Won an Oscar? — Inocente was the sixth Kickstarter-funded film nominated, but first to win #

Steven Brill's epic breakdown on why medical bills are so high — infuriating 26,000 word feature story; I hope "chargemaster" quickly enters the lexicon #

Emoji Dick acquired by Library of Congress — the only one of its 14 million items to credit Mechanical Turk for a creative role #

Chrome Web Speech API demonstration — this could be useful for a first rough pass for transcription #

The Big Whobowski — shot-for-shot remake of the Lebowski trailer in the Doctor Who universe; side-by-side comparison #

Joshua Topolsky on Google Glass — "the question is no longer 'if,' but 'when?'" #

We Buy White Albums — visit it in NYC until March 9; layered audio of 100 copies of side one (via) #

Bring in the Cats (via) #

j.views covers Massive Attack with fresh vegetables and a Makey Makey — YouTube comment: "you? give a whole new meaning to the word 'producer'" #

Kelly & Clive — "This is music's Arab Spring. When the youngsters take power from the old men and refuse to give it back." #

What Your Culture Really Says — scathing indictment of startup "culture" #

The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food — incredible excerpt from Salt Sugar Fat #

Billboard makes YouTube part of Hot 100 formula — this week, Macklemore's "Thrift Shop" was finally overtaken by "Harlem Shake" #

Media Molecule's 3D sculpture tech demo — for me, the most interesting part of the PS4 announcement #

Photographer sues biggest Joni Mitchell fan site — over the non-commercial use of four photos uploaded by fans #

Glenn Fleishman on the legality of Amoeba's out-of-print MP3 store — charging for the works is begging for a court battle #