The Verge on DrawQuest — Chris Poole's new iPad app, spun out of lessons learned from Canvas #

Mat Honan on the return of Flickr — Facebook is "the bathroom door that resists all efforts at locking, swinging open again and again while you're trying to poop" #

PixelConduit — free Mac app for real-time video effects #

The Pirate Bay documentary released — buy the CC-licensed film for $10, watch it on YouTube, or download it where you'd expect #

Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church — Megan's post, also on Medium, is fascinating #

One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age — auto-generated Geocities screenshots viewed in Netscape 4.51, pulled from the Archive Team archive (via) #

NBC closes Everyblock with no notice — the hidden text easter egg on the announcement makes me sad #

The Eagleman Stag — amazing stop-motion short on the perception of time (via) #

Pirate hacks of Africa — supreme bootleg weirdness from a Nairobi videogame store (via) #

XOXO 2013 — how could we not? #

Discourse — Jeff Atwood and Robin Ward reboot the discussion forum; see it in action #

Docracy's TOS Tracker — track changes across nearly a thousand terms of service agreements #

The Chairs' Hiatus — Matthew Bogart's graphic novella about an indie rock friendship #

NYT on Facebook fatigue — the full study #

Litterplugs — "Remember: you're not littering if it ain't touchin' the ground!" #

Elevated — 28kb of WebGL madness in JS, ported from the original 4k PC demoscene intro (via) #

WebRTC demo — cross-browser real-time videochat between Firefox/Chrome without Flash, and it just works #

UCLA's 3D reconstruction of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair — after reading Devil in the White City, I really want to play a game set there #

Serious Eats' food scientist goes vegan for a month — an omnivore foodie transitions to veganism, rejecting faux foods along the way #

Tracing the etymology of "Big Data" — great comments, one from John Mashey and another pointing to this history of the concept #

Surgeon Simulator 2013 — it's the QWOP of surgery; the gameplay videos are great #

What to do with $175,000 in weed found in your backyard — insane L.A. story #

Occupy Conan — fans recreate an entire episode posted online, submissions stitched together and broadcast #

EFF files petition on behalf of subreddit to cancel "Gaymer" trademark — fun to see an entire subreddit listed as the petitioner on a court filing #

Macklemore is first indie artist to top Billboard charts in 19 years — times are changing; "I'd rather be a starving artist than succeed at getting fucked." #

Paperman — Oscar-nominated Disney short fusing cel and CG animation techniques #

David Friedman's profile of the inventor behind the first software patent — first filed on April 9, 1965 #

Storyboard — convert any subtitled video into a PDF of screengrabs with every scene change and line of dialogue #

Hilary, the most poisoned baby name in U.S. history — great analysis on name popularity using R (via) #

Game of Thrones' King's Landing recreated in Minecraft — over 3,000 buildings with full interiors created by 100 builders over four months #

Dio, Linden Labs' social platform for making interactive worlds — Colossal Cave, Alice in Wonderland, Chinatown; interesting tutorials on YouTube #

App.net adds 10GB storage, expanding app platform — I'm rooting for them, their vision is much broader than their Twitter-ish service #

OXO responds to Quirky's copyright claim — very, very odd to see a for-profit company picket a competitor (via) #

How Newegg crushed the "shopping cart" patent troll — great interview with their Chief Legal Officer; "Seriously, screw them. You can quote me on that." (via) #

Marco Arment on anti-Apple anger — I thought such a balanced essay wouldn't inspire anger itself, but HN quickly proved me wrong #

Fair use analysis of Escape From Tomorrow — the indie film was surreptitiously shot entirely in Disney World #

Wired interviews Jonathan Coulton on Glee's reuse of his cover song — copyright law aside, attribution would just be the ethical thing to do; compare the two songs #

Metropho.rs — mapping the "X is the Y of Z" snowclone (via) #

Data storage in DNA — 739k stored and retrieved with 100% accuracy #

vinepeek — unmoderated stream of new videos on Vine #

Remix of the Century — beat-matching hit songs from 1890-present using Echo Nest and the Whitburn dataset #

Star Wars resorted by shot length — absurdist digital art, it's only released in the obsolete HV-DVD format #

Actual Facebook Graph Searches — unintended consequences of building a search engine around previously-unsurfaced data #

Inbox Zero for Life — the simplest system I've seen for Gmail power users #

Aaron's Army — Carl Malamud's beautiful speech at the SF memorial tonight #

The Atlantic tracks down the first digital pinup — possibly the first computer art, though oscilloscope-based art predates it #

Swiss artists send self-photographing package to Julian Assange — it sent photos every 10 minutes, and just arrived in his hands #

dys4ia — Anna Anthropy's autobiographical game of going through hormone replacement therapy #

Notre Dame football player's girlfriend and her death proven a hoax — excellent Internet detective work #

Gawker's Big Board — new to me, real-time stats on their trending articles #