4chan releases an API — one billion posts later; more from Moot about the changes #

Homestuck is the Internet's Ulysses — Andrew Hussie's project to turn his webcomic epic into an adventure game raised $700k in two days #

AntiSec leaks one million Apple UDIDs with device names — they claim it was found on an FBI agent's laptop (via) #

The Verge reviews McPixel for iOS — one of my favorite games of the year, absurdly silly point-and-click minigames #

Johann Sebastian Joust's new traitor mode — come try the game at XOXO Arcade #

Ustream copyright bots kill the Hugo awards livestream — didn't realize Ustream had its own version of ContentID #

Heather Champ brings back The Mirror Project — an artifact of the early web, preserved #

Greg Knauss on his 10-year-old son's $23,800 bug bite — it boggles my mind how anyone could be against affordable health care #

Paul's Boutique remix recreated from original sample sources — three DJs and three years in the making, this is one of the best mashups I've ever heard #

Troma releases 150 full films on YouTube — including such gems as Rabid Grannies and Yeti: A Love Story; someone needs to make an MST3K remixing app #

Photo Hunt — proof of concept app built on top of Human.io, Joshua Schachter's new mobile Mechanical Turk-ish platform #

Barack Obama's AMA on Reddit — Reddit's under severe load now #

Coding.fm — the sound of coding #

The Waiting Game — a time-wasting simulator #

We Are Back — classic '90s cracktros redone in HTML5, using this old-skool demo effects framework (via) #

The Verge on the unraveling of OnLive — they were burning through $5M/month, with only 1,600 concurrent players #

Insane in the Chromatophores — Cypress Hill visualized in color-changing squid cells (via) #

Brooklyn Integers — artisinal, hand-crafted unsigned ints; see also: Mission Integers and London Integers #

Gangnam Style, Dissected — most of the heavy lifting from Onsemiro's blog post #

Super Mario Bros. for the Atari 2600 — really impressive fan conversion #

Twitter revokes Tumblr's friend finding privileges — this is seriously starting to bum me out; Twitter's the social network graph that matters most to me #

Uncertain Rainbow — replacing identity on Twitter with a color #

Give Up — a Flash game about failure and regret; after you play, watch this playthrough #

Case study of Indie Game: The Movie's distribution — opting out of traditional distribution to maintain creative and financial control #

Awkward Stock Video — thumbs up to wind! (via) #

How Mat Honan recovered his data — he got his baby photos back, fortunately #

Kickstarter case study of Robin Sloan's book project — cameo by yours truly #

How Gasketball's free-to-play app business model backfired — if you make a free app, make it really, really easy to give you money #

Staggering Beauty — shake vigorously #

Obvious announces Medium, a new blogging platform — "this is good" #

Khan Academy's new interactive computer science program — created by John Resig, who wrote about the project #

Progressive Insurance defends policy holder's killer in court — a horrific new low for an insurance company, an impressive feat #

Somebodies: A YouTube Orchestra — inspired by Kutiman's Thru-You, Gotye's remix of YouTube covers of "Somebody That Used to Know" #

A Long Drawn-Out Trip — Gerald Scarfe's pre-Wall 1973 animation, largely unseen because of music clearance #

Hieroglyphy, a tool to turn any JS code into ()[]{}!+ — try it here (via) #

Kirby Ferguson's Embrace the Remix talk at TED — nice distillation of the core ideas behind Everything Is A Remix #

Mixel to close in September — one of the only iOS apps to allow public remix, shutting down way too soon #

Beck's new album released only as sheet music — a collaboration with McSweeney's #

What if a glass of water was, all of a sudden, literally half empty? — the physics of silliness #

Internet Archive offers over a million torrents of books, music, and films — now the fastest way to download anything from Archive.org #

How YouTube lets content companies claim public domain footage — five companies all claimed the public Mars Rover videos from NASA (via) #

The Onion's Sex House — it's quickly moving from simple reality show parody to dystopic scifi #

Visualizing the Racial Divide — old but new to me; more background #

NYT visualization on the history of the Olympic men's 100m sprint — love the auralization at the end #

Mat Honan on the Apple and Amazon security flaws that led to his hack — the scariest: all you need to hack an iCloud account is a billing address and the last four credit card digits #

Moot on 4chan's one billionth post — more a 4chan State of the Union, tracking the site's incredible growth and future #

Togather — fan-funded book tours with built-in scheduling; reminds me of my earlier post #

YouTube's Content ID from Scripps takes down NASA's Mars Rover video — automation run amok, NASA says "everything from imagery to music gets flagged" #

Little Techie — my five-year-old nephew's obsessed with Apple devices, so he makes his own #

NASA's Mars Curiosity landing livestream — bracing for the seven minutes of terror #