Using Echo Nest to use music preference to predict political leaning — Democrats appear to have more diverse tastes (via) #

A Lip-Sync Six Years in the Making — "I think it's simultaneously the best and worst idea I've ever had." #

Machines (Take Care of The) — music video as a Robotron-inspired game #

xkcd's what if? — answering ridiculous hypothetical questions with physics (via) #

Rabble digs into the history of the @reply on Twitter — using Kellan's oldtweets, a searchable archive of Twitter's first year #

How Vi Hart Makes A Video About Making A Video About Making A Video — reminds me of this classic Reddit thread #

SCOTUSblog's postmortem on the ACA verdict mess — 7,000-word breakdown of the nine-minute period after the Supreme Court's announcement (via) #

Tom Francis on Spelunky and the City of Gold — written in 2009 about the free PC version, every word of this applies to the brilliant new XBLA release #

Apple cracking down on UDID activation sites — apparently, a direct reaction to my recent article #

Howard Rheingold on the rise and fall of The WELL — interesting to hear the community's trying to buy it #

A Conversation With My 12 Year Old Self — from the same guy, a heated debate between Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie #

San Diego malfunction leads to 15 minutes of fireworks in 15 seconds — sometimes, failure is more fun than success #

Comic Sans Everywhere for Chrome (via) #

Giant Bomb's hour-long preview of Spelunky — out tomorrow on XBLA, really excited to play this #

Charles Carreon dismisses his lawsuit against the Oatmeal — a temporary end to an epic flameout #

Andrew Kim's proposed rebranding for Microsoft — fun speculative work #

The Kid vs. Plants vs. Zombies — this guy rivals Calvin's dad #

Public radio reporter interviews his two daughters' "worst haircut ever" — related: this little anecdote from Metafilter #

The Bed Sitting Room (1969) — surreal black comedy set in post-apocalypse London; love the bicycle-powered Tube #

Reddit explains Obamacare — crazy that a comment on Reddit is the best explanation I've seen so far of the ACA #

Salon lays off The Well staff, put it up for sale — I have an archive of every pre-2005 post, just in case #

Political Screaming Match — it's like Internet comments by phone! #

The Kleptones' Paths to Graceland mixtape — trying to track down and reconstruct the mythic tape that inspired Paul Simon #

Profile of Mike Merrill, publicly-traded person — full disclosure: I'm bidding on several shares in the public auction #

Evolution of the Web  #

Anil Dash on clouds for people and EC2 for poets — love this idea, something I spent lots of time on at Expert Labs #

Color Coordinates — tweets mentioning colors plotted on Stamen's lovely watercolor maps #

Google Compute Engine launches — like EC2, access to the virtual machines instead of App Engine alone #

Google Chrome and Drive launching on iPhone and iPad today — likely only using Apple's rendering engine, so not as significant as it seems #

Are We In the Future Yet? — before sending in a correction, note the date and time #

Google's Project Glass demo at I/O — live skydiving onto Moscone; attendees can preorder for $1500, ships next year #

Source Filmmaker — Valve is releasing their incredible animated filmmaking tool, should be huge #

Idea Channel on mashups and the shifting value of genre definitions — between Off Book and Idea Channel, PBS is doing interesting online work lately #

Rock-scissors-paper robot wins every time against human opponents — high-speed vision analyzes your move and responds before you finish throwing #

Jess & Russ's wedding invitation — it took six months and the help of 15 star illustrators and designers #

Ze Frank walks a mile in another man's shoes — a joke about empathy turns into something more #

Sorkinisms — incredibly well-researched and edited supercut #

Louis CK selling complete tour direct through his site — no ticket agencies, flat rate, no sales tax #

Symbolset — like Chartwell, a clever use of OpenType ligatures to turn words into icons #

Facebook switches all users to facebook.com email addresses — idiotic, especially since all emails from non-friends end up in the Other black hole #

Millefiori — ferrofluid mixed with water colors (via) #

Top IAmA — brilliant cruft-free view of Reddit's top AMA threads (via) #

Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror — shorter version of the plan #

Coins — try turning on "transcribe audio" for robots gone awry #

Daybreak, looped — a running gag on Community; reminds me of bad hold music #

Ars Technica feature on the rise and fall of Winamp — including interviews with members of the former Nullsoft team #

FuckItJS — jQuery plugin that blindly removes lines with errors and recompiles until it works #

Jonathan Coulton on the future of music, 3D printing, and scarcity — a reaction to Emily the intern and the resulting kerfuffle #

Kickstarter releases detailed stats page, updated daily — finally, a feature every Kickstarter knockoff won't try to copy #

First Person Tutor — a proofreading FPS, part of the experimental 7dfps game challenge; some other highlights #