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 #

Trailer for Perspective, a crazy first-person puzzler — taking some of the Fez gameplay mechanic into a first-person shooter #

Robin Sloan's social experiment with choosing the lowest primes — love the strategies involved #

How Pogo makes an audio remix — more great stuff on his SoundCloud channel (via) #

Owning Your Own Words — good discussion with Anil Dash, Gina Trapani, Paul Ford, Mathew Ingram, and Winer by proxy #

Satellite Eyes — Mac freeware changes your desktop to the satellite imagery of your current location #

Joshua Topolsky on the Microsoft Surface tablet — a first step away from useless concept videos, and towards bringing R&D to the real world #

Origami artist sues over abstract paintings of unfolded designs — ongoing battles over the definition of transformative fair use #

Progression of an animated scene from Tangled — live-action reference shots, layout, lighting, and more #

Netflix neuters its API — no commercial use, no mashups with other video services #

Inventing a Problem — related: I Give Up #

FunnyJunk lawyer files suits against The Oatmeal, IndieGogo, National Wildlife Federation, and the American Cancer Society — the redacted complaint is up on Carreon's site; I love part 26 #

PBS Off Book's tribute to the animated GIF — I recommend just playing this full screen all day today #

Jay Smooth on sexist gamer dudes — 12 hours left to back Anita's project; in case you somehow missed it, the awful backlash and media response #

Artists celebrate the 25th anniversary of the animated GIF — I love the LZW/Nyan Cat remix #

Technology Review profile on Cameron Marlow and the Facebook Data Team — they're doing great work, I just wish they had an RSS feed; here it is #

Ze Frank's FacePunch — on the potential positive and negative energy of online interactions #

Pattern analyzing the chord structures of 1,300 songs — I'd love to see an app that always suggests what chord to play next #

Reddit user's ten-year Civilization II war spawns a following — fanfic, comics, and attempts to resolve the war at the new subreddit #

The Complete Dan Harmon Channel 101 Canon — including the incredibly meta "Exposure" and "ChooseYourOwnSelectAVision.TV" #

Readability ends contentious paid publisher model — lots of frustration in the comments #

Indie Game: The Movie available to stream or download — go buy it! essential viewing, perfectly captures the anguish from developing a long-term project #

Snakes on a Cartesian Plane — variations on Snake that are actually fun #

Robert Hodgin's Eyeo 2012 demos — all made with Cinder, source coming next week #