Pointer Pointer — photos that point to your mouse cursor #

NPR previews Fiona Apple's The Idler Wheel — first album in seven years #

Jonathan Lethem's "My Internet" — I love the idea of a commerce-free private Internet; reminds me of invite-only communities I belong to #

Paul Ford's 10 Timeframes — we're asking people to spend their heartbeats on things we make #

Brother Brain — John McGregor's looping animations from 8-bit videogames (via) #

Cindy Au on the "Take My Money, HBO" campaign — want a revolution? don't give your money to HBO, give it to creators #

OK Cupid Enemies — my personal favorite #

Reddit users collaborate to make the Community 8-bit game real — the lead dev is taking submissions for assets from their sub-Reddit; download it #

Life After A Total Hack — speculative near-future fiction on Buzzfeed, of all places #

FM Towns Marty — NSFW Tumblr focused on strange Japanese game screenshots from the NEC PC-88/PC-98 and FM Towns Marty #

New trailer for Disney's Wreck-It Ralph — the top YouTube comment nailed it, it's like Who Framed Roger Rabbit for video games #

Airtime — Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning's new ChatRoulette meets Facebook video chat toy #

Quora_ebooks — Markov-generated Quora questions #

The Ballad of the Psychotropic Robots — free procedurally-generated audio-visual thing for Windows #

Washington Post on the fall of CNET founder Halsey Minor — very sad; Halsey himself purged much of his Wikipedia entry in April #

Soundplay — from Pitchfork and Kill Screen, a collaboration between musicians and game designers #

NYT on a Parisian food truck — like here, the same complaints from local restaurants crying unfair competition (via) #

Emily Short's Bee, a story about work and spelling — built on Varytale, a new platform for interactive fiction #

A Brief History of Video Games — a three-minute video mashup from Polygon #

Kickstarter's Yancey Strickler on Amanda Palmer's $1M album project — "No one is happy with the current creative economy, and fans will support people who dare to challenge it." #

PBS short film on the culture of Reddit — covering its curiosity, sincerity, activism, and sexism #

Museum of Endangered Sounds — related: Alexis Madrigal's breakdown of the dialup modem sound #

Clippy.js — Microsoft's hated agents brought to the web, ready for embedding (via) #

Report confirms Stuxnet created by U.S., Israel — started by Bush, ordered by Obama, with unknown future repercussions #

Blockly, a graphical programming language by Google — try the simple maze; the full editor generates code in JS, Dart, and Python #

Politwoops, deleted tweets from politicians — now there just needs to be a commenting section for speculation on why #

Meshu — turn your location data into jewelry; brilliant use of the Foursquare API #

Make Good Art — Neil Gaiman's commencement speech turned into a comic #

Jason Scott restores Internet Underground Music Archive — from EFF cofounder John Gilmore's forward-thinking tape backup (via) #

Open Goldberg Variations released — new recording funded on Kickstarter last year, now released to the public domain #

InstaCRT, fake camera filters turned analog — sends your photo to a monitor in Sweden, shoots a picture, and sends it back to you #

NTK, 15 years later — you can subscribe to the retro newsletter that sends you a 15-year-old issue every week #

Isaac's lip-dub proposal — if this doesn't make you get misty, see a doctor; you might be dead inside #

Reggie Watts at TED — he's like a human Markov chain #

Star Wars recreated by legendary voice actors — doing famous characters in every single scene; this is ridiculously fun to listen to (via) #

Serendipitor, an app that creates serendipitous routes — like oblique strategies for walking directions #

Ill Doctrine on why trolling needs to be legal — inserting some sanity in a brain-dead proposed bill in NYC #

Linespace — a fun little 1-D game #

DIY.org, a community of kids who make — love everything about this, don't miss the adorable projects #

Soul Searchin' — fun, quick shrink-and-grow gamejam entry #

BlindSide, a 3D audio-only adventure game for iOS — reminds me of Solitary Sand #

Robot arm grabs SpaceX Dragon — I love living in the future #

The Depth Jam — indie game devs camp out in a beach house for several days to make their current projects better #

19-year-old entrepreneur secretly lives in AOL's offices for two month — living for $30/month on a couch, free ramen, and Internet access (via) #

Indie Game: The Movie, releasing worldwide on June 12 — the first feature film sold on Steam, and VHX.tv is powering the DRM-free downloads and streams! #

Adam Savage's "Why We Make" — "we are creatures of creation" #

Because We May — XOXO speaker Ron Carmel's new campaign supporting stores that give artists control over pricing #

SF Weekly profile on Tim Schafer and Double Fine — I tried so hard to get him for XOXO, but he's a very busy guy #

Leno airs YouTube video without permission, Content ID takes down the original — fascinating how people naturally assume it's all human, and not machines #

Double Fine announces The Cave, Ron Gilbert's new adventure game — just like his Maniac Mansion, a cast of multiple characters, but with co-op #