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 #

Neil Gaiman's commencement speech — love the part starting at the 17:20 mark; "the gatekeepers are leaving their gates" #

Metafilter user's "suicide" was a hoax — great that he's alive, and great that he's banned; the note from his "wife" never smelled right to me #

Google Japan's HTML5 Moog synth — amazing use of the Web Audio API #

XOXO Festival is live! — I'm organizing a huge conference/festival in Portland this September with Andy McMillan; get your tickets quick! #

SIGGRAPH 2012 technical papers preview — I look forward to this video every year #

Full album 8-bit tributes to Radiohead's Kid A and OK Computer — similar chunky sound to MOON8 #

E. chromi — color-coded poop and Google-stained clouds #

Jeri Ellsworth's C64 Keytar — she's working in Valve's new hardware R&D lab on top-secret awesomeness #

Makies — customizable 3D printed doll creator, founded by Alice Taylor #

Euphony — piano visualization built on three.js and MIDI.js, source is on Github #

Paul Lamere calculates the most musical American cities, per capita — using the Echonest API and the top 50,000 artists #

Endless, Nameless — Adam Cadre's new interactive fiction inspired by BBSes and old-school text adventures #

Community's 8-bit episode on Hulu — chock full of retro references, from Mega Man to Minecraft #

Dan Harmon on getting fired from Community — a damn shame, this guy's the soul of the show; I can't believe he only owns 10% #

Benjamin Valentine's PERFECTION — submit your own to see our collective attempts (via) #