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) #

Super Chemical Bros. — the classic Star Guitar video remade in Mario (via) #

What Love Looks Like — the physics of relationships #

io9 charts how visions of the future changed over time — tracking how near- or distant-future science fiction is, decade by decade #

How Facebook hacked the NASDAQ button to push an Open Graph action — "Mark listed a company on NASDAQ" #

NYT visualization of the Facebook IPO vs. historical IPOs — 60% of IPOs since 2010 have had negative returns so far (via) #

Nekogames' Parameters — abstract, but shockingly good, casual RPG; figuring out the rules is part of the fun #

Law & Order & Food — "you have the right to remain delicious" #

Ill Doctrine on hip hop conspiracy theories — and, more critically, the rise of gangsta rap and incarceration rates #

Ze Frank on finishing — unblinking inspiration #

Trailer for Ed Piskor's WIZZYWIG — awesome graphic novel inspired by real-life hackers, I highly recommend buying it #

Ignore Hitler — Draw Something spawns a meme; I like the meta one (via) #

Austin Seraphin on learning echolocation — he's a real-life Daredevil #

Mat Honan's feature on Yahoo's mismanagement of Flickr — a depressing read, especially while seeing the team release great new features #

Make interviews Bunnie Huang on the end of Chumby — sad end to a promising product, I received one of the prototypes at Foo Camp in 2006 #

Rebecca Sugar's Singles — file under: scenarios I'd like to play in a videogame #

SMBC on hell — sounds about right #

GameBoy Color emulator in JS — the source is on Github (via) #

60,000 Dominoes — 65 hours over eight days; the blooper reel was hypnotic (via) #

OAuth Is Your Future — Dan Hon snaps some screenshots from the near future #

Fracuum — winner of Ludum Dare 23; every winner is worth playing #

Welcome to Life — "the Singularity, ruined by lawyers" (via) #

BusinessWeek on the post-Kickstarter life of Diaspora — the founders talk about the Ilya's tragic suicide for the first time #

Anachronism detection in Mad Men episodes — language studies from the person who did the frequency analysis for Downtown Abbey (via) #

Verge feature on Scamworld, the inside look at Internet scams — incredibly deep investigation and short film, brilliantly made (via) #

Hartverdrahtet — amazing 4k intro from the PC demoscene (via) #

Mike Birbiglia's short film from This American Life — starring Fresh Air's Terry Gross #

Chris Poole's talk on the shifting meme landscape at ROFLCon — the shift away from interest-based web communities towards social networks #

Robot butt that represents emotions — I'm hoping someone turns this into a drone #

Gina Trapani on the failings of "brogrammer" culture — holy hell, the comments are awful #

Dustin Curtis on pixel fitting rasterized vector images — best explanation of a long-standing issue I've seen #

Mitt Romney bullied gay students in high school — people change, just so long as he takes ownership of his actions; oh, wait #

Walt Disney's Taxi Driver — the scene starting at 3:45 is like a parallel universe remake of Roger Rabbit (via) #

Ben Jackson on memes, the Internet, and the divine — "The memes we choose to elevate to Internet fame are the product of the purest form of democracy ever invented" #

Recursive Drawing — watch the video or it won't make any sense #

The Forger — for fans of Kutiman's ThruYOU, found footage beat mashups from Meat Beat Manifesto's Jack Dangers #