Steve Albini AMA on Reddit — "There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me" #

Maurice Sendak, rest in peace — goodnight, Max #

Tinkercad — amazing WebGL CAD designer that prints to Makerbot, Shapeways, and Ponoko #

Mechanizing a miniature Main Street Electrical Parade — wonderful attention to detail; watch the finished parade (via) #

LA Times on American Airlines' attempt to revoke its all-you-can-fly passes — the company regretted its short-sighted decision to offer lifetime first-class travel (via) #

Daniel Hooper's proposal for text editing on iPad — if you're jailbroken, Kyle Howells made it real (via) #

Mineception — Minecraft minigame implemented in Minecraft (via) #

Scumbag Steve's Advice for Annoying Facebook Girl — honest advice from an unwilling advice meme star #

Anil Dash on Popchips' racist promo with Ashton Kutcher — a reasoned, thoughtful post with actions that help prevent it from happening again elsewhere #

Reddit users share their deepest, darkest secrets — with anonymous throwaway accounts, some very upsetting stuff in here #

Doodle Music — another gem from Vi Hart #

Deadspin investigates an ESPN freelancer's Internet scams — in a bizarre twist, she also recently stole @OhWonka #

Million Short — experimental search engine removes the top million popular sites from results (via) #

Inc. profile on the Turntable.fm team's struggle to grow — weirdly personal, I imagine neither of the founders are happy about this piece #

The Data Journalism Handbook — free, collaborative, open-source guide #

MAXGIF — silly tool to make GIFs fullscreen, click to get another one #

Nyan Waits  #

Yancey Strickler digs up never-before-seen Kickstartr (sic) designs — to commemorate the third birthday; related: Perry writes about the origin story #

NYT visualization of three years of Kickstarter projects — companion piece to this article on the insane success of the Pebble watch #

Dan Hon on beating diabetes with data — interesting look at the state of quantified health #

Go Right  #

Original Atari developer ports Star Castle to the Atari 2600, 30 years later — why this is impressive; order a one here with optional box (via) #

First two seasons of Star Trek played simultaneously — that'd make a great screensaver with this as the background audio #

Music for Programming — hour-long textural mix tapes designed for "prolonged periods of intense concentration" (via) #

Nieman Lab on Gawker's new commenting system — seems awkward to navigate and moderate to me, but interested to see how it plays out #

Steven Levy on algorithm-generated news articles — they argue it frees up journalists for actual reporting, instead of routine grunt work #

Light Table, a reactive coding IDE — interesting prototype video #

Microscopia — Ludum Dare game by a first-time game developer #

Building Animusic's Pipe Dream in the real world — making the classic music visualization real; incredible work, though it sounds very different in person #

CSS 3D Tilt — bookmarklet turns any page into a 3D object, with the DOM representing depth (via) #

Descriptive Camera — camera wired to Mechanical Turk; reminds me of Image Search for the Blind #

Best of Metafilter — new blog surfaces the most interesting stuff from the community #

Google Drive launches — 5 GB free, and Gmail goes up to 10GB free #

"That's Why You Don't Have Any Friends." — I could've used that speech when I was 14, but I never went to gyms (via) #

A Super Mario Summary — every level from the original SMB, recreated on a single screen each (via) #

Scape — made for the Ludum Dare compo; over 1,100 games were entered! (via) #

VIM Adventures — ingenious short tutorial on vim key controls #

Tweenk — a passively-multiplayer game built on Twitter activity #

MMMMMM — I know the controls seem insane, but stick with it; the level design is devious #

Valve's Handbook for New Employees — fun and interesting glimpse inside their crazy flat structure #

Grow A Face — try evolving the biggest head possible #

5th Ave. Frogger — Frogger cabinet modded to use real-time car traffic from NYC streets #

Ludum Dare 23 interactive keynote — very cute; I'm hoping some people make Playfic games #

Botanicula released — new game from the creator of Machinarium and Samorost; the bundle is a steal #

People Who Don't Know How to Spell "Cologne" — countdown until someone writes a Twitter bot #

Chinese hierarchies of snobbery and contempt — ranking everything from sneakers to World of Warcraft classes #

Summarizing the UC Davis Pepper Spray Report — communication failure at every level in the chain of command #

The History of #1 Projects on Kickstarter — a capsule history of Kickstarter itself; the Pebble watch is up to $4.4M #

Marco Arment on Twitter's patent agreement — agree with the issues, but defensive patents exist to ward off potential attackers with countersuits #

How Fark's Drew Curtis fought a patent troll — "don't negotiate with terrorists" #