Twitter introduces the Innovator's Patent Agreement — a contract that guarantees any filed patents will only be used defensively, even if sold #

The centuries-old tech behind the Tupac "hologram" at Coachella — pioneered by Hatsune Miku #

The Republia Times — Flash games puts you in charge of editing a state-run newspaper, with a twist (via) #

SymbolHound — coder-centric search engine that searches punctuation #

Image Error Level Analysis with HTML5 — spotting Photoshop trickery with a few lines of Javascript #

Ten Years of farbrausch Productions on GitHub — one of the demoscene's legendary groups open-sources a decade of work #

MADMEN Bittorrent Edition — on Metafilter, Rhomboid breaks down how the video glitches work (via) #

Google BBS — functional textmode interface to Google using termlib.js and the Google REST API (via) #

Tug of Store — click as fast as you can; an experiment with the Svpply API by OK Focus #

Why Netflix never used the algorithm that won the Netflix Challenge — with DVD rentals, people were aspirational; with streaming, immediate gratification #

Snowball — Pixeljam takes on pinball #

Printer, an open-source kit for Internet-connected thermal printers — like Little Printer for hardware hackers #

The Intelligent Encyclopedia — visions of an always-connected device from 1982, drawn by Glen Keane (via) #

The Oatmeal's How to Get More Likes on Facebook — funny, that's my strategy too #

Incredibox — animated beatbox engine #

ASCII art animation on Twitter — hold down "j" to advance (via) #

The Listserve — the email version of Twitter's Fame game #

Long, thoughtful interview with Peter Molyneux — extremely frank discussion of why he left Microsoft to start a small indie studio #

Campbell Whyte's 8-Bit Dreams — 376 daily drawings inspired by NES games (via) #

InstaBackup — David Smith's free Mac app to download all your Instagram photos #

PONGS — Pippin Barr's 36 experiments with Pong #

Chairlift's "Met Before" — choose-your-own-adventure music video #

Paul Ford on Facebook and Instagram — "Facebook bought the thing that is hardest to fake. It bought sincerity." #

Github adds support for Notch's virtual CPU in 0x10c — I can't believe I haven't mentioned his new game yet #

Hillary Clinton responds to Texts from Hillary Tumblr — memeception #

Froggatto level editor — responsive coding inspired by Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talk  #

Adrian Chen tracks down the history and identity of Goatse — with updates from Jay Stile, Anil Dash, and the person who registered goatse.cx #

Disasterpeace's FEZ soundtrack now on sale — beautiful album from one of Kind of Bloop's talented musicians #

Caine's Arcade — the Internet discovers 9-year-old boy's cardboard DIY arcade in East L.A. (via) #

MMO Asteroids, for real — remember that April 1 joke? someone built it for real (via) #

Metafilter's link-rich primer of the demoscene — the Scene.org awards are always a good place to start #

RIP Jack Tramiel, Commodore founder — the Vic-20 and C-64 were my first computers, and changed my life forever #

Facebook buys Instagram for $1B — a small team getting bought by an Internet giant; does that story ever end well for the users? #

Ze Frank's An Invocation for Beginnings — first episode from the reboot of The Show (via) #

LaserTube: Trapped in the Closet — something like this could turn supercut creation into a social game #

Photo Timeline — neat hack using the deprecated Google Image Search API; try it with Apple #

Rev. Dan Catt on the New Aesthetic — best explanation of the trend I've seen so far #

Projection mapping on a human face — here's their demo reel (via) #

Microsoft Research Cliplets — a free Windows tool for making cinemagraph animated GIFs #

Justin Watt discovers Javascript injection on his hotel's wifi — the Courtyard Marriott's wifi provider is inspecting traffic and inserting their own ads #

Jonathan McIntosh's history of subversive remix videos before YouTube — fascinating playlist of 30 videos created between 1941 and 2005 #

ADmented Reality — Jonathan McIntosh remixes the Google Glasses concept video with Google Ads #

Google announces Project Glass, their augmented-reality glasses — finally, something to do while riding in my self-driving car #

Why $7.99 beats $0.99 — ending the race to the bottom for iOS apps #

NYT Mag on casual gaming with an interactive illustration — based on Erik Rothoff Andersson's open-source toy #

TypingClub — well-designed touch typing tutorial (via) #

Math for Makers — Greg Borenstein's new project to turn CS research into practical tools for coders and artists; interesting Twitter feed (via) #

Twitter in 1985 — related: text-mode on Tumblr #

Joystiq on Molyjam — "Death magenta is transparent." #

Linux Tycoon — simulating the creation of a Linux distro as a game (via) #