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" #

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 #