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) #

Rear Window remixed into a single panoramic shot — time lapse of a 20-minute installation stitching together all the stabilized backyard footage from the film (via) #

You Are The Road — my favorite of the nearly 300 games created at What Would Molydeux? #

Kill Screen interviews Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe — yesterday, Al came out of retirement on Kickstarter to remake the first Larry game #

Subtle Sans — lovely pay-what-you-want typeface #

wanderdrone — downsampling the world; related: Aaron's New Aesthetic talk at SXSW #

Codecademy adds HTML/CSS lessons — perfect first step for Internet beginners #

Floating Shiny Knot — WebGL environment mapping using Street View photos #

I hereby resign — fictional resignation letter on the liability of Facebook background checks #

Kinect Star Wars dance party — what is this, I don't even #

How Etsy ships — every engineer deploys to production on day one #

Soundtap — browse shows from independent and college radio stations; their March Madness is fun #

MapsTD, tower defense game on Google Maps — brilliantly done and surprisingly fun; try battling in your city with various map tilesets (via) #

Mike Davidson on the Readability controversy — agree with every word of this #

FFFFFAT's subpixel — grid of razor blades turns subway ads into pixel art (via) #

MMOsteroids — a subtle April Fool's prank; spoiler alert (via) #