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) #

Criterion Collection releases Kindergarten Cop — about time this understated classic gets the recognition it deserves #

Reddit Timeline — amazing collaborative roleplaying project, transcending April 1 pranks #

1-Bit Camera for iOS — they set up a Tumblr for sharing photos #

Google introduces 8-Bit Maps for the NES — don't miss the promo video and Null Island; finally, some competition for 8-Bit City #

Cult of Mac on a creepy app for stalking women using shared location data — blame the app, not the sharer; Foursquare just killed their API access #

Minecraft Red Rock City timelapse — hypnotic construction of an epic virtual city #

Lost Prince of Persia source code discovered in dad's closet — in other Jordan Mechner news, The Last Express is coming to iOS later this year (via) #

Glitchr — Facebook page devoted to breaking their layout; related: tweets that break Twitter #

Face.com adds age detection to the face recognition API — it already supports identifying mood, smiles, gender, and glasses #

DuckDuckGo's query stats — happy to see a new search engine for power users emerge #

The Verge reviews Paper, a gorgeous drawing app for iOS — love their promo video #

Kickstarter digs into the impact of blockbusters on smaller projects — a rising tide lifts all boats #

Jeff Bezos plans to recover Apollo 11 rocket engines from the sea floor — "celebrity explorers" is an inevitable trend as space and ocean exploration tech advances #

NY Mag on the new young foodies — funny how "foodie" has become a derogatory term for some crowds #

Frank Cifaldi tries to track down the Super Mario Bros. release date — surprisingly difficult, nobody seems to have accurate dates #

Spotting anachronistic phrases in Mad Men using Google Ngram — related: his analysis of Downton Abbey's language #

The Impact of Kickstarter, Creative Commons & Creators Project — beautiful video from PBS's Off Book series #

Quora on watching characters in film based on people you know — including a long story from someone who was fictionalized in Like Crazy #

A Guide to Patterns and Forms in Trainyard — deconstructing one of my favorite iOS games #

Mega 64's Recut of Indie Game: The Movie — if this makes sense to you, and you live in PDX, you should come to the screening tomorrow #

Fame, a Twitter lottery — automatically follows and unfollows everyone in the pool to a random person daily #

Legit — git for humans #

Skills.to — Tasty Labs' new project to tag your friends and find like-minded people; here's me #

BrowserQuest — experimental HTML5 MMO using WebSockets and Canvas by Little Workshop and Mozilla (via) #

OMGPOP developer Shay Pierce explains why he didn't join Zynga — "don't join a company whose values are opposed to your own" #

Pippin Barr's Epic Sax Game — love the 8-bit remix of the Eurovision performance #

Tambour — interesting free PC/Mac multiplayer game, attack an opponent with rhythm #

The Fourth Dimension for iOS — love the user reviews #

Racist Hunger Games fans disappointed on Twitter — warning: book spoilers in the screenshots #

Apollo 18+20, an interactive fiction tribute to They Might be Giants — 38 games inspired by TMBG's Apollo 18, with every Fingertips game requiring only one move #

Michael Jackson vs. Chris Watson — "Beat It" audio resynthesized using only samples from nature recordings; more algorithmic remix here (via) #

Multiplayer Piano — built with socket.io by Brandon Lockaby #

Screenshots of Despair — "You have no friends." #

AppBlock — block your friends' Facebook apps from accessing your personal information #