Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson reacts to being a meme — Watch out guys, we're dealing with a badass over here #

Pentametron — algorithmically-composed sonnets using tweets #

Fish: a tap essay — speaking of Robin Sloan, his newly-released essay-as-free iPhone app #

Nieman Lab on Gawker's editorial strategy — reminds me of Robin Sloan's stock and flow #

Stamen Maps — gorgeous, stylized CC-licensed map tiles using OpenStreetMap data #

Matt Haughey's Lessons from a 40-Year-Old — on "lifestyle" businesses and the risks of taking funding #

Passagebalt — Canabalt meets Passage #

Selfsurfing — Jonas Lund made a Chrome extension that clones his browser; watch him surf until noon tomorrow #

Big Lebowski F*cking Short F*cking Version Without F*cking — Wreck and Salvage remakes the Big Lebowski swearing supercut using the porn parody #

Aziz Ansari pulls a Louis CK — selling it himself as a $5 DRM-free digital download; built by VHX.tv #

wwwtxt — snippets of txt pulled from the net circa 1988-1994; also on Twitter #

How tweeting Deadmau5 led to one artist's big break — love everything about this (via) #

Making a particle system in HTML5 Canvas — playful real-time walkthrough using The Code Player; make your own! #

Girl Walk // All Day — entire 71-minute dance film set to Girl Talk's All Day, filmed in NYC and funded on Kickstarter #

water — live coding d3 sketchpad based on Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle; click a number and hold the alt key #

Free Indie Games — new blog of interesting games by VVVVVV's Terry Cavanagh #

ChirpClock — searching Twitter for mentions of the current time, every second (via) #

F.A.T. Lab's Free Universal Construction Kit — 3D-printable adapters between ten popular construction sets; join Lego to Duplo to Tinker Toys to Lincoln Logs (via) #

Putting the I in Story — Matthew Baldwin's personal anecdote about Mike Daisey, and why personal matters #

Way — just download it, connect it to Twitter, and wait; one of the most intriguing games I've ever played #

Microscopic views of the iPad, iPhone, and other portable displays — including the oddball 3DS screen #

Austin Kleon on Bruce Springsteen's SXSW keynote — "Listen up youngsters: this is how successful theft is accomplished." #

This American Life retracts Mike Daisey's Apple/FoxConn episode — they devoted their whole new episode to the correction, here's Mike Daisey's statement (via) #

Browsing the web from behind the Great Firewall of China — perspective from a software developer trying to access tech blogs and other resources #

Militarizing Your Backyard with Python and Computer Vision — using OpenCV and Arduino to shoot squirrels with a water gun sentry (via) #

How Christian Marclay made The Clock — story behind the epic 24-hour long supercut #

The $8B iPod — funny TED talk on copyright math #

Slate on _why's disappearance and his impact on the world — relieved to see he's alive and well, but some think she went too far in publicizing his identity #

Twirdie — iPhone game played by guessing the frequency of Twitter search terms (via) #

Adam Savage on how simple ideas leads to major scientific discoveries — awesome seven-minute talk #

Real-time speech synthesis in 1k of Javascript — limited phoneme support, but still! (via) #

Kickstarter's Double Fine Day — $1.66M pledged to projects in a single day #

Why James Whittaker left Google — a thoughtful piece about the changes under Larry Page #

Dancefloor Diplomacy's "We Are Ready" — live mashup with 20 musicians and 38 songs with no samples #

Stratocam — explore the world through Google Satellite imagery, share shapshots of your own discoveries #

Machine Pareidolia — Greg Borenstein tests face-tracking software on inanimate objects; go buy his book! #

Encyclopaedia Britannica goes out of print — after 244 years #

Village Voice on the NYPD tapes, now confirmed by internal report — a Bed-Stuy whistleblower persecuted for reporting systematic manipulation of crime statistics #

Sounds of the Internet — playlist of websites that auto-play music #

How OpenStreetMap handled Apple's unattributed switch — brilliant work, and I'm so happy to see the project blowing up #

Ben Brown on 12 years of SXSW Interactive — you've changed, man #

David Friedman interviews videogame pioneer Ralph Baer — from his ongoing Inventor Portrait series #

Stephen Wolfram's personal analytics of his life — king of the quantified self #

Narrow the Gapp — Gina Trapani's open data mashup demonstrates the deeply unfair gender pay gap #

PBS short film on animated GIF art — from Under Construction to cinemagraphs #

Biologic by Bloom — free iPad app visualizes your social network as cells #

Emojicons — from the creator of Nonstop Nyan Cat, a community for sharing Japanese-style text emoticons #

Classic Movie Scenes Subtitled for Bros — a taste of On the Bro'd #

Toy Shining — inspired Toy Story/Shining mashup created on the iPad #

2SLEEP1 — hour-long playlist of textmode performances "designed to make you fall asleep" #