Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson reacts to being a meme
— Watch out guys, we're dealing with a badass over here #
Matt Haughey's Lessons from a 40-Year-Old
— on "lifestyle" businesses and the risks of taking funding #
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 #
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 #
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 #
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) #
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 #
Dancefloor Diplomacy's "We Are Ready"
— live mashup with 20 musicians and 38 songs with no samples #
Machine Pareidolia
— Greg Borenstein tests face-tracking software on inanimate objects; go buy his book! #
Village Voice on the NYPD tapes, now confirmed by internal report
— a Bed-Stuy whistleblower persecuted for reporting systematic manipulation of crime statistics #
How OpenStreetMap handled Apple's unattributed switch
— brilliant work, and I'm so happy to see the project blowing up #
David Friedman interviews videogame pioneer Ralph Baer
— from his ongoing Inventor Portrait series #
Emojicons
— from the creator of Nonstop Nyan Cat, a community for sharing Japanese-style text emoticons #