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 #

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 #