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" #

Idle Screenings — entire feature films split into animated GIFs; also: as Powerpoint decks and starfield screensavers #

Tourney — story of an imaginary graphical text adventure #

Square Register — deeply disruptive to the POS industry; also, anyone in the U.S. can sign up for a free Square reader #

Mari0 released — open-source Super Mario meets Portal mashup, out now for PC/Mac/Linux #

Insider gossip on how Disneyland underestimated demand for their 24-hour leap day event — surreal photos of die-hards sleeping in Main Street Cinema #

Aerial quadrotor bot creators at TED — insane to see them map and navigate new spaces using the Kinect #

Jer Thorp on the Weight of Data — awesome talk from one of the giants of infoviz #

Gorgeous visualization of movie profits and reviews — a huge amount of information displayed in a concise, understandable way #

Pixels and Polaroids — when analog and digital nostalgia combine (via) #

2 Player Productions' behind-the-scenes of the Double Fine pitch video — interesting to see how much thought and effort went into the pitch #

Jake "virt" Kaufman's FX4 — pay-what-you-like chiptune soundtrack to a nonexistent film #

Verisign seizes non-US .com domain on behalf of US authorities — who needs SOPA? #

Cat Fountain — related: Minecraft 1.2 is out with iron golems, cat, ocelots, and smarter zombies #

TV Is Broken — or: why cable is the new landline #

Touch Arcade's behind-the-scenes on Beat Sneak Bandit — one of the most addictive games I've ever played, a brilliant one-button rhythm game #

Robot quadrotors perform the James Bond theme — they play pretty well for mindless killing machines #

A Year of Links — Tom Armitage's physical book of Pinboard bookmarks and the code to make your own #

Scott Schiller's HTML port of Survivor for the C64 — the source is on Github; I loved his making-of photos #

Jesse Thorn's 12 Point Program for Absolutely, Positively 1000% No-Fail Guaranteed Success — some solid advice from inspiring, independent people #

Ze Frank bringing back The Show — yay! all my Kickstarter dreams are coming true #

Swear Cuts — editing this year's nine Best Picture nominees to eight minutes of profanity #

DrunkEliza — written in Entropy, a programming language that decays variables as it runs #

Hexagon — Terry Cavanagh's sadistic 24-hour game for Pirate Kart V #

Admiral Grace Hopper demonstrates a nanosecond — the legendary computer programmer appeared on Letterman in 1986 (via) #

Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer discuss adventure games — amazing 35-minute chat; related: they added new rewards to the Double Fine Adventure #

Adrian Chen unmasks the creator of @horse_ebooks — some great Internet detective work #