Where's the Pixel? — find and click on the black pixel; you may need to clean your screen first (via) #

ARTINFO on the chilling effect of the Prince v. Cariou copyright ruling — the journalist mentions me and Kind of Bloop #

Darkness — a brilliant 24-hour comic by French cartoonist Boulet (via) #

Nano quadrotors flying in formation — don't miss the figure 8 pattern at the end (via) #

Bootstrap 2 released — here's the announcement #

Jeff Atwood on the risks of unmoderated communities — left to their own devices, popular online communities get taken over by cheap, easy gags (via) #

How and why J.D. Roth sold Get Rich Slowly — interesting tale of a founder selling his site, but unable to share the details for years #

Yahoo lays off in-house Flickr support team — from what I hear, it was done with 10 minutes' notice to Flickr management #

Mapstalgia — videogame maps drawn from memory #

Shit Programmers Say — strikingly similar to Shit Rocks Say #

Impressions of Corporate Logos by a 5-Year-Old — "a cheetah, a cheetah, a cheetah" #

Bellbot — web app that beeps when you get new signups or sales #

ScratchML — markup language for recording and replaying turntablism #

Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? — nice piece of Quora fiction (via) #

David Carr on Kickstarter's film funding at Sundance — 10% of the festival was funded on Kickstarter, with two optioned by HBO #

Why ten-year attendee Mike Pusateri's skipping SXSW this year — I made the same decision to skip this year; I may regret it, but it just wasn't fun last year #

MegaUpload's user data set to be destroyed by Friday — collateral damage in the copyright war #

Blogging declines across the Inc. 500 — too bad; Twitter and Facebook aren't a replacement for longer-form communication #

ChatChat — Terry Cavanagh's multiplayer game about being a cat (via) #

Identifying Ice Cube's "Good Day" — process of elimination #

Milkshake — an open-source WebGL music visualizer based on Milkdrop #

Typographica's favorite typefaces of 2011 — returning after a two-year break #

Pirating the Oscars, 2012 — now with 10 years of data; I'll republish the article here tomorrow #

Colbert interviews Maurice Sendak — a national treasure; part two #

Warby Parker's Annual Report — lovely design (via) #

Mario meets Tim from Braid — with cameos from Limbo and Super Meat Boy #

Bootstrap 2 ready for testing and feedback — here's the awesome preview, with responsive design, new plugins, and tons of new components #

Method of Action's color matching game — love the colorblind mode #

One Hour Per Second — visualizing the incredible rate of YouTube uploads #

Nelson Minar on Microsoft 1995 vs. Google 2012 — Google will be in trouble if their strategy succeeds, or if it doesn't #

Get Money, Turn Gay — new Auto-Tune the News starring Joseph Gordon-Lewitt and Vermin Supreme #

Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory — finally listened to this stunning This American Life episode; it led to this response from Apple #

Focus on the User — hack by Twitter, Facebook and Myspace devs shows how Google sacrifices relevance for Google+ promotion (via) #

Plancast post-mortem — sad to hear they're ending development, it showed potential #

Jonathan Coulton on MegaUpload and the overblown threat of piracy — essential reading, along with Tim O'Reilly's post from earlier this week #

Anil Dash on the history and future of web protest — related: Marco Arment on stopping the next SOPA #

Congress puts SOPA/PIPA on hold, Rep. Lamar Smith finally caves — nice work, Internet #

State of the demoscene, 1991-2011 — a long decline since the mid-1990s (via) #

Star Wars Uncut: The Director's Cut — the final edit of the amazing, crowdsourced Star Wars remake that won an Emmy #

TorrentFreak on the legal files lost in the MegaUpload shutdown — I'm sure top men are working on returning those files (via) #

Wat — simple nerd test: do you laugh harder at the photos or the code output? (via) #

Supreme Court rules Congress can re-copyright public domain works — noooooo #

Twitter buys Summify, shuts it down — until it's integrated into Twitter, try Percolate, which I use daily #

Feds shut down MegaUpload in global operation — here's the indictment; Swizz Beatz was their secret CEO?! #

Zapatou's mashup of 71 "Rolling in the Deep" YouTube covers — man, I wish Kutiman would do a Thru-You followup #

@grammer_man, a Twitter bot that corrects misspellings — using word lists from Wikipedia; some great responses so far (via) #

Where does Congress stand on SOPA/PIPA? — updated constantly; more Republicans now oppose it, but Democrats still support it 40-34 #

Republic, Lost — essential Lessig lecture on "striking at the root" to fix government (via) #

Sal Khan's explanation of SOPA and PIPA — hands down, the fairest and clearest explanation of the goals and risks I've seen for the layperson #

Amit Gupta found a bone marrow donor! — and saved future lives, thanks to the international donor drives #