Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle — amazing talk that gets increasingly amazing; I want that code editor and iPad app #

iOS '86  #

The Dark Room — a silly one-room YouTube adventure #

Eclectic Method recreates 99 Problems with film clips — like a frenetic take on Matthijs Vlot's Hello #

Reddit bans child porn subreddits — a near-immediate response to SomethingAwful's campaign #

Wildlife Control's Analog or Digital — HTML5 pixel art video using the Soundcloud API (via) #

Anatomy of a Tear-Jerker — or: why some songs give us chills and provoke an emotional response #

Rise of the Independents — a response to DHH's post on the non-"startup" startup #

Raiding the Lost Ark — incredible fan-made compilation of archival commentary on Raiders of the Lost Ark #

Chimp displays stunning visual memory skills — try it yourself, little monkey (via) #

MG Siegler on VEVO employees pirating a football game — "Why would VEVO pirate content? Because it was easier than getting it legally." (via) #

GQ on Terry Thompson and last year's exotic animal massacre in Ohio — Ohio's lax laws on personal zoos leads to tragic results (via) #

Game developers react to Double Fine's $1M fundraising success — "did you hear? the death-rattle of a million middle men" #

DataEast's Movie Opinion Meter — using the awesome dataset from Information Is Beautiful's Hollywood budgets design challenge #

Kickstarter's craziest 24 hours — a minute-by-minute breakdown of the most insane day in Kickstarter history #

Horse_ebookmarklet — turn any site into Horse_ebooks #

The Puzzlejuice Emails — in-depth look at the evolution of the visual design of one of my favorite iOS games #

Double Fine's Kickstarter project to make a new point-and-click adventure — best project video ever; I backed it so hard #

Interactive ASCII fluid dynamics animation — based on this JS simulation (via) #

What Popular iPhone/Android Apps Know/Transmit About You — ignore the awful visualization and skip to the table; Angry Birds sends your contacts to third parties!? #

Path apologizes, deletes user address books — they never should've done it in the first place, but this is the right way to handle it #

BBC tracks down an Internet troll — as the Daily Dot points out, he's more of a racist asshole than a troll (via) #

PressPausePlay — stylish documentary on the digital media revolution of the last decade #

Restored Disneyland footage from 1957 — only open for two years in this video #

Robot readable world — found footage from machine-vision tests #

Avería, the average font — preview them all (via) #

How and why Mark Jaquith became an atheist — gripping personal story of the life-affirming shift from faith to evidence (via) #

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 #