Class-action Yelp lawsuits dismissed — as suspected, another judge found that the claims of extortion were unfounded #

Oakland police throw flash grenade into crowd helping injured protestor — the protestor, an Iraq veteran, is in critical condition with a skull fracture #

PROTECT IP Act Breaks the Internet — produced by Kirby Ferguson from Everything Is A Remix; please write to Congress to stop this awful bill #

John Hodgman is The Deranged Millionaire — quite likely the best book trailer ever #

Nest — gorgeous learning thermostat created by leaders of the iPod design team #

Siri Meets Eliza — Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner brings two eras of natural-language processing together #

A Game About Game Literacy — more of a brutally hard platformer than a metagame, but well made #

RIP John McCarthy, AI pioneer — he coined "artificial intelligence," and invented Lisp and garbage collection; The Robot and The Baby from 2001 is worth reading #

Analysis of the Steve Jobs tribute messages — some stats pulled from the 10,975 messages from fans and friends (via) #

Teaser for Next Restaurant's Childhood menu — Grant Achatz was interviewed about the concept and creative menu (via) #

Occupy the Internet — try it on Goldman Sachs #

Mourning the death of Google Reader's social features — and again, only a week's notice to save everything? really? #

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon at Wembley Empire Pool, 1974 — immaculate fan-remastered BBC broadcast, download the album #

Google redesigning Reader, removing existing social features next week — are shared linkblogs and all shared/starred posts really getting deleted with only a week's notice? #

Adobe's official post on the Photoshop deblur tech demo — much clearer images than the bootleg video of the live demo #

2012 IGF Pirate Kart — bundling together 300+ indie games too small to warrant the $95 IGF entry fee (via) #

Google Books' WebGL Bookcase — Aaron Koblin wrote about it; try hitting "H" for the control panel (via) #

Take This Lollipop — incredibly creepy use of the Facebook API; Jenna Wortham interviews the creator #

Killing the Abraham — Caterina Fake on how founders propagate culture in their own image #

Jotly — "Like ducks? Jotly will show you big and little ducks!" (via) #

Dan Bruno designed his first game at age 5 — Backgammon II, a racing game with WEPONS #

German theater group stages live-action, point-and-click adventure games — audience tries to solve puzzles with real actors in a scene; related: Action Castle (via) #

SocialFlow's analysis of the spread of the #OccupyWallStreet hashtag — see also: their analysis of how trending topics work, using OWS as an example (via) #

Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It — "Right now, Generation X just wants a beer and to be left alone." (via) #

140bytes Music SoftSynth — takes an argument and synthesizes 30 seconds of audio in only 138 bytes (via) #

Void Gaze, Nullsleep's interactive fiction meets animated GIFs — also worth trying: maybe make some change, Aaron Reed's IF based on the sport killings of Afghan civilians (via) #

Chris Poole's talk on online identity and self-expression — "Google and Facebook would have you believe that you're a mirror ... but we're more like diamonds." (via) #

The Billboard Wayback Machine — neat visualization built on the community-powered Whitburn project #

Adrian Holovaty's YouTube-powered insult generator — 467 people don't understand regular expressions #

Easter eggs in Siri — sex, drugs, and the meaning of life #

Matt Taibbi suggests concrete demands for Occupy Wall Street protestors — related: charts explain why they have reason to be angry #

Blackboards in Porn — grading the nonsense written on mostly safe-for-work classroom scenery #

Vanity Fair's The Woman Who Knew Too Much — the same power struggle fueling the Occupy protests #

Ira Glass Sex Tape — pitch perfect parody, I'm not sure most listeners would notice until the 4-minute mark #

Bret Victor's Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction — must-read piece on interactive infovis, with a playful header #

Echo Nest's Brian Whitman on music resolution issues in Facebook — "I cannot think of a worse fate: hearing something worse than John Mayer when you have to click on a link that says John Mayer." #

Justin Hall's GameLayers postmortem — emotional, thoughtful look at the failure of PMOG and The Nethernet, his browser-based MMO #

Make Pixel Art — Ben Brown and Katie Spence's awesome new pixel editor with built-in sharing #

Internet Story — a year old, but new to me (via) #

Kickstarter hits one million backers — at a current rate of $100M pledged per year; by comparison, the NEA's budget is $154M #

Watsky's "Amazing Grace" at #OccupyLA — "the waves of grain on the stolen land, theft is as American as a Cola can" #

The Wub Machine — instant dubstep remixes, just add Echo Nest #

Plink, a multiplayer audio experiment built with Node and Web Audio — see also: ToneCraft, by the same creator #

Photojojo/Jelly founder Amit Gupta's search for a bone marrow donor — if you're of South Asian descent, please get swabbed; Seth Godin's giving $10k to whoever donates #

Jason Kottke's roundup of Steve Jobs memories — I also liked this simple musical tribute #

Olson timezone database shut down over IP case — the volunteer-run open-source project is the definitive source for global tz info #

Steven Levy's Wired obituary for Steve Jobs — the best I've read #

Apple's "Think Different" ad narrated by Steve Jobs — amazingly, I'd never heard this version #

Brian Lam's Regrets of An Asshole — on the former Gizmodo editor's contentious and regretful relationship with Steve Jobs #

Steve Jobs (1955-2011) — here's to the crazy ones #