NYT Magazine on Internet satirists in China — using carefully-veiled humor to work around the eye of government censorship #

Mixel — Khoi Vinh's collaborative drawing and remixing app for iPad; his thoughts on the app #

Canvas community reinterprets memes — doubles as an excellent meme IQ test #

What I Didn't Write About When I Wrote About Quitting Facebook — "But I had to come back. That's where all the people are." (via) #

The GAG Quartet's le Internet Medley — loving the Reddit vs. 4chan arguments in the comments #

Kinect BeatWheel — quick, someone show this to Gregg Gillis #

Zorba, a game by Pippin Barr — "Dance? Did you say dance?" #

PoleRiders — new game by Bennett Foddy, the creator of GIRP and QWOP; meant for two players, but the training mode is fun #

Adobe ends development of mobile Flash player, refocuses on HTML5 — a good time to re-read Steve Jobs' thoughts on Flash #

The Social Graph Is Neither — "we have tasted of the blogroll and the lolcat and found that they were good" #

Meanwhile released for iPhone/iPad — Jason Shiga's mind-expanding puzzle comic ported to iOS by interactive fiction legend Andrew Plotkin #

Story of Genki — from Tim and Eric's Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax (via) #

Bohemian Rhapsichord — try holding shift to auto-trigger clips, or ctrl to queue them (via) #

86th Birthday Rage (via) #

Chris Wetherell on dreams, discernment, and Google Reader — thoughts from its founder; related: Mihai's history of social features in Reader #

Skinemax — "Koyaanisqatsi for a generation raised on late night television and B-movie VHS tapes" #

PETMAN — future killing machine from Boston Dynamics, the creators of BigDog (via) #

Supercut.org — I redesigned the site as a community-driven database; related: I did some analysis of the meme in my new Wired column #

src img — bookmarklet finds original images using Google Image Search's reverse lookup #

Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) — history of L.A. in film, made almost entirely from existing film footage (via) #

Christian Marclay's Telephones — the grandaddy of supercuts from 1995 is finally back online #

Codify, game editor for the iPad — sadly, there's no way to share your games and it's unlikely Apple will approve one #

How Caitlin Curran lost her job over Occupy Wall Street — you may have seen her very clever sign (via) #

When I Do This, I Imagine I'm Doing This… — Canvas gets imaginative #

Hyperbole and a Half's Adventures in Depression — I guess that explains why she hasn't posted in five months #

PataNoir — fascinating "surreal noir" interactive fiction where every metaphor becomes real (via) #

Shape Type — from the creator of Kern Type, a game of letterform design; I got 72/100 #

Baroque.me — Alexander Chen's lovely interactive visualization of Bach's Cello Suites, Prelude 1 #

Vimeo vs. Indie Game Developers — Brandon Boyer digs into Vimeo's frustrating anti-game policy #

Richard Stallman's list of requests when speaking — includes preferences for room temperature, egg yolks, folk dances, and why not to buy him a parrot; I find this man fascinating #

Melissa Gira Grant on early camgirl culture — camgirls aren't gone, they just moved to Stickam #

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 #