RIP Michael Hart, Project Gutenberg founder — a true visionary, he pioneered the ebook and open access to the world's knowledge #

VidRhythm — new meme-compliant video remixing toy by Harmonix for iOS #

Facial rigging with WebGL — also: skin rendering demo, both were made with three.js #

Jimmy Kimmel's touching tribute to his Uncle Frank — hard to watch; p.s. now might be a good time to call your oldest living relative (via) #

Food bloggers revolt after ConAgra hidden camera PR stunt — TLC "celebrity" chef and frozen lasagna backfires badly; nice twist in the last graf (via) #

9/11: The Photographer's Stories — oral history from pro photographers at ground zero #

Venus Patrol, Brandon Boyer's new indie gaming blog, on Kickstarter — his followup to Offworld, my favorite blog of 2009; the rewards are insane, with unreleased games by indie gaming's all-stars #

The Likeable Constitution — rank your favorite parts of the U.S. Constitution on Facebook (via) #

Shake to Undo for Mac OS X — reminds me of Hang Time for iPhone #

Jim Romenesko shuts down the Obscure Store — one of the oldest active blogs, it ran for 13 years (via) #

Little Boat — another brilliant animation by animation student Nelson Boles #

Canv.as opens to the public — the popular lists are usually offensive and entertaining #

Andrew Plotkin's My Secret Hideout — experimental procedural text toy for iPad from my favorite IF author #

Jason Scott's DEFCON talk on Archive Team — powerful talk highlighting their incredibly important digital preservation work #

Keygen Jukebox — songs bundled with warez serial code generators #

Google Correlate searches trends by drawing — Austin Kleon fed Vonnegut's story shapes in with amusing results (via) #

Markov Bible — random Markov-chain generated snippets from the King James Bible (via) #

going to the store — made for the recently-cancelled Everything on Channel 101 (via) #

Yahoo retiring Maps API on September 13 — as if hundreds of mashups suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced #

Wikileaks Cablegate emails leak in full online — the Guardian published the password in a book, but they blame Wikileaks for lax security #

That's All Folks  #

Blogger get major redesign — insanely huge leap from the previous UI #

Minecraft in Minecraft — a very, very minimalist 2D Minecraft built with redstone circuits in Minecraft (via) #

Daily Dot on Hollywood Leaks — the new group is skipping the politics and hacking the entertainment industry for lulz #

Monsters of Grok — great thinkers as rock band t-shirts #

Flickr introduces geofence privacy controls — more on their dev blog about how the feature came to be #

Kerry Callen's Super Antics #2 — more: Super Antics #1, faces in nature, if DC published Marvel, alternate Batman, and dramatic Wonder Woman #

Mari0, a work-in-progress Mario meets Portal game — from the creator of Not Tetris 2, Tetris with physics (via) #

Chess@home — distributed chess AI in JS using Web Workers, written in 48 hours for node.js Knockout #

Two chatbots talk to each other — "I am not a robot. I am a unicorn." (via) #

Portal's Kim Swift demos Quantum Conundrum — a mind-bending puzzle game with alternate dimensions that modify weight and time #

Ben Purdy's real-life Minecraft block — projection-mapped cube with an Arduino sensor #

Jig goes live — del.icio.us founder Joshua Schachter's new project #

Why Amazon Can't Make a Kindle in the US — fascinating five-part series on America's shift to overseas manufacturing (via) #

Jeff Rubin interviews Muxtape creator Justin Ouellette — years later, very interesting to hear his story of getting sued out of existence #

Akemi, a WebGL and haXe experiment — best viewed in Firefox, part of the Mozilla Labs Demoparty (via) #

Jason McIntosh on Pilgrim in the Microworld, a 1983 book about Breakout — long out of print, Jason's hosting a copy of the book in PDF form #

New Apple CEO Tim Cook: "I'm Thinking Printers" — "It's called innovation." #

Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda retires from Slashdot — 14 years after cofounding the tech community #

Unnerving Korean ghost story comic — needs Flash; you don't need to read Korean to appreciate it, but here's the translation (via) #

Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO — way to go out on top #

The Kid Should See This — Rion Nakaya and her three-year-old curate inspiring, fun stuff (via) #

Terry Gilliam on his process of making cut-out animations — excellent examples of understanding constraints and working within them #

Astronaut Suicides — photos by Sara Phillips and Neil DaCosta #

Jeopardy world champion Ken Jennings competes in the Disney Store Trivia Challenge — also, he wins for most offensive trivia team name ever #

Retaliation, a weaponized build monitor — automatically targets who broke the codebase and fires foam missiles at them (via) #

Talk O' Clock — like using ChatRoulette as an alarm clock (via) #

Dan Cohen animates the "So What" sheet music — shockingly good teaching tool; more here (via) #

Understanding 9/11 — the Internet Archive's 3,000 hours of TV news from September 11 #

Programmable piano in Minecraft — at 1:10, he places notes on the virtual piano roll; he also made a pig-powered slot machine and 5-channel sequencer #