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 #

The Play — clever hyperlinked interactive fiction built with the Undum framework #

Leigh Alexander on the rapture of Ian Bogost's Cow Clicker — a biting satire of Facebook games became frustratingly popular for its creator #

Ghostery — browser add-on auto-blocks sketchy ad trackers, web bugs, and other includes #

Disneyland's Haunted Mansion recreated in Minecraft — inspired use of custom textures and pistons in part two; see the rest of his recreations #

Analog vinyl sampling — laser-cutting records and taping pieces together to create new music #

2011 Interactive Fiction Comp entries released — almost all of them playable online #

Experimental one-line algorithmic music — try making your own! this one is lovely (via) #

The Morning After — the active fanfic community on Delicious abandoned it for Pinboard in the wake of the relaunch #

Most Popular Infographics You Can Find Around the Web — "a crapload of irrelevant data put together in a big vertical image" (via) #

Rick Perry: The Bad Lip Reading — related: President Obama's turn (via) #

"It's the '90s." — an Everything Is Terrible supercut #

Joe Hewitt on the future of the web vs. native apps — don't miss his followup #

MAD's ThunderLOLCats takes on overused Internet memes — amused at how furious people are in the comments (via) #

YouTube founders launch new Del.icio.us — some new stuff and tons still broken or missing, so I'm reserving judgment for now #

Glitch opens to the public — adorable MMO from the creators of Flickr, Game Neverending, and Katamari Damacy #

Typewriter Cocktail Machine — love the syringe-driven keyboard and liquid display, works without electricity (via) #

Kids React to Star Wars Kid — correction: he was never trying to do Star Wars moves; that was an assumption by people who first spread the video #

The Deleted City — spatial Geocities visualization with MIDI pulled from neighboring pages, built with Archive Team's backup (via) #

Schrödinger's Nyan Cat (via) #