Nieman Lab on curation in the age of information abundance — digital archivists and content curators are important, but great creators provide valuable context #

Vi Hart on the science and math of sound — from my favorite mathemusician (via) #

First look at Disney's Wreck-It Ralph — Disney goes 8-bit in an upcoming feature about arcade characters' secret lives (via) #

The Redditor — monthly magazine created by Reddit members on Reddit (via) #

MC Frontalot's Solved, new album out today — buy it immediately; Front also appeared on Mink Car Cover, a tribute to TMBG's ill-timed album #

The Daily Dot — reporting notable events from major online communities like Reddit, Tumblr, and Twitter #

Gary Hudston's Portal 2 marriage proposal — expertly done, down to hiring Ellen McLain for the voice acting (via) #

Rasta.js — anonymous public cross-domain key store (via) #

Duck Tron  #

Prelude of the Chambered, a 48-hour Ludum Dare game by Minecraft's Notch — he streamed most of the development; see all 500+ entries #

Cow Clicker: The Text Adventure — some context may be necessary #

Maciej Cegłowski on why Arabic is terrific — entertaining and educational, as always #

Gameboy and Intel 8080 emulators running in Garry's Mod — made with the Lua extensions #

Wonderputt — brilliantly creative Flash minigolf by the creator of Icycle #

West Memphis Three freed under unusual plea deal — it's unclear whether they can sue for 18 years of wrongful imprisonment #

Jon Rafman's Codes of Honor — short machinima/live-action film about fighting game culture from the creator of 9 Eyes #

Ben and Julia's Engagement Photos — he never spills his wine #

Golden Grid System — from Joni Korpi, who also offers this nice trick for subtly hiding Typekit font replacement #

Plea deal could lead to release of West Memphis Three — wrongly convicted with coerced false confessions, they've been stuck in jail since 1994 #

Evernote acquires Skitch — and Skitch is now free in the App Store #

Foursquare adds checkins for concerts, movies, sporting events — smart move, now they only need to add support for future plans #

Codecademy — interactive Javascript tutorial to teach coding basics (via) #

Tom Waits/Cookie Monster mashup — too perfect (via) #

Epic Rap Battles of History: Dr. Seuss vs. Shakespeare — featuring George Watsky; also: Einstein vs. Hawking, Darth Vader vs. Hitler #

Whyday is Friday — celebrating the spirit of the singular personality that was _why #

Leonard Richardson's board game data experiments — now's the time to launch a farming wargame, but not another Operation clone (via) #

Safety Instructions — aka "Mavis Beacon Teaches Horrible Death In An Air Wreck" (via) #

Skrekkøgle's sculpture of the Windows Solitaire win screen — while you're there, don't miss their oversized Euro coin project (via) #

Obama's Kickstarter campaign to solve the debt crisis — I'm totally backing Zombama #

The Shapes of CSS — try editing any of the declarations to understand how they work #

David Weinberger on Reddit and community journalism — "perhaps curiosity needs a sense of humor" #

Envisioning the tablet newspaper in 1994 — an iPad-like experience at the 4:30 mark; related: AT&T's You Will ads from 1993 #

Warren Buffett's NYT op-ed asks government to tax the super-rich — "My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress." #

Hide, an atmospheric indie game for Mac/PC — conveys a tense atmosphere in a short time with lo-fi graphics and audio #

Lil Wayne samples the Sword & Sworcery soundtrack — apparently without permission from Jim Guthrie; get the soundtrack on Bandcamp #

Tech entrepreneur drains $625 from Jonathan's Card, sells on eBay — I don't care what his intentions are, this is extremely uncool; reminds me of the Chain World hijacker #

Winnebago Man, full-length film now available for free streaming — great biopic about the man behind one of the earliest viral videos (via) #

Aled Lewis's mashups of historical paintings with '80s adventure games — for Super I Am 8-Bit starting this week in Los Angeles (via) #

KinectFusion, real-time 3D reconstruction using the Kinect — this is the holy grail of FPS mappers, turning a room into a playable level in minutes #

Craig Thompson's process sketches for Habibi — six years in the making, his first full-length graphic novel since Blankets, due out next month (via) #

Rabble on Blackberry's shift from executives to the urban poor — Obama started his presidency obsessed with the Blackberry #

Muon Baryon, 4k PC graphics demo ported to Javascript/WebGL — this page brought my laptop to its knees #

Nilay Patel on the subtle complexities of patent system reform — insightful essay from a former copyright attorney; worth reading Lukas Mathis' response #

Minecon — Minecraft's coming out of beta in November at their first official con in Las Vegas #

Fark settles lawsuit from a patent troll for zero dollars — Drew says Reddit settled this week and Techcrunch is still fighting it #

Ars Technica on accuracy over speed in emulator development — an obsessive SNES dev writes about his quest for perfect, but slow, emulation (via) #

Inception in 60 Seconds — one-minute remakes from the Fake Film Fest, the winner sweded Scott Pilgrim #

Lloydtube, add a Cusack boombox to any YouTube video — Peter Gabriel's got nothing on Three 6 Mafia #

Jonathan's Starbucks Card — check the balance on Twitter; it hit Techcrunch and is now mostly empty #

Miles Fisher's New Romance — ultra-violent Saved By The Bell parody with the cast of Final Destination 5 #