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 #

danah boyd on "real name" policies — there are very valid reasons why people choose pseudonyms for display names #

NYT Magazine feature on Kickstarter — nice glimpse into how, and why, projects are moderated and featured #

Things That Look Like Other Things — I'm a fan of the subgenre of disposable things made into permanent objects #

How to Build a Newsroom Time Machine — college journalism class ditches digital for manual typewriters, developer fluid, and paste-up #

Betabeat on how 4chan spawned the Bronies community — the show continues to inspire, despite its flawed physics #

The Stanley Parable — excellent metagame about free will and video games; if you're on Windows, use the Desura installer #

Why Ryan Barrett is weird about privacy — the sad truth is that his abnormal, but justified, behavior makes him a bigger target of suspicion #

SMBC's story of a dying cat — be sure to click the red button at the bottom for the twist ending #

Humble Indie Bundle #3 — incredible chance to get the best of the indie gaming scene in one swoop; Braid, Machinarium, VVVVVV, Osmos, Cogs, Minecraft, and more #

Johann Sebastian Joust — a no-graphics, music-based, physical jousting game for groups using motion controllers #

A Dot-Com Memoir — Levi Asher's story of riding the dot-com boom and bust at Pathfinder and iVillage #

Longshot Magazine #2: Debt — funded on Kickstarter, the 68-page magazine and website were produced entirely in 48 hours from submissions #

VVVVVV beaten in 14 minutes with no deaths — not tool-assisted, this is one of the most impressive runs I've ever seen #

John Mayer on why he quit Twitter — "I realized about a year ago that I couldn't have a complete thought anymore." (via) #

Space Trek, background scenery from Star Trek episodes — reminds me of Meme Scenery (via) #

Distorted scans in Google Books — fingers and all (via) #

Kirby Ferguson's The Language of Christianity — short "Everything Is A Remix"-style video commissioned by CNN #

Boing Boing's collection of hacker stock art — "malicious virus; Install;" #

RiffTrax's five-year "best of" reel — the Jurassic Park episode with Weird Al is particularly great #

Neil Illusions — see also: Illusion Illusions #

Sergey Brin on "To Tell the Truth" in 2000 — that's one well-prepared bowler #

CrowdDB, answering queries with crowdsourcing — academic paper proposes SQL queries backed by a Mechanical Turk engine (via) #

Rorschmap — don't miss James Bridle's thinking behind it #

Kevin Slavin's TED talk on how algorithms shape our world — Roombas, recommenders, and financial algorithms terraforming the Earth (via) #

MTV News on The Internet in 1995 — when Moby had hair #

Kevin Huizenga's Time Travelling — from the always-excellent What Things Do #

Topiary from LulzSec arrested — his last tweet: "you cannot arrest an idea" #

The Crowdfunding Cargo Cult — companies are trying to clone Kickstarter and the iPhone without understanding why they work #

Danny Choo on 3D printed vanity dolls in Japan — deep in the uncanny valley, dolls that looks exactly like you #

0-DAY ART — related: Street Show, a dead drop for art in NYC (via) #