Graphic Nothing's minimalist art and album cover remixes — hmm, this reminds me of something... #

Aaron Swartz indicted by feds for scraping academic journal database — unlike his PACER work, JSTOR is all from academic journals; here's the indictment, which includes details of the physical break-in #

A slight discrepancy — finding the math behind the otherwise mundane (via) #

Plain Text Offenders — shaming sites that store passwords in plaintext (via) #

Untris — impossible game tasks you with reverse-engineering a Tetris playthrough (via) #

Ironic Sans digs up the Comic-Con 1988 schedule — the expansion into films and gaming started over 20 years ago #

Where I Go At Night — clever mechanic, two-player game pits a character against itself (via) #

A Videogame Tour of NYC — related: 15 Days in Liberty City (via) #

The Final Image — guess the final scene from classic films #

Wired on how Stuxnet was deciphered — long, gripping read (via) #

A Geek's Journal, 1976 — "This blog is based on my actual journal kept in 1976." (via) #

Craig Hockenberry on the rise and fall of the indie developer — only companies can survive attacks from rampant patent and copyright trolls (via) #

MetaFilter Memories — Matt bought the first site ever linked on Mefi and collected touching tributes from members #

A Day in the Life of John Lasseter — 25-minute film following a man who loves hugging almost as much as Hawaiian shirts #

Wired releases entire Manning-Lamo chat logs — Alexis Madrigal pieced together a new profile of Manning (via) #

NYT on tomorrow's launch of Spotify in the U.S. — reports say 8am EST, open to all preregistered users #

Willamette Week's cover profile of Matt Haughey — with a nice Waxy.org shout-out; love the deep recursion in the comments #

TIME's Lev Grossman on fan fiction culture — includes discussion on the legality of fanfic (via) #

Paul Ford's The Age of Mechanical Reproduction — we love you, Paul #

Anil Dash on the triumph of the animated GIF — the Internet's native art form #

Clay Shirky on the new news environment — another must-read missive on the current state of journalism #

Steve Lambert's most awkward 404 page on the Internet — when you're done, go back Steve's new sign project #

Kotaku interviews Keita Takahashi and Stewart Butterfield on joining Glitch — pass the No No Powder #

RoboHash — unique robots generated from any text (via) #

Katamari creator Keita Takahashi joins Glitch — incredibly perfect fit #

Cory Doctorow reviews "Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling" — clearing samples for Paul's Boutique today would lose $19.8M on sales of 2.5M albums #

Talking Funny — Ricky Gervais, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, and Louis C.K. deconstruct comedy #

Dan Warren's "Son of Strelka, Son of God," a cut-up story narrated by Barack Obama — thousands of audio clips from Obama's autobiography flawlessly spliced together into an entirely new narrative #

Questions asked by Twitter users vs. White House press — related: we released over 29k questions asked by Twitter users in the last year #

Shuu.sh — resize Twitter messages based on posting activity; noisy people get scaled down #

Tesco's virtual supermarket in South Korean subway stations — scan QR codes for home delivery #

MK12's Follow the Sun — if David Lynch made concession stand bumper ads #

Jonathan Stampf's touching photo for Dear Photograph — the rest are all worth seeing #

Google may retire Blogger, Picasa names in rebranding — in other news, Ev, Biz, and Jason relaunched Obvious Corp. #

Cinemagraphs of Dogfish Head's strawberry beer-making process — craft beer and animated GIFs go well together (via) #

SVK — BERG-published comic with character's thoughts only viewable with ultraviolet light #

Physical GIF — laser-cut zoetropes created from animated GIFs #

Chuck Klosterman interviews Al Yankovic — insightful interview that veers wildly from the typical novelty angle #

Cabel Sasser's Fireworks 2011 roundup — FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE #

Paper.js — open-source vector graphics framework using HTML5 Canvas; love the examples #

rep.lic.ants — Facebook/Twitter bots that impersonate your own activity (via) #

GOOD on the shame of your first online handle — my own history: finkployd, flypdoink, doink, waxpancake #

Myspace, originally bought for $580M, to be sold for $35M — in other news, Friendster relaunched as a "social gaming platform" #

Google's Data Liberation Front launches Takeout — get your Google data back out in one central place #

Kataminey Damacraft — roll up some voxels, little prince (via) #

Google announces Google+, their next big social effort — watch the demo; Steven Levy has the inside story #

Yahoo! and the Yippies logos — design coincidences, thirty years apart #

Pogo's Mellow Brick Road video contest winners — the top three are all amazing #

Transformerer, shooting 32 Lou Reed sidewalk stencils with Everyday — from Objective Scenes, a new photoblog on mobile phone photography #

Ian Bogost's limited edition of A Slow Year — ridiculous gorgeous attention to detail #