Supreme Court rules videogames protected under First Amendment — striking down California's law prohibiting violent game sales to minors (via) #

Darryl Cunningham takes on evolution skepticism — continuing his comic series on controversial subjects #

Buying a lunch in Manhattan with Bitcoins — hummus, heroin, and black market babies #

Where Am I? — game made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare #

Gene Yang and Thien Pham's Legends of the Joystick — classic game characters get the "where are they now" treatment in ten comics (via) #

LulzSec calls it quits — one last dump ends their 50-day reign; I suspect a spiritual successor isn't far behind #

How Gov. Cuomo delivered gay marriage to New York — six down, 44 to go #

Zac Gorman's I Draw Nintendo — abnormally awesome fan art blog #

Artist's Statement by Charlotte Young — related: her Ignite talk about Artspeak #

King of Kong director to reboot Wargames — quite possibly a worse idea than Blade Runner 2 #

Guardian on the the LulzSec IRC chat log leak — ballsy move on their part #

Errol Morris' investigation into his brother's role in the invention of email — and the birth of social computing, in the process (via) #

N SKY C — average color of the NYC sky every five minutes #

8-Bit Invader — simulation of projection mapping on a Czech school (via) #

"In the future, everything is games" — SMBC on game mechanics #

1982 NYT article on a NSF study on how society will be transformed by computer networks — spot-on predictions about the transformations, as Gina points out; they only got the tech wrong #

Jordan Crane's Keeping Two — incredibly thoughtful comic that he keeps extending #

Marco Arment on the FBI's incidental seizure of an Instapaper server — how is this even legal? (via) #

Rave On Buddy Holly — brilliant cover album with Florence & The Machine, Fiona Apple, Cee-Lo, Black Keys, and more (via) #

Knight News Challenge announces 16 grant winners — some awesome projects including ScraperWiki, SwiftRiver, and Awesome Foundation #

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas comes out as an undocumented immigrant — one of the most compelling case studies for immigration reform ever #

"You've Got Blackmail" — Mat Honan on Mike Arrington's bizarre attack on Caterina Fake yesterday #

Indie Game: The Movie releases official trailer — Jim Guthrie from Sword & Sworcery's doing the music; if you're as excited as I am, preorder it now on Kickstarter #

Wreck and Salvage's "I Can Copy" — supplemental jam for Everything is a Remix #

Everything Is A Remix Part 3 — continuing Kirby Ferguson's brilliant four-part series on copyright and remix culture #

Watsky & the GetBand, "A Love Story" — earlier: Seizure Boy #

Miss USA contestants on teaching evolution — warning: watching this will make you dumber; related: teach the controversy! (via) #

The Loving Trap — clever parody of Adam Curtis' documentary style (via) #

ICANN opens up new TLD registrations — clownpenis.fart may soon be a reality #

Weird Al's Perform This Way video — released after the Gaga saga and apology #

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace — conspiratorial, but fun, three-part BBC documentary by Adam Curtis (via) #

NYT Magazine profile of Amanda Hocking, self-publishing star — curious to see how her publishing contract pans out; video Q&A up on her blog (via) #

Receipt Racer — one-day game openFrameworks hack built with a thermal receipt printer and PS3 controller (via) #

Paranoid Android: YouTube Artists Mix — 36 covers songs on YouTube spliced into a single collage remix (via) #

Legacy Music Dance Party — you may laugh, but I've actually crowd-surfed at a chiptune show (via) #

Peanutweeter taken offline by DMCA claim — the creator won't fight the takedown order #

Rebecca Black's Friday removed from YouTube — in other meme news: Boxxy parodies herself and YouTube added a Nyan Cat scrubber #

TorrentFreak on Spotify's P2P architecture — this interesting academic paper goes into much more detail #

Bitcoin-stealing trojan found in the wild — stealing wallets is much faster than mining (via) #

Why Kickstarter just lowered max project length to 60 days — some interesting charts; related: Calacanis' long, great interview with Yancey Strickler #

Kevin Kelly on the 10,000 Year Clock — insane art project from the digerati #

Ars Technica on the LulzSec manifesto — read the whole thing; "We release personal data so that equally evil people can entertain us with what they do with it." #

jsmad, a pure Javascript MP3 decoder — adds MP3 playback for Firefox, who won't support it; here's how it works (via) #

GlitchBot — automatically pulls random Flickr photos and republishes glitchy versions (via) #

Worst commit ever — love the comments; more sad stories on Hacker News #

C64 Yourself — playful HTML5 app to convert images to Commodore 64 art #

The Depths of Aperture — related: Chell in the rain #

Dan Budiac finds his 15-year-old self in Telehack — someone make a game using the 1995 web next, kthxbye #

The first supercut? — Joseph Cornell's 1936 montage of every Rose Hobart scene from East of Borneo (via) #

Famous Opening Lines from Novels Updated for the Modern Age — in other McSweeney's news, they redesigned #