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 #

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 #