The Atlantic on Project Euler and teaching how to code — parallels to the standard, miserable approach for teaching math #

Hooray for Earth's "True Loves" music video — animated by Cyriak, Aaron Koblin nails it as "Minecraft meets Powers of Ten" (via) #

George Plimpton's Video Falconry — first mentioned by Judge John Hodgman at the two-minute mark here, now unearthed and ported to the web (via) #

Telehack, playful simulation of the early net — way, way deeper than I originally thought; 25,000 virtual hosts to connect/hack/explore, with ghost users from the past (via) #

Stencyl — drag-and-drop 2D Flash gamemaker for PC and Mac #

YouTube introduces Creative Commons licensing — yay! #

Gawker on Silk Road, the Bitcoin-driven underground marketplace — view it through a proxy; Bitcoins aren't anonymous, so they're laundering them (via) #

Outside Aperture — live-action, fan-made Portal epilogue (via) #

Animal XXXing — Anna Anthropy's safe-for-work analysis of Animal Crossing fan-made porn #

The Chewbacca Supercut — every Chewbacca scene in A New Hope; also: Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi #

Intel's Museum of Me — clever Flash work; most interesting if you're active on Facebook #

The Grand Rapids Lipdub — what hath Lodwick wrought? #

Depixelizing Pixel Art — the site was slammed last week; side-by-side video from Super Mario World and other comparisons (via) #

Jeri Ellsworth's Brain Bulb — lightbulb over your head that lights on brainwave activity #

VHX opens to the public — playful video discovery from the Internet's Jamie Wilkinson and Casey Pugh #

Rocketboom on the origins of Nyan Cat — trivia: this episode was written by Keyboard Cat's own Brad O'Farrell #

Visualizing 11 million player deaths in Just Cause 2 — mapping every impact death creates a ghostly landscape #

Literally Unbelievable — Facebook users who think stories from The Onion are real #

Chinese prisoners forced to farm gold in World of Warcraft — Chinese officials denied the report, saying they disallow contact with the outside world #

Olly Moss's Paper Cuts — paper silhouettes of pop culture icons (via) #

Random New Yorkers asked what they're listening to — if devices passively broadcast song metadata, someone could actually build this #

Sonar for iPhone — brilliant app shows your shared Twitter/Facebook friends from the people around you #

Outloud.fm — chat rooms where anyone can drag MP3s into a shared, streaming playlist #

MIT study analyzes participation on 4chan and /b/ — the median life of a thread is under 4 minutes; read the whole paper #

Google Correlate — building on Flu Trends, upload your own time series and find correlations with search patterns #

Scott Rosenberg on the end of Salon's Table Talk — they're deleting 16 years of messages on June 10, with nothing indexed by Archive.org #

Fragmentr — collaborative image collages (via) #

Data Wrangler — web-based tool for cleaning up messy data, similar to Google Refine #

PBS Frontline releases Bradley Manning's Facebook archive — in advance of tonight's episode on Wikileaks (via) #

Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure — game developer takes his five-year-old daughter to Toronto Game Jam, sheer joy ensues #

Duke Nukem Forever goes gold — 14 years after it was first announced in April 1997 #

NYT on Cory Arcangel — the art world really seems to be embracing net.art #

Goldfish's "We Come Together" — music video steeped in gaming history (via) #

Jonathan Coulton on Snuggies and business models — great commentary on NPR's Planet Money podcast about whether his success is reproducible #

Annoying.js — how to be an ass with Javascript #

Day Glo Freaks — an album made entirely from from Steely Dan's discography; the timeline shows every sample #

Ronen's Adventure: Trapped in an iPhone — he's producing new videos every Friday (via) #

Amazon now selling more Kindle books than all print books — less than four years after the Kindle launched (via) #

Gamespot's Video Game History Month with Double Fine's Tim Schafer — excellent and silly interview about his Lucasarts, Psychonauts, and Double Fine's new experimentation #

NYT on yarnbombing — I stumbled on Sayeg's knitting team wrapping the Etsy ducts last month #

SMBC on Victorian tech support — "your technical redress remains unsatisfactory" #

NYT editor Bill Keller on "The Twitter Trap" — Nick Bilton and Mat Honan respond, with two very different approaches #

Plush statistical distribution pillows — sleep on them to learn by osmosis (via) #

TermKit — fascinating reboot of the Terminal using WebKit and node.js (via) #

Netflix passes BitTorrent in U.S. bandwidth traffic — streaming's easier than piracy #

PC Emulator in Javascript — Fabrice Bellard's stunning hack lets your browser run Linux #

NEA grants expanded to include Internet, mobile, and videogame media — take that, Ebert! (via) #

Bret Victor's Interactive Exploration of a Dynamical System — part of his brilliant Kill Math project; his ability to communicate math with design is amazing #

Lost Type Co-op — quality type on a pay-what-you-like model #

Radiolab's Rober Krulwich addresses Berkeley graduates on the future of journalism — sound advice for anyone just getting started in their field; listen to it here #