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 #

Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualized — impressive mashup viz using HTML5 and CSS3 #

RAGE for iOS rendered with WebGL — with the generous help of John Carmack #

Jason Calacanis on BitCoin — he calls it "the most dangerous open-source project ever created"; value's doubled in the last month, here's a good primer #

Paul Ford's "Nanolaw" — projecting a near-future where lawsuit bots are commonplace #

Supercut.org, algorithmic supercuts of supercuts — my 24-hour hack with Michael Bell-Smith for Seven on Seven; don't miss the supercut shuffle #

AIM AV — dead simple videoconferencing for up to four people #

Comcast helps The Pirate Bay resolve connection issues — Comcastic! #

The Mavenist on Permutations & Loops — very promising start to a new blog by Frank Chimero #

Like An Artist (via) #

ROME's 3 Dreams of Black, Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin's new Chrome experiment — while it loads, watch the short film about the project and the gallery of user creations #

Chrome Angry Birds — the most impressive HTML5 game I've seen; Nelson has more details (via) #

Lady Gaga to debut new songs on Farmville — "Zynga has created a magical place in FarmVille where my fans can come play" (via) #

NaClBox, DOSBox ported to Google's Native Client — play Monkey Island in your browser #

Pattern Matters — 3D papercraft infographics (via) #

Automated BitTorrent lawsuit targets 140,000 film downloaders — so far, 23,322 IP addresses have been identified by their ISPs #

Clay Johnson on rebooting public notices — my personal favorite, courtesy of the FBI #

Olly Moss's Cut Out Show — love the John McClane one #

Bin Laden's compound recreated as a Counter-Strike map — "Counter-Terrorists Win." (via) #

Zach Seward on using sparklines in WSJ tweets — make your own using Sparkblocks #

Paul Ford on interacting with his archived self — I wonder if this is why so few people seem to care about preserving their digital past #