Visualizing the spread of Bin Laden's death on Twitter — Keith Urbahn's original tweet had 300 replies/retweets in the first three minutes (via) #

Cool but Obscure Unix Tools — great list; I've used 11 of these and they changed the way I work (via) #

Raspberry Pi — UK charity making complete PCs the size of a USB thumbdrive for $25 each (via) #

Adam Parrish's month of textperiments — one procedural poem a day (via) #

Wall Street Journal launches leak site — after calling for Assange's indictment (via) #

Spike: A Love Story — clever one-button game, playing as a spike trap in love #

Derek Miller's last post — he died yesterday of cancer, way too young #

NYT visualizes the reactions to Osama bin Laden's death — NYT commenters were asked to mark sentiment on a grid (via) #

Tim Carmody tracks down the fake MLK and Twain quotes — both spread quickly after bin Laden's death, with interesting origins #

Encyclopedia Dramatica capture from January 2010 — a 12 GB dump of 490,000 rescued files (via) #

OMGIMG — anonymous riffing on one photo per day using Google Images searches #

Planetary, Bloom's music visualization for the iPad — beautiful and free #

Street interviews with NYC teens about The Beatles — maybe Beatles 3000 isn't too far-fetched #

Mockingbirdz — an experiment with anonymous, communal Twitter accounts anyone can post to (via) #

Chris Allick's automated Predator supercut — parsed phrases from a subtitle file, then strung them together with Popcorn.js #

Bose Corporation founder donates majority of company stock to MIT — MIT can't sell the shares or participate in management, but will receive dividends #

It's okay to not like things (via) #

Kickstarter turns two, releases every major statistic — nearly 600k people pledged over $53M so far, 85% goes to successful projects #

Yahoo sells Delicious to YouTube founders — good news is they're keeping it alive; bad news is they're deleting all data from people who don't migrate #

Fleet Foxes' Helplessness Blues — loving the new album, stream it here #

PlayStation Network hacked, 75M user accounts compromised — that explains the week-long downtime; passwords, billing info, and probably credit cards were taken (via) #

Misery, a Drupal module to frustrate trolls — or use Cave to hide all their activity, a technique I used on Upcoming to great effect #

Archive Team's distributed effort to download all of Google Video — at its peak, they were saving 5 TB/day before Google backed down; a generalized LOIC for archiving would be huge #

8 in 8's Nighty Night — Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman, and OK Go's Damian Kulash produced eight songs in eight hours #

Friendster to delete all user photos and blogs on May 31 — one month's notice for a site most people haven't visited in years (via) #

Frank Stockton's Hamburgers for One — the entire Eisner-nominated short story comic #

Ani Up — an animated GIF mashup by Evan Roth (via) #

Cranking — Merlin Mann on the difficult balance between work and family (via) #

Amazon's $23,698,655.93 book about flies — a tale of two pricing algorithms gone awry #

Google Video to migrate all videos to YouTube — a huge success for protecting user-contributed data; huge kudos to Archive Team for organizing a response (via) #

Metafilter's Josh Millard on NPR about the Scott Adams incident — eloquent take on differing community norms and where Adams went wrong #

hackertyper — hack like a movie star, by randomly bashing the keyboard (via) #

From Me to You — more spare animated GIF work, reminiscent of IWDRM (via) #

Matt Haughey on Ev's character and the origins of Twitter — including a critical piece missing from Business Insider: Odeo investors were offered Twitter stock #

showoff.io — quickly share localhost over the web; related: localtunnel, a geekier free alternative #

Weird Al Yankovic's battle with Lady Gaga — update: Gaga's manager takes the blame, and she loves the song #

iPhone Tracker — your minute-by-minute movements are recorded and synced to your PC, but it makes pretty charts! #

Hashify, store documents as URLs — crazy hack uses Bit.ly as a document store for larger texts #

Radiolab Presents Symmetry — by Everynone, who previously made Words and RE:Words #

OkCupid's ten charts about sex — fun correlations, including Twitter/masturbation, vegetarians/oral sex, and wealth/sex drive #

NON-STOP NYAN CAT! — try to beat my high score of 73 hours and 46 minutes #

Metafilter's Best of Google Video — slash and burn, with two weeks' notice; why was migrating to YouTube not an option? #

Mirror  #

The Curators — a Coudal mini-doc about the collectors behind very niche online museums #

xkcd's The Future According to Google Search Results — 2100's going to be a rough year, but at least we'll be clean-shaven #

Google Video to remove all videos by May 13 — Archive.org donated 100TB for storage; join the Archive Team effort here #

Otomata — like Tenori-on meets Conway's Game of Life #

World's Biggest Pac-Man — 796,025 ghosts eaten so far; naturally, they added "Report Maze" for flagging obscene boards (via) #

Panic releases Prompt for iOS — a lovely SSH client #

Business Insider's untold history of how Twitter was founded — including a long interview with Noah Glass, Twitter's lost cofounder (via) #