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 #

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) #