Metafilter's Josh Millard on NPR about the Scott Adams incident
— eloquent take on differing community norms and where Adams went wrong #
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! #
OkCupid's ten charts about sex
— fun correlations, including Twitter/masturbation, vegetarians/oral sex, and wealth/sex drive #
Metafilter's Best of Google Video
— slash and burn, with two weeks' notice; why was migrating to YouTube not an option? #
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 #
World's Biggest Pac-Man
— 796,025 ghosts eaten so far; naturally, they added "Report Maze" for flagging obscene boards (via) #
Business Insider's untold history of how Twitter was founded
— including a long interview with Noah Glass, Twitter's lost cofounder (via) #
Ivan Cash's Infographic of Infographics
— analyzing 49 infographics; related: Phil Gyford, Dave Fields', and Buzzfeed's pseudo-meta-infographics #
Austin Kleon's How to Steal Like an Artist
— lessons learned by the creator of Newspaper Blackout (via) #
Trailer for Fight for Your Right Revisited
— finally, a music documentary focused on accuracy; the insanely-cast short's written/directed by MCA #
Nieman Lab on the decline of The Daily
— Joshua Benton tracks the number of shared stories on Twitter #
Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story
— from Christine Love, creator of the brilliant Digital: A Love Story (via) #
Chuck D, Clyde Stubblefield, Eclectic Method, and the Roots perform "Fight the Power" on Jimmy Fallon
— amazing performance; the original "Funky Drummer" is taking an innovative approach to sampling #
Congressional budget cuts threaten open government websites
— Sunlight Foundation gives some ways to help #
Creepy, Windows/Linux app maps locations from shared online photos
— like Firesheep and Please Rob Me, making stalking user-friendly only makes the world worse #
G4TV admits to manipulating Reddit
— more sock puppets in the news: the Koch Bros. with Wikipedia, and the US military with social media networks (via) #
Anil Dash consults an expert on the actual dangers of radiation exposure
— "risk of harm is a function of both dose and dose rate" #
37signals profiles Coudal Partners
— how they moved from client work to projects like Field Notes, Jewelboxing, and The Deck #