Ivan Cash's Infographic of Infographics — analyzing 49 infographics; related: Phil Gyford, Dave Fields', and Buzzfeed's pseudo-meta-infographics #

Sorting algorithms as folk dances — finally, a bubble sort you can dance to (via) #

Gina Trapani on cultivating an open-source community — great talk from CodeConf #

Ev Williams breaks down five parts of online identity — I hope "CRAPR" catches on #

That can be my next tweet — amusing Markov-generated tweets from your own Twitter history #

Austin Kleon's How to Steal Like an Artist — lessons learned by the creator of Newspaper Blackout (via) #

Access Main Computer File — a Tumblr of fake GUIs in film #

Joerg Piringer's unicode — 33 minute video of every displayable Unicode character, one per frame #

Trailer for Fight for Your Right Revisited — finally, a music documentary focused on accuracy; the insanely-cast short's written/directed by MCA #

The Pierley/Redford Dissociative Affect Diagnostic — "Which shape wants to hurt you?" #

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 #

Metafilter's new Comics Digest Podcast — inspired song choices, especially for Cathy #

YouTube 1911 — don't miss trying a video with captions #

xkcd converts all comics to 3D — a machine-vision algo splits each comic into layers #

Heroku for Logo — it actually works #

Hulu circa 1996 — a worthy April 1 contender, the slow-loading images are a nice touch #

Congressional budget cuts threaten open government websites — Sunlight Foundation gives some ways to help #

Neesful Katamari — rolling up 8-bit classics #

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 #

"Our lives are spent trying to pixellate a fractal planet." (via) #

BlockBattle — relentless multiplayer Tetris game, made with JS and Tornado #

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) #

Quadrocopter Ball Juggling — piloted by two computers, tracked by overhead motion capture (via) #

Madmanimation — Mad Men titles redone with jQuery/CSS3 #

Jeff Koons Must Die!! — destroy famous artwork with a rocket launcher #

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 #

3eanuts — removing the fourth panel reveals the despair in the Peanuts universe #

I Can Has Cheezeburger acquires Know Your Meme in seven-figure deal — a headline I never expected to see #

text align: centaur; — apparently, some mods at Hacker News have no sense of humor #

GIRP — from the creator of QWOP #

Paul Baran, R.I.P. — don't miss Stewart Brand's 2001 interview with him for Wired (via) #

Swoopo quietly files for bankruptcy — one of the nastiest websites ever goes under #

Leonard Lin's SXSW 2011 postmortem — agree with everything in here; related, Gruber's similar conclusions #

Data Science Toolkit — handy collection of web services, bundled as a self-contained VM or Amazon AMI #

Microworld, short 1976 film about microprocessors — narrated by William Shatner; project this on the walls at your next geek event #

Last Night Never Happened — rollback Facebook/Twitter activity after a night of oversharing (via) #

Rob Beschizza's compilation of classic arcade game deaths — he made the lo-fi "Mad World" remix by tweaking a MIDI file in Reason #

Safety Maps — I made one #

Rebecca Black's Gang Fight — "Friday" interpreted by a bad lip reader (via) #

Pica Pic — Hipopotam's playable simulations of classic handheld electronic games #

Sword & Sworcery released for iPad — if you have an iPad, you really, really want to buy this immediately; here's a review #

Brandon Boyer's GDC microtalk on the games he loves — incredibly passionate talk, every game he mentioned is worth seeking out #

Eleven very short stories about SXSW — short fiction (or is it?) by James Mitchell #

No Time to Explain — shows how clever writing can transform a simple Flash platformer #

PhantomJS — headless Webkit lets you script a browser without display (via) #

Chess Without Turns — turning a thoughtful game into a 30-second brutal deathmatch (via) #

Real-time visualization of Firefox 4 downloads — how it works, with open code; oh, and the browser's pretty great too #