Wired Magazine's feature on Kickstarter
— great article spotlights the manufacturing projects created by the community #
Stephan Tillmans' Luminant Point Arrays
— photos of tube TVs at the moment they're switched off (via) #
GDC releases classic game postmortem videos
— a goldmine: Out of this World, Maniac Mansion, Raid on Bungeling Bay, Prince of Persia, Populous, Pitfall!, Pac-Man, Marble Madness, Elite, Doom, and Bejeweled (via) #
The Brother IntelliFax 2800 App Store
— Wonder-Tonic's winning pitch for this year's Worst Website Ever at SXSW #
EveryBlock launches first major redesign
— as a first-time homebuyer, I've come to really love EveryBlock's hyperlocal feeds #
Ze Frank replays The Show
— for the fifth anniversary, he's now doing daily commentary about each video #
Albert Wenger on the NYT's pay fence and Kickstarter
— I'd be much more excited about the NYT's plan if it was around benefits vs. limits #
Bloomberg feature on the history of Twitter
— good interviews, covers the early Blogger and Odeo days (via) #
Notch shares some of his pre-Minecraft games
— success is rarely overnight; like Ze, it takes feedback and iteration over time #
SMBC on old computing and the snug blanket of nostalgia
— his NYC book launch on May 8 donates all proceeds to DonorsChoose #
Paul Graham shares his email exchanges with Fred Wilson over Airbnb
— fascinating glimpse into the thought process #
An Open Letter to Jon Bon Jovi
— responding to his claim that "Steve Jobs is personally responsible for killing the music business" #
How Fred Wilson missed Airbnb
— great story about the Airbnb team, Obama O's cereal, and a whole lot of hustle #
NYT editorial on the abuse of Bradley Manning
— a State Department official was forced to resign after critical comments about his treatment (via) #
Jeri Ellsworth makes $10 alternative to $4k bus alert system, gets harassed by contractor
— even non-anonymized people lose their minds in YouTube comments #
Horrifying first-person video as tsunami sweeps Japanese city
— also: InFocus feature on the recovery efforts (via) #
Topspin opens publicly, available to every musician
— powerful toolset for bands was invite-only for years; Ian writes about the change #
Matt Haughey's SXSW talk on community lessons learned from Metafilter
— fasincating glimpse into the site's moderation techniques and homegrown tools; how it was recorded #
OkTrends asks, what if there weren't so many white people?
— more data porn, plus guitars with knives #
Mr. Rogers' Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Emmys
— don't miss Esquire's eloquent description of the moment (via) #
Dreamhost CEO shares his heartbreaking, preventable homebirth story
— a huge warning to anyone considering home births (via) #
Instapaper goes social with 3.0 version
— sharing, editor's picks, and browsing your friends' likes (via) #
Browser DNS prefetching harmful for sites with many subdomains
— a single meta tag reduced Deviant Art's DNS queries by 10 billion per month (via) #
Ushahidi launches open-source location service
— roll your own Foursquare; here's the requisite SXSW example running on Crowdmap #
Bytejacker goes to GDC 2011
— great episode; interviews with the creators of Sword & Sworcery, Indie Game: The Movie, and Cave Story (via) #
Kellan predicts the year of the anti-social SXSW
— software scoped to friends-only favors intimacy over serendipity #
Chicago Tribune feature on Kickstarter and crowdfunding
— some great stories about how it's impacting Chicago artists #
Clay Johnson on why he joined Expert Labs
— yay, crazy excited to work with Clay; also: I made a video intro to ThinkUp #
Lanyrd releases Chrome/Firefox extension to instantly hide all SXSW tweets
— if you're not in Austin, you're going to need this #
NYT on the Groupon clone cottage industry
— Yipit, an aggregator of 335 daily deals sites, spawned 20 copycats itself #
Jason Kottke introduces Stellar.io
— I've been playing with it for a while, and it's great for surfacing interesting stuff #