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) #

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 #