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 #

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) #

Julian Assange: Houseguest — a reenactment #

Everyday for iPhone — inspired by Noah Kalina's Everyday project #

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 #

Stick a Dickbar on it — related: Marco Arment on why the Quick Bar is so frustrating #

Ze Frank replays The Show — for the fifth anniversary, he's now doing daily commentary about each video #

James Face — Oli Beale likes to subtly modify his friend's Facebook photos #

xkcd's radiation dose chart — with help from a senior reactor operator at Reed Research Reactor #

Kutiman's "My Favorite Color" — a return to form, his first video like Thru-You in two years #

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) #

Jake "virt" Kaufman's AAA sound design for vintage videogames — sequel to his realistic Super Mario Bros. audio #

Notch shares some of his pre-Minecraft games — success is rarely overnight; like Ze, it takes feedback and iteration over time #

Ze Frank's The Show debuted five years ago today — it's worth revisiting them all (via) #

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 #

NYT announces their paywall, effective March 28 — Nieman Lab outlines their big challenges #

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 #

Chatroulette Love Song — I wonder if he skipped everyone with less harmonious names (via) #

Jack Dorsey's Twttr stories — his earliest archives from Twitter's development, more on Twitter #

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 #