Make TV profile on kinetic wave sculptor Reuben Margolin — related: the work of Theo Jansen #

37 Signals' Jason Fried on how to make money — a quick dip into Jason's psyche in six personal anecdotes #

Help Archive Team save Yahoo! Video — 7TB saved so far, they need geeks with bandwidth/storage and cash for hard drives ASAP #

Tissue engineer prints a new kidney on TED stage — also: self-driving cars; this week, the future is in Long Beach #

Marble Run, collaborative HTML5 marble game — winner of the Mozilla Labs gaming contest, with code on Github (via) #

Reddit interviews Ken Jennings — "I can't go anywhere in public where there might be old people, like Hallmark stores or cemeteries." #

Gina Trapani on the case against drop-down identities — related: the controversy over making gender a text field in Diaspora #

Warner Bros. acquires Blade Runner prequel/sequel rights — there should be a law forbidding sequels to universally-loved 30-year-old films #

Full Text RSS Feed — build a full feed for sites that only provide excerpts (via) #

The Double Slit Experiment in Minecraft — is the chicken a particle or a wave? (via) #

Snapshots from a rock n' roll marriage — achingly personal story of the breakup of a Black Keys' marriage (via) #

Installing every version of Windows from 1.0 to Windows 7, in order — surprisingly entertaining, window colors were retained from Windows 2.0 to Windows 2000 #

Esquire's profile of Ray Towler, a Cleveland man wrongly convicted to 30 years in prison — no amount of money can make this right (via) #

Apple introduces iPad 2 — thinner than an iPhone 4, 9x faster, two cameras, cover, same battery life, same price #

Mitoza, surreal web toy — then the evil eggplant opened an ice cream store inside of the giant egg... #

placekitten — your source for placeholder images of kittens #

Thom Yorke Smashes Dead Fish on Washer-Dryer — "sorry.? I like farts a lot. I'm from the fart generation." (via) #

Lanyrd's Guide to SXSW Interactive — I'm putting on Worst Website Ever again this year with an amazing lineup #

Sheen Family Circus — bi-winning #

Charlie Sheen on Good Morning America — he has tiger blood running through his veins (via) #

Tracking the biggest losers in Google's content farm algorithm changes — love the hand-wringing in the comments #

The economics of indie writers in the Kindle Marketplace — also, how indie successes are shifting the culture of openness #

Antimatière — experimental gameplay navigating a 3D world turned 2D #

Gina Trapani runs the numbers on ThinkUp's first year — an amazing community working on an amazing project #

Peter Weller on the RoboCop status in Detroit — first Kickstarter project officially endorsed by RoboCop #

Inside a Star-Filled Sky — recursive game by Passage/Sleep Is Death creator Jason Rohrer #

Pattern, a Python module for mining web data — mining popular services, language parsing, and dataviz in one handy bundle (via) #

Turtlecalls.com — "the copycats may be cheaper but they barely even sound like real turtles" #

CHARM DOG on Twitter — see more Twitter artists (via) #

How DJ Stolen blackmailed shoutouts from Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, and others — a young German DJ hacked hundreds of accounts before getting caught; you can still hear the shoutouts here (via) #

Slate crunches the numbers on the Jeopardy archives — when in doubt, respond with "What is Australia?" #

Scouting NY on the last arcade in Chinatown — first time I'd ever heard of an arcade game with live animals #

Pixelfari, Neven Mrgan's 8-bit Safari — like viewing the web on an Apple II #

The King Spits — "stammer time!" (via) #

Ars Technica on HBGary's proposed plan to discredit Wikileaks and Glenn Greenwald — also: step-by-step details on how Anonymous hacked HBGary #

Molly Lewis' "An Open Letter to Stephen Fry" — Stephen's response #

Dissertation Haiku — distilling years of work into 17 syllables #

How Team EMP won the Socialbot competition — the goal was to write a bot that would convince 500 unsuspecting Twitter users to follow it (via) #

The Great Gatsby for NES — love the backstory (via) #

The Atlantic writer competes for the Most Human award in the Loebner's Turing test — a look at different strategies used by chatbots and confederates to appear human #

IBM's Watson sizes up Ken Jennings before their Jeopardy match — watch day 1 and day 2; here's a statistical breakdown of the first match #

Hulu Plus gets the complete Criterion Collection — 150 films available today, more added monthly #

Eye-tracking There Will Be Blood — peeking through the gaze of 11 people #

Manu Sporny open-sources his genetic data — someone forked it on Github and patched some bugs #

Rich Vreeland's "January" — his first game, an experiment in algorithmic music; Rich performed on Kind of Bloop (via) #

NintendOscope, Gameboy on an oscilloscope — added to the list of Oscilloscope hacks #

Robocop Valentines — related: Detroit Needs Robocop #

Irina Werning's Back to the Future — like Ze Frank and Erik Kastner's Young Me/Now Me with better production values #

Reddit chats with Cleverbot — it's been around since 2009, but the corpus is so huge now, conversations can be uncanny #

Kottke shares the first Gawker design — I totally forgot he designed the logo #