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 #

Interim Apple Chief Under Fire After Unveiling Grotesque New MacBook — "you need to shave the USB ports every couple days" #

Craigslisp — shouldn't that be "craigthlithp"? (via) #

Remnants of a Disappearing UI — the fingerprints left on an iPad display after each app (via) #

Stuart McMillen's "St. Matthew Island" — "How big is our island?" #

Phantom of the Floppera — Toccata and Fugue in D minor performed on four floppy drives (via) #

Unofficial SXSW Music 2011 torrent now available — free songs from 792 showcasing artists #

Byrne Reese on why MovableType lost to WordPress — trivia: he says the Huffington Post never paid for MT, which they still use today #

Threatened BBC websites crawled and shared as 1.88GB torrent — the torrent holds 172 websites set for closure #

Video: DJ Filetype SWF — Joel Holmberg mixes the background music from different browser tabs #

Clement Valla's Seed Drawings — Mechanical Turk workers copying each other's drawings in a visual game of Telephone #

Johnny Chung Lee's low-cost video chat robot — a lower-tech version of the scone-buying robot, for $500 instead of $15,000 #

Twitter Parade — the happiest Twitter visualization ever (via) #

2D Boy on World of Goo's iPad launch and sales figures — sold 125k copies in the first month, by far the fastest selling by both units and revenue #

Washington Post's visualization of global weight gain since 1980 — more analysis in the article (via) #

Google releases Translate for iPhone — the Babelfish is near, just need a version that translates constantly #

OkCupid crunches the data on best first-date questions — as always, some incredibly entertaining correlations #

Robot orders a scone in a Mountain View coffeeshop — $15,000, cheap (via) #

Feltron 2010 Annual Report — this time, a report on his father's life reconstructed from artifacts (via) #

NBC's Community takes on Advanced Dungeons & Dragons — trivia: Community creator Dan Harmon also co-created Channel 101 and Heat Vision and Jack #

Gawker Network launches major redesign — it caters to superfans at the cost of pageviews, quite possibly a good thing; my money's on Rex #