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 #

New Yorker's long Scientology expose — incredible reporting, centered on screenwriter Paul Haggis' departure from the "Church" #

Darryl Cunningham's comic on climate change — previously: Homeopathy, Moon Hoax, and MMR vaccinations #

Ze Frank's Star.me launches private beta — Techcrunch has an interview with Ze and more screenshots #

When Should I Visit? — uses Foursquare to learn how to avoid Foursquare users #

xkcd on trochee fixation — don't miss the trochee chart, made with this Search Matrix tool #

Island Survival — Friday Flash fun; also: Cactus' very weird Hot Throttle #

Penny Arcade responds to the "Dickwolves" debacle — in case you missed it, here's a good timeline #

The Making of "The Social Network" — 93-minute behind-the-scenes film, available free on IMDB (via) #

Nick Montfort releases Curveship, new interactive fiction framework — Python framework for world modeling with the ability to interactively change narrative style #

Match.com acquires OkCupid — seriously hoping Christian Rudder continues updating OkTrends; they deleted a critical post from last April #

Robert Sheckley's "The Prize of Peril" — 1958 short story that predated The Running Man and predicted reality TV (via) #

Everything is a Remix, Part 2 — worth it just for the wall of sequel title frames; I want that as a screensaver #

New York Observer on the "end of blogging" — more like evolution than an end; Clive Thompson nailed it, it's the rise of the long take #

Wired on a Toronto statistician who cracked a lottery ticket system — finding flaws in pseudo-random interactive games designed for print (via) #

NYMag feature on the changing landscape of online porn — "we're living in a grand age of micro-smut, a burgeoning empire of lemonade-stand porn" #

Final IPv4 blocks allocated — some context from Jonathan Zittrain #

Google engineers set up sting operation, discover Bing copying results — I can't decide if Bing's move is smart or just sad #

Readability launches as subscription service — gorgeous design; 70% of fees go to publisher you're reading #

Al Jazeera English streaming live on YouTube — without question, the best coverage of the Egypt uprising #

Canvas launches first public release — if you're waiting for an invite, Techcrunch posted screenshots #

Speak to Tweet — Google and SayNow's free service to tweet voice messages by phone from Egypt #

Keanu Reeves on the "Sad Keanu" meme — found on Know Your Meme's monthly review (via) #

10 Google Commandments — more at Commissioning (via) #

Axe Cop: The Movie — based on the brilliant webcomic written by a five-year-old boy #

Conductor — Alexander Chen turns the NYC subway system into an HTML5 string instrument #

Sarien.net gets Activision's official approval to simulate Sierra games — browser versions of each initial game in the series are fine; sequels and iPad port are not #

Al Jazeera's live stream of the Egypt protests — good context at Reddit and Metafilter, and Xeni has a great roundup; liveblogging at the NYT and Guardian #

Nate Silver on approval ratings and re-election odds — modeling a president's chances based on historical approval ratings #

Egypt government shuts down all Internet access — "an action unprecedented in Internet history" (via) #

Traps (via) #