Coney Island's last arcade burns in suspicious fire — older photos on Flickr; related: Last Summer at Coney Island documentary #

Non-Latin TLDs go live — Domainr now supports all three #

Disneyland tests talking Mickey Mouse — and testing the uncanny valley, along with it #

Hue Shift — brilliantly simple and frustrating game mechanic, reminds me of Flywrench (via) #

The Paywall — ITP thesis exploring alternative firewalls (via) #

Google Chrome's slow-motion speed tests — the making-of is as interesting as the finished product #

Star Wars Pregnancy Announcement  #

If Mario Was Designed in 2010 — related: Auntie Pixelante's dissection of level 1-1 #

Jason Scott researches the story of Computer Beach Party — a truly awful comedy from 1987; unofficial trailer and a clip (note the error at 3:00) #

Tim & Eric, Paul Rudd's Computer — "Computer, load up Celery Man." #

GameSetWatch on Pitch to Pixel, an album of jazz-inspired chiptunes — he talks about the inspiration for each track on his blog #

Fanedit.org's most famous fan edits of all-time — like Greasemonkey for movies, removing fan irritations like Rose in Titanic, Kirk in Star Trek Generations, and the plot of the Matrix sequels #

Sean Young's Super-8 footage on the set of David Lynch's Dune — fans made new edits of the film, pulling from the theatrical and extended releases #

Face.com opens free facial recognition APIs — try it in the sandbox (via) #

xkcd's Color Survey Results — most popular colors unique to women, "dusty teal" and "blush pink"; for men, "penis" and "gay" #

Joel Johnson interviews 48 Hour Magazine's all-star team — the theme will be announced on May 7, 3,400 people have already signed up #

Inc. Magazine's cover story on Tim O'Reilly — one of the most inspiring and thoughtful people I've ever met #

Keyboard Matt — the creators of Where the Hell Is Matt and Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat merge memes #

Sketch Processing — web-based IDE using Processing.js and Bespin (via) #

Telltale announces Puzzle Agent — like Fargo meets Professor Layton with art by Graham Annable, coming in June! #

"Anatomy of a T-shirt" on Threadless — related: liveblogging the Three Wolf Moon panel at ROFLCon #

Feed Filter plugin for Firefox removes key features after Facebook C&D — they complained about the ad removal and extra requests (via) #

How Wired tracked down the prototype iPhone seller — it started with an anonymous tip about a curious Facebook comment #

Duke University to shut down historic Usenet server this weekend month — Usenet was started by two Duke students in 1979; the official announcement says Usenet was "made unnecessary" #

Fun with secret questions & answers — the most fun you can possibly have with your bank #

How To Draw God-Man — related: Molly Norris redacted her cartoon; paintings were pulled from the Met #

Irish music blogs under attack — they may try to demand money from MP3 blogs outside of Ireland, too #

Know Your Meme's guide to challenging YouTube takedowns with fair use — your video will be immediately viewable after submitting #

Getty Images Graffiti — a real-life watermark #

Steve Jobs' Thoughts on Flash — or if you prefer: Thoughts on Flash, In Flash #

War and Peace: The Missing Footnote — tracking down a profanity that Tolstoy censored #

John Goerzen's downloadable archive of Gopherspace circa 2007 — 780,000 documents, 15GB compressed; sadly, Firefox is the last popular browser with Gopher support (via) #

Food, Inc. now available for free online viewing — great documentary about the food industry, 97% positive on Rotten Tomatoes (via) #

Happy Birthday, Kickstarter! — one year old! also, Neil Gaiman and Scott McCloud said nice things #

2 Girls 1 Cup: The Infographic — tracking the volume and video movement of 20 reaction videos; don't miss the collage (via) #

Ze Frank's Chillout Song — this story made me tear up at SXSW #

Super Mario Crossover — loving tribute to NES history, play SMB as Link, Samus, Mega Man, Simon Belmont, or the Contra guy #

Indianapolis Star reporter researches a teenager with no official identity — a journalist, a staff librarian, and Facebook rewrote his entire life (via) #

Match.com threatens Plenty of Fish over growth stats — hmm, this sounds familiar (via) #

Sydney's Siberia — Jason Nelson's infinitely zoomable poem; related: his Rubik's cube poem #

Obama Nails the National Anthem — shades of Kaufman (via) #

Spotify adds social features in newest version — not available in the U.S. yet, so very jealous (via) #

Mr. Spastic's Lo-Fi Version — too-short mix of chiptune versions of reggae/dub riddims #

Agenda Circling Forth, first-place demo at Breakpoint 2010 — everything's a particle; don't miss the video if you can't run the real-time demo (via) #

Transmit 4 released — their interactive feature guide is very slick #

Laptopograms — developing photosensitive paper exposed to a digital negative on a laptop screen #

Waiting for Bieber — beiliebers begging to be followed by him on Twitter #

The Geocities-izer — "make any web page look like it was made by 13-year-old in 1996" (via) #

Apple //t, Twitter display for the Apple II — everyone's favorite tweeting cat makes a cameo at 1:46 in the video (via) #

Police seize Gizmodo editor's computers — the plot thickens #