Casey Neistat's excellent short film about Chat Roulette — includes demographics, vernacular, and how men and women are treated differently #

NYT on Bloom Energy's public debut — groundbreaking fuel cell tech used by Google, eBay, others; Mashable liveblogged the launch #

Yelp accused of extortion in class-action lawsuit — I maintain that business owners are confused over both sponsorship and the algorithm; a former Yelp account exec debunks the claims #

The Effing Typeface — a NSFW font by designer Alex Merto #

YouTube removes most popular, fan-uploaded Rickroll — update: it's back, Google says it was a mistake #

Neurosonics Live — real-time holographic projection synced to turntables and drums (via) #

Andrew vs. the Collective's "Search Engine Optimization" — short fiction about an alternate-reality Internet gone amok, using words and phrases created by Kickstarter backers (via) #

Italian court finds Google Video guilty of privacy violation for uploaded video — astonishingly terrible decision, here's Google's response #

danah boyd on ChatRoulette as a throwback to the early web — I've been thinking the same thing; related: Hearts, Hugs, and Kisses on ChatRoulette #

The Spy at Harrington High — digging into the tech behind the high school webcam spying scandal #

Sushi Cat — damn you, Cal (via) #

4chan on Jeopardy — you thought Dooce's mention was surreal? now your grandma knows about /b/ #

Interview with the manager of Coney Island's Cyclone — from Last Summer at Coney Island, a documentary about Coney's revitalization #

The Gruber 10 at Macworld — thoughtful look at the top issues facing Apple, with an eye to their past (via) #

Auto-Tune the News #10 — a return to form after autotuning ads for Kotaku (great) and Sony (awful) #

Passage in 10 Seconds — from the creator of You Only Live Once; some context #

Twitter releases growth stats for first three years — 50 million tweets per day; compare to Kottke's cumulative estimates from 2007 #

Matt Haughey's updates on Mechanical Turk human spam — the numbers are relatively small compared to the amount of spam, I wonder where the rest's coming from #

Slate on the government's alcohol poisoning during Prohibition — by some estimates, over 10,000 Americans were killed drinking tainted alcohol #

Filipinos scared to sing Sinatra after "My Way" karaoke murders — superstition stemming from the song's popularity in karaoke bars (via) #

Jesse Schell's DICE talk about Facebook, reality, and the future of pervasive gaming — from the author of The Art of Game Design (via) #

CodeOrgan — listen to your favorite website, the "About" explains the methodology (via) #

Google prototypes real-time OCR and translation in Google Goggles — incredible demo, simply tying existing pieces of Google tech together #

Music Journalism Is the New Piracy — the problem isn't Google, but the DMCA and litigious media organizations #

OK Cupid covers the effects of age on dating and attractiveness — as always, some incredible dataporn mined from their community (via) #

Please Rob Me — amusing, but only dangerous if someone knows where you live #

Bunnie Huang's forensic research into irregular MicroSD cards — "Kingston is revealed as simply a vendor that re-marks other people's chips in its own packaging" (via) #

Plants vs. Zombies released for iPhone — one of my favorite games from last year, a steal at $2.99 #

Esquire profiles Roger Ebert — I've said it before, his journal is one of the best things around right now #

Wired's magazine concept for tablet computers — reminds me of CD-ROM magazines of the mid-1990s #

David Crane's iPhone app on Atari 2600 programming — $1.99, cheap (via) #

Clive Thompson on obscurity and social scaling — "It's no longer a bantering process of thinking and living out loud. It becomes old-fashioned broadcasting." #

Mayor of the North Pole — Jim Bumgardner comes clean with his Foursquare API cheating #

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented reality maps at TED — in addition the recent Flickr integration, live geospatial video and space visualization #

Augmented hyper(Reality): Domestic Robocop — with an ad blocker, I'd be all over it (via) #

What makes Blip tick? — opening up a mechanical Pong-like toy (via) #

Chatroulette creator outs himself as Russian high school student — 19k people currently online #

"Who else loves ice cream?" — also, just noticed that anyone can comment on any public Buzz post #

Nathan Myhrvold's Death Star laser kills mosquitoes in flight — built from parts found on eBay to fight malaria and demonstrated at TED #

Google Chrome for Mac beta gets extensions — I switched primary browsers last month, my first change since Firebird in 2003 (via) #

YouTube's Video Speed History — not related at all: Google's fiber announcement (via) #

Ars Technica covers moot's TED talk — low-quality video of his talk; 4chan's raw nature is fueled by anonymity and no memory #

Bing Maps adds augmented Photosynth street views with Flickr photos — a detailed window into time using every CC-licensed geotagged Flickr photo from Seattle, Vancouver, and SF; requires Silverlight #

Confused Facebook users think ReadWriteWeb is the new Facebook login page — they're searching for "facebook login" on Google, using FB Connect, and posting hundreds of confused comments #

CNET's Daniel Terdiman digs into the evolution of Glitch's back story — including rejected concept ideas, inspired by paper cutouts, automatons, and daydreams #

Logorama — official full version of the Oscar-nominated animated short, using over 2,500 logos #

Adam Kempa helps spot the hidden image on New Yorker's 85th anniversary covers — covers by Brunetti, Tomine, Clowes, and Chris Ware, who also wrote an essay #

Google launches Buzz, social updates and sharing — Friendfeed makes its way into Gmail and mobile; now live, with Reader integration and APIs #

Mirror Scare Supercut — related: SNL's The Mirror (via) #

Tiny Speck announces Glitch, Flash MMO coming later this year — CNET has the exclusive behind-the-scenes and in-depth preview of the game #