Verizon the latest ISP to close free Usenet access — joining AT&T, Time Warner, and Sprint; only a handful of paid feeds will be left, which will be easy for the RIAA/MPAA to attack #

Media outlets paying sources in Dugard — one source claimed her Facebook page was hacked by reporters (via) #

Sunlight Labs — opening government through code and design; check out the projects and vote for ideas (via) #

Canabalt — atmospheric, one-button platformer; just needs checkpoints and more story #

David McCandless visualizes recent swine flu activity — using data from the Guardian Datastore #

NPR on the end of Reading Rainbow — after a 26 year run, thanks Levar #

Pretweeting — virtual stock exchange for Twitter trends (via) #

Moldover's circuit board CD packaging — headphone jack and light sensor makes a portable musical instrument #

Dooce's washer saga — less about the power of Twitter, more the failure of customer service #

Worldwide Lexicon's Firefox Translator — automatic language detection and translation, with community editing tools #

Morph by Skylined — real-time ASCII art Javascript demo #

Google search for "ASCII art" — and it's actually text, too #

Yelp iPhone app adds augmented reality easter egg — in other iPhone news, Apple approved Spotify and Facebook 3.0 is out #

LA Times profile of Jani, a 6-year-old girl with early onset schizophrenia — her father's blog is simultaneously heartbreaking and terrifying (via) #

Visualization of time travel plots in popular TV and film — the source data's in the Google Spreadsheet #

Tile Drawer — drop-dead easy way to run your own OpenStreetMap install on EC2 with custom styles #

Wikipedia to trial moderated edits for articles about living people — the debate is archived here; Jason's predictions are slowly coming true #

The Pirate Bay forced offline by Swedish authorities — they've moved ISPs, but it's still down for me #

Typedia, encyclopedia of typefaces — created by an all-star team; long look into the logo design and great use of Flickr machine tags #

Bill Wyman on why newspapers are failing — his solution is deep local coverage, the only area newspapers weren't made redundant by the web (via) #

xkcd's Tech Support Flowchart — so true; the only thing holding newbies back is the fear of making it worse #

Gabe Askew's fan-made video for Grizzly Bear's "Two Weeks" — lovely cut-out art direction, I want to play a game in this universe #

8-Bit Trip, insane stop-motion Lego film — like a real-life PC demo #

Ultimate Muscle Roller Legend (mildly NSFW) — the fusion of a number of Japanese memes from 2chan and Nico Nico Douga #

Bokode — very clever barcode design uses out-of-focus photos shot from a distance (via) #

The Boy Who Heard Too Much — Rolling Stone profile of a young, blind phone phreaker (via) #

4chan users launch embarrassing attack on Christian Facebook users — using passwords from a Christian university, they've been posting fake entries on Facebook #

tldr, app to visualize discussions on Reddit — don't miss the gallery (via) #

Paul Ford's Unicode Table for You — go vote for his SXSW panel, while you're at it (via) #

Tipjoy shuts down — they argue it's the lack of official support that stifled growth (via) #

Kit Williams reunited with Masquerade's treasure after 30 years — the original treasure hunt had a bitter ending (via) #

Twitter adding geocoded tweets — this should make real-time news reporting much more viable #

Uncanny parallels between Avatar and Delgo — these screengrabs show a striking similarity #

Tanaka's Friendly Adventure on Kongregate — collect them all! don't miss the hand-drawn map #

The Grownup's Guide to Indie Rock — guide to new music for the layman, written by a 57-year-old convert #

Study finds smaller banner ads more effective than skyscrapers — plus, 94% less likely to make you want to gouge your eyes out (via) #

Mark Pilgrim's preview of Dive Into HTML 5 — just gorgeous (via) #

Pirate Bay torrent archive spawns a clone — fully functional backup created by a fan #

One-time stock photo model tracks her own sightings — related: Unsolicited Commercial Love Story and The Everywhere Girl #

Newly-discovered Disneyland home movies from 1956 — incredible quality; did you know they had a Space Bar? (via) #

Longest Poem in the World — aggregating tweets that rhyme, compiled into an ever-growing poem with 344,000 verses (via) #

Matt Thompson on the missing parts of news coverage — too much focus on "news" and not enough context #

Codepad — like Pastebin with a built-in compiler/interpreter; examples: Hello World, 99 Bottles (via) #

Fig. 8 — elegant Flash game inspired by architectural blueprints and diagrams (via) #

Aaron Zinman's Personas — barcode visualization of "how the Internet sees you" #

John Resig's eulogy for _why — he treated his online presence like a temporary sand mandala; don't miss the song #

Hacker/artist _why the lucky stiff deletes projects, online presence — still no clues why he killed his blog, Twitter, Hackety Hack, Why's Poignant Guide, Shoes, Try Ruby, and more #

Shnabubula's alternate-reality Super Mario World medley — live jazz improvisation using classic SNES sample sounds #

Neven Mrgan on Zingerman's product illustrations — staggering amount of love put into an online store #

Internet University — if websites were cartoon characters (via) #