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) #

Joanne McNeil on the Daily Death — I've wondered this myself, the effects of a microcelebrity culture aging #

Dinosaur Comics meets Twitter — reload for new ones #

Songs from The Point! — Nilsson tribute with songs by Martha Wainwright, Andrew Bird, DeVotchKa, and Nada Surf #

Kind of Bloop released! — Bygone Bureau wrote a great behind-the-scenes feature about the album #

MSNBC acquires EveryBlock — wow, congrats to the team #

Pirate Bay backup archive available on Pirate Bay — 21GB dump of 873,671 torrents on the site, packaged by a user concerned about the sale #

Ars Technica on how ICANN's fees killed domain tasting — from 17 million withdrawn domains in June 2008 to only 58k last month (via) #

Timeline visualization of global media scares — from Y2K to swine flu #

Offworld's gallery of vintage videogame factories — imagining the real-life locations where Tetris's blocks and Sonic's gold rings were made #

Dinner at El Bulli — a travelogue in comic format with video (via) #

Yahoo shuts down Term Extraction API — with a quiet three weeks' notice to developers (via) #

Nieman Journalism Lab's series on the AP's online strategy — asked about Associated Repress, the AP's lawyer said that I'm "wonderful" #

Q-BLOCK, 3D pixel art drawing tool — drag to rotate the objects #

Tiny Sketch — Processing competition with submissions limited to only 200 characters #

RECAP, Firefox extension open-sources public court records — if you've ever dealt with PACER, you'll know how vital this is #

District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's short films and commercials — don't miss TempBot and Tetra Vaal; District 9 is 95% positive so far #

Artist Jon Rafman on Google Street View as art — more of his captures on his site #

Know Your Meme's t-shirt shop — YA RLY #

Multitask — 87 points on the first try (via) #