Sticky Light, interact with lasers without a camera or projector — someone needs to commercialize this, it looks like a wonderful toy (via) #

Eurogamer's feature on Tim Langdell's EDGE trademark trolling — they interview both Langdell and Mobigames, quoting emails between the two (via) #

Delicious adds Twitter integration, new search tools — if you don't like the new freshness, the old Fresh page is still around #

Flip Flop Fly Ball, Craig Robinson's baseball infoviz — Ballpark Orientation, Major League Fields, Ball Size Comparison and the Wu-Tang vs. E Street Band (via) #

Bygone Bureau interviews GOOD Magazine's infographic designers — some incredible work, though a few would give Tufte a seizure #

NYT's visualization of music purchasing trends by format — even without any visible axes, it's still understandable; from this op-ed on the rise of streaming #

Transparency Corps, Sunlight Foundation's crowdsourcing project — making government more transparent; check out the leaderboard #

Jude Buffum's Mushroom Recession — 8-bit commentary on the recession, and explains where those pits go (via) #

Sam Winston's portfolio of word and letterform art — don't miss Romeo & Juliet, Dictionary Story, and Pencil Drawing (via) #

GameSetWatch interviews Vector Park's Patrick Smith — if you still haven't bought Windosill, we have nothing to talk about #

Panic cofounder Steven Frank's quitting the iPhone — Arrington made the same move today, both fed up by idiotic recent App Store decisions #

Brent Simmons' anatomy of a feature — "piece of cake" (via) #

MoneySeize, maddening and addictive Flash platformer — losing your mind? try the walkthrough video #

Golan Levin at TED on using technology to make synesthetic art — great followup to his 2004 presentation #

How to Avoid Ads in Gmail — just add tragic words to your signature (via) #

Launch years of today's most popular websites — from IMDB in 1992 to Bing earlier this year (via) #

Yahoo! Developer Network on the Microsoft announcement — BOSS and Searchmonkey up in the air, everything else unaffected (directly) (via) #

Leaked images from Epic Mickey, dystopian Disney videogame led by Warren Spector — fantastically bizarre, and the biggest Cory Doctorow bait I've ever seen #

Loren Carpenter's Vol Libre, fractal CG short film from 1980 — online for the first time, with a wonderful backstory #

Kirrily Robert's OSCON keynote about women in open-source projects — lessons learned from two OS projects with female majorities; related: this contentious comments thread (via) #

Computer vision project reconstructs 3D cities/landmarks in hours using Flickr photos — they generated a skeleton of Rome in 21 hours using 500 compute cores and 150,000 photos (via) #

Mark Andrew Webber's six-foot-long linocut typographic map of Paris — he's already done NYC, London, and Amsterdam; I also loved his ice type (via) #

Ars Technica on AP's confusion over their own technology — Yoz Graham interviewed the lead hNews guy, and there seems to be a gap between reality and the AP #

Conan O'Brien & Andy Richter dub "Ghost In The Shell" — anime, not manga #

Yahoo gives up on search in 10-year Microsoft agreement — the press site is the worst of both worlds; what's the fate of Delicious, BOSS, Search Monkey and their other search projects? #

Ctrl+F'd, bookmarklet to censor any webpage — reminds me of Motion Theory's Google Chrome ad #

Cory Arcangel's YouTube mashup of cats playing Arnold Schoenberg's Op11 — absolutely brilliant, don't miss the MP3 and his methodology (via) #

5-year-old boy performs Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" — more insane mega-cuteness here (via) #

A Cyst, A Scalpel, and Lots of Beer — not safe for anyone; Internet, you never let me down #

Mechanical Turk Diaries — unedited stories collected from the turker community #

Moot's update on the now-lifted AT&T block on 4chan — any bets on what the mystery news is, coming later this week? #

Andrew Plotkin's talk on rule-based programming in interactive fiction — extended thoughts on Inform 7 and why existing languages don't work well for IF (via) #

Preview demonstration of Spotify's iPhone app — it supports offline music listening, a first for streaming apps; Spotify's coming to the US later this year (via) #

Disney Imagineer unearths 50 minutes of unseen footage of Disneyland's construction — time-lapse of every section of the park with wonderful narration (via) #

AT&T DSL blocks access to 4chan — possible explanation: AT&T working around the ongoing DDOS against 4chan #

AP to crack down on article linking with impossible vaporware — related: Associated rePress, a tumblelog I just created in five minutes using the AP's own RSS feeds (via) #

Chicago Public Radio helps indie bands fact-check their Wikipedia entries — not very rigorous in its methodology, but still funny (via) #

Tron Legacy trailer — directed by the guy who did iSpec; I like the little viral site, with imaginary Space Paranoids machine #

Jason Scott's uploading five years of 4chan to Archive.org — it's vital Internet history, but are there privacy concerns when most everyone's anonymous? update: not so fast #

"It's the Internet, not English class." — related: "It's the Internet, not *." (via) #

Kickstarter and the 1,000 True Fans — 94% of projects that hit the 25% mark ultimately hit their goal #

Anil Dash on the Pushbutton Web — the best articulation of the current real-time web trend I've seen #

Joel Johnson bought Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work — and offered up lovely high-quality scans; related: his awesome About page #

Harry Potter's media counterparts — Nick Denton as Severus Snape: "Is he evil? Is he good? What does he have up his sleeve?" #

Vanish, self-destructing digital data — the encryption key's distributed to multiple nodes and dissolves over time (via) #

Lisa Katayama's NYT profile on otaku with "2-D lovers" — it's okay to love cartoons, as long as you don't love cartoons (via) #

Comic themes for iGoogle — Renee French, R. Stevens, Jeffrey Brown, Dan Clowes, James Kochalka, Jim Woodring, and more #

One-Man Rock Band — playing Rock Band's guitar, bass, drums, and vocals at the the same time #

James Paterson's 3D illustrations with Rhonda — from the creator of the Sonic Wire Sculptor (via) #

Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition released for iPhone — $7.99 and 350MB of space #