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 #

Tanaka's Friendly Adventure — tiny, adorable freeware Windows game #

Steven Frank's Internet Garage Sale — I keep waiting for someone to replace eBay, since fraud made it completely useless #

Sam Raimi to direct World of Warcraft movie — two hours of the protagonist grinding to level 60 (via) #

Khoi Vinh on two projects reviving newspaper comics in print — see also: Newspaper Club and the upcoming McSweeney's newspaper project #

Kevin Spacey shows Twitter to David Letterman — Letterman gets about 3.5M viewers nightly, about 425% more than Spacey's followers #

Kernest — like Typekit for free, legal typefaces #

MapQuest releases driving directions web service — as Adam points out, now someone could overlay MapQuest routes on Google Maps (via) #

Threadless prints Three Keyboard Cat Moon shirt — the meme mashup earned the highest score and most votes ever (via) #

WSJ on Michigan credit unions using the lottery effect to encourage saving — they offset the winnings with a slightly lower interest rate (via) #

Engine Yard's SHA-1 programming contest — the approaches include crowdsourcing from Zappos and Dolores Labs, but the current leader is using 4 Nvidia GPUs #

Retro/Grade, rhythm-based shmup played in reverse — you can optionally use your Guitar Hero controller to play #

Apollo 11 lunar and command module software open-sourced — hand-typed from original scans by the Virtual AGS project; in the comments, numero mysterioso and hope hope hope #

Jonas Jaeger's augmented reality business card — also, James Alliban's talking augmented card #

Pterodactyl Squad's 8-bit tribute to Weezer — the Tugboat, PDF Format, and OxygenStar tracks are all great (via) #

DJ API's algorithmic remixes — created entirely with the Echonest Remix API, no audio editor required #

Apollo 11 live TV coverage — 40 years to the second, starting at 1:10pm PST #

YouTube removes PS22 chorus' account for violating "Terms of Use" — over 7 million views, gone with no clear explanation why; they're being added back here #

Threadless Cakes — highlights include Noah Express, Catburger, Long Journey, Children Under the Bed, and Piece of Cake #

NYT's texting while driving reflex game — the virtual version of this non-scientific test (via) #