U.S. government launches Data.gov, national data repository — not much there yet, but centralized data is good #

Project Gutenberg iPhone app blocked by Apple because of the Kama Sutra — note that Stanza, eReader, and Amazon's Kindle app all allow the same book (via) #

Infinite Summer, read Infinite Jest this summer — only 75 pages a week, easy! #

Brian & Eileen's Wedding Music Video — someone found a business model for lip dubs #

Tiny Art Director, little kids are difficult clients — I'm finding this very, very late, but every entry made me laugh (via) #

Mozilla Jetpack, extend Firefox with HTML, CSS, and jQuery — don't bother trying to grok it from the text, just watch the screencast #

Yahoo! Placemaker, extract world locations from unstructed content — also, Yahoo released the huge GeoPlanet/WOE placename database under a CC license #

Axono.me, isometric pixel art grid library for jQuery — check out the demos, including these racing cubes #

LEGO announces Frank Lloyd Wright sets — the Guggenheim and Fallingwater are first, continuing the LEGO Architecture series of landmarks #

Evan Roth's Intellectual Property Asshole Competition — he painted the HOPE poster and the AP photo it was based on; whoever C&Ds him first wins (via) #

Braid for Mac released — now there's no excuse not to buy it #

Fast Company on Taipei's innovative "zero landfill, total recycling" program — here's a first-person account of the system and video of the garbage trucks playing Fur Elise (via) #

Leaked video from Trico, new game by ICO/Shadow of the Colossus creators — their games seem to be weaving a larger narrative arc in the same fictional world #

Katy Hargrove's real-life molded Gummi Venus de Milos — life imitating art #

Fathom — tweaking the genre's cliches, it quickly shifts from 8-bit platformer to art game (via) #

Gmail Labs adds automatic language translation — getting closer to the Babel fish #

Tweeting Too Hard — dedicated to finding the most self-important, egotistical tweets #

ghstbstrsbstrs — clever, a digital collage without Photoshop (via) #

Joel Johnson on the divide between Wired Magazine vs. Wired.com — great comments from Wired employees past and present, including Chris Anderson, Leander Kahney, Steve Silberman, and Brian Lam #

Auto Tune The News #3 — last month, the New York Observer interviewed Michael Gregory about the series (via) #

Last Day Dream — a 42-second short film (via) #

Which of our beliefs will our grandchildren be appalled by? — Phil Dhingra highlights the best from a massive Reddit thread #

NYT's Maureen Dowd steals paragraph from Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall — it would've been more fitting if she'd plagiarized from Twitter instead #

All Your Base dialogue, properly translated from Japanese to English — amazingly, I've never read the correct translation before #

Japanese trailer for "Muscle March" for WiiWare — defies description, the most intensely weird game I've ever seen #

Google's index of Wolfram|Alpha search results — they have no robots.txt at all; Google isn't parsing their Javascript, so Google can only see what's served statically from their results #

danah boyd's answers questions on Twitter about teen practices — I find this kind of thing absolutely fascinating #

WolframAlpha rendering text as images to prevent indexing — though they claim it's for "consistency," which is absurd; on second thought, I think Paul Ford's right, it's just Wolfram culture #

Hard Times with Ze Frank — Ze's second video for Buzzfeed, I'm hoping he'll keep making more #

Danger Mouse to release blank CD-ROM after legal fight with EMI — selling the packaging without the music; also, NPR's streaming the album (via) #

Updating the Web 2.0 logo collage for 2009 — tracking how many of the original sites are dead or acquired; or, in the case of WebJay, both (via) #

Wired's walkthrough of the May issue's hidden puzzles — reminds me of the golden era of Games Magazine (via) #

Stephen Wolfram demonstrates Wolfram|Alpha in detail — after watching the screencast, I'm much more excited about tonight's launch #

Us Now — one-hour free documentary about online collaboration and participatory government (via) #

Ian Bogost's Guru Meditation — Zen game released in two versions: the Atari 2600/Amiga Joyboard and the iPhone #

Vulture crunches the numbers on this season's SNL — charting cast member frequency, average appearances, and celebrity cameos (via) #

The Sound of Young America's Pledge Drive — a short film by Lonely Sandwich; donate to the best interview show around and get a Mustache TV #

Ubik's Voxel — absolutely stunning animated 3D pixel-ish art (via) #

F.A.T.'s KANYEFY bookmarklet, turn any site into Kanye West's blog — also on Kanye week: see the web through Kanye's eyes, Quotable Kanye (with API), and the Kanye rant detector #

Giant net-enabled Etch-A-Sketch hacked out of a 52" HD TV — related: giant collaborative Etch-A-Sketch from Siggraph 2006, projected on a giant screen (via) #

Greg Borenstein explains Why the Lucky Stiff's Bloopsaphone, with examples — write chiptunes in C or Ruby with a surprisingly readable syntax #

Buster Benson leaving Robot Co-op to do Enjoymentland full-time — one of my favorite people, always doing interesting things #

Gamasutra's Community Manager interview series — social network and gaming community managers could learn from one another #

Cracked's Most Baffling Pairings from Erotic Slash-Fiction — some gems in the comments, including this site dedicated to Radiohead slashfic #

Pixel City, Shamus Young's procedurally-generated city — his ten-part series of blog posts breaks down how it's made #

SNL's Casey Wilson Reads Internet Comments About Her — shenanigans! the Patton Oswalt comment was written by a Funny or Die employee (via) #

God gave me cookies — I think I'd be inclined to listen to salesmen and missionaries if they brought snacks #

LOST-inspired Doomsday Terminal for the iPhone — more interesting than the "gameplay" is that it allows anonymous messages between users #

Amazon Kindling — Rob Cockerham made a laser-engraved wooden Kindle #

Gizmodo's untold story of how three interns stole NASA's moon rocks — this 2004 LA Times article explains the background, but skipped details of the theft (via) #