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) #

Nick Montfort on extremely minimalist games — you just lost The Game #

Making old Trek look like new Trek — everything's better with lens flare (via) #

Google launches Search Options, date ordering for everyone — a nice companion to Twitter Search, looking forward to seeing how it evolves #

Times Wire, like Digg Spy for the New York Times — built on the Newswire API, it could use some analytics to gauge importance, like word count or clickthroughs (via) #

Suzanne Ciani composes the electronic soundtrack for Xenon pinball in 1979 — also: Suzanne demonstrating sound synthesis on 3-2-1 Contact (via) #

Pogo's Wonderland, free album of Alice in Wonderland mashups — I never knew the creator of the famous Alice video made more Alice songs #

Clap Your Hands Say Mario — hilarious hack controls Super Mario Bros. with a guitar, singing, clapping, and drums #

Phil Gyford's list of Ask Metafilter's introductory books — painstakingly compiled from this massive, wonderful thread (via) #

Judging programming language contentment using Twitter and Mechanical Turk — using humans to gauge sentiment, something it's hard for computers to do correctly #

Twitter meme could reveal answers to security questions — new meme: #robotname is your mother's maiden name and last 4 digits of your SSN #

Current interviews Mark "Afro Ninja" Hicks — hard to believe it's been five years since I first identified him (via) #

MonaTweeta II, encoding the Mona Lisa in 140 characters — using Chinese characters to send 210 bytes in 140 UTF-8 characters (via) #

Bad Astronomy reviews the science of the new Star Trek film — overall, it did better than most sci-fi; the comments reminded me of The Onion's take on the film (via) #

Jer Thorp's animated 3D visualization of take-offs and landings from Twitter — he grabbed every "just landed in..." query, extracted locations, and mapped the results with Processing #

Nintendo's documentary-style ad for Punch-Out — featuring The Wire's Sen. Clay "Sheeeiiiit" Davis as Little Mac's trainer, Doc #

Today Is A… — algorithmic guess of good/bad days based on news, stocks, and UK weather #

Globe and Mail's interview with Canadian cartoonist Seth — the wonderful video offers a revealing glimpse into his home and collections (via) #

Steven Spielberg reunites the Goonies cast — Goonies never say die! #

Mud Tub, using a pile of mud as a user interface — skip to 2:20 of the video to see them play Tetris by squishing mud around (via) #

The Sound of Young America's unaired pilot for Current TV — interviews with Patton Oswalt and Daily Show/Colbert Report writer/producer Ben Karlin #

Ze Frank as Jonah Peretti on Ashton Kutcher on BuzzFeed on Ashton — falling down a rabbit hole of celebrity and sincerity (via) #

The Stranger's 2009 Sex Survey — entertaining and mildly-NSFW charts and graphs, including this purity test #

The Anonymous Hugging Wall — like a platonic glory hole (via) #

Mike Frumin's sparkline map of NYC subway activity from 1905 to 2006 — don't miss his interactive version using OpenStreetMap #

10 Zen Monkey's exclusive with the "John Doe" and lawyer who sued Jason Fortuny — I hate to say it, but I agree with Fortuny that it was stretching copyright law #

Tabulating original vs. repurposed content on major gaming blogs — surprisingly, 21% of all posts were original reporting; see also: churnalism in British papers #