Effing Hail — Flash game in the form of weather infographics in a textbook; awful music, though (via) #

Perry Russerts, Umbrella Theif — a wonderful yarn #

Andre Michelle's ToneMatrix — like Electroplankton meets the Tenori-on (via) #

The Beatles entire catalogue remastered, to be released alongside Rock Band — wait, what's this "CD" they speak of? (via) #

8-Bit Tarot Cards — the nearly complete deck is a thing of beauty, but sadly out of stock #

Flickr's Aaron Cope walks through building maps from scratch — using Stamen's EC2 image for an instant map stack; yet another reason to vote for them in Icon's poll #

Visualizing SF Trees, Crimes, and Cabs with subtractive blending — Stamen's Shawn Allen explains how it was made in the comments (via) #

Gizmodo's Pirate Code of Conduct for BitTorrent — in case media companies are wondering, these align to the ethical guidelines for most people I know #

highDEAS — like Halfbakery for the fully-baked #

NYT on Hearst's RealAge "test" marketing 27 million medical histories to drug companies — naturally, Hearst also owns Oprah Magazine; Gordon predicted this back in 2007 #

Amanda Palmer on how Twitter is changing her relationship with fans — she's been actively trying to get dropped from her label #

Paramount surprises hardcore fans by debuting new Trek film in Austin — they thought they were watching a new reprint of Wrath of Khan, until Nimoy himself broke the news #

Boxee officially releases new API — the latest release added a new Mozilla-based browser, fixed Hulu streaming, and Pandora support #

A Visit to id Software in 1993 — home video includes 20 minutes of Romero playing a pre-release version of Doom (via) #

BashReduce — Last.fm's MapReduce in an 160-line Bash script (via) #

DeepLeap, the word game — a John Resig experiment on the old Deepleap dev domain (via) #

Super Luigi Bros. — living in the shadow of a famous brother; also: a day in the life of a Goomba (via) #

Joshua Schachter on the dangers of URL shorteners — interesting that Archive Team is already working on crawling the TinyURL db #

How xkcd's Randall broke his laptop trying to turn off Google's SafeSearch — fortunately, there were no sharks nearby #

IF YOU'RE NOT INDIE, F**K YOU — inspired by Samberg, the unpunched guy is Dan Paladin (via) #

UK village mob blocks Google Street View car — "how dare anyone take a photograph of my home without my consent?" #

The Music Explaura, powerful music discovery engine — explains each recommendation and lets you steer suggestions by shifting tag weights or popularity (via) #

Things iPhoto Thinks Are Faces — finding faces in cookie dough, trees, watches, buttons, church, and pants #

Conficker Eye Chart — clever way to instantly diagnose PCs for the virus, unless they're on a proxy #

TinyURL/Bit.ly decoder for Greasemonkey — resolves 13 different URL shortening services, so no more mystery links from Twitter #

Amazon announces Elastic MapReduce service — instant Hadoop cluster, pay only what you use #

Get Down, Goldeneye N64 glitch becomes Japanese meme — more on tilting and the crooked cartridge trick; hundreds of variations on YouTube, mostly from Nico Nico Douga (via) #

Google reveals details about its custom server hardware and datacenters — "It was our Manhattan Project" (via) #

Valleywag on layoffs at Wired.com and Ars Technica — including Lore Sjöberg and Leander Kahney; they cut 25% back in November #

FileFront saved, original founders buy it back from Ziff-Davis — unfortunate timing, the community's still suspicious (via) #

LeechBlock, Firefox extension to block access to sites you love too much — a more flexible, cross-platform SelfControl; can block Google Reader but allow Google #

Legends of Zork goes live — not a joke, though the early reviews are pretty bad (via) #

IJD: Paul Lamere on Echo Nest's new "goodness" API — simulates a Pitchfork music critic, and the demo actually works #

Wrong Tomorrow, database of provable predictions — Maciej hopes to hold pundits accountable #

Blogoscoped rounds up Google's April Fools worldwide — I like the Street View panda #

First! — dammit #

IJD: SEOmoz launches Webfluence, user-generated search engine — what Google would look like if run by SEO jerks; add or remove any result #

IJD: Google Chrome adds 3D web browsing — amazingly, it actually works with real anaglyph red-blue glasses #

IJD: YTMND rebrands as Dogchan — warning: not safe for anyone #

IJD: Improv Anywhere's Best Funeral Ever — poking fun at the criticism they received for Best Gig Ever #

IJD: YouTube videos appear upside-down — add "flip=1" to any YouTube URL #

Guardian UK to stop print edition, switches to Twitter only — Internet Jackass Day in effect #

Humanized versions of Disney and Pixar characters — also: humanized Spongebob, South Park, and Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem (via) #

Apple features John Cage's 4'33" as free iTunes download — the first movement's free, the other two are a steal for $0.99 each (via) #

The Onion on Prague's Franz Kafka International Airport — don't miss the attention to detail in the signage #

Short Storyspreadsheet, character study in Microsoft Excel — action, dialogue, and each character's thoughts in separate columns (via) #

iPhone pirating app attacks rival pirate app store — glimpse into the increasingly sophisticated iPhone warez scene #

Harnessing hamster power with nanogenerators — this is like Matt's dream realized #

Pixel art "Viagra" spam using HTML tables and colored cells — just spotted this myself, the spam equivalent of ANSI art #

Cheer Up the Chatbot — don't read how it works until you've played a little (via) #