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) #

Big Man Japan vs. the Stink Monster — inexplicable clip from the alternative monster movie, Big Man Japan (via) #

The Big Picture on Earth Hour — click each image to see the before and after photos #

Gamasutra on the Experimental Gameplay Sessions 2009 — the Achron gameplay videos are hurting my brain #

Ken Jennings' week of favorite metafiction — he also highlighted his favorite meta films, songs, and TV series #

10 Zen Monkeys tracks down Perry Bible Fellowship's Nicholas Gurewitch — the new book came out Wednesday; his Fox News appearance was bizarre #

24 Hours of Geotagged Photos on Flickr — 64,410 photos visualized in Processing #

Omegle, chat with random strangers — a social experiment populated by lolkidz, trolls, and confused people like you (via) #

Twitter shuts down @cwalken account — in the past, Twitter's renamed fakesters like Cliffy_B, Richard Dawkins, and Henry Rollins #

Google Street View timelapse across the Golden Gate Bridge — here's an earlier automated version from 2007 #

Caterina Fake explains Hunch.com, her new startup — decision trees, informed by machine learning and user contributions #

Soy tu Aire, interactive Flash song visualization — worth the loading time (via) #

Obsession Times Voice — John Gruber, Merlin Mann, and Jonathan Coulton on writing for a living #

Robert Hodgin describes how he made snakes in Processing — don't miss his other snake studies (via) #

SelfControl, Mac app blocks access to specified websites and email for time limit — once set, it can't be undone by the app or restarting the computer (via) #

Justine Lai's oil paintings of herself having sex with each US President — in chronological order, she's up to Ulysses S. Grant spanking her; Rule 34, anyone? #

Kent Brewster discovers a security flaw in Amazon Wishlists — he'd been trying to get them to patch it since last October (via) #

Filefront closes with only five days' notice — Jason Scott notes it's 48 terabytes of user-contributed data, gone #

Ask Metafilter on the origins of "selective invisibility" and the twit bit — Clive Thompson said the technique was invented by Disqus, but it dates back to the BBS era #

Eurogamer breaks down the technical hurdles of OnLive — on the surface, it seems impossible without huge sacrifices to quality and responsiveness #

JuicyDrop, music visualization in Javascript with Canvas and SoundManager2 — a port of Winamp's classic MilkDrop visualizer with support for its presets #

Wikirank, popular and trending articles on Wikipedia — related: WikiChanges, which charts edit activity over time #

HD trailer for Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are — looks stunning (via) #

OnLive's GDC press conference, real-time gaming over broadband — demo starts at 10:30; stream PS3-level graphics to a low-end Macbook, or your TV with a tiny set-top box #

Gary "Numa Numa" Brolsma's ad for GEICO — like Cherry Chocolate Rain, this just makes me sad #