Small Talk, real-time weather visualization using Twitter — part of the Google Chrome Experiments #

Quietube — like Readability for YouTube; here's a quick demo (via) #

James Bridle's Tweetbook, two years of tweets as a hardcover book — someone should make this a service, also incorporating your Flickr photos and blog posts (via) #

Village Voice digs up saucy clips from Bill O'Reilly's audiobook — the dangers of recording an audiobook (via) #

Protovis, visualization toolkit with Javascript and Canvas — nice alternative to Google Charts API (via) #

NPR broadcast of Decemberists' new album debut at SXSW — it's out on iTunes and streaming free on Imeem #

Justin Mason on "Quoz," the FAIL of the 1870s — the entire chapter on urban slang in 19th century London is fascinating #

Mega Man 9 Rock Medley — expertly done, from the guy who made the 32 Songs in 8 Minutes medley #

Douglas Bowman explains his decision to leave Google — "I won't miss a design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data" #

NYT's visualization of newspaper circulation declines — only six papers grew in the last three years (via) #

Microsoft's Remembering Stuff About the Internet — IE8 promo asks comedians about the early web #

Craft by Ift, graphic demo running on a 20mhz microcontroller — generating real-time video and sound signals with a $3 chip #

Dan Meth's Sitcom Map of the USA — he also did an NYC-specific map (via) #

The Ocarina of Rhyme — hip-hop mashed up with the N64 Zelda soundtrack (via) #

Study finds creditworthiness can be gauged by physical appearance — they claim the original paper is the first academic study to use Mechanical Turk #

Overly Judgemental IE6 Splash Pages — "What does IE6 have in common with a Fleshlight?" (via) #

Google Chrome Experiments — showcase of impressive Javascript effects (via) #

NYT on the rise of mistrials from jurors' Internet usage — related: Ars interviewed the juror who used Twitter in the courtroom #

Paul Ford's six-word reviews of all 1,302 SXSW MP3s — interspersed with charts and other interesting trivia about the bands #

Is The Big Picture A Bummer Today? — Alan Taylor gave my favorite talk at SXSW #

ABC News' Charlie Gibson blames students, Google, and social media for newspaper's demise — addressing a room full of college journalists, he said Clay Shirky was "full of crap" #

Toby Barlow on artists moving into Detroit's $100 homes — I can totally imagine Detroit turning into a massive artist and net nomad collective (via) #

Gizmodo's guide to iPhone OS 3.0's new features — the biggest announcement of SXSW was in Cupertino #

Trent Reznor on the state of ticket reselling and scalping — Ticketmaster could easily prevent reselling, but they're happy to take a cut #

Clay Shirky on the death of newspapers and reinvention of journalism — the single best essay on the topic I've read #

Aardvark, social search over instant message — pipes questions to friends-of-friends; works surprisingly well in my initial test #

Foursquare launches with iPhone app — the spiritual successor to Dodgeball, but with game-like elements #

SXSW 2009 Twitter Visualizer — five different visualizations, but the real-time map is particularly nice (via) #

Hark! A Vagrant — Kate Beaton's new site for her history-inspired comics #

Anamaguchi's Dawn Metropolis — NES rock band's full album with 8-bit music videos for each song #

Washington Post's horrific article about infant deaths in hot cars — Pulitzer-Prize winner journalist looks at a uniquely modern tragedy, when a slip of memory becomes fatal #

AP interview outtakes with Ricky Gervais and Elmo on Sesame Street — they have the same laugh #

Wired's untold story of the world's largest diamond heist — after six years in prison, the mastermind told Joshua Davis his story for the first time #

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon's Bryan Binkman Experiment — 23,000 followers in 12 hours; pretty geeky for network TV, featuring Engadget on Monday and Diggnation last night #

Techcrunch on Grand Central's relaunch as Google Voice — they're using speech-to-text to automatically transcribe voicemail #

279 Spore Skeletons — built with Processing using the new Spore API (via) #

Terry Cavanagh's Don't Look Back — 8-bit retelling of Orpheus in the Underworld #

Revision3 exec liveblogs someone breaking into his house — he broadcasted the ordeal on Ustream and Twitter (via) #

Aimee Mullins and her 12 pairs of legs — for some, prosthetics are no longer a disability; she can change her speed and height with augmentation #

Michael Wesch on the Livescribe smartpen in education — see the pen demo, and "pencasts" shared by the community #

Bicycle Built for 2,000 — Aaron Koblin asks 2,088 Mechanical Turk workers to sing parts of "Daisy Bell" without hearing the whole song #

The Comics Archetype Times Table — reminds me of the dessert taxonomy #

Fortunebird, mechanical bird automaton that tweets your fortune — also debuting at Etech: Lensley Automatic, the photobooth that Flickrs and tweets #

TED performance of Pattie Maes' wearable tech demo — like an iPhone with a projector, dangling around your neck and providing context for everyday activities #

Dan Meth's chart of sitcom house floorplans — from the creator of the Trilogy Meter #

Tetris HD — use Enter to drop quickly; the result is abstract art (via) #

Guardian UK opens API platform and Data Store — the Data Store uses Google Spreadsheets for data access #

The Morning News behind-the-scenes report of the controversial Gandhi auction — filmmaker James Otis tried to call it off after Indian protests and death threats #

The "Raiders of the Lost Ark" Story Conference — 125-page transcription of a week-long brainstorming session with Spielberg, Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan #

Rock Peaks, database of live music videos culled from YouTube — user-editable, including performances from late night talk shows #