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From Me to You - more spare animated GIF work, reminiscent of IWDRM [via] 

Matt Haughey on Ev's character and the origins of Twitter - including a critical piece missing from Business Insider: Odeo investors were offered Twitter stock  

showoff.io - quickly share localhost over the web; related: localtunnel, a geekier free alternative  

Weird Al Yankovic's battle with Lady Gaga - update: Gaga's manager takes the blame, and she loves the song  

iPhone Tracker - your minute-by-minute movements are recorded and synced to your PC, but it makes pretty charts!  

Hashify, store documents as URLs - crazy hack uses Bit.ly as a document store for larger texts  

Radiolab Presents Symmetry - by Everynone, who previously made Words and RE:Words  

OkCupid's ten charts about sex - fun correlations, including Twitter/masturbation, vegetarians/oral sex, and wealth/sex drive  

NON-STOP NYAN CAT! - try to beat my high score of 73 hours and 46 minutes  

Metafilter's Best of Google Video - slash and burn, with two weeks' notice; why was migrating to YouTube not an option?  

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The Curators - a Coudal mini-doc about the collectors behind very niche online museums  

xkcd's The Future According to Google Search Results - 2100's going to be a rough year, but at least we'll be clean-shaven  

Google Video to remove all videos by May 13 - Archive.org donated 100TB for storage; join the Archive Team effort here  

Otomata - like Tenori-on meets Conway's Game of Life  

World's Biggest Pac-Man - 796,025 ghosts eaten so far; naturally, they added "Report Maze" for flagging obscene boards [via] 

Panic releases Prompt for iOS - a lovely SSH client  

Business Insider's untold history of how Twitter was founded - including a long interview with Noah Glass, Twitter's lost cofounder [via] 

Ivan Cash's Infographic of Infographics - analyzing 49 infographics; related: Phil Gyford, Dave Fields', and Buzzfeed's pseudo-meta-infographics  

Sorting algorithms as folk dances - finally, a bubble sort you can dance to [via] 

Gina Trapani on cultivating an open-source community - great talk from CodeConf  

Ev Williams breaks down five parts of online identity - I hope "CRAPR" catches on  

That can be my next tweet - amusing Markov-generated tweets from your own Twitter history  

Austin Kleon's How to Steal Like an Artist - lessons learned by the creator of Newspaper Blackout [via] 

Access Main Computer File - a Tumblr of fake GUIs in film  

Joerg Piringer's unicode - 33 minute video of every displayable Unicode character, one per frame  

Trailer for Fight for Your Right Revisited - finally, a music documentary focused on accuracy; the insanely-cast short's written/directed by MCA  

The Pierley/Redford Dissociative Affect Diagnostic - "Which shape wants to hurt you?"  

Nieman Lab on the decline of The Daily - Joshua Benton tracks the number of shared stories on Twitter  

Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story - from Christine Love, creator of the brilliant Digital: A Love Story [via] 

Chuck D, Clyde Stubblefield, Eclectic Method, and the Roots perform "Fight the Power" on Jimmy Fallon - amazing performance; the original "Funky Drummer" is taking an innovative approach to sampling  

Metafilter's new Comics Digest Podcast - inspired song choices, especially for Cathy  

YouTube 1911 - don't miss trying a video with captions  

xkcd converts all comics to 3D - a machine-vision algo splits each comic into layers  

Heroku for Logo - it actually works  

Hulu circa 1996 - a worthy April 1 contender, the slow-loading images are a nice touch  

Congressional budget cuts threaten open government websites - Sunlight Foundation gives some ways to help  

Neesful Katamari - rolling up 8-bit classics  

Creepy, Windows/Linux app maps locations from shared online photos - like Firesheep and Please Rob Me, making stalking user-friendly only makes the world worse  

"Our lives are spent trying to pixellate a fractal planet." - [via] 

BlockBattle - relentless multiplayer Tetris game, made with JS and Tornado  

G4TV admits to manipulating Reddit - more sock puppets in the news: the Koch Bros. with Wikipedia, and the US military with social media networks [via] 

Quadrocopter Ball Juggling - piloted by two computers, tracked by overhead motion capture [via] 

Madmanimation - Mad Men titles redone with jQuery/CSS3  

Jeff Koons Must Die!! - destroy famous artwork with a rocket launcher  

Anil Dash consults an expert on the actual dangers of radiation exposure - "risk of harm is a function of both dose and dose rate"  

37signals profiles Coudal Partners - how they moved from client work to projects like Field Notes, Jewelboxing, and The Deck  

3eanuts - removing the fourth panel reveals the despair in the Peanuts universe  

I Can Has Cheezeburger acquires Know Your Meme in seven-figure deal - a headline I never expected to see  

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