Serialized ASCII pixel-art portraits on Twitter.

I recently stumbled into the world of these twitter art accounts – this is my favorite so far (You need to be logged into Twitter for them to align properly in the web interface). Pretty soon I’ll need a separate account just to aggregate these art posts…

Postal Experiment: What happens when you mail two envelopes full of crackers to yourself – one marked “Fragile,” the other marked “Handle Carelessly?”

Answer here. Personal postal experiment regrets: I never did try affixing postage to a Taco Bell Chicken Quesadilla envelope. Perhaps soon.

John Darnielle of Mountain Goats auctions a one-of-a-kind song for Japanese Earthquake Relief.

The auction is for an old demo that was recorded directly onto a cassette – Darnielle says he won’t make a copy before sending. I love the concept of that singular performance as a unique artifact – a weird echo of the early days of the record business, when performers would sing the same song over and over again for each individual copy.

Movie Streaming Startup Zediva is able to undercut Amazon and iTunes ‘rental’ prices by selling access to a stream of an actual, physical DVD being played.

I love this.

“MC5 – A True Testimonial” filmmakers clear final legal hurdles, now raising money to license the music in the film.

I’ve seen it, and it is one of my favorite documentaries. It’s a shame the filmmakers can’t show video to bolster the Kickstarter campaign, but the number of lawsuits this movie has already earned them has likely taught them not to tempt fate.

Batman is SO pissed..

No idea if this is real, but I hope it is.

“Lessons from 11 years of community.”

Metafilter’s Matt Haughey provides a peek behind the curtain of how the site runs so smoothly. In putting together this video, he also proposed a great future feature for keynote that would easily enable documenting presentations like this.

Video of Jason Shiga’s presentation on Interactive Comics.

Shiga has been doing some of the most innovative work in the medium, but much of it is already out of print. So: this video summary of his work is very welcome.

The Chris Ware-designed facade for 826 Chicago is for sale on eBay.

Proceeds benefit 826.