This week, Godspeed You! Black Emperor published a new record, it's called Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! and Mladic (YouTube link) confirms the folks are as violent, political, and visceral as ever.

• Lego Dr. Strangelove, part1 and part2, genius-amazing-awesome remix. via boingboing
• Jeff Atwood tells us to abandon to-do lists.
• Clay Shirky makes the compelling argument for TED that distributed version control systems like Git should be used for more than software, because they constitute a new form or arguing and could encourage a more participative democracy. via boingboing
• Learnable Programming, by Bret Victor, great addition to his Inventing on Principle talk, with detailed animated experiments. via waxy links
• Embracing 3D Printers, Manufacturer Tells Customers to Print Their Own Replacement Parts. via waxy links
• Julian Treasure: Why architects need to use their ears, good focused TED talk. via Benjamin Smedberg via planet mozilla
• Ants, and the TCP protocol. via trivium
• gti is to git what sl is to ls, i.e. "a program that displays a badly made ASCII-art animation to punish you for your typing error - and after that magically launches the command you meant to launch". Funny. via trivium