How glass becomes a camera lens. Most fascinating thing I’ve seen since Mr. Rogers taught me how marbles are made. [via Daring Fireball]

So if Central Park is now known as “The Killing Fields”, or “The Ghastly Black Glass Ocean”, then tell us. Those quotes are extraordinarily clumsy (and the card itself is typographically unconvincing).

—William Gibson’s least favorite part about Cloverfield

Last.fm will stream full tracks and albums

Agreement with the big four labels includes an ad revenue model that will share with artists based on how often a track gets played

New York Times is among group investing $30M in WordPress

Will hold a minority stake in the company, allowing them to expand past blogging

Poynter interviews Adrian Holovaty about launching Everyblock

Looks great, launches this afternoon

EveryBlock is live!

Local news finally gets done right. More from the official blog post

I smell ringtone

Everything you wanted to know about IE8 version targeting

Man, I am having a hard time digesting all of this, but Digital Web has a really nice collection of links

White Whine is the best thing ever

First world problems for the win [thanks, Sadie!!]

Because it’s never too early to get excited about warm weather music festivals, here’s the Coachella 2008 lineup

The headliners look mostly lame (Jack Johnson? But yay Kraftwerk!!) but the sideshows look great - The National, BATTLES, Sharon Jones, Stars, Spank Rock, Vampire Weekend, Metric. Pack your e and glowsticks for Sasha and Digweed.