Waxy.org: Links Miniblog

Frank Chimero's How to Have An Idea (related: Olly Moss shares his process behind a poster design)

Gene Simmons threatens Anonymous (not surprisingly, his site's still inaccessible)

Coachelletta, tilt-shift video of Coachella 2010 (interview with the creator on how it was made) [via]

Echo Nest adds personalization APIs (the potential applications for this are huge)

Unfunny Things takes on The Oatmeal (in hindsight, this is unfair; I wish every SEO would quit their job and start making original content)

Tate Modern fills Turbine Hall with 100M porcelain sunflower seeds (hand-crafted by 1,600 Chinese artisans over two years)

Diminished Reality (German researchers demo real-time object removal from live video)

MovieReshape, manipulating body proportions in arbitrary video footage (incredible video demo from this year's SIGGRAPH Asia) [via]

99chan user claims to spend two years in prison for armed robbery, tells story (gripping read, but Metafilter users are calling this one a troll; lots of questionable details) [via]

Frames of Reference, physics instructional film from 1960 (don't miss the elaborate setup at 17:05)

Infinite Blank, collaboratively-drawn 2D platformer for Mac/PC/Linux (reminds me of Minecraft multiplayer meets MS Paint)

Antoine Dodson performs Bed Intruder Song at the BET Hip-Hop Awards (his first live performance, with Michael Gregory on backup)

Adam Saltsman breaks down the mechanics of Canabalt (when the game starts, the character's running over 20 miles per hour in game scale)

New footage of Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future (all the scenes will be on the Blu-Ray rerelease of the trilogy)

OK Cupid crunches the numbers on the gay vs. straight divide (debunking stereotypes about both orientations, and confirming some others)

Minecraft Interstate (sped up 8x, it's a half-hour minecart trip in real-time)

Canvas Rider (HTML5 Line Rider with community-created levels)

Processing.A4 (Basil Safwat ports a Processing script to cardboard, pen, and paper)

Austin Seraphin goes starwatching with an iPhone (fascinating audio demonstrates what it's like to be blind and spotting constellations)

WonderTao (mashing up Alice in Wonderland and the Tao Te Ching with Markov chaining) [via]

Google develops cars that drive themselves (1,000 miles autonomously, 140,000 miles with occasional human control)

Soylent, Microsoft Word add-on uses Mechanical Turk to crowdsource editing (ask turkers to change paragraphs to past tense or fix your grammar)

MongoDB lead's postmortem on Foursquare's extended downtime (they weren't monitoring and hit RAM limits, and Mongo's hard to recover from failures)

How the Glif iPhone stand went from bits to atoms (free CAD software, short-run 3D printing and injection-moulding, and Kickstarter to fund it all)

Dinner Date (upcoming game about being stood up for a date) [via]

Disney's California Adventures to open Flynn's Arcade recreation (with classic arcade games and custom-minted tokens)

Hollerado's "Americanarama," human 8-bit music video (love the bass tablature at the 1:40 mark and Guitar Hero at 2:30) [via]

Reddit users note tacky BP America sponsored posts on Digg (the article seems to be gone from Digg)

Mirrored Las Vegas hotel turns into parabolic solar cooker (Wired's Rhett Allain runs the numbers; make your own!)

Software Evolution Storylines (a new visualization from the creator of code_swarm) [via]

Textagon (another fun Adam Mathes project)

Mr. Doob ports a classic IE6 effect in HTML5 (lulz) [via]

Uffie's "Difficult" (very similar to Gondry's Kylie Minogue and Chemical Brothers videos)

.ly registrar pulls Violet Blue's domain for offensive content (and they're now saying domains under 4 characters are for Libyans only)

0boxer (Chrome/Safari extensions add simple game mechanics to Gmail) [via]

xkcd's updated Map of Online Communities (view it large)

Peter Freitag's Private Stages (the opposite of bubbling?)

Father and son send weather balloon to space, record results (best dad ever)

Adam Rogers on what Batman taught him about parenthood ("Bwana Beast did not die in vain.")

River of the Net (stream of ten-second videos uploaded by users, by Ryan Trecartin and David Karp) [via]

St. Petersburg Times' wonderful obit, written in response to anonymous online troll (touching article about a 48-year-old dishwasher's life)

Visualizing.org (GE and Seed Media's new infoviz site, including a db of data sources)

NYT on the cause of the DJIA "Flash Crash" in May (unintended effects triggered by a Kansas firm's automated $4.1 billion sale)

Games for Change Festival posts talk videos (day two is over here) [via]

Notch announces major Minecraft update for Halloween (new monsters, craft a watch and jack-o-lanterns, catch fish, biomes, and more)

You're Stealing It Wrong: 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles (Jason Scott drops some computer history knowledge at Defcon)

Jonathan McIntosh's Right Wing Radio Duck (exceptional remix mashes up classic Disney cartoons with Glenn Beck audio into a coherent narrative)

Seaquence (experimental music sequencer in a Petri dish) [via]

Marc Hedlund on why Wesabe lost to Mint (learning from a startup failure)

The Case of the "Audiosonic Identiglyph" (Adam Kempa needs help decrypting encoded audio on vinyl)

8 Bit Wood (lovely pixel art sculpture, coming soon to Etsy)

Cyberpunk Style Guide (framegrabs from Hackers, just in time for the 15th anniversary party)

Asteroids Bookmarklet (destroy any webpage)

Wired on the rise of ThinkGeek (don't miss the linked Tommy O'Riley cover)

AOL acquires TechCrunch (for a rumored $40M)

Journalism in the Age of Data (one-hour documentary featuring the all-stars of information visualization)

Anasomnia (reminds me of Nose Pilot) [via]

Norwegian Recycling's "Miracles" (impressive mashup seamlessly splices new verses out of 16 pop songs) [via]

Michael Heilemann's analysis of user behavior by blog (on a long article, Hacker News and Boing Boing readers stick around, Reddit users bail quickly)

Google Blacklist (terms that won't work on Google Instant) [via]

Jason Schwartzman introduces the New Yorker iPad app (lonelysandwich has some new competition)

Ron Gilbert joins Double Fine (he's working with Tim Schafer on a secret new game)

Portal mod for Minecraft (chocolate and peanut butter)

MSN Spaces closing down (better than most, they're offering six months' notice with Wordpress migration and URL redirects)

ThinkUp beta released (wonderful DIY Twitter/Facebook archiving, visualization, and analysis tool)

Kanye Jordan (Tom Armitage turns a funny tweet into a Twitter bot)

Tilt-Shift Van Gogh (applying photographic effects to paintings) [via]

MakerBot announces the Thing-O-Matic 3D printer (supports a print queue, clearing the build surface between prints; $1,225, cheap!)

Google Pizza (Gimme Pizza!)

Anil Dash on the launch of Gourmet Live (the secret A-list team included Paul Ford, Andre Torrez, Garrett Murray, and Liz Spiers)

Maker Faire New York starts this weekend (on the site of the 1964 World's Fair!)

Mojo (easy way to add simple achievements/points to any website) [via]

What happens if you put your hand in front of the LHC beam? (they're not sure, but it seems like a bad idea) [via]

Gourmet Magazine relaunched as an iPad app (the rewards are interesting; first magazine to give you achievements for reading?)

Evercookie, proof-of-concept undeletable tracking cookie (Ars interviewed the creator, whose name might sound familiar) [via]

Recreating Shazam in Java (very readable, visual explanation of an audio recognition algorithm)

M.I.A.'s Story to Be Told (CAPTCHA and vintage net.art as music video, created by dump.fm) [via]

Aaron Meyers maps the moon's topography to frames of a Paul Robertson animated GIF (with suitably insane results; the original GIF, a detail view, and the entire thing animated)

Mena's farewell to Six Apart (thanks for everything)

Last.fm plots listening preferences by gender and age (Cali Lewis is the only charting female that mostly men like)

12x5 pixel LED display built in Minecraft (by the way, the official site's back up today and the game for sale)

VideoEgg to acquire Six Apart, rename to Say Media (end of an era)

Never Mind the Bullets (an HTML comic created to promote IE9) [via]

Starring the Computer (tracking computer appearances in film and TV, like the Burroughs B205 and IBM AN/FSQ-7)

Chinese employees get creative with holiday work schedules (interesting that in the Inception version, holidays are reality and work is the dream state)

White Knuckles by OK Go (from the director of "Here It Goes Again") [via]

First homebrew game and emulator released for the PS3 (every time a new Sony DRM scheme is cracked, an angel gets its wings)

The Visual 6502 (impressive Javascript emulator visualizes chip operations at a transistor level) [via]

Misspelled Food (from 4chan, naturally)

Looxcie, always-on POV video recorder (the personal panopticon is coming)

Austin Seraphin's first week on the iPhone (a blind user's emotional response to Apple; also, he switched from Linux to Mac last week)

Steven Frank compiles Newton emulator for the iPad (What is Newton?)

Jim Henson making Muppets in 1969 (15 minutes of raw creativity, along with the great Don Sahlin)

Derek Yu's guide to finishing a game (several apply to non-game development, too) [via]

Rock, Paper, Shotgun reviews Minecraft, indie sleeper hit of the year (they're making $70k/day; don't miss the creator's essay on how piracy works)

Steven Colbert/Jon Stewart announce dual rallies in DC, October 30 (the flipside; directly inspired by Reddit's campaign)

Ico and Shadow of the Colossus remastered in HD for PS3 in 2011 (two of my favorite games ever)

Increpare's Cascode (figure out the rules to win the game)

Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival poster (every performer's depicted as a generic corporate logo)

The Reverse Geocache Puzzle Box (a locked box that can only be opened in a specific location; watch the video interview) [via]

Alex Payne on the new Twitter (he internally argued, unsuccessfully, for decentralization)

Diaspora releases first source code (by the end of summer, as promised in their original project; power geeks, try it here)

SF Chronicle goes inside the French Laundry kitchen (the writer is a trained chef who's worked at Gramercy Tavern and Jean Gorges) [via]

Frank Chimero imagines the Atlantis World's Fair in 1962 (from Lost World's Fairs, experiments in type on the web) [via]

Stamen on their Twitter visualization for the MTV VMAs (this year, they were featured in the main show)

Hyperbole and a Half's The Party (related: an interview with Allie Brosh)

10k Apart contest winners announced (impressive design in Matchuppps, with CSS3 animations, Typekit fonts, and images from the Dribbble API) [via]

The Live Shifter, a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure on Twitter (don't miss the author's explanation on how it was planned and written)

Justin Watt's guide to blogging from the middle of the ocean (he's taking a container ship from Philly to New Zealand)

jsTerm (ANSI-capable HTML5 telnet terminal emulator by Peter Nitsch)

Twitter announces new design (inline images and video from 16 partners, including Kickstarter; they released a growth chart)

Excerpt of Ian Bogost's book on games as journalism (many more newsgame examples in his Watercooler Games archive)

BERG's light painting with the iPad (cross-sections of 3D models shot with long exposures)

SiftLinks, turn links on Twitter into an RSS feed (for you geezers still using a "feed reader" on a "computer")

Everything is a Remix, Part 1 (new four-part series on remix culture by Kirby Ferguson)

Musopen raises $45k to set classical music recordings free (they're raising money to hire an orchestra to record public domain symphonies)

Burnbit (free service creates a torrent from any web-accessible file)

New Yorker's long, personal profile of Mark Zuckerberg (by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas) [via]

Digital Comic Museum (growing archive of Golden Age comics with expired copyright status)

Guardian on Nokia's failure to support Dopplr (a familiar post-acquisition story; they stated they "will not develop it further at this stage.")

YouTube Time Machine (with a lovely design by Kickstarter's own Andrew Cornett)

Graph Your Inbox (clean Chrome extension adds stats to Gmail)

Marco Arment's list of common words in 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews (awesomem worth the price vs. crashing useless waste of money) [via]

FFFFUUU statue (aka Rage Guy; please make this 3D rendering real)

xkcd on password reuse and evil plans ("it'll be hilarious the first few times this happens")

Rob O'Hare's playable review of GET LAMP (interactive fiction reviewing an interactive documentary about interactive fiction) [via]

Anil Dash on the cultural implications of forking (and Sippey forked his article) [via]

YouTube Instant (Stanford student's great take on Google Instant lands him a job offer from Chad Hurley)

Bloglines to shut down on October 1 (replaced by Google Reader, and made moot by Twitter and Facebook)

Pixar's Up gets BLAM'd (cutting parody of Disney's awful remixing of classic cartoons)

Inside the Soviet arcade museum (great little trip report; reminds me of the North Korean arcade)

James Bridle's 12-volume set of edits to the Wikipedia Iraq War page (12,000 changes spanning nearly 7,000 pages)

Monstrous Discrepancies (a comic by Winston Rowntree)

The Room: The Game (based on the truly horrible film)

Cache Rules Everything Around Me (Evan Roth sets his animated GIF collection to music)

Google Scribe, autocomplete any text (for fun, try typing any word and hit enter repeatedly) [via]

OK Trends crunches the data to find what white people really like (as always, funny, insightful, and controversial; don't miss the religion and writing proficiency charts)

George and Jonathan's "The Best Music" (free superhappy chiptune album created with Cave Story creator Pixel's Piston Collage) [via]

MC Frontalot, Jonathan Coulton, and Paul & Storm cover Double Rainbow/Bed Intruder Song (with lead vocals by the very talented Ken Flagg)

Jonathan Blow's anonymous PAX playtest of The Witness (the followup to Braid was at an unmarked table)

Craigslist shuts down adult services section (17 Attorneys General asked them last month to shut it down )

Health Month (like Epic Win, Buster Benson's trying to turn self-improvement into a game)

There is a Horse in the Apple Store (Frank Chimero is not hallucinating)

Duke Nukem Forever is revived, to be released in 2011 by Gearbox (everyone's favorite vaporware is playable on the PAX show floor, 13 years in the making)

NYC health dept. shuts down underground lobster roll dealer (Jeff Rubin shows how people ordered from "Dr. Claw") [via]

Copyright holders choosing ad income over cease-and-desists on YouTube (more than a third of YouTube's 2B weekly ad views are infringing videos deliberately left online) [via]

Buzzfeed's "infographic" about infographic spam (thanks to this Reddit user for exposing this unusual SEO trickery)

Six Apart shuts down Vox (less than a month's notice, with export tools to Typepad and Flickr)

LA Times interview with the author behind Slaughterhouse 90210 (interesting process behind her Tumblr curation)

Informative Prints (by 16-year-old Swedish graphic artist Kiko Seiz)

Cheerleader wins lawsuit by suing the wrong website (Dan Quayle's son famously wrote a column for TheDirty.com) [via]

Anatomy of a Rickroll, hypnotic visualization of network packets (here's an image request slowed down 40x; made with Packet Flight)

Building a Scrabble MMO in 48 hours with Node.js and MongoDB (the results are impressive; some of the Node.js Knockout entries are amazing)

Bear's Double Rainbow ad for Microsoft (also: meet Bear) [via]

First details on Telltale's episodic Back to the Future game emerge (they also secured rights to make games based on Jurassic Park)

Cee Lo Green's official video for F**K YOU (even better than the typography video, I'm perfectly content to have this song stuck in my head 24/7)

Slate interviews Innocence Project cofounder about false convictions (over 250 people have been freed by new DNA evidence, many of them with false confessions)

Unreal Engine 3 tech demo Epic Citadel for the iPhone/iPad (impressive tech demo, now available for free)

GameSetWatch covers Assembly 2010's PC demo contest (if you have the hardware, I highly recommend trying out the two winners yourself)

Apple announces Ping, a social network built into iTunes (their first foray into social, finally; seems inevitable that app/location/TV/music sharing will follow)

All four issues of Daniel Raeburn's The Imp available for free download (highly recommended, covers Daniel Clowes, Jack Chick, Chris Ware, and dirty Mexican comics) [via]

Eclectic Method's 8-bit Mixtape (not particularly great music, but the visuals make it) [via]

Vanity Fair's glimpse into the day in the life of the President (long, must-read look at the insane complexity of today's political landscape)

Lanyrd, social conference directory (brilliantly executed social event discovery; it should be pronounced "La Nerd")

Copyrighting Fashion (a new bill would subject fashion to copyright, but at what cost?)

Tom Scott's Evil hack shows phone numbers exposed by Facebook users (culled from public "lost my phone" groups)

Unhear It (replace one earworm with another)

Stay Free's Illegal Art mix tape (the files all moved here)

Mads Peitersen's paintings of gadget anatomy (love the iPhone guts) [via]

Hark! A Vagrant's Nancy Drew covers (previously: the Gorey covers)

Markov chaining Kickstarter blurbs (this also doubles as a Kickstarter project idea generator)

Pomplamoose teams up with Ben Folds & Nick Hornby (Hornby wrote all the lyrics for Folds' new album) [via]

The Wilderness Downtown (an HTML5 music video for Arcade Fire with some fun geo integration)

Swarmation (like musical chairs for pixels) [via]

Disney remixes old cartoons into "Blam!" (truly awful)

PieLabPDX food cart makes customers play games to buy pie (they had to win a game of Rock Scissors Paper to get their choice)

Dirpy (convert YouTube videos to MP3s with surprisingly deep transcoding options)

Indie Game: The Movie interviews Adam Saltsman on Canabalt (every one of these shorts gets me more excited for the full-length film)

Jerry Stiller Unscripted (an adorable encounter with the owners of the Costanza house)

Members of Paramore, New Found Glory, and Relient K cover "Bed Intruder Song" (the original broke the Billboard Top 100) [via]

Happylife (prototype device ambiently shows a family's collective mood) [via]

"Learning to Be Me" by Greg Egan (a better-written short story with a similar theme as "Where Am I?")

"Where Am I?" by Daniel Dennett (short sci-fi story from 1978 about where consciousness resides) [via]

Icons of the Web (map of the top million websites' favicons, sized by popularity) [via]

Taliban Bike Gangs from Hell (from Ted Rall's awesome daily comic blog from Afghanistan; start here and page forward)

Zero Views (Tumblr devoted to undiscovered Youtube videos)

Portland bike lane turns Mario Kart (though it's not nice to throw turtle shells at passing bicyclists)

Scott Pilgrim vs. the Matrix (unusually well-done mashup) [via]

Wil Wheaton's response to a fan, 21 years later (the last official member of WilPower)

Silicon Valley's secret rock star (Sony exec rejoined the Stooges after 30 years)

TIME Magazine announces new version of magazine for adults (devastating satire by the Onion) [via]

Star Wars Uncut wins an Emmy (the entire film is now viewable, 473 15-seconds clips recreated by fans)

Searching for Me (voice actor searches for himself in the virtual world of Red Dead Redemption)

Vice interviews Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA (from their Anti-Music issue) [via]

Voting machine hacked to play Pac-Man on MAME (and without breaking the tamper-evident seals) [via]

Fortune on the secretive world of Trader Joe's (the well-loved chain is owned by Germany's Albrecht family)

Solipskier (addictive new iPhone game, along with The Incident and the free Piczle Lines)

The Slow-Motion Music Quiz (Josh Millard slows down 24 popular songs, Justin Bieber-style)

Imagesoak (Adam Mathes' new thing browses the web with images; I like the Infovis category)

E7, atmospheric Flash platformer (I also enjoyed Liferaft: Zero, though it's much more difficult)

Tila Tequila vs. the Juggalos (the A.V. Club has another good outsider first-person account) [via]

Watch Reformat the Planet for free (documentary about the NYC chiptune scene; at $34, the DVD/t-shirt combo is a steal) [via]

Polymaps (Stamen and SimpleGeo's JS library for gorgeous vector visualizations on map tiles) [via]

Auralization of sorting algorithms (the heap sort sounds like a 1960s sci-fi sound effect) [via]

Desperate Pandora employees struggle to find song area man likes ("At this point, I think he's just fucking with us.")

Kindergarten enrollment dates affect ADHD diagnosis rates (children born just after the cutoff date are 25% less likely to be diagnosed as those born just before) [via]

Hallowed Ground (photos of stuff the same distance from the WTC as the "Ground Zero Mosque") [via]

Journalism Warning Labels [via]

Paul Robertson's sprites for the Scott Pilgrim game (you really need to zoom in to appreciate the detail)

Unsuck It (translate obnoxious business jargon back to non-douchey English)

Paul Graham on the long decline of Yahoo (the Flickr acquisition had a halo effect too, but it was ultimately short-lived)

Project Springfield, 3D pixel art construction of Springfield (watch him build Springfield Elementary in the Kickstarter project video)

Everynone's "Words" (a collaboration with Radiolab) [via]

Documentary episode on the making of Future Crew's Second Reality (with home video and interviews with the team; from a new documentary about the demoscene) [via]

Five Philippines inmates escape while guard plays Plants vs. Zombies (I like to think they danced their way out) [via]

Numen Camera for the iPhone (incredibly useful application recreates any photo using tiny, naked pixel men) [via]

TechCrunch's postmortem on the Jenny "dry erase" quitting hoax (their publicist advised them to specifically target TechCrunch)

EFF's analysis of the Verizon/Google net neutrality proposal (a sound legal analysis without the handwringing)

Henry Jenkins on Inception (gamers are better equipped to understand the narrative structure than most)

The Ballad of Steven Slater (performed by Josh "Cortex" Millard, with lyrics from a Metafilter comment) [via]

Man Lives In Futuristic Sci-Fi World Where All His Interactions Take Place In Cyberspace ("until the day our world catches up with his, Royce will be out there on the virtual nexus, searching.")

Scott Pilgrim trailer recreated with scenes from the graphic novels (also for superfans only, the interactive trailer) [via]

Weeplaces, visualize your Foursquare checkins (though it makes your checkin history public by default, you can change it with the lock icon)

Trojan image reproduces itself on 4chan with user assistance (clever mix of social engineering and Windows exploit)

Yakuza 3 game fact-checked by actual Japanese yakuza (also, I love the design for these Boing Boing features) [via]

The Incident released for iPhone and iPad (I've been beta-testing it for months, pixel art by Neven Mrgan and chiptunes by Cabel Sasser) [via]

Chris Poole's testimony in the Sarah Palin hacking case (he was asked to explain rickrolling, newfags, and /b/tards to government prosecutors) [via]

OK Cupid on the impact of camera settings on attractiveness (more data porn, including evidence that iPhone users have more sex)

Blackstar Warrior, blaxploitation Star Wars trailer (found on Devour, Uncrate's iPad-friendly best-of-YouTube blog)

All Rubik's Cube positions can be solved in 20 moves (proven with the help of 35 CPU-years donated by Google)

Monotoning Music with Echonest Remix (related: The Swing Thing)

Chill Space (net art by Daniel Leyva) [via]

Kyle Pulver's Depict1 ported to Flash (like Portal, an unreliable narrator)

The Making of a 1k Javascript demo effect (more at the JS1k contest)

CaptchArt (4chan makes art from found CAPTCHAs) [via]

Maslow's Hierarchy of Robot Needs [via]

David Friedman finds a 1910 NYT article written about him (what will be of interest to future historians? you never know, so just keep everything)

How Jami Attenberg got her stolen bike back in Brooklyn (with help from Craigslist and the Brooklyn PD)

Chad Dickerson on scaling startups (specifically, how to scale an engineering-driven culture)

Massive censorship of Digg uncovered (a conservative group's been effectively manipulating Digg stories for over a year)

GearBox, robotic ball controlled with an iPhone (like Marble Madness in real-life)

NPR on Antoine Dodson and the Bed Intruder Meme (interviews with Kenyatta and Baratunde, and links to Antoine's new blog, Twitter, and YouTube channel)

Fata Morgana (Google maps without the map, by Damon Zucconi) [via]

Osmos released for iPhone (at $3, this is a steal; one of the best PC games released last year)

Google stops Wave development (worth re-reading: Anil Dash on the Web way vs. the Wave way)

Microsoft Street Slide (multi-perspective street panoramas from street view imagery) [via]

Racer, a physical racing arcade game (remote-control car in a cardboard track streaming to a sit-down arcade game) [via]

Achievement Unlocked 2 (like the original, but even more stupidly addictive)

Chris Hecker's "Achievements Considered Harmful?" talk at GDC (in short, he argues achievements only work well for motivating dull tasks)

Rdio opens to the public (like Spotify for the US, highly recommended)

Cyriak's Cycles (more insanity) [via]

Halo for the Atari 2600 (here's the creator's backstory and the ROM) [via]

The Birds and the Beedrills (geek rap uses all 151 original Pokemon names as sexual innuendo; the lyrics)

junkboy's collection of game demake mockups (modern games turned retro; look at the filenames if you need hints) [via]

Auto-Tune the News' Bed Intruder Song (here's the original newscast-turned-meme, in case you missed it )

Craig Mod's incredible postmortem of raising money with Kickstarter (gorgeously designed article with plenty of solid data)

GET LAMP, the text adventure documentary, is done (five years in the making with incredible attention to detail; you can order the DVDs here)

FC64 Commodore 64 emulator in Javascript (a bit CPU-intensive, but it works!)

10k Apart (build a web app in less than 10k, though you can use jQuery/Prototype and Typekit)

TorrentFreak on the BitTorrent releasers vs. the Scene (insidery article covering an interesting shift in online movie releasing)

Google Alarm Firefox add-on (audio alerts when your personal info's sent to Google servers)

Bradley and Bethany (Dan Wineman's App Store review fanfic)

Michael Jackson's estate demands Popcap change Dancing Zombie character (they're retroactively changing him in all versions of the game)

Paul Graham on the acceleration of addictiveness (the iPhone and iPad is the Internet's equivalent of a hip flask)

GameStop buys Kongregate (this seems like a bad fit; has a retail chain ever acquired an online community?) [via]

Ron Livingston does Keyboard Cat (previously: Keyboard Kato) [via]

Andrew Plotkin reviews The Ultimate Alphabet for the iPad (based on Mike Wilks' insane picture book from 1986; here's the gameplay)

EFF wins DMCA exemptions for bypassing DRM, phone jailbreaking/unlocking (Ars Technica breaks down the changes)

8-bit color cycling with HTML 5 (how it works)

Guardian UK's report on the Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs (they call it the "biggest leak in intelligence history"; more from the NYT)

The No Twinkie Database (anti-patterns for game design)

Aza Raskin on Tab Candy, experimental tab management for Firefox (not an extension, the download is a Firefox build)

The Chipophone (8-bit synth in an electronic organ, don't miss the video) [via]

Philipp Lenssen's book on Graphic Adventure games (culled from Wikipedia entries, edited, and fleshed out with original interviews)

Cow Clicker (Ian Bogost's Facebook game about Facebook games)

Sledgehammer and Whore (a screenwriter deals with a very unusual break-in at his office, and how he might pitch it as a show) [via]

Adam Lisagor on Flipboard (free iPad app creates a personalized magazine of your friends' FB/Twitter links)

4chan trying to take down Gawker (in response to their critical Jessi Slaughter posts and a post yesterday taunting them)

Top Secret America (Washington Post's two-year investigation into federal use of private contractors after 9/11)

Xbox 360 developer recounts the history of their achievements system (how it was developed and how they work) [via]

Apple donates MacPaint/QuickDraw source to Computer History Museum (see Folklore.org's evolution of MacPaint and the long, great oral history)

GQ's rare interview with Bill Murray (Sofia Coppola tells the story of trying to track him down for Lost in Translation)

You've Either Shipped or You Haven't (from Tom Taylor, who ships; journalist Bobbie Johnson's response and Tom's followup)

Hacked Sonic the Hedgehog gains weight as he consumes fried rings (as he grows, he eventually becomes completely immobile)

Rigid-Body Fracture Sound (rendering sound effects from physics simulations, from this year's SIGGRAPH)

Aaron Cohen tests the "I Write Like" authors (F. Scott Fitzgerald writes like H.P. Lovecraft, who writes like Edgar Allen Poe)

AutoSummarize (top 100 free books summarized by Microsoft Word into 10 sentences)

Google acquires Metaweb (very happy they won't be shutting down Freebase) [via]

OK Cupid crunches the numbers on the biggest lies in online dating (for example, hotter photos were much more likely to be outdated according to EXIF tags) [via]

Drew Blas' analysis of GPL'ed code in Thesis (he found several blocks of Wordpress code)

Trailer for The Social Network released (but will it be better than The First $20 Million?)

Matt Mullenweg and Wordpress theme developer argue GPL licensing (the debate about the GPL and derivative works may finally go to court)

The Revolving Internet [via]

Old Spice Guy's video responses to individual tweets (brilliant marketing campaign; in a meta moment, the actor responds to himself) [via]

Yiying Lu's repositionable wall graphics (the Twitter Fail Whale was originally an elephant)

The Men Who Stare at Screens (going to the gym might not help long stretches of inactivity)

I Write Like (Dan Brown!? I'll take comfort in knowing Shakespeare writes like butt) [via]

Massachusetts newspaper to charge fee to comment (and no anonymity, they'll post with the name on their credit card) [via]

BLU's Big Bang Big Boom (months in the making, their new wall-painted animation is a brief history of the world)

pOnd (a five-minute zen game that takes an unexpected turn, or two) [via]

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