Humble Indie Bundle #2 is live
— pay-what-you-like for five of the best indie games ever, DRM-free for Mac/PC/Linux #
Brief Analysis of the Gawker Password Dump
— they cracked 190k hashed passwords in under an hour; 99% were alphanumeric #
Gawker hacked, source code and 1.5M user passwords released
— some were encrypted but easy to brute-force, so change your passwords! also: the torrent, the readme, and an interview with the group #
Sour's "Mirror," personalized music video
— I highly recommend letting it access your Twitter/Facebook accounts #
Mashup Breakdown's annotated Night at the Hip-Hopera
— for my money, still the best mashup album ever made (via) #
All Of Billy Joel's Greatest Hits Played At Once
— courtesy of WonderTonic, which is down in the great Tumblr downtime of 2010 #
Michael Jackson DS game bleats vuvuzelas when pirated
— Wikipedia lists more amusing copy-protection schemes #
Agent 008 Ball, HTML5 game using Canvas and Audio
— more about the design process; related: Ben the Bodyguard #
Ask Reddit on culturally untranslatable phrases
— don't comb your hair, you're not going to be in the picture #
Torrentfreak on Tubeify, a YouTube music player
— brilliant hack built on Last.fm and Billboard data; I got my invite within an hour of applying #
First-person remote-control helicopter tour of NYC
— apparently legal under 400 feet for non-commercial use (via) #
Long Felix Salmon essay on the history and future of Gawker
— serious inside baseball; Nick Denton explains the redesign, Anil says they're still blogs, play with it here #
Google tweaks algorithm in response to NYT DecorMyEyes story
— negative user reviews now affect results #