Waxy.org: Links Miniblog

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]

SuperMe (multiplayer game about resilience and positive thinking) [via]

Man Enough (I think I'm just a sucker for games with vocals by the developers)

Twirdie (golf game played by guessing the popularity of Twitter searches)

Ask Metafilter takes on men's bathroom etiquette (increasingly hilarious thread, everyone thinks their method's "right"; over or through the flap, sit or stand to wipe, fold or crumple)

Harvey Pekar, dead at 70 (illustrated by comic greats, American Splendor published for over 30 years)

Google's App Inventor for Android (Scratch-like programming for non-programmers)

Blizzard backs down on real names in their forums (Randy outlined some of the issues with losing anonymity)

Slate on the competitive eating industry (Kobayashi couldn't compete this year because he wouldn't sign an exclusivity contract)

Multiuser Sketchpad (how it was made, built with node.js and WebSockets)

Epic Win, to-do list game for the iPhone (by the visual designer behind Little Big Planet) [via]

Ask Metafilter on things you realized you were doing wrong (related: This American Life's A Little Bit of Knowledge) [via]

Super Mario Bros. speedrun visualized as one long projection (composited into a long tracking shot of a wall, incredibly well done) [via]

Auto-Tune the News' Double Rainbow Song (they all join in at the end)

Starcraft/World of Warcraft official forums to display real names (Blizzard's lifting anonymity to try to stem abusive behavior)

Andy Weir's "The Egg" (related: Greg Knauss's The Damnation of Richard Gillman)

Jim Rossignol's This Gaming Life now available online for free (highly recommended reading; you can still buy the book at Amazon) [via]

Optical Illusion Illusions (Reddit user photoshops the illusions into popular optical illusions)

Higgs particle simulated as sound (I fully expect these to be sampled on the next Frontalot album)

Film the Blanks (ongoing project to abstract classic movie posters)

Yosemitebear's Giant Double Rainbow (I want to be in this guy's head for just one day)

Composer Jason Robert Brown's fight with a teen girl about copyright (hard to argue it's lost income, since she almost certainly wouldn't have bought the sheet music) [via]

Giant Bomb's extensive first look at Limbo gameplay (this game looks amazing, reminiscent of Heart of Darkness and Out of This World)

Rude Boy, compilation of reggae/dub/ska chiptunes (fun, but it's hard to top Mr. Spastic's "Lo-Fi Version")

Chase Goose (as Tom says, "You will hate this game.") [via]

Maciej Ceglowski on the great Legacy.com swindle (the company that manages death notices for many U.S. newspapers)

Marc Hedlund announces Wesabe shutdown (very sad; just found out Robot Co-op's shutting down 43 People, too)

Diaspora's first month progress report (with screenshots and video; seems like the Facebook protests have passed, even if concerns remain)

Foursquare adds map view (in an unfamiliar city, this should be incredibly useful)

8-bit Twilight: Eclipse (an interactive YouTube game) [via]

Darryl Cunningham's 19-page comic about homeopathy (following his earlier strip on the MMR vaccine controversy)

Luke W. on an elegant sliding alternative to CAPTCHA (faster and simpler, though would still need an accessible option for the blind)

Dan Telfer thinks your favorite dinosaur sucks (don't get him started on velociraptors) [via]

Roger Ebert follows up his controversial post on games as art (though his use of Jericho screenshots is like writing about art films with images from Scream 2)

Men's Health visits Portland's thriving food cart scene (video interview with several of the best carts)

MaxFunsters for Zach Annel (this guy's very funny, totally deserves to win)

Woot acquired by Amazon (appropriately, they announced the news via a rapping monkey)

It's Oppo! (CalArts student Tyler Chen's demented take on Nick Jr.) [via]

Kickstarter Film Festival (12 film projects projected on a Brooklyn rooftop on Friday, July 9 )

Evelin Kasikov's cross-stitched CMYK alphabet (all of her CMYK work is just amazing)

Conan the Barbarian: The Musical (these guys are brilliant; they also did Total Recall, Fatal Attraction, 24, and Silence! The Musical)

Josh Millard's The Crane That Feeds (his second attempt at using the Echonest API to remake NIN songs with audio from Frasier episodes) [via]

Hulu launches subscription service (full TV seasons and iPhone/iPad streaming for $10/month)

Appsaurus, iPhone app recommender (after entering a few favorites, the recommendations were unusually great)

Fan-made King's Quest remake back from the dead (eight years in the making, Vivendi rescinded their cease-and-desist) [via]

iPhone vs. HTC Evo ("I want the one with the bigger GBs"; see the counterpoint)

No Sleep 'Til Fusion (Quinn Norton interviews Famulus, creator of the Kickstarter-funded fusion reactor in Brooklyn)

Laser death cat punishes Team Fortress grinders (the creator added more background in the video description)

The Fab Faux's live cover of side two of Abbey Road (obsessive, note-for-note recreation)

Trip through the Mandelbox (rendered with Mandelbulber; don't get lost)

iOS icons in pure CSS (very impressive; also, iPhone's World Clock in CSS)

They Don't Complain and They Die Quietly (Derek Powazek on death, chaos, and gardening)

Roethlisberger & Jahic's hand-drawn Star Wars Kid animation (the Swiss art duo made 605 framed drawings; see their other YouTube art or buy the shirt)

Lazeroids (multiplayer HTML5 Asteroids with Node.js, JQuery, and audio; source here)

Joel Johnson visits John McAfee in Belize (details on his quorum-sensing project, a more neutral take than the Fast Company profile)

Walt Disney World's closed Adventurer's Club recreated in Half-Life 2 (related: the Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror recreations) [via]

David Thorne makes a poster to find Missy the Cat (I'd like to see an interview with all his targets)

Studio Ghibli to make games with Professor Layton team (two of my favorite studios team up on original IP for the DS and PS3; some scans)

Smirnoff shuts down Bros Icing Bros ("We had a good run Bros.")

FEED Magazine archives return after nine years offline (love the tributes from the staff, including Steven Johnson, Stefanie Syman, Clay Shirky, and Julian Dibbell) [via]

ALT/1977, modern electronics redesigned for the '70s (anachronistic product concepts from people who definitely aren't time travelers)

Wolfire's review of OnLive (in short, it really works; even more frictionless than Steam, this feels like the future)

Recreating the RCA Photophone (Russ DeMuth built a machine from scratch to play the obsolete audio format, recorded on 35mm film)

Making of Pixar's Day & Night, the short preceding Toy Story 3 (my new favorite Pixar short, the 3D was used to great effect)

I Dream In Retro (insane videogame mashup based on a real dream)

The Daily Show on U.S. presidential promises of energy independence (some great archival footage from the last eight presidents)

Tiny Inventions' Something Left, Something Taken (adorable animated short about the Zodiac Killer, with a detailed look at how it was made) [via]

Stamen wins $400k Knight grant to visualize civic data (they also gave a grant to Cartoonist, Ian Bogost's editorial cartoon game/authoring system)

DotWar (Twitter avatars compete as two armies of tiny soldiers) [via]

Real-Life Portal Gun (from Guitar Hero champ Freddie Wong)

NYT Mag on Watson, IBM's Jeopardy-playing computer (Ken Jennings, you're our only hope)

Freedom Bridge (very short and serious "notgame")

Nitrome's Faultline (Flash game with a clever game mechanic, folding the world)

Harmonix demos the new Fender Squire guitar controller (a real strat that lets you play Rock Band 3 and through an amp simultaneously)

First gameplay videos of Portal 2 (incredibly creative; love the fluid dynamics with the repulsion/propulsion gels)

Stage demo of Rock Band 3 at E3 (in Pro mode, you're effectively playing the real instruments; Pro guitar looks insane) [via]

Lifehacker's guide to silencing vuvuzela horns with an EQ filter (related: @the_vuvuzela on Twitter, Vuvuzela radio, or browse the web like you're at World Cup)

Alex Noriega's Stuff No One Told Me (single-panel illustrations from a Barcelona artist) [via]

Shawn Smith's pixelated sculptures (made with hand-painted plywood rods)

Hidden posters of the Notting Hill subway station (sealed off in the late 1950s and kept perfectly intact)

Flash Game Dojo (learning tools from the creators of Flixel and Flashpunk) [via]

OnLive cloud gaming service to launch Thursday with free year of service (limited offer, so sign up quick)

McSweeney's list of Great Literature Retitled to Boost Website Traffic ("The 11 Stupidest Things Phonies Do To Ruin The World")

Openbook (search public wall posts using Facebook's API; lots of people seem unaware of their settings)

Monica Narula and Joshua Schachter's Guilt Market (part of the Seven on Seven event pairing artists with geeks)

Charles Schultz's Teen Comics (Charlie Brown grown up)

History of the NBC Pipes decorated by Jim Henson in 1964 (Henson explains them in 1980, Jack Parr shows them to Letterman in 1984, and Frank Oz visits them this week) [via]

Jason Scott on The Guy in the Get Lamp artwork (I found this very touching)

Support call from the Google Pac-Man doodle (this wasn't an isolated problem)

Glee and copyright (everything the actors do on the show would be illegal in real-life, like every cover on YouTube) [via]

Slate reveals the story behind the recycled newspaper prop (aside from newspapers, I love their fake product packaging and magazines)

Jordan Bower's portraits of modern Nepalese porters and their t-shirts (from Britney to Cobain)

Dr. Demento ends 40 years of radio (switching to online-only after this weekend's broadcast) [via]

U.S. Army intelligence analyst arrested for leaking Wikileaks helicopter video (he outed himself to "homeless hacker" Adrian Lamo, who called the Army)

Visualizing tourists vs. locals on Flickr (the full set of maps) [via]

gdgt's live coverage of the Apple keynote and the new iPhone and iOS 4 (major changes: huge battery upgrade, HD camera, iMovie app, new display, gyroscope, and big OS changes)

Bit and Run, "Mario's Ladder" (papercut Mario with a great and terrible secret) [via]

Every actor reads the same newspaper (must be a standard newspaper prop; more examples here) [via]

David McCandless visualizes musician revenues online (not surprising that streaming royalties are significantly less than direct sales) [via]

California college student suspended for Twitter messages (breaking news from the student newsroom where my mom teaches)

A letter from "Leroy Stick," the person behind @BPGlobalPR ("the best way to get the public to respect your brand? Have a respectable brand.") [via]

Motherboard.tv's short doc on ROFLCon (best coverage I've seen, includes interviews with several meme legends)

Robot Unicorn Attack released for the iPhone (complete with Erasure soundtrack; play the original)

Danny Sullivan on misattribution and lazy reporting in the mainstream press (interesting to see which outlets added the citation after being called out) [via]

AI::General (a general-purpose artificial intelligence by Maciej Ceglowski) [via]

moot's TED talk about 4chan culture and online anonymity (the Dusty story shows how even when anonymous, you can still be found)

Time Traveling Finger (help him make the last two episodes)

Ars Technica digs up the details of the P2P indie film lawsuits (at least 14.5k users so far this year, netting an easy $20M in a horrible new revenue model)

Jus' Checkin' [via]

Destroy the Web (Firefox extension turns webpages into a playable shoot 'em up)

LOST reimagined as a Lucasarts adventure game (if this existed, it'd be 120 hours of gameplay where 95% of the puzzles had no solution) [via]

Portland Mercury goes inside the Achewood test kitchen (Chris Onstad ate your balls) [via]

Exit Path (addictive runner inspired by Portal and Canabalt, from the creator of Achievement Unlocked; try the multiplayer mode)

Kevin Kelly's 1997 list of quotes from the first five years of Wired ("predictions of the future are really just predictions of the present")

Smokescreen, a Flash player in Javascript (don't miss the Strongbad demos; Simon breaks down how it works, with reformatted source)

Ken Jennings' anatomy of a Wikipedia hoax (in fact, the founder of Orange Julius never invented an inflatable shrimp trap or pigeon shower)

Super Mario Bros. Crossover creator commentary (he announced this week he's adding Ryu from Ninja Gaiden)

M.I.A. takes revenge on NYT Magazine writer for unflattering cover story (she tweeted the reporter's phone number; summary of the story) [via]

Nifflas releases FiNCK (devious free platform puzzles inspired by SMB 2, from the genius behind Knytt and Saira)

My Desk Is 8-Bit (simulated stop-motion inspired by Michel Gondry and R-Type)

GQ on the National Enquirer and their attempt to win the Pulitzer (reminds me of someone)

1983 Naked Eyes Song Was A Burt Bacharach Remake? (strangely disorienting and anachronistic, like hearing Biz Markie's "Just A Friend" as '60s soul)

Collection of bowling alley scoreboards (design that smells like old shoes and beer)

Jeff Rubin's Unanswered Lost Questions (all the answers are in the mystery box, and you can't have it) [via]

Phoenix Wright released for the iPhone (weird gem for the DS makes it to the App Store)

D-Pad Hero 2 released for NES (worth it just for the Queen cover)

Sean Bonner on the near-death of Metblogs (people are pledging to keep it alive, and they may be saved)

Short film on the making of 48HR Magazine ("The most powerful thing in the universe is a whole bunch of people paying attention to the same thing at the same time.") [via]

The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield (15-page comic about the discredited link between autism and the MMR vaccine)

The Big Caption (reminds me of Wayne White's art)

Pixel: An Art Documentary (11-minute short about modern pixel animation) [via]

The Swinger (EchoNest-powered hack makes any song swing)

spta's MonsterMaker (fun with face tracking)

The Discography of Greyson Chance (a safe prediction)

Hurt Locker producer calls downloaders morons who belong in jail ("I hope your family and your kids end up in jail")

Google's Pac-Man homepage doodle (the first playable doodle, with audio!)

Superbien's video projection onto mapped blocks (when I first saw this, I thought it was CGI) [via]

Ask Metafilter saves two Russian students from NYC sex traffickers (Internet heroes save the day in real-life)

How Etsy does deploys (save the princess!)

First synthetic cell created (subject of an embargoed Science story and cover of the new Economist)

Google releases BigQuery and Prediction API (I feel bad for Directed Edge)

Typekit and Google announce open-source collaboration (see Google's free font directory and the new Font API and WebFont Loader)

HTML 5 Zombo.com (view source for an explanation on how it was made)

CBS threatens 48 Hr. Magazine over trademark (they claim confusion with 48 Hours, the news show)

Google open-sources VP8 video codec (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Flash will all support it)

Girl Talk's Feed the Animals sample visualizer (using my sample list, HTML5 audio, and iTunes web service)

Newzbin closes down (keep in mind, they only indexed metadata for Usenet binaries, not hosting files)

Alex Payne leaves Twitter for BankSimple (I love the idea, just signed up)

Ronnie James Dio, dead at 67 (watching this in his memory)

Why Peter Serafinowicz pirates movies, including his own (great essay from a tech-savvy artist)

Gink (not just another social networking site) [via]

SNL's Timecrowave, meals from the future (also: Great Day digital short)

4chan's moot raises $625k for stealth startup ("reimagine what an image board should be today using the current technologies available")

50 Greatest Samples in Hip-Hop History (I could listen to these source cuts all day)

Drunk History of Frederick Douglass (with Will Ferrell, Don Cheadle and Zooey Deschanel)

Valve's Portal recruitment video (can't wait for Portal 2 this winter, with luck)

Shaun Inman's study of the Super Mario 3 camera behavior (and how he applied it to his new game)

Greyson Chance performs on the Ellen show (the star-maker machinery works fast these days)

NYT's chart of Facebook privacy settings (privacy policy's longer than the US Constitution; also, the evolution of Facebook privacy)

Panic loads Apple //e Grandaddy music video source using an iPad (feels like WALL-E connecting to EVE)

Ben Folds covers Elliot Smith's "Say Yes" (my favorite of the A.V. Undercover project so far)

Steam for Mac released (and Portal's free for Mac and PC until May 24th!)

Sixth-grader covers "Paparazzi" (move over, Bieber) [via]

Twitter follower hack discovered by Turkish heavy metal fan ("accept pwns")

Samorost 2 added to the Humble Indie Bundle (pay what you like, get six amazing indie games for Mac, Windows and Linux, including Gish, Aquaria and World of Goo)

Conan O'Brien at Google (special appearance by Andy Richter)

Creepy Robots ("It's only a matter of time before one of these kills somebody.")

Tasman Richardson, "The Game" (more from the artist; I love his Atari series and I Stole the Soul of Rock n' Roll) [via]

View to Corrupt (related: temporary.cc and Nobodaddy (now offline))

Get Out of There! (added to the Supercuts master list) [via]

Coney Island's last arcade burns in suspicious fire (older photos on Flickr; related: Last Summer at Coney Island documentary)

Non-Latin TLDs go live (Domainr now supports all three)

Disneyland tests talking Mickey Mouse (and testing the uncanny valley, along with it)

Hue Shift (brilliantly simple and frustrating game mechanic, reminds me of Flywrench) [via]

The Paywall (ITP thesis exploring alternative firewalls) [via]

Google Chrome's slow-motion speed tests (the making-of is as interesting as the finished product)

Star Wars Pregnancy Announcement

If Mario Was Designed in 2010 (related: Auntie Pixelante's dissection of level 1-1)

Jason Scott researches the story of Computer Beach Party (a truly awful comedy from 1987; unofficial trailer and a clip (note the error at 3:00))

Tim & Eric, Paul Rudd's Computer ("Computer, load up Celery Man.")

GameSetWatch on Pitch to Pixel, an album of jazz-inspired chiptunes (he talks about the inspiration for each track on his blog)

Fanedit.org's most famous fan edits of all-time (like Greasemonkey for movies, removing fan irritations like Rose in Titanic, Kirk in Star Trek Generations, and the plot of the Matrix sequels)

Sean Young's Super-8 footage on the set of David Lynch's Dune (fans made new edits of the film, pulling from the theatrical and extended releases)

Face.com opens free facial recognition APIs (try it in the sandbox) [via]

xkcd's Color Survey Results (most popular colors unique to women, "dusty teal" and "blush pink"; for men, "penis" and "gay")

Joel Johnson interviews 48 Hour Magazine's all-star team (the theme will be announced on May 7, 3,400 people have already signed up)

Inc. Magazine's cover story on Tim O'Reilly (one of the most inspiring and thoughtful people I've ever met)

Keyboard Matt (the creators of Where the Hell Is Matt and Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat merge memes)

Sketch Processing (web-based IDE using Processing.js and Bespin) [via]

Telltale announces Puzzle Agent (like Fargo meets Professor Layton with art by Graham Annable, coming in June!)

"Anatomy of a T-shirt" on Threadless (related: liveblogging the Three Wolf Moon panel at ROFLCon)

Feed Filter plugin for Firefox removes key features after Facebook C&D (they complained about the ad removal and extra requests) [via]

How Wired tracked down the prototype iPhone seller (it started with an anonymous tip about a curious Facebook comment)

Duke University to shut down historic Usenet server this ~~weekend~~ month (Usenet was started by two Duke students in 1979; the official announcement says Usenet was "made unnecessary")

Fun with secret questions & answers (the most fun you can possibly have with your bank)

How To Draw God-Man (related: Molly Norris redacted her cartoon; paintings were pulled from the Met)

Irish music blogs under attack (they may try to demand money from MP3 blogs outside of Ireland, too)

Know Your Meme's guide to challenging YouTube takedowns with fair use (your video will be immediately viewable after submitting)

Getty Images Graffiti (a real-life watermark)

Steve Jobs' Thoughts on Flash (or if you prefer: Thoughts on Flash, In Flash)

War and Peace: The Missing Footnote (tracking down a profanity that Tolstoy censored)

John Goerzen's downloadable archive of Gopherspace circa 2007 (780,000 documents, 15GB compressed; sadly, Firefox is the last popular browser with Gopher support) [via]

Food, Inc. now available for free online viewing (great documentary about the food industry, 97% positive on Rotten Tomatoes) [via]

Happy Birthday, Kickstarter! (one year old! also, Neil Gaiman and Scott McCloud said nice things)

2 Girls 1 Cup: The Infographic (tracking the volume and video movement of 20 reaction videos; don't miss the collage) [via]

Ze Frank's Chillout Song (this story made me tear up at SXSW)

Super Mario Crossover (loving tribute to NES history, play SMB as Link, Samus, Mega Man, Simon Belmont, or the Contra guy)

Indianapolis Star reporter researches a teenager with no official identity (a journalist, a staff librarian, and Facebook rewrote his entire life) [via]

Match.com threatens Plenty of Fish over growth stats (hmm, this sounds familiar) [via]

Sydney's Siberia (Jason Nelson's infinitely zoomable poem; related: his Rubik's cube poem)

Obama Nails the National Anthem (shades of Kaufman) [via]

Spotify adds social features in newest version (not available in the U.S. yet, so very jealous) [via]

Mr. Spastic's Lo-Fi Version (too-short mix of chiptune versions of reggae/dub riddims)

Agenda Circling Forth, first-place demo at Breakpoint 2010 (everything's a particle; don't miss the video if you can't run the real-time demo) [via]

Transmit 4 released (their interactive feature guide is very slick)

Laptopograms (developing photosensitive paper exposed to a digital negative on a laptop screen)

Waiting for Bieber (beiliebers begging to be followed by him on Twitter)

The Geocities-izer ("make any web page look like it was made by 13-year-old in 1996") [via]

Apple //t, Twitter display for the Apple II (everyone's favorite tweeting cat makes a cameo at 1:46 in the video) [via]

Police seize Gizmodo editor's computers (the plot thickens)

Enough Plumbers (expanded version of Enough Marios) [via]

YouTube explains "fair use" option for disputed videos (publishers can then decide to file a DMCA request; apparently not new, but new to me) [via]

Android OS running on the iPhone (impressive hack)

White House releases open-source code (their contributions back to Drupal; I love this)

Useless Fliers (related: Josh Millard has ideas) [via]

Testing the limits of YouTube's fingerprinting system (research from April 2009) [via]

Akihabara, open-source HTML5 pixel game toolkit (the demos are an impressive range of genres and all work on iPad/iPhone)

How an Apple employee lost the iPhone 4G prototype (I feel bad for the guy; no mention of who found it, how Gizmodo acquired it, or media ethics)

Poto & Cabenga (clever one-button game for the Gamma 4 design compo)

New York Magazine's cover story on the NYC tech scene (Kickstarter featured on page 5 and the slideshow)

PlayPen (like a wiki for pixel art, evolving into a collaborative adventure game)

Roger Ebert believes videogames can never be art (I completely disagree with him, along with nearly every commenter)

Will It Metablend? (don't try this at home)

Hey, Guys! (related: We've Got Company) [via]

DAN the MAN (platformer-inspired animation, but the stereotypes sparked some debate) [via]

Library of Congress acquires entire Twitter archive (related: Google adds Twitter archive search)

Stupid Fight on Twitter (compare the language skills of the last 100 replies to Twitter celebs) [via]

Nieman Lab on the results of Gawker's comment moderation experiments (hiding less trusted commenters leads to higher quality comments and more activity)

Nate Silver takes on NYC neighborhood livability (like his election work, distills an incredible amount of data into something readable)

Google to open-source On2's VP8 codec for HTML5 video (Chrome, Firefox, and Opera will support; Safari and IE are less certain)

I Am Free Enterprise (shoot for your dreams, everyone)

Star Wars Uncut's "The Escape," five-minute teaser (first look at the finished project to remake Star Wars in 15 second increments) [via]

Flash CS5 to support limited HTML5 canvas export (outputs in Adobe's SVG-like FXG format, with a JS library to display in a canvas element) [via]

Phil Gyford's "Infographic" (the new animated GIF)

Giant Bomb adds elaborate quests system (nicely done, though it's having some unintended side effects; I made a screencast of a simple subquest)

Katsu's virtual tagging of Picasso's Girl Before A Mirror at MoMA (related: F.A.T.'s iPhone app for virtual graffiti overlays)

Pixels by Patrick Jean (8-Bit NYC is contagious) [via]

South Park takes on Facebook and Farmville (Chat Roulette makes a cameo)

Penny's Computer Book, Inspector Gadget wallpaper for the iPad (a close runner-up to Fingerspoo)

Gizmodo's iPad review as a personal journal (the best I've read so far, with a great video by Joel Johnson closing it out)

Particle You (like a digital pin art toy, requires Flash 10) [via]

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Game (amazing 8-bit remake)

2D Boy's Ron Carmel makes a "Suck Goo" level for WarioWare D.I.Y. (the creation tools are powerful, but sharing is limited; friend codes and only two slots)

Hunch's Twitter predictor game (forgot to link this when it came out, it uses your Twitter network to guess your preferences)

The GET LAMP interactive fiction panel at PAX East (incredible lineup of text adventure history and modern IF)

Math teacher's April Fools day shadow prank (more live/recorded video interaction in his Halloween lecture) [via]

Wikileaks releases classified US military video (American air strike killed 12, including two Reuters reporters, leading to a military coverup)

"Hello, My Future Girlfriend" AMA on Reddit (all grown up, insight into what it feels like to become an unwilling meme)