GameCity Squared's 15-Pixel Megamix — extremely minimalist interpretations of 12 different games #

Lauren McCarthy's Happiness Hat — it measures your smile and stabs you if you're not smiling sufficiently (via) #

Auto Tune de Nieuws — needs an angry Dutch gorilla #

Facebook prank memorializes living person — the Facebook team should allow an email veto, or at least require better documentation (via) #

2D Boy's pay-what-you-like World of Goo results wrapup — don't miss the breakdown by OS and country (via) #

FreeForm's short film on the Open Internet — impressive set of interviewees, directed by Jesse Dylan of Yes We Can fame #

Using Flickr as a paintbrush — coloring overhead maps based on the dominant colors of photos taken on the ground (via) #

Football Hero, three-story-tall Guitar Hero controlled with soccer balls — they used pressure pads with Arduino boards wired up to Frets on Fire (via) #

Chris Ware's Halloween cover and comic for the New Yorker — the masks that grown-ups wear #

Interactive Fiction Competition 2009 — 14 of the 24 nominees are playable online; Emily Short has a list of reviewers, as well as her own #

John Resig on the serious spam issues with Google Groups lists — if you want to know which areas of big companies are being ignore, watch for spam taking over #

Amazon launches Relational Database Service — MySQL 5.1 with automated backups #

Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer's "A Piece of My Mind" — new to me, love the sound; if you like that, try his chap-hop medley (via) #

Graphic history of newspaper circulations from 1990-2009 — related: the Christian Science Monitor is finding success after killing their print edition (via) #

Facebook games analyzed by an MMO player — interesting, though cynical, perspective of the underlying mechanics #

Playing guitar-less Guitar Hero with a muscle-computer interface — they should add a heart monitor that triggers star power when things get intense #

Google's Social Search experiment goes live in Labs — a little module with content from your Reader subscriptions and Gmail contacts #

Brandon Boyer's feature on Machinarium's concept artwork — if you haven't already, buy it for PC, Mac or Linux #

Jonathan Puckey's tool-assisted Delaunay vectorization portraits — don't miss the video at the bottom showing a conversion (via) #

Facebook memorializes profiles for people who have passed away — they no longer show up in Suggested Users and privacy's increased #

xkcd's homage to Geocities — Yahoo! Ate My Balls #

A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database — authoritative source for arcane timezone trivia #

Explaining the math behind ASCIIp0rtal — surprisingly understandable (via) #

iPhone game developer looks at piracy rates for their app — vaguely related: World of Goo's pay-what-you-like sale results #

Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrent Party (via) #

Google Reader adds personalized sorting and recommended items — so far, the "magic" sorting is pretty great #

Torley's review of the Plogue Chipsounds VST plugin — faithfully recreates 9 vintage sound chips, including the 2600, C64, and NES; on sale for $75 #

TSA responds to the "TSA took my son" blogger — blogger insisted first video was altered, they responded with raw footage from nine angles #

Everything is Terrible's Internet for Kidz — the web sure looked different back then #

Small Worlds — short, lo-fi exploration game that exposes the map as you play #

Flickr adds face tagging — great implementation, I hope it makes its way to the API #

ChinaSmack on Happy Farms, an insanely popular Chinese MMO — they were forced to limit signups to 2 million users per day #

Google Street View Guys — Dan Meth imagines life as a Street View driver (via) #

iRobot's morphing blob robot takes its first steps — hmm, this seems familiar (via) #

Mark Pilgrim on his publisher's reaction to the resale of his GNU-licensed book — funny, the copyright notice from the print version is completely contradictory (via) #

Snarkmarket's Robin Sloan posts Twitter's #5,000,000,000 tweet — technically, they stopped using sequential IDs in March 2007 #

Pixar intro parody — nice touches abound, like the prison inmates (via) #

Translating Picture Books: Where the Wild Things Are — academic paper dissects the German, Swedish and Finnish translations and the visual cues they used #

Brandon Hardesty Discovered Something Amazing! — AMAZING! #

Machinarium — new point-and-click adventure from the creator of Samorost and its sequel #

Neven Mrgan's tale of the phantom Mint.com account — he deleted his account with confirmation, and they kept both his login and financial details active #

Raphaël, JS vector graphics library — interactive charts and animation, and works perfectly on the iPhone #

Reenacting Pulp Fiction with Google Wave — also Wave-related: a believable defense of Wave for team collaboration #

Scott Baio is a Twitter jackass — I hate sharing a last name with that guy #

NYT on San Francisco Panorama, McSweeney's one-off newspaper — don't worry, the $55 price is for a year's subscription (via) #

Jason Scott's The Atomic Level of Porn — great NSFW talk covers the early history of digital porn, including teletype, BBSes, and games #

6-year-old boy floats away in homemade helium balloon — at this moment, the scary live video shows him flying through the Colorado skies; update: he wasn't inside #

The Billion Dollar Gram — relative spending visualized, with data on Google Spreadsheets #

Metafilter user's story of creating the first "Under Construction" animated GIF — includes a perfectly preserved animated GIF archive #

Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, and the Computer — includes Bukowski's poem about the 16-bit Intel 8088 chip (via) #