Archive Team releases massive Geocities archive
— at 641 gigs, officially the largest torrent on The Pirate Bay #
Firesheep, simple session hijacking on public networks for Firefox
— the ethics of making it easy for non-techies to spoof Twitter/Facebook/etc accounts is being hotly debated #
Reddit users list the most expensive mistake they've ever made
— hard to beat the Google one, but plenty of great mechanical mishaps in the comments #
Comics artist Steve Lieber takes on 4chan comics sharers, everyone wins
— check out the sales boost after being bootlegged #
Penny Arcade community recreates Bioshock's Rapture in Minecraft
— quite possibly the most insane construction project I've seen so far #
Dalton Caldwell's lessons from the death of Imeem
— great talk covers the challenges facing both music startups and a dying music industry #
Swivel founders interviewed about its closure
— unfortunately, the infoviz platform had less than 10 paying customers #
Frank Chimero's How to Have An Idea
— related: Olly Moss shares his process behind a poster design #
Coachelletta, tilt-shift video of Coachella 2010
— interview with the creator on how it was made (via) #
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 #
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 #
Austin Seraphin goes starwatching with an iPhone
— fascinating audio demonstrates what it's like to be blind and spotting constellations #
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 #
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! #
.ly registrar pulls Violet Blue's domain for offensive content
— and they're now saying domains under 4 characters are for Libyans only #