EveryBlock releases source code — it was a requirement of their funding from the Knight Foundation #

Hype Machine detects cheating on charts, names names — one of the bands responds in the comments and gets schooled by Anthony (via) #

Ze Frank on black, white, and shades of green — I'm loving this series #

China bans gold farming, real-world sale of virtual goods — Eurogamer estimates 1 million Chinese gold farmers with worldwide trade worth more than US$10 billion annually (via) #

The Pirate Bay sold to publicly-traded Swedish gaming company — Brokep's statement is delusional; being acquired will almost certainly kill the site #

Michael Rubin's "Droidmaker" book now available for free download! — authoritative 518-page history of Lucasfilm, the creation of Pixar, and much more (via) #

Jason Rohrer interviewed about "selling out" to make iPhone and ad games — he recently switched from free, open-source games; also, EA claims Spielberg's LMNO isn't cancelled #

Nedroid's Cosby Experiment — view all 190 Cosbys #

How the NYT kept their reporter's Taliban kidnapping off Wikipedia for seven months — they collaborated with Jimmy Wales directly to freeze the entry; NPR asks if it was ethical (via) #

David Fincher may direct Facebook film, adapted by Aaron Sorkin — possibly starring Michael Cera or Shia LaBeouf as Zuckerberg; this sounds familiar (via) #

Quarrygirl's undercover investigation of non-vegan ingredients used at L.A.-area vegan restaurants — outstanding blog reporting, with industrial food testing from 17 different restaurants and research into suppliers #

James Barnett's oil paintings of landscapes from video games — looking at the paintings, I felt like I'd actually visited those locations in real-life (via) #

WSJ interviews Brenda Brathwaite about "Train," a board game about the Holocaust — not all games need to be fun (via) #

How Rob Manuel accidentally started a Michael Jackson moonwalk flashmob — I'm in London right now, and I've seen several massive vigils and tributes on the streets (via) #

Top teams join forces to win Netflix Prize — check the leaderboard for the first score to break the 10% improvement threshold (via) #

Wired on the success of Nike+ — backstory on how it works and the Hawthorne effect; simply measuring something can change its behavior (via) #

Imeem to delete all user-added photos and videos, with five days' notice — with no way to back up videos at all (via) #

Shnabubula's chiptune tribute to Michael Jackson — also: Virt's incredible VRC6 cover of Thriller #

Metafilter user highlights 20 years of Elvis Costello's "adenoidal" voice in the NYT — Stephen Holden and Neil Strauss have a limited musical vocabulary (via) #

Flashterm, free telnet client for the web — I love his gallery page, full of BBSes #

Peter Nitsch's Flash port of AA-Lib, image-to-ASCII art library — the demo is fun; also: his real-time video conversion to ASCII (via) #

Simon Willison's four lessons from the Guardian's journalism crowdsourcing experiment — they deliberately made it game-like to encourage participation (via) #

Ze Frank's That Makes Me Think Of… — first of a series on Time.com, reminiscent of The Show (via) #

Paul Lamere on procedural video remixing with the Echo Nest API — this is way awesome, the mashup possibilities are endless #

Anil Dash on the first rapper vs. the first blogger — "all of blogging is hip hop" #

Pixar grants dying 10-year-old girl's last wish to see "UP" — prepare to weep (via) #

Guardian crowdsources investigation into MPs' expenses — brilliantly using readers to dig through 700,000 documents to aid their investigation #

Paul Lamere's Passion Index for measuring band's true fans — he looks at the number of plays per listener for a simple metric #

Sudden Impact — cliche supercut of TV/film characters suddenly hit by moving vehicles #

How to enable iPhone OS 3.0 tethering on AT&T's network — not as flawless as I thought; it disables Visual Voicemail, but you can check manually until the new hack's out tomorrow #

Ross Racine's incredible artwork of aerial views of fictional city maps — drawn freehand in Photoshop, they contain no photos or scanned material #

TED interviews Clay Shirky about Iran and Twitter — related: Clay's TED talk from last month at the State Department #

Shaun Inman releases Fever, an elegantly designed feedreader — PHP/MySQL app, it recommends stories in your feeds based on link popularity #

Ze Frank's Art Hour — he still makes me giggle #

Microsoft IE8 contest insults other browsers — tarnished Chrome, boring Safari, and old Firefox; "get rid of it, or get lost" #

Alice and Kev, the story of being homeless in Sims 3 — start from the beginning and keep reading; his writing is outstanding (via) #

SomethingAwful user's "urban exploration" of his neighbor's house — also known as "trespassing" #

Chris Messina's scathing critique of Opera Unite — sending all traffic through Opera's proxies creates more centralization instead of less #

Google asks 50 random New Yorkers, "What's a browser?" — only about 8% knew; Rocketboom got very different answers on the NYU campus in 2005 #

Play Mario Off, Keyboard Cat — Internet meme plus chiptunes equals Waxy love #

Sweet Juniper on Andrew WK's "Destroy Build Destroy" kid's show — "It's official: Andrew W.K., world's best babysitter." #

Autotune the News takes on JFK's inaugural speech — everything sounds better autotuned; see also: Winston Churchill and MLK #

Opera Unite — web server hosted in the browser using Opera's proxy servers for a simple URL; file sharing seems the most useful #

Shnabubula's alternate-reality versions of classic videogame music — Super Mario Bros. in a blender #

Alex Payne's Open Ideas — he's publishing his notebook of "someday" ideas, and they're all winners #

PS22 Chorus covers Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" — don't stop believin', kids #

Weird Al's "Craigslist" — Doors style parody featuring Ray Manzarek on keyboards, directed by Liam Lynch (via) #

BREADBOX64 — a Twitter client for the Commodore 64/128 (via) #

John Martz's IE6 denial message for Momentile.com — new candidate for best error ever #

Diorama, stereoscopic 3D game for the iPhone — I want to see this on the Wii with head tracking (via) #