Auto-Tune the News' Bed Intruder Song
— here's the original newscast-turned-meme, in case you missed it #
Craig Mod's incredible postmortem of raising money with Kickstarter
— gorgeously designed article with plenty of solid data #
GET LAMP, the text adventure documentary, is done
— five years in the making with incredible attention to detail; you can order the DVDs here #
TorrentFreak on the BitTorrent releasers vs. the Scene
— insidery article covering an interesting shift in online movie releasing #
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) #
Andrew Plotkin reviews The Ultimate Alphabet for the iPad
— based on Mike Wilks' insane picture book from 1986; here's the gameplay #
Guardian UK's report on the Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs
— they call it the "biggest leak in intelligence history"; more from the NYT #
Aza Raskin on Tab Candy, experimental tab management for Firefox
— not an extension, the download is a Firefox build #
Philipp Lenssen's book on Graphic Adventure games
— culled from Wikipedia entries, edited, and fleshed out with original interviews #
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 #
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) #
Matt Mullenweg and WordPress theme developer argue GPL licensing
— the debate about the GPL and derivative works may finally go to court #
Old Spice Guy's video responses to individual tweets
— brilliant marketing campaign; in a meta moment, the actor responds to himself (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 #
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 #