Auto-Tune the News' Bed Intruder Song
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here's the original newscast-turned-meme, in case you missed it
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Craig Mod's incredible postmortem of raising money with Kickstarter
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gorgeously designed article with plenty of solid data
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GET LAMP, the text adventure documentary, is done
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five years in the making with incredible attention to detail; you can order the DVDs here
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TorrentFreak on the BitTorrent releasers vs. the Scene
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insidery article covering an interesting shift in online movie releasing
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Michael Jackson's estate demands Popcap change Dancing Zombie character
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they're retroactively changing him in all versions of the game
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Paul Graham on the acceleration of addictiveness
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the iPhone and iPad is the Internet's equivalent of a hip flask
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GameStop buys Kongregate
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this seems like a bad fit; has a retail chain ever acquired an online community?
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Andrew Plotkin reviews The Ultimate Alphabet for the iPad
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based on Mike Wilks' insane picture book from 1986; here's the gameplay
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Guardian UK's report on the Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs
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they call it the "biggest leak in intelligence history"; more from the NYT
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Aza Raskin on Tab Candy, experimental tab management for Firefox
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not an extension, the download is a Firefox build
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Philipp Lenssen's book on Graphic Adventure games
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culled from Wikipedia entries, edited, and fleshed out with original interviews
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Sledgehammer and Whore
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a screenwriter deals with a very unusual break-in at his office, and how he might pitch it as a show
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Adam Lisagor on Flipboard
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free iPad app creates a personalized magazine of your friends' FB/Twitter links
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4chan trying to take down Gawker
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in response to their critical Jessi Slaughter posts and a post yesterday taunting them
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Top Secret America
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Washington Post's two-year investigation into federal use of private contractors after 9/11
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Xbox 360 developer recounts the history of their achievements system
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how it was developed and how they work
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Apple donates MacPaint/QuickDraw source to Computer History Museum
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see Folklore.org's evolution of MacPaint and the long, great oral history
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GQ's rare interview with Bill Murray
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Sofia Coppola tells the story of trying to track him down for Lost in Translation
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You've Either Shipped or You Haven't
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from Tom Taylor, who ships; journalist Bobbie Johnson's response and Tom's followup
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Hacked Sonic the Hedgehog gains weight as he consumes fried rings
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as he grows, he eventually becomes completely immobile
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Rigid-Body Fracture Sound
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rendering sound effects from physics simulations, from this year's SIGGRAPH
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Aaron Cohen tests the "I Write Like" authors
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F. Scott Fitzgerald writes like H.P. Lovecraft, who writes like Edgar Allen Poe
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OK Cupid crunches the numbers on the biggest lies in online dating
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for example, hotter photos were much more likely to be outdated according to EXIF tags
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Matt Mullenweg and WordPress theme developer argue GPL licensing
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the debate about the GPL and derivative works may finally go to court
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Old Spice Guy's video responses to individual tweets
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brilliant marketing campaign; in a meta moment, the actor responds to himself
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Massachusetts newspaper to charge fee to comment
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and no anonymity, they'll post with the name on their credit card
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BLU's Big Bang Big Boom
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months in the making, their new wall-painted animation is a brief history of the world
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Ask Metafilter takes on men's bathroom etiquette
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increasingly hilarious thread, everyone thinks their method's "right"; over or through the flap, sit or stand to wipe, fold or crumple
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