The Case of the "Audiosonic Identiglyph" — Adam Kempa needs help decrypting encoded audio on vinyl #

8 Bit Wood — lovely pixel art sculpture, coming soon to Etsy #

Cyberpunk Style Guide — framegrabs from Hackers, just in time for the 15th anniversary party #

Asteroids Bookmarklet — destroy any webpage #

Wired on the rise of ThinkGeek — don't miss the linked Tommy O'Riley cover #

AOL acquires TechCrunch — for a rumored $40M #

Journalism in the Age of Data — one-hour documentary featuring the all-stars of information visualization #

Anasomnia — reminds me of Nose Pilot (via) #

Norwegian Recycling's "Miracles" — impressive mashup seamlessly splices new verses out of 16 pop songs (via) #

Michael Heilemann's analysis of user behavior by blog — on a long article, Hacker News and Boing Boing readers stick around, Reddit users bail quickly #

Google Blacklist — terms that won't work on Google Instant (via) #

Jason Schwartzman introduces the New Yorker iPad app — lonelysandwich has some new competition #

Ron Gilbert joins Double Fine — he's working with Tim Schafer on a secret new game #

Portal mod for Minecraft — chocolate and peanut butter #

MSN Spaces closing down — better than most, they're offering six months' notice with Wordpress migration and URL redirects #

ThinkUp beta released — wonderful DIY Twitter/Facebook archiving, visualization, and analysis tool #

Kanye Jordan — Tom Armitage turns a funny tweet into a Twitter bot #

Tilt-Shift Van Gogh — applying photographic effects to paintings (via) #

MakerBot announces the Thing-O-Matic 3D printer — supports a print queue, clearing the build surface between prints; $1,225, cheap! #

Google Pizza — Gimme Pizza! #

Anil Dash on the launch of Gourmet Live — the secret A-list team included Paul Ford, Andre Torrez, Garrett Murray, and Liz Spiers #

Maker Faire New York starts this weekend — on the site of the 1964 World's Fair! #

Mojo — easy way to add simple achievements/points to any website (via) #

What happens if you put your hand in front of the LHC beam? — they're not sure, but it seems like a bad idea (via) #

Gourmet Magazine relaunched as an iPad app — the rewards are interesting; first magazine to give you achievements for reading? #

Evercookie, proof-of-concept undeletable tracking cookie — Ars interviewed the creator, whose name might sound familiar (via) #

Recreating Shazam in Java — very readable, visual explanation of an audio recognition algorithm #

M.I.A.'s Story to Be Told — CAPTCHA and vintage net.art as music video, created by dump.fm (via) #

Aaron Meyers maps the moon's topography to frames of a Paul Robertson animated GIF — with suitably insane results; the original GIF, a detail view, and the entire thing animated #

Mena's farewell to Six Apart — thanks for everything #

Last.fm plots listening preferences by gender and age — Cali Lewis is the only charting female that mostly men like #

12×5 pixel LED display built in Minecraft — by the way, the official site's back up today and the game for sale #

VideoEgg to acquire Six Apart, rename to Say Media — end of an era #

Never Mind the Bullets — an HTML comic created to promote IE9 (via) #

Starring the Computer — tracking computer appearances in film and TV, like the Burroughs B205 and IBM AN/FSQ-7 #

Chinese employees get creative with holiday work schedules — interesting that in the Inception version, holidays are reality and work is the dream state #

White Knuckles by OK Go — from the director of "Here It Goes Again" (via) #

First homebrew game and emulator released for the PS3 — every time a new Sony DRM scheme is cracked, an angel gets its wings #

The Visual 6502 — impressive Javascript emulator visualizes chip operations at a transistor level (via) #

Misspelled Food — from 4chan, naturally #

Looxcie, always-on POV video recorder — the personal panopticon is coming #

Austin Seraphin's first week on the iPhone — a blind user's emotional response to Apple; also, he switched from Linux to Mac last week #

Steven Frank compiles Newton emulator for the iPad — What is Newton? #

Jim Henson making Muppets in 1969 — 15 minutes of raw creativity, along with the great Don Sahlin #

Derek Yu's guide to finishing a game — several apply to non-game development, too (via) #

Rock, Paper, Shotgun reviews Minecraft, indie sleeper hit of the year — they're making $70k/day; don't miss the creator's essay on how piracy works #

Steven Colbert/Jon Stewart announce dual rallies in DC, October 30 — the flipside; directly inspired by Reddit's campaign #

Ico and Shadow of the Colossus remastered in HD for PS3 in 2011 — two of my favorite games ever #

Increpare's Cascode — figure out the rules to win the game #

Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival poster — every performer's depicted as a generic corporate logo #