Paperman — Oscar-nominated Disney short fusing cel and CG animation techniques #

David Friedman's profile of the inventor behind the first software patent — first filed on April 9, 1965 #

Storyboard — convert any subtitled video into a PDF of screengrabs with every scene change and line of dialogue #

Hilary, the most poisoned baby name in U.S. history — great analysis on name popularity using R (via) #

Game of Thrones' King's Landing recreated in Minecraft — over 3,000 buildings with full interiors created by 100 builders over four months #

Dio, Linden Labs' social platform for making interactive worlds — Colossal Cave, Alice in Wonderland, Chinatown; interesting tutorials on YouTube #

App.net adds 10GB storage, expanding app platform — I'm rooting for them, their vision is much broader than their Twitter-ish service #

OXO responds to Quirky's copyright claim — very, very odd to see a for-profit company picket a competitor (via) #

How Newegg crushed the "shopping cart" patent troll — great interview with their Chief Legal Officer; "Seriously, screw them. You can quote me on that." (via) #

Marco Arment on anti-Apple anger — I thought such a balanced essay wouldn't inspire anger itself, but HN quickly proved me wrong #

Fair use analysis of Escape From Tomorrow — the indie film was surreptitiously shot entirely in Disney World #

Wired interviews Jonathan Coulton on Glee's reuse of his cover song — copyright law aside, attribution would just be the ethical thing to do; compare the two songs #

Metropho.rs — mapping the "X is the Y of Z" snowclone (via) #

Data storage in DNA — 739k stored and retrieved with 100% accuracy #

vinepeek — unmoderated stream of new videos on Vine #

Remix of the Century — beat-matching hit songs from 1890-present using Echo Nest and the Whitburn dataset #

Star Wars resorted by shot length — absurdist digital art, it's only released in the obsolete HV-DVD format #

Actual Facebook Graph Searches — unintended consequences of building a search engine around previously-unsurfaced data #

Inbox Zero for Life — the simplest system I've seen for Gmail power users #

Aaron's Army — Carl Malamud's beautiful speech at the SF memorial tonight #

The Atlantic tracks down the first digital pinup — possibly the first computer art, though oscilloscope-based art predates it #

Swiss artists send self-photographing package to Julian Assange — it sent photos every 10 minutes, and just arrived in his hands #

dys4ia — Anna Anthropy's autobiographical game of going through hormone replacement therapy #

Notre Dame football player's girlfriend and her death proven a hoax — excellent Internet detective work #

Gawker's Big Board — new to me, real-time stats on their trending articles #

The Verge's life and death of the American arcade — I still think an indie arcade/bar with physical, local multiplayer games could do well #

Bypassing Gogo Inflight's auth — they recently switched from a per-flight to per-hour model #

Verizon developer outsourced his job to China — nice hack #

Rep. Zoe Lofgren to introduce changes to CFAA — though it could go further, this is a great step #

After Aaron — Robin Amer on the funeral #

Reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — Aaron's funeral was today #

Message in a Binary Bottle — Cabel Sasser writes about messages hidden in old games, and tracks down the authors #

MailChimp's annual report 2012 — great design, XOXO gets a mention at the end #

Archive.is — archive pages including JS and a static image #

Facebook announce Graph Search — more from The Verge's liveblog #

Live Action Toy Story — shot-for-shot remake took 2.5 years to make #

Monkey Island Insult Sword Fighting — how appropriate, you fight like a cow #

Prosecutor as bully — Lessig on the DOJ's prosecution of Aaron Swartz, even after JSTOR dropped the case #

voxel.js — open-source voxel game toolkit for modern browsers #

Buffy vs Edward Remix Unfairly Removed by Lionsgate — YouTube lets media companies decide what's fair use and what's not #

Every National Anthem at Once — this would save a lot of time at the Olympics #

BitTorrent Box brings streaming uTorrent to your TV — stream from a client running elsewhere or download straight to the box #

The Verge tries out the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset — Joshua Topolsky freaked out over it; live demo here, starting at 22:00 #

Anatomy of a 4chan Hoax — Buzzfeed watches on as they seed services with a fake history #

How Twitter uses MTurk to evaluate popular search terms — related: Clockwork Raven, their open-source interface for Mechanical Turk #

Qualcomm's insane and surreal CES keynote — with bonus Ballmer #

Kickstarter's Best of 2012 — XOXO was featured! #

Call Me Maybe Layered 147 Times — better than the original #

Kentucky Route Zero — stylish point-and-click Kickstarter-funded adventure for PC/Mac; nominated for four IGF categories #

Cart Life — dense and dark street vendor simulation, free but Windows-only; nominated for three IGF awards #