IBM PC Model 5150 in JS — inspired this fun little thread on Twitter #

Controlling "Call Me Maybe" by heartbeat — this was his third take in a row, letting him spike his heart rate quickly #

Alexis Madrigal's profile of Harper Reed and the Obama tech team — Romney's consultants were deeply outgunned by true geek heroes #

LCD Soundsystem and Miles Davis improv YouTube duet — from 2011, but new to me; way better than Pink Floyd and the Wizard of Oz #

Indie musician discusses his streaming music revenues — a best case scenario with an artist-run label #

SoundSlice — Adrian Holovaty's brilliantly-designed tool for transcribing guitar tab from YouTube videos #

Small World — crazy story of a young Cabel Sasser and Rob Beschizza crossing paths #

LazyTruth, Chrome add-on debunks chain letters in Gmail — this should be built into Hotmail and AOL #

Steven Levy on the patent problem — long, great feature on the costs of patent trolling #

Cabel Sasser on his soundtrack for The Incident — the Adam Lisagor cover cracks me up #

The Infinite Jukebox — seamlessly turn any song into an infinite remix; try the uncanny Call Me Maybe or Little Wing #

Wired talks to fugitive suspect/antivirus pioneer John McAfee — absolutely insane story #

Jam with Chrome — real-time multiuser jam sessions in the browser with multiple instruments (via) #

Mixing digital sculpture with real objects — step-by-step walkthrough on how the Lego sandstone model was made #

Sportsfriends on Kickstarter — four of the best multiplayer indie art games join forces for a commercial release #

Text-Based Multiplayer Shooter — incredibly convoluted, but surprisingly fun #

The Atlantic on long voting lines and partisan vote suppression — this is infuriating #

Surveillance Camera Man — performance art, CCTV activism, or deadpan troll? #

Unraveling the "Markovian Parallax Denigrate" mystery — fun modern detective work into an old Usenet conspiracy theory #

A Slower Speed of Light — free Mac/PC game simulates lowering the speed of light as a gameplay mechanic #

Twitter's political engagement map — state-by-state searchable visualization of the response from candidate tweets #

Indie Game: The Movie's breakdown of the tech that made it possible — the perfect case study of the new indies, making art in the post-Kickstarter era #

NYT's Hurricane Sandy timelapse — watch for the blackout on Monday 8:40pm #

Nation Suddenly Realizes This Just Going To Be A Thing That Happens From Now On — the scariest post-Sandy article I read came from an unlikely source #

It's Global Warming, Stupid — the magazine cover is a wakeup call in an election where it was never mentioned #

Where the City of Darkness Meets the City of Light — the power divide in post-Sandy NYC #

Infinite Gangnam Style — built using Echonest, see the FAQ for commands #

Windchime — generative music text editor (via) #

Super Bread Box — Super Crate Box ported to the Commodore 64 (via) #

Microscopix, WebGL graphic demo — the PC demoscene moves to the browser (via) #

Halfblock — an open-source HTML5 Minecraft-like demo #

Disney acquires Lucasfilm for $4B, new Star Wars coming in 2015 — includes ILM, Skywalker Sound, and LucasArts; Leia is now a Disney princess #

Gatekeeper's Exo — 35-minute EBM album as interactive 3D environment for Mac/PC built in Unity #

Polygon launches — great long-form writing about games in a beautiful responsive design #

Frog Fractions — highly recommended; when in doubt, swim down #

Typing Karaoke — Mavis Beacon meets Guitar Hero (via) #

Brief history of gestural interfaces — going back to the early 1960s #

Anil Dash liveblogs the Apple Special Event — with help from Paul Ford; love the new Klout integration in iTunes #

Ira Glass makes balloon animals while giving advice to teen girls — this should be his new show #

Wired profile on Peter Molyneux and @PeterMolydeux — the parody Twitter account inspired Molyneux to leave Microsoft #

paint mámor — unusually 8-bit art from Hungary; this one's hypnotic #

Glenn Fleishman's story of appearing on Jeopardy — some of the best bits in the comments; watch the ending #

View Source — Rex Sorgatz gets back to blogging with a writeup of one interesting video daily #

ViolentAcrez interviewed on CNN, apologizes and blames Reddit — not mentioned: his maimed award was for "Worst Reddit", only after he flipped out #

Ze Frank's very important notes on the second presidential debate — Auto-Tune the News's take #

Badly Recreated Animated Film Frames — redone in 30-60 minutes with Maya #

Grad student writes about "weird Twitter," drama ensues — Nick Douglas tries to explain (via) #

Creepshots returns disguised as lesbians and fashionistas — beyond immature; Predditors is back online too, doxing Creepshots users #

ReConstitution 2012 — live, visual remixing of the presidential debate transcript #

Humble eBook Bundle — interesting publishing experiment, just added five graphic novels #