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 #

42.zip — 42KB ZIP file that expands to 4.2 petabytes of files #

Circa, news app released for iPhone — a more structured approach to news aggregation, allowing you to follow story updates #

I Like What I See — Chrome add-on automatically clicks every Like link on Facebook #

Aaronetrope — Aaron Koblin's three.js video carousel; love his take on the term "crowdsourcing" #

The Greatest Event in Television History — for reference #

Ze Frank on the VP debate — this is a bunch of stuff #

Gawker outs a popular Reddit moderator/troll — more background from /r/subredditdrama, part one and two #

Conway's Game of Life emulated in Conway's Game of Life — yo dawg #

District court rules book scanning is fair use — a smackdown against the short-sighted Authors Guild #

Marco Arment launches The Magazine — I'd love to see something like this as a platform, helping indie writers get paid #

heyyeyaaeyaaaeyaeyaa.com — don't cry out loud (via) #

NYT on the patent wars — interesting perspective from a patent reviewer; don't miss the video feature #

The Rumble 2012: Bill O'Reilly vs. Jon Stewart — well worth your $4.95 for a DRM-free download #

Senate candidate's World of Warcraft hobby used against her — the Republican propaganda site is a glimpse of future political campaigns to come #

Guilded Youth — interactive fiction weaving between 1980s BBS and a real-life adventure; creative use of Vorple for IFComp 2012 #

Looper writer/director releases free in-theater commentary track — clever way to boost repeat viewings #

Entertainment Weekly ad contains a fully-functioning 3G Android phone — only showing CW tweets seems like an incredible waste; make it interactive! #

Adventure Time fans make fictional Card Wars game real — like the Journey to the Center of Hawthorne project, Reddit is great at catalyzing fan creation (via) #

Quartz on Facebook Zero — Facebook passed one billion users (via) #

Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore launch party — Robin Sloan's interviewing incredibly interesting people live; buy the book! #

YouTube fixes ContentID appeals, now requires DMCA filing — a huge step to fix a broken process I've written about repeatedly #

Betabeat profile on Andrew Hussie and Homestuck fandom — they try to dissect why it's so popular #

The Crying Competition — one more try; related: The Love Competition (via) #

Teenage Engineering lets customers 3-D print their own replacement parts — the first commercial electronics company to freely release part designs on Shapeways #

GIFCTRL  #

99 Problems But Mitt's Not One — Diran Lyons' vicious NSFW political satire using Obama and Romney spliced audio #

Stack Exchange teams up with US Patent Office to crowdsource prior art — try your hand at patent busting #

YouTube allows full download of your original videos — nice work, Data Liberation Front #

Is Barack Obama the President? — fun visualization from the Guardian; see also: Is Mitt Romney the President? (via) #

xkcd's massive comic as an MMO — busy server, but worth trying (via) #

Bret Victor on learnable programming — an extension of his Inventing on Principle talk (via) #

GIF Sound — the tool powering the /gifsound subreddit, which spawned this popular compilation #

Katz's Deli, miniaturized — the detail is staggering; see Alan Wolfson's other miniature urban sculptures #

Stamen maps the Bay Area's private company shuttle routes — Google, Yahoo, Apple, FB, eBay, and EA's parallel transit system #

We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists — warning: this is a very early and incomplete leak; see it in theaters or buy it in October! (via) #

LEGO Great Ball Contraption — over 100 feet in length, 600 hours of construction #

Julia Nunes organizing East Coast living room tour — this kind of experimentation is why we invited her to speak/perform at XOXO #