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 #

Kickstarter Is Not A Store — fundamental policy changes to hardware and product design projects #

Salon sells The WELL to its longtime members — this should be the contractual contingency plan for every failed acquisition #

The Tweets of XOXO — organized collection of tweets from the 400+ attendees #

IFTTT forced to remove Twitter recipes to comply with API changes — really, really not happy about this; also: the death of animated GIF avatars #

The Amazing iOS 6 Maps — or: why global maps are really hard to do well (via) #

Patterns — new Linden Lab game, like Minecraft meets Second Life #

2601 People Wrote This Song — collaborative music experiment from Ze Frank with averaged video frames #

The dream of the Internet is alive in Portland — Ryan Gantz's debut on The Verge is a lovely feature on XOXO #

Ben Folds Five and Fraggle Rock's "Do It Anyway" — first video off their new album, funded by fans on Pledge #

SHEXAGON — Super Hexagon as a text adventure, now playable online #

Chris Anderson on the new MakerBot Replicator 2 — and a new retail location in Manhattan #

xkcd's click and drag — ridiculously massive comic, roughly 46 feet wide at 300 dpi (via) #

Vimeo Creator Services — new tools to help video creators make money, including tip jars and pay-to-view #

4chan offers subscription service to cover costs — for the first time, accepting money for services; $20/year to bypass CAPTCHAs #

Internet Archive launches extensive TV news archive — 350,000 broadcasts since 2009, loanable on DVD; more from the NYT #

Wired on XOXO — also: Willamette Week, New York Times, Daily Dot #

No Evidence of Disease — staggering tale by Maciej about his girlfriend's battle with cancer, and an unusual friendship #

Venus Patrol launches — with all the old Offworld posts, too! just in time for XOXO Arcade, which Brandon curated #

Hyundai's Hyper-Matrix Wall — straight out of Portal 2 (via) #

Andy Rehfeldt's metal remix of Bob Marley's "Is This Love" — I could listen to a whole album like this #

Steve Streza's story of making the Gangnam Style/LMFAO mashup — crazy impressive for a first remix, especially how many weak attempts there were first #

How claw crane arcade machines work — just as much of a rip-off as video slots, the claw has a weakness variable setting (via) #

Boston Dynamics cheetah robot running 28.3 mph — nothing at all scary about DARPA funding a robot that runs faster than Usain Bolt (via) #

XOXO's lineup of fringe events — oh, did I mention we're running a big arts and tech festival next week? #

Wired on the Algorithmic Copyright Cops — "these technologies do an end run around fair use" #