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" #

4chan releases an API — one billion posts later; more from Moot about the changes #

Homestuck is the Internet's Ulysses — Andrew Hussie's project to turn his webcomic epic into an adventure game raised $700k in two days #

AntiSec leaks one million Apple UDIDs with device names — they claim it was found on an FBI agent's laptop (via) #

The Verge reviews McPixel for iOS — one of my favorite games of the year, absurdly silly point-and-click minigames #

Johann Sebastian Joust's new traitor mode — come try the game at XOXO Arcade #

Ustream copyright bots kill the Hugo awards livestream — didn't realize Ustream had its own version of ContentID #

Heather Champ brings back The Mirror Project — an artifact of the early web, preserved #

Greg Knauss on his 10-year-old son's $23,800 bug bite — it boggles my mind how anyone could be against affordable health care #

Paul's Boutique remix recreated from original sample sources — three DJs and three years in the making, this is one of the best mashups I've ever heard #

Troma releases 150 full films on YouTube — including such gems as Rabid Grannies and Yeti: A Love Story; someone needs to make an MST3K remixing app #

Photo Hunt — proof of concept app built on top of Human.io, Joshua Schachter's new mobile Mechanical Turk-ish platform #

Barack Obama's AMA on Reddit — Reddit's under severe load now #

Coding.fm — the sound of coding #

The Waiting Game — a time-wasting simulator #

We Are Back — classic '90s cracktros redone in HTML5, using this old-skool demo effects framework (via) #

The Verge on the unraveling of OnLive — they were burning through $5M/month, with only 1,600 concurrent players #

Insane in the Chromatophores — Cypress Hill visualized in color-changing squid cells (via) #

Brooklyn Integers — artisinal, hand-crafted unsigned ints; see also: Mission Integers and London Integers #

Gangnam Style, Dissected — most of the heavy lifting from Onsemiro's blog post #

Super Mario Bros. for the Atari 2600 — really impressive fan conversion #