Idle Screenings — entire feature films split into animated GIFs; also: as Powerpoint decks and starfield screensavers #

Tourney — story of an imaginary graphical text adventure #

Square Register — deeply disruptive to the POS industry; also, anyone in the U.S. can sign up for a free Square reader #

Mari0 released — open-source Super Mario meets Portal mashup, out now for PC/Mac/Linux #

Insider gossip on how Disneyland underestimated demand for their 24-hour leap day event — surreal photos of die-hards sleeping in Main Street Cinema #

Aerial quadrotor bot creators at TED — insane to see them map and navigate new spaces using the Kinect #

Jer Thorp on the Weight of Data — awesome talk from one of the giants of infoviz #

Gorgeous visualization of movie profits and reviews — a huge amount of information displayed in a concise, understandable way #

Pixels and Polaroids — when analog and digital nostalgia combine (via) #

2 Player Productions' behind-the-scenes of the Double Fine pitch video — interesting to see how much thought and effort went into the pitch #

Jake "virt" Kaufman's FX4 — pay-what-you-like chiptune soundtrack to a nonexistent film #

Verisign seizes non-US .com domain on behalf of US authorities — who needs SOPA? #

Cat Fountain — related: Minecraft 1.2 is out with iron golems, cat, ocelots, and smarter zombies #

TV Is Broken — or: why cable is the new landline #

Touch Arcade's behind-the-scenes on Beat Sneak Bandit — one of the most addictive games I've ever played, a brilliant one-button rhythm game #

Robot quadrotors perform the James Bond theme — they play pretty well for mindless killing machines #

A Year of Links — Tom Armitage's physical book of Pinboard bookmarks and the code to make your own #

Scott Schiller's HTML port of Survivor for the C64 — the source is on Github; I loved his making-of photos #

Jesse Thorn's 12 Point Program for Absolutely, Positively 1000% No-Fail Guaranteed Success — some solid advice from inspiring, independent people #

Ze Frank bringing back The Show — yay! all my Kickstarter dreams are coming true #

Swear Cuts — editing this year's nine Best Picture nominees to eight minutes of profanity #

DrunkEliza — written in Entropy, a programming language that decays variables as it runs #

Hexagon — Terry Cavanagh's sadistic 24-hour game for Pirate Kart V #

Admiral Grace Hopper demonstrates a nanosecond — the legendary computer programmer appeared on Letterman in 1986 (via) #

Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer discuss adventure games — amazing 35-minute chat; related: they added new rewards to the Double Fine Adventure #

Adrian Chen unmasks the creator of @horse_ebooks — some great Internet detective work #

Coinbox Hero — from the creator of Achievement Unlocked; love the memetastic ending #

Stripe's Capture the Flag — hack six levels and get a t-shirt, and maybe a job #

Kickstumbler — try the video-only mode #

10 Seconds from Every Top 100 Song Ever — grabbing the loudest point is surprisingly useful for spotting choruses #

Google to sell HUD glasses by year-end — coming soon, the entire history of you #

Wired profile on the GitHub team — the article is on Github, and they're accepting pull requests! #

Dutch scientists to create first lab-grown hamburger this fall — $316,000, cheap; take that, Fleur de Lys #

Eternal copyright: a modest proposal — Adrian Hon plays with the absurdities of copyright law (via) #

36 Copyrighted Suns  #

Peanutty — learn to code while playing puzzles; related: Code Hero #

YouBeMom — 4chan for moms; anonymous, ridiculously active, and often brutally honest #

Twitter Friends Map — simple app that I've wanted for ages, spawned from Paul Irish's Lazyweb issue tracker #

Caterina Fake announces Pinwheel — sign up for the beta #

Unmanned, a game by MolleIndustria and Jim Munroe — shave, pilot a UAV, play videogames, sing One Vision, and contemplate your actions #

escapes.js — nice JavaScript library for rendering ANSI art #

Gawker digs up Facebook's internal content moderation guidelines — they use oDesk contractors to moderate flagged material #

John Gruber gets a one-on-one demo of Apple's Mountain Lion — moving much further in the direction of iOS #

Everything Is A Remix, Part 4: System Failure — final episode of the absolutely essential film series; go support Kirby's new project #

2QWOP — finally, multiplayer flailing #

The Verge's analysis on apps that upload your contact list — finally, the data journalism article that everyone wanted after the Path debacle #

Paul Ford's 100 Ways to Say I Love You — "60. Yell it over your shoulder as you are pushed into the squad car." #

Super Mario Bros. Crossover 2.0 — new skins span multiple eras of console gaming #

Texting Level: Expert — Adam Ellis's photo conversation from Vegas to New York #

A Ship Adrift — an imaginary airship piloted by an AI autopilot based on real weather patterns; follow it on Twitter #