New Yorker's long Scientology expose — incredible reporting, centered on screenwriter Paul Haggis' departure from the "Church" #

Darryl Cunningham's comic on climate change — previously: Homeopathy, Moon Hoax, and MMR vaccinations #

Ze Frank's Star.me launches private beta — Techcrunch has an interview with Ze and more screenshots #

When Should I Visit? — uses Foursquare to learn how to avoid Foursquare users #

xkcd on trochee fixation — don't miss the trochee chart, made with this Search Matrix tool #

Island Survival — Friday Flash fun; also: Cactus' very weird Hot Throttle #

Penny Arcade responds to the "Dickwolves" debacle — in case you missed it, here's a good timeline #

The Making of "The Social Network" — 93-minute behind-the-scenes film, available free on IMDB (via) #

Nick Montfort releases Curveship, new interactive fiction framework — Python framework for world modeling with the ability to interactively change narrative style #

Match.com acquires OkCupid — seriously hoping Christian Rudder continues updating OkTrends; they deleted a critical post from last April #

Robert Sheckley's "The Prize of Peril" — 1958 short story that predated The Running Man and predicted reality TV (via) #

Everything is a Remix, Part 2 — worth it just for the wall of sequel title frames; I want that as a screensaver #

New York Observer on the "end of blogging" — more like evolution than an end; Clive Thompson nailed it, it's the rise of the long take #

Wired on a Toronto statistician who cracked a lottery ticket system — finding flaws in pseudo-random interactive games designed for print (via) #

NYMag feature on the changing landscape of online porn — "we're living in a grand age of micro-smut, a burgeoning empire of lemonade-stand porn" #

Final IPv4 blocks allocated — some context from Jonathan Zittrain #

Google engineers set up sting operation, discover Bing copying results — I can't decide if Bing's move is smart or just sad #

Readability launches as subscription service — gorgeous design; 70% of fees go to publisher you're reading #

Al Jazeera English streaming live on YouTube — without question, the best coverage of the Egypt uprising #

Canvas launches first public release — if you're waiting for an invite, Techcrunch posted screenshots #

Speak to Tweet — Google and SayNow's free service to tweet voice messages by phone from Egypt #

Keanu Reeves on the "Sad Keanu" meme — found on Know Your Meme's monthly review (via) #

10 Google Commandments — more at Commissioning (via) #

Axe Cop: The Movie — based on the brilliant webcomic written by a five-year-old boy #

Conductor — Alexander Chen turns the NYC subway system into an HTML5 string instrument #

Sarien.net gets Activision's official approval to simulate Sierra games — browser versions of each initial game in the series are fine; sequels and iPad port are not #

Al Jazeera's live stream of the Egypt protests — good context at Reddit and Metafilter, and Xeni has a great roundup; liveblogging at the NYT and Guardian #

Nate Silver on approval ratings and re-election odds — modeling a president's chances based on historical approval ratings #

Egypt government shuts down all Internet access — "an action unprecedented in Internet history" (via) #

Traps (via) #

Making a BoingBoing API with FluidDB in an evening — dumping 64,000 posts into their public shared database; read ntoll's intro to FluidDB #

BBC Radio's Secret History of Social Networking — the first episode covers BBSes and the first web-based social networks (via) #

Zero Punctuation on Minecraft — it hit one million copies sold two weeks ago #

Live-action LittleBigPlanet adventure in one take — love the a cappella music and effects (via) #

Ivan Guerrero premakes Pixar's "Up" as a 1960s film — he also made a shot-by-shot breakdown (via) #

Print Stuff — Guido Tamino wants the world to send things to his inkjet printer (via) #

Kevin Smith's screening experiment for Red State — skipping all existing middlemen to show his film city-by-city at $70 a ticket #

White House's interactive State of the Union 2011 — the speech is basically a geek call-to-arms #

Boing Boing releases complete dump of every post — time for me to update my Boing Boing stats #

Cathode, vintage terminal emulator for OS X — looks great in full screen #

Wolfenstein 1-D — the legendary FPS converted to a single-pixel line #

MIT researchers demonstrate 15 fps holographic display with Kinect — one guess what film they referenced for their tests #

Foursquare's 2010 activity visualized — useless fact: 224 Wendys checked in at a Wendy's last year, but only one's a mayor #

Nancy Duarte visualizes MLK's I Have A Dream speech — categorizing each phrase by present vs. future tense and subject matter on a timeline (via) #

Security guard's photos from the Back to the Future set — posted in 2007, but somehow, I've never seen these before today (via) #

They Were There — a 30-minute short film about IBM by Errol Morris with music by Philip Glass (via) #

The Dow Piano — a bit more upbeat: Music of Currency Exchange Rates (via) #

CNN sportswriter tracks down his online haters — this sounds like a reality show waiting to happen (via) #

ScentScape to add smells to games and videos — revenge of the Digiscent iSmell; finally, we'll be able to smell 4chan (via) #

Infocom acquires Movable Type and the Six Apart brand — no, not that Infocom #