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 #

Tracking streaming vs. rental availability for 2010's box office hits — only four of last year's top 50 are streaming on Netflix, but 25 films for rental on iTunes #

Horoscoped — meta-horoscope derived from 22,000 scraped horoscopes #

Dan Provost's postmortem on making the Glif — all the tools used for two guys to take a physical product from idea to mass market in five months #

Cowclickification — Ian Bogost takes his parody of Facebook Games to the next logical level #

Evan Roth's Mashed Up Mashup — mashing up Girl Talk with Girl Talk (via) #

Starborn — a five-minute interactive story; type the capitalized words to play (via) #

Big Picture creator Alan Taylor moves to The Atlantic — I interviewed Alan the month it launched; it now gets 8M pageviews monthly #

Aled Lewis' Make Something Cool Every Day — my favorite: Haters Gonna Hate-Bit (via) #

Das Racist's Who's That? Brooown! — playable ode to 8-bit and EGA-era gaming #

Plastic.com to shut down one month after 10 year anniversary — get nostalgic with the 2001 press release; I love the Kurt Andersen quote (via) #

ProPublica's guide to scraping data — using free tools to get structured data out of messy HTML, PDFs and Flash (via) #

Music for Shuffle Mode — he hid the transition glitches by incorporating them into every track (via) #

Pong, Breakout, Pac-Man, and pinball played with living paramecium — the full videos go deeper, with several more games #

"Still Alive" in Minecraft — note blocks are new in beta 1.2 (via) #

Clay Shirky celebrates 10 years of Wikipedia — it has its faults, but it's still a collective wonder #

Gizmodo on one MMO's attempt at crowdsourced justice — self-managing communities are difficult to design; I hope they pull it off #

Grand Theft Auto Frictionless — setting the wheel friction to a negative number wreaks havoc with physics (via) #

Death Wears A Snuggie — first-person account of manning a Wyoming nuclear missile silo (via) #

Jeopardy practice match with IBM's Watson supercomputer — with Watson's answer certainty displayed in real-time #

Gabriela Herman's Blogger Portraits — reminds me of Phillip Toledano's portraits of gamers and phone sex workers #

bieber.ly — update: cease and desisted already! (via) #

Every Line of Dialogue in The Lost Boys is "Michael" — all 114 of them; added to the list (via) #

Google Translate for Android adds real-time conversation mode — the Babel fish is near #

Nominees for Reddit's Best of 2010 Awards — an amazing community, the comment nominees are brilliant #

reblololo's Studies 1 — also, Mona removed #

A Day in the Future — everything is amazing #

What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for? — or: how technology can make even 22-year-olds feel old #

A gadget's life — interactive graphic tracks the lifecycle of popular tech adjusted for inflation (via) #

Google Chrome to drop support for H.264 video — kind of baffling, considering Flash is built into their browser #

Why Twitter challenged the secret Wikileaks subpoenas — as Wired said, "Twitter beta-tested a spine" (via) #