Humble Indie Bundle #2 is live — pay-what-you-like for five of the best indie games ever, DRM-free for Mac/PC/Linux #

Brief Analysis of the Gawker Password Dump — they cracked 190k hashed passwords in under an hour; 99% were alphanumeric #

4chan Declares War On Snow — "Operation: Frozen Vengeance" #

Gawker hacked, source code and 1.5M user passwords released — some were encrypted but easy to brute-force, so change your passwords! also: the torrent, the readme, and an interview with the group #

Eskmo's "We Got More" — more genius by Cyriak (via) #

Sour's "Mirror," personalized music video — I highly recommend letting it access your Twitter/Facebook accounts #

Portal Done Pro — ridiculous 15-minute speedrun; the audio commentary explains every glitch (via) #

Better Names (for Baby) — some great suggestions, from Astroyd to Zob #

Mashup Breakdown's annotated Night at the Hip-Hopera — for my money, still the best mashup album ever made (via) #

Mining of Massive Datasets (PDF) — free, great textbook from a Stanford CS course #

Intellectual Ventures sues McAfee, Symantec, others for patent infringement — invention extortion #

One Chance — related: You Only Live Once #

Doodling in Math Class — by "recreational mathemusician" Vi Hart #

The Twitter Hulks — "HULK REALIZE HULK SEE LOTS OF OTTO PERMINGER IN SCORSESE." #

All Of Billy Joel's Greatest Hits Played At Once — courtesy of WonderTonic, which is down in the great Tumblr downtime of 2010 #

Inception in Real-Time — compressed into four minutes (via) #

Michael Jackson DS game bleats vuvuzelas when pirated — Wikipedia lists more amusing copy-protection schemes #

Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior — great companion to the Pac-Man Dossier #

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Satromizer OS — glitch art for the iPad, coming soon; see also: Satromizer for iPhone (via) #

Agent 008 Ball, HTML5 game using Canvas and Audio — more about the design process; related: Ben the Bodyguard #

Ask Reddit on culturally untranslatable phrases — don't comb your hair, you're not going to be in the picture #

Torrentfreak on Tubeify, a YouTube music player — brilliant hack built on Last.fm and Billboard data; I got my invite within an hour of applying #

My Holiday Party — designer Everett Hiller has fun with his holiday party photos (via) #

First-person remote-control helicopter tour of NYC — apparently legal under 400 feet for non-commercial use (via) #

Long Felix Salmon essay on the history and future of Gawker — serious inside baseball; Nick Denton explains the redesign, Anil says they're still blogs, play with it here #

Shop Vac — incredible fan-made kinetic typography for a Jonathan Coulton song #

Why is Scrooge McDuck in Germany named after a 7th-century Frankish king? — a Wikipedia deep dive #

Google tweaks algorithm in response to NYT DecorMyEyes story — negative user reviews now affect results #

Fast Company profiles Boing Boing — time to release another data dump so I can update my stats #

BitTorrent-based DNS to counter P2P domain seizures — creating a .p2p TLD, with free domains administered by OpenNIC #

Behind-the-scenes profile of recording Kanye West's new album — an alternate world in a Hawaiian recording studio (via) #

Deconstructing Gimme Shelter — or play all five at once for a chaotic remix #

Indie Game: The Movie team talks to Derek Yu about Spelunky — with the first video of the XBLA version #

Bygone Bureau's Best New Blogs of 2010 — great picks from Robin Sloan, Brandon Boyer, and more #

Ken Jennings' list of fake Walt Disneys — the diabolical dreamer archetype #

NYT covers an eyeglass retailer antagonizing customers for SEO — it would've been nice if they'd used rel="nofollow" on links to his site; update: they removed the links #

1993 NPR show on the future of the Internet — early live streaming experiment featuring Carl Malamud and Brewster Kahle (via) #

FoxTrot's Bill Amend guest-draws xkcd — "an inspiration to all us nerdy-physics-majors-turned-cartoonists" #

Hurt Locker creators sue lawyer who helped downloaders — they're trying to stop a lawyer who sold self-help forms for $10 each #

Erin McKean on "but-heads" — no offense, but I honestly hate to tell you this (via) #

Metafilter on the exposed identity of a fake sex blogger — "Alexa" referred sex workers to sleep with the man behind the blog #

Give Me Something To Read's Best of 2010 — great long-form essays culled from Instapaper users #

Mashup Breakdown — a better Girl Talk visualizer with three sources of sample metadata #

Nicolas Cage Losing His Shit — added to the supercuts list (via) #

Pixar's It Gets Better — have tissues ready #

CandyBar for the Atari 2600 found — Panic's retro Atari covers inspired an actual Atari 2600 game #

Boilerpipe — boilerplate text removal and fulltext extraction, open source or as a free API #

How 7,000 Twitter users balanced the budget — NYT crunches the results from their interactive budget puzzle #

flight404's real-time body distortion with Kinect — built with Cinder, a new framework for creative coding (via) #