Shaun Inman scratches an 8-bit itch — his Nintendo sound file player is now available on the App Store #

Hidden — awesome app for tracking lost or stolen Macs, free until January #

Jaron Lanier on Wikileaks — I haven't been a fan of his grumpy essays lately, but this was a thoughtful counterpoint #

Good One — a supercut of laughter in the movies (via) #

Jennifer 8. Lee on raw data, APIs, and the growth of "Little Brother" — part of Nieman Labs' predictions for journalism in 2011 #

Gawker CTO's memo to employees about the Gnosis hack — painful to read; short version: if you taunt 4chan, prepare for the worst #

Google Books Ngram Viewer — some good examples, like charting the presidents #

Researching the rise of spam on Mechanical Turk — you'd think Amazon would use MTurk to identify and remove spammy tasks (via) #

Last.fm's Best of 2010 — they also released all the aggregate data for you to play with #

Word Lens, augmented reality translation for the iPhone — don't miss the jaw-dropping demo, text recognition and in-place replacement in real-time #

Yahoo! to close or merge Delicious, Upcoming, Fire Eagle, more — I'll write more about this soon, I think #

Flipboard adds support for Google Reader, Flickr — great update to an already great app #

Favimom, a Javascript RPG played with favicons — "kottke.org used Blogospheric Pressure! boingboing.net took 3 damage" #

We're Not in Kansas Anymore — added to the supercuts list #

Glenn Greenwald on Bradley Manning's inhumane treatment in detention — seven months in solitary (via) #

DanKam, an augmented-reality iPhone app for the colorblind — I'm red/green colorblind, and it works shockingly well #

Fuck Yeah, Tumblr — inspired by my link, topherchris annexed the name and made a best-of-Tumblr tumblelog #

NYT on the Homeland Security seizures of music blog domains — the DHS ordered Verisign to switch nameservers, which makes all .com domains vulnerable; related: F.A.T.'s Seizure Solidarity #

Twitter's 2010 Year in Review  #

Flowing Data's 10 Best Visualizations of 2010  #

Gen I.'s Filmography 2010 — stunning mashup of 270 films released this year (via) #

Visualizing Facebook — intern creates a gorgeous map of connections (via) #

So You Want to Be A Journalist… — related: the WSJ interviewed the CEO of Xtranormal today (via) #

60 Best Tumblr Blogs of 2010 — I need a tumblelog of great new tumblelogs; too bad the obvious name is taken #

very small array's Top 100 Movies by Location — both real and imaginary #

TorrentFreak's snapshot of the public BitTorrent universe — about 30M unique people trading 12,000 TB of unique files, 76% of it video #

IBM's Watson to challenge Jeopardy champions in February — bonus points if it cracks jokes #

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 #

in a cab  #

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 #