Jonathan Koshi's Mexican sugar skulls — Pac-Man, Spy vs. Spy, Cthulhu, Lego, and more #

Glitch launches new website and trailer — ten kinds of madness; don't miss the faces of the giants #

NYT on teen distraction by social media — end of civilization, news at 11 #

Vanity Fair profiles a hotel detective's quest to find a serial rapist — tools: a telephone, video footage, Google, linked DNA databases, and obsession #

Nate Silver on the hidden costs of increased airport security — people may claim to feel safer, but it creates a culture of fear that impacts willingness to fly #

From Robocop, With Love — Peter Weller sends a photo to Detroit's newest crime fighter #

20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web — gorgeous HTML5 book by Google and Christoph Niemann #

Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving — another gem from Hyperbole and a Half #

'T' Shirts  #

Real-time samples from Girl Talk's All Day — using data culled by Wikipedia users (via) #

Minecraft CPU map released — the first programmable CPU with embedded livestock #

The Theory of Hipster Relativity — or are they dilettantes? NY Mag published a great postmortem by n+1 #

Jimmy Fallon (as Neil Young) and Bruce Springsteen cover "Whip My Hair" — taking on Willow Smith's unavoidable hit (via) #

9eyes, a tumblelog of Google Street View photography — I linked to Jon Rafman's work last year, but he's been busy #

The World's Biggest Harry Potter Fan — levitating the camera was a nice touch #

Results of Wikipedia's fundraiser A/B banner testing — a personal photo and appeal was far more effective than alternatives #

IFComp 2010 results released — play the winner online #

Google Refine — awesome open-source desktop app for cleaning and filtering big datasets (via) #

PokerStars investigates a human that plays poker like a machine — a detailed Turing test including in-person observation (via) #

Facebook announces email support, social inbox — real-time, less structured, and much more social #

Girl Talk releases All Day — questionably licensed under Creative Commons; sample list, and mirrors at Sendspace and Mediafire #

"You Look Like Shit" — added to the supercuts list (via) #

Roundup of open-source Kinect hacks — my personal favorite, so far #

NYT's You Fix the Budget — clever work from the NYT's interactive team #

If We Don't, Remember Me. — Tumblelog of subtle animated GIFs from film #

GIFSoup — created animated GIFs from YouTube videos #

TextCaptcha Breaker — how it works (via) #

#mathowielove — archive of the tweets from Matt Haughey's brain tumor scare #

Mob — Tom Scott's dystopic scenario of a meme gone awry #

Andy Rehfeldt's metal rickroll — love the solo at 1:45; I'm also a fan of The Grand Following's instrumental hard rock cover #

First programmable 8-bit CPU built in Minecraft — input binary machine code, output to a line of redstone torches (via) #

3fram.es — Aaron Meyers' project lets you make three-frame animated GIFs with your webcam (via) #

Cory Doctorow on the cosmopolitan fanboy — what Rule 34, foodies, and the Amish have in common #

Kutiman's Blog Party — he's been publishing new mashups weekly, an informal followup to Thru-You #

Cindy Royal on Wired's cover treatment of women — Wired editor Chris Anderson responds in the comments (via) #

"What The Old Timers Used To Call Cabin Fever" — illustration of Jack's clothing changes in The Shining (via) #

Open Kinect drivers released, wins $3k bounty — plus, an additional $2k for the EFF; Microsoft won't be happy #

PRESENTCAT (via) #

Playable Zork easter egg in Call of Duty: Black Ops — the developers also included an ELIZA clone named "alicia" #

danah boyd on teens' unorthodox use of Facebook — deactivating accounts or deleting every posting regularly, persistence isn't vital for participation #

textCAPTCHA — 180 million simple logic questions, an accessible alternative to image CAPTCHAs #

AviGlitch — a Ruby library to destroy video files in interesting ways #

Universal Subtitles — brilliantly done subtitling platform built on open standards #

node-canvas — server-side implementation of canvas for node.js #

Beautiful Modeler — multitouch gestural 3D sculpting with the iPad (via) #

Gameboy Emulation in Javascript — eight-part series on JS emulation #

Testing the myth of the 12-year-old McDonald's burger — in short, even homemade burgers will dry out and retain its appearance #

Mad Men meets Nat King Cole — clever mashup, performed live with no cuts (via) #

TorrentFreak rounds up record-breaking BitTorrent files — the biggest, oldest, most seeded, most files, and most data transferred (via) #

Wired's behind the scenes profile of Phineas and Ferb — a geeky, anti-snark hit cartoon show that breaks cliches #