The Real Life Social Network — great presentation on social network design by Paul Adams, a senior UX researcher at Google #

Midwest Mom Mistakes Neil Gaiman for Neil Patrick Harris — yet another reason to love Neil #

Bing, amazing Groundhog Day mashup — inspired by Pogo and Jack Conte's VideoSongs #

Pogo's Wishery — my favorite since Alice, and his first Disney mix since his year-long contract ended #

John Hodgman solves violent videogames — with help from Ira Glass in a motion capture bodysuit (via) #

How Twitter was used by media orgs on election day — it's become a vital visualization tool #

Your Fucking Polling Location — also: What the Fuck Has Obama Done So Far? #

Automatypewriter — Arduino typewriter that plays interactive fiction games (via) #

TweeQL — a SQL-like interface for Twitter #

Geocachers celebrate the ten year anniversary of New Hampshire's first cache — Paul Lamere didn't intend to make history #

MapCrunch — teleport to a random Street View location #

His Face All Red — a comic by Emily Carroll (via) #

Blekko goes live — power searching with slashtag filters #

Archive Team releases massive Geocities archive — at 641 gigs, officially the largest torrent on The Pirate Bay #

Dead Drops — USB drives cemented into NYC walls for anonymous, public filesharing #

Firesheep, simple session hijacking on public networks for Firefox — the ethics of making it easy for non-techies to spoof Twitter/Facebook/etc accounts is being hotly debated #

Reddit users list the most expensive mistake they've ever made — hard to beat the Google one, but plenty of great mechanical mishaps in the comments #

Corporate Climber — one of Pixeljam's best; I recommend taking the fiery door #

MuckRock — tool to browse, track, and facilitate FOIA requests #

Anil Dash on types of app stores — with some preliminary data on the size of each #

Comics artist Steve Lieber takes on 4chan comics sharers, everyone wins — check out the sales boost after being bootlegged #

Penny Arcade community recreates Bioshock's Rapture in Minecraft — quite possibly the most insane construction project I've seen so far #

Dalton Caldwell's lessons from the death of Imeem — great talk covers the challenges facing both music startups and a dying music industry #

Super Twario turns Twitter into a side-scrolling platformer — related: Littlecosm #

Get Home — also good: Thomas Was Alone #

Swivel founders interviewed about its closure — unfortunately, the infoviz platform had less than 10 paying customers #

Lying to My Kids — related: Michael Buffington's Scandalous Lies I've Told My Children #

Frank Chimero's How to Have An Idea — related: Olly Moss shares his process behind a poster design #

Gene Simmons threatens Anonymous — not surprisingly, his site's still inaccessible #

Coachelletta, tilt-shift video of Coachella 2010 — interview with the creator on how it was made (via) #

Echo Nest adds personalization APIs — the potential applications for this are huge #

Unfunny Things takes on The Oatmeal — in hindsight, this is unfair; I wish every SEO would quit their job and start making original content #

Tate Modern fills Turbine Hall with 100M porcelain sunflower seeds — hand-crafted by 1,600 Chinese artisans over two years #

Diminished Reality — German researchers demo real-time object removal from live video #

MovieReshape, manipulating body proportions in arbitrary video footage — incredible video demo from this year's SIGGRAPH Asia (via) #

99chan user claims to spend two years in prison for armed robbery, tells story — gripping read, but Metafilter users are calling this one a troll; lots of questionable details (via) #

Frames of Reference, physics instructional film from 1960 — don't miss the elaborate setup at 17:05 #

Infinite Blank, collaboratively-drawn 2D platformer for Mac/PC/Linux — reminds me of Minecraft multiplayer meets MS Paint #

Antoine Dodson performs Bed Intruder Song at the BET Hip-Hop Awards — his first live performance, with Michael Gregory on backup #

Adam Saltsman breaks down the mechanics of Canabalt — when the game starts, the character's running over 20 miles per hour in game scale #

New footage of Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future — all the scenes will be on the Blu-Ray rerelease of the trilogy #

OK Cupid crunches the numbers on the gay vs. straight divide — debunking stereotypes about both orientations, and confirming some others #

Minecraft Interstate — sped up 8x, it's a half-hour minecart trip in real-time #

Canvas Rider — HTML5 Line Rider with community-created levels #

Processing.A4 — Basil Safwat ports a Processing script to cardboard, pen, and paper #

Austin Seraphin goes starwatching with an iPhone — fascinating audio demonstrates what it's like to be blind and spotting constellations #

WonderTao — mashing up Alice in Wonderland and the Tao Te Ching with Markov chaining (via) #

Google develops cars that drive themselves — 1,000 miles autonomously, 140,000 miles with occasional human control #

Soylent, Microsoft Word add-on uses Mechanical Turk to crowdsource editing — ask turkers to change paragraphs to past tense or fix your grammar #

MongoDB lead's postmortem on Foursquare's extended downtime — they weren't monitoring and hit RAM limits, and Mongo's hard to recover from failures #