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 #

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 #