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 #

How the Glif iPhone stand went from bits to atoms — free CAD software, short-run 3D printing and injection-moulding, and Kickstarter to fund it all #

Dinner Date — upcoming game about being stood up for a date (via) #

Disney's California Adventures to open Flynn's Arcade recreation — with classic arcade games and custom-minted tokens #

Hollerado's "Americanarama," human 8-bit music video — love the bass tablature at the 1:40 mark and Guitar Hero at 2:30 (via) #

Reddit users note tacky BP America sponsored posts on Digg — the article seems to be gone from Digg #

Mirrored Las Vegas hotel turns into parabolic solar cooker — Wired's Rhett Allain runs the numbers; make your own! #

Software Evolution Storylines — a new visualization from the creator of code_swarm (via) #

Textagon — another fun Adam Mathes project #

Mr. Doob ports a classic IE6 effect in HTML5 — lulz (via) #

Uffie's "Difficult" — very similar to Gondry's Kylie Minogue and Chemical Brothers videos #

.ly registrar pulls Violet Blue's domain for offensive content — and they're now saying domains under 4 characters are for Libyans only #

0boxer — Chrome/Safari extensions add simple game mechanics to Gmail (via) #

xkcd's updated Map of Online Communities — view it large #

Peter Freitag's Private Stages — the opposite of bubbling? #

Father and son send weather balloon to space, record results — best dad ever #

Adam Rogers on what Batman taught him about parenthood — "Bwana Beast did not die in vain." #

River of the Net — stream of ten-second videos uploaded by users, by Ryan Trecartin and David Karp (via) #

St. Petersburg Times' wonderful obit, written in response to anonymous online troll — touching article about a 48-year-old dishwasher's life #

Visualizing.org — GE and Seed Media's new infoviz site, including a db of data sources #

NYT on the cause of the DJIA "Flash Crash" in May — unintended effects triggered by a Kansas firm's automated $4.1 billion sale #

Games for Change Festival posts talk videos — day two is over here (via) #

Notch announces major Minecraft update for Halloween — new monsters, craft a watch and jack-o-lanterns, catch fish, biomes, and more #

You're Stealing It Wrong: 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles — Jason Scott drops some computer history knowledge at Defcon #

Jonathan McIntosh's Right Wing Radio Duck — exceptional remix mashes up classic Disney cartoons with Glenn Beck audio into a coherent narrative #

Seaquence — experimental music sequencer in a Petri dish (via) #

Marc Hedlund on why Wesabe lost to Mint — learning from a startup failure #

The Case of the "Audiosonic Identiglyph" — Adam Kempa needs help decrypting encoded audio on vinyl #

8 Bit Wood — lovely pixel art sculpture, coming soon to Etsy #

Cyberpunk Style Guide — framegrabs from Hackers, just in time for the 15th anniversary party #

Asteroids Bookmarklet — destroy any webpage #

Wired on the rise of ThinkGeek — don't miss the linked Tommy O'Riley cover #

AOL acquires TechCrunch — for a rumored $40M #