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 #

Journalism in the Age of Data — one-hour documentary featuring the all-stars of information visualization #

Anasomnia — reminds me of Nose Pilot (via) #

Norwegian Recycling's "Miracles" — impressive mashup seamlessly splices new verses out of 16 pop songs (via) #

Michael Heilemann's analysis of user behavior by blog — on a long article, Hacker News and Boing Boing readers stick around, Reddit users bail quickly #

Google Blacklist — terms that won't work on Google Instant (via) #

Jason Schwartzman introduces the New Yorker iPad app — lonelysandwich has some new competition #

Ron Gilbert joins Double Fine — he's working with Tim Schafer on a secret new game #

Portal mod for Minecraft — chocolate and peanut butter #

MSN Spaces closing down — better than most, they're offering six months' notice with Wordpress migration and URL redirects #

ThinkUp beta released — wonderful DIY Twitter/Facebook archiving, visualization, and analysis tool #

Kanye Jordan — Tom Armitage turns a funny tweet into a Twitter bot #

Tilt-Shift Van Gogh — applying photographic effects to paintings (via) #

MakerBot announces the Thing-O-Matic 3D printer — supports a print queue, clearing the build surface between prints; $1,225, cheap! #

Google Pizza — Gimme Pizza! #

Anil Dash on the launch of Gourmet Live — the secret A-list team included Paul Ford, Andre Torrez, Garrett Murray, and Liz Spiers #

Maker Faire New York starts this weekend — on the site of the 1964 World's Fair! #

Mojo — easy way to add simple achievements/points to any website (via) #

What happens if you put your hand in front of the LHC beam? — they're not sure, but it seems like a bad idea (via) #

Gourmet Magazine relaunched as an iPad app — the rewards are interesting; first magazine to give you achievements for reading? #

Evercookie, proof-of-concept undeletable tracking cookie — Ars interviewed the creator, whose name might sound familiar (via) #

Recreating Shazam in Java — very readable, visual explanation of an audio recognition algorithm #

M.I.A.'s Story to Be Told — CAPTCHA and vintage net.art as music video, created by dump.fm (via) #

Aaron Meyers maps the moon's topography to frames of a Paul Robertson animated GIF — with suitably insane results; the original GIF, a detail view, and the entire thing animated #

Mena's farewell to Six Apart — thanks for everything #

Last.fm plots listening preferences by gender and age — Cali Lewis is the only charting female that mostly men like #

12×5 pixel LED display built in Minecraft — by the way, the official site's back up today and the game for sale #

VideoEgg to acquire Six Apart, rename to Say Media — end of an era #