Chinese employees get creative with holiday work schedules — interesting that in the Inception version, holidays are reality and work is the dream state #

White Knuckles by OK Go — from the director of "Here It Goes Again" (via) #

First homebrew game and emulator released for the PS3 — every time a new Sony DRM scheme is cracked, an angel gets its wings #

The Visual 6502 — impressive Javascript emulator visualizes chip operations at a transistor level (via) #

Misspelled Food — from 4chan, naturally #

Looxcie, always-on POV video recorder — the personal panopticon is coming #

Austin Seraphin's first week on the iPhone — a blind user's emotional response to Apple; also, he switched from Linux to Mac last week #

Steven Frank compiles Newton emulator for the iPad — What is Newton? #

Jim Henson making Muppets in 1969 — 15 minutes of raw creativity, along with the great Don Sahlin #

Derek Yu's guide to finishing a game — several apply to non-game development, too (via) #

Rock, Paper, Shotgun reviews Minecraft, indie sleeper hit of the year — they're making $70k/day; don't miss the creator's essay on how piracy works #

Steven Colbert/Jon Stewart announce dual rallies in DC, October 30 — the flipside; directly inspired by Reddit's campaign #

Ico and Shadow of the Colossus remastered in HD for PS3 in 2011 — two of my favorite games ever #

Increpare's Cascode — figure out the rules to win the game #

Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival poster — every performer's depicted as a generic corporate logo #

The Reverse Geocache Puzzle Box — a locked box that can only be opened in a specific location; watch the video interview (via) #

Alex Payne on the new Twitter — he internally argued, unsuccessfully, for decentralization #

Diaspora releases first source code — by the end of summer, as promised in their original project; power geeks, try it here #

SF Chronicle goes inside the French Laundry kitchen — the writer is a trained chef who's worked at Gramercy Tavern and Jean Gorges (via) #

Frank Chimero imagines the Atlantis World's Fair in 1962 — from Lost World's Fairs, experiments in type on the web (via) #

Stamen on their Twitter visualization for the MTV VMAs — this year, they were featured in the main show #

Hyperbole and a Half's The Party — related: an interview with Allie Brosh #

10k Apart contest winners announced — impressive design in Matchuppps, with CSS3 animations, Typekit fonts, and images from the Dribbble API (via) #

The Live Shifter, a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure on Twitter — don't miss the author's explanation on how it was planned and written #

Justin Watt's guide to blogging from the middle of the ocean — he's taking a container ship from Philly to New Zealand #

jsTerm — ANSI-capable HTML5 telnet terminal emulator by Peter Nitsch #

Twitter announces new design — inline images and video from 16 partners, including Kickstarter; they released a growth chart #

Excerpt of Ian Bogost's book on games as journalism — many more newsgame examples in his Watercooler Games archive #

BERG's light painting with the iPad — cross-sections of 3D models shot with long exposures #

SiftLinks, turn links on Twitter into an RSS feed — for you geezers still using a "feed reader" on a "computer" #

Everything is a Remix, Part 1 — new four-part series on remix culture by Kirby Ferguson #

Musopen raises $45k to set classical music recordings free — they're raising money to hire an orchestra to record public domain symphonies #

Burnbit — free service creates a torrent from any web-accessible file #

New Yorker's long, personal profile of Mark Zuckerberg — by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas (via) #

Digital Comic Museum — growing archive of Golden Age comics with expired copyright status #

Guardian on Nokia's failure to support Dopplr — a familiar post-acquisition story; they stated they "will not develop it further at this stage." #

YouTube Time Machine — with a lovely design by Kickstarter's own Andrew Cornett #

Graph Your Inbox — clean Chrome extension adds stats to Gmail #

Marco Arment's list of common words in 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews — awesomem worth the price vs. crashing useless waste of money (via) #

FFFFUUU statue — aka Rage Guy; please make this 3D rendering real #

xkcd on password reuse and evil plans — "it'll be hilarious the first few times this happens" #

Rob O'Hare's playable review of GET LAMP — interactive fiction reviewing an interactive documentary about interactive fiction (via) #

Anil Dash on the cultural implications of forking — and Sippey forked his article (via) #

YouTube Instant — Stanford student's great take on Google Instant lands him a job offer from Chad Hurley #

Bloglines to shut down on October 1 — replaced by Google Reader, and made moot by Twitter and Facebook #

Pixar's Up gets BLAM'd — cutting parody of Disney's awful remixing of classic cartoons #

Inside the Soviet arcade museum — great little trip report; reminds me of the North Korean arcade #

James Bridle's 12-volume set of edits to the Wikipedia Iraq War page — 12,000 changes spanning nearly 7,000 pages #

Monstrous Discrepancies — a comic by Winston Rowntree #

The Room: The Game — based on the truly horrible film #