Auralization of sorting algorithms — the heap sort sounds like a 1960s sci-fi sound effect (via) #

Desperate Pandora employees struggle to find song area man likes — "At this point, I think he's just fucking with us." #

Kindergarten enrollment dates affect ADHD diagnosis rates — children born just after the cutoff date are 25% less likely to be diagnosed as those born just before (via) #

Hallowed Ground — photos of stuff the same distance from the WTC as the "Ground Zero Mosque" (via) #

Journalism Warning Labels (via) #

Paul Robertson's sprites for the Scott Pilgrim game — you really need to zoom in to appreciate the detail #

Unsuck It — translate obnoxious business jargon back to non-douchey English #

Paul Graham on the long decline of Yahoo — the Flickr acquisition had a halo effect too, but it was ultimately short-lived #

Project Springfield, 3D pixel art construction of Springfield — watch him build Springfield Elementary in the Kickstarter project video #

Everynone's "Words" — a collaboration with Radiolab (via) #

Documentary episode on the making of Future Crew's Second Reality — with home video and interviews with the team; from a new documentary about the demoscene (via) #

Five Philippines inmates escape while guard plays Plants vs. Zombies — I like to think they danced their way out (via) #

Numen Camera for the iPhone — incredibly useful application recreates any photo using tiny, naked pixel men (via) #

TechCrunch's postmortem on the Jenny "dry erase" quitting hoax — their publicist advised them to specifically target TechCrunch #

EFF's analysis of the Verizon/Google net neutrality proposal — a sound legal analysis without the handwringing #

Henry Jenkins on Inception — gamers are better equipped to understand the narrative structure than most #

The Ballad of Steven Slater — performed by Josh "Cortex" Millard, with lyrics from a Metafilter comment (via) #

Man Lives In Futuristic Sci-Fi World Where All His Interactions Take Place In Cyberspace — "until the day our world catches up with his, Royce will be out there on the virtual nexus, searching." #

Scott Pilgrim trailer recreated with scenes from the graphic novels — also for superfans only, the interactive trailer (via) #

Weeplaces, visualize your Foursquare checkins — though it makes your checkin history public by default, you can change it with the lock icon #

Trojan image reproduces itself on 4chan with user assistance — clever mix of social engineering and Windows exploit #

Yakuza 3 game fact-checked by actual Japanese yakuza — also, I love the design for these Boing Boing features (via) #

The Incident released for iPhone and iPad — I've been beta-testing it for months, pixel art by Neven Mrgan and chiptunes by Cabel Sasser (via) #

Chris Poole's testimony in the Sarah Palin hacking case — he was asked to explain rickrolling, newfags, and /b/tards to government prosecutors (via) #

OK Cupid on the impact of camera settings on attractiveness — more data porn, including evidence that iPhone users have more sex #

Blackstar Warrior, blaxploitation Star Wars trailer — found on Devour, Uncrate's iPad-friendly best-of-YouTube blog #

All Rubik's Cube positions can be solved in 20 moves — proven with the help of 35 CPU-years donated by Google #

Monotoning Music with Echonest Remix — related: The Swing Thing #

Chill Space — net art by Daniel Leyva (via) #

Kyle Pulver's Depict1 ported to Flash — like Portal, an unreliable narrator #

The Making of a 1k Javascript demo effect — more at the JS1k contest #

CaptchArt — 4chan makes art from found CAPTCHAs (via) #

Maslow's Hierarchy of Robot Needs (via) #

David Friedman finds a 1910 NYT article written about him — what will be of interest to future historians? you never know, so just keep everything #

How Jami Attenberg got her stolen bike back in Brooklyn — with help from Craigslist and the Brooklyn PD #

Chad Dickerson on scaling startups — specifically, how to scale an engineering-driven culture #

Massive censorship of Digg uncovered — a conservative group's been effectively manipulating Digg stories for over a year #

GearBox, robotic ball controlled with an iPhone — like Marble Madness in real-life #

NPR on Antoine Dodson and the Bed Intruder Meme — interviews with Kenyatta and Baratunde, and links to Antoine's new blog, Twitter, and YouTube channel #

Fata Morgana — Google maps without the map, by Damon Zucconi (via) #

Osmos released for iPhone — at $3, this is a steal; one of the best PC games released last year #

Google stops Wave development — worth re-reading: Anil Dash on the Web way vs. the Wave way #

Microsoft Street Slide — multi-perspective street panoramas from street view imagery (via) #

Racer, a physical racing arcade game — remote-control car in a cardboard track streaming to a sit-down arcade game (via) #

Achievement Unlocked 2 — like the original, but even more stupidly addictive #

Chris Hecker's "Achievements Considered Harmful?" talk at GDC — in short, he argues achievements only work well for motivating dull tasks #

Rdio opens to the public — like Spotify for the US, highly recommended #

Cyriak's Cycles — more insanity (via) #

Halo for the Atari 2600 — here's the creator's backstory and the ROM (via) #

The Birds and the Beedrills — geek rap uses all 151 original Pokemon names as sexual innuendo; the lyrics #