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 #

junkboy's collection of game demake mockups — modern games turned retro; look at the filenames if you need hints (via) #

Auto-Tune the News' Bed Intruder Song — here's the original newscast-turned-meme, in case you missed it #

Craig Mod's incredible postmortem of raising money with Kickstarter — gorgeously designed article with plenty of solid data #

GET LAMP, the text adventure documentary, is done — five years in the making with incredible attention to detail; you can order the DVDs here #

FC64 Commodore 64 emulator in Javascript — a bit CPU-intensive, but it works! #

10k Apart — build a web app in less than 10k, though you can use jQuery/Prototype and Typekit #

TorrentFreak on the BitTorrent releasers vs. the Scene — insidery article covering an interesting shift in online movie releasing #

Google Alarm Firefox add-on — audio alerts when your personal info's sent to Google servers #

Bradley and Bethany — Dan Wineman's App Store review fanfic #

Michael Jackson's estate demands Popcap change Dancing Zombie character — they're retroactively changing him in all versions of the game #

Paul Graham on the acceleration of addictiveness — the iPhone and iPad is the Internet's equivalent of a hip flask #

GameStop buys Kongregate — this seems like a bad fit; has a retail chain ever acquired an online community? (via) #

Ron Livingston does Keyboard Cat — previously: Keyboard Kato (via) #

Andrew Plotkin reviews The Ultimate Alphabet for the iPad — based on Mike Wilks' insane picture book from 1986; here's the gameplay #

EFF wins DMCA exemptions for bypassing DRM, phone jailbreaking/unlocking — Ars Technica breaks down the changes #

8-bit color cycling with HTML 5 — how it works #

Guardian UK's report on the Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs — they call it the "biggest leak in intelligence history"; more from the NYT #

The No Twinkie Database — anti-patterns for game design #

Aza Raskin on Tab Candy, experimental tab management for Firefox — not an extension, the download is a Firefox build #

The Chipophone — 8-bit synth in an electronic organ, don't miss the video (via) #

Philipp Lenssen's book on Graphic Adventure games — culled from Wikipedia entries, edited, and fleshed out with original interviews #

Cow Clicker — Ian Bogost's Facebook game about Facebook games #

Sledgehammer and Whore — a screenwriter deals with a very unusual break-in at his office, and how he might pitch it as a show (via) #

Adam Lisagor on Flipboard — free iPad app creates a personalized magazine of your friends' FB/Twitter links #

4chan trying to take down Gawker — in response to their critical Jessi Slaughter posts and a post yesterday taunting them #

Top Secret America — Washington Post's two-year investigation into federal use of private contractors after 9/11 #

Xbox 360 developer recounts the history of their achievements system — how it was developed and how they work (via) #

Apple donates MacPaint/QuickDraw source to Computer History Museum — see Folklore.org's evolution of MacPaint and the long, great oral history #

GQ's rare interview with Bill Murray — Sofia Coppola tells the story of trying to track him down for Lost in Translation #

You've Either Shipped or You Haven't — from Tom Taylor, who ships; journalist Bobbie Johnson's response and Tom's followup #

Hacked Sonic the Hedgehog gains weight as he consumes fried rings — as he grows, he eventually becomes completely immobile #

Rigid-Body Fracture Sound — rendering sound effects from physics simulations, from this year's SIGGRAPH #

Aaron Cohen tests the "I Write Like" authors — F. Scott Fitzgerald writes like H.P. Lovecraft, who writes like Edgar Allen Poe #