Google acquires Metaweb — very happy they won't be shutting down Freebase (via) #

OK Cupid crunches the numbers on the biggest lies in online dating — for example, hotter photos were much more likely to be outdated according to EXIF tags (via) #

Drew Blas' analysis of GPL'ed code in Thesis — he found several blocks of Wordpress code #

Trailer for The Social Network released — but will it be better than The First $20 Million? #

Matt Mullenweg and WordPress theme developer argue GPL licensing — the debate about the GPL and derivative works may finally go to court #

The Revolving Internet (via) #

Old Spice Guy's video responses to individual tweets — brilliant marketing campaign; in a meta moment, the actor responds to himself (via) #

Yiying Lu's repositionable wall graphics — the Twitter Fail Whale was originally an elephant #

The Men Who Stare at Screens — going to the gym might not help long stretches of inactivity #

I Write Like — Dan Brown!? I'll take comfort in knowing Shakespeare writes like butt (via) #

Massachusetts newspaper to charge fee to comment — and no anonymity, they'll post with the name on their credit card (via) #

BLU's Big Bang Big Boom — months in the making, their new wall-painted animation is a brief history of the world #

pOnd — a five-minute zen game that takes an unexpected turn, or two (via) #

SuperMe — multiplayer game about resilience and positive thinking (via) #

Man Enough — I think I'm just a sucker for games with vocals by the developers #

Twirdie — golf game played by guessing the popularity of Twitter searches #

Ask Metafilter takes on men's bathroom etiquette — increasingly hilarious thread, everyone thinks their method's "right"; over or through the flap, sit or stand to wipe, fold or crumple #

Harvey Pekar, dead at 70 — illustrated by comic greats, American Splendor published for over 30 years #

Google's App Inventor for Android — Scratch-like programming for non-programmers #

Blizzard backs down on real names in their forums — Randy outlined some of the issues with losing anonymity #

Slate on the competitive eating industry — Kobayashi couldn't compete this year because he wouldn't sign an exclusivity contract #

Multiuser Sketchpad — how it was made, built with node.js and WebSockets #

Epic Win, to-do list game for the iPhone — by the visual designer behind Little Big Planet (via) #

Ask Metafilter on things you realized you were doing wrong — related: This American Life's A Little Bit of Knowledge (via) #

Super Mario Bros. speedrun visualized as one long projection — composited into a long tracking shot of a wall, incredibly well done (via) #

Auto-Tune the News' Double Rainbow Song — they all join in at the end #

Starcraft/World of Warcraft official forums to display real names — Blizzard's lifting anonymity to try to stem abusive behavior #

Andy Weir's "The Egg" — related: Greg Knauss's The Damnation of Richard Gillman #

Jim Rossignol's This Gaming Life now available online for free — highly recommended reading; you can still buy the book at Amazon (via) #

Optical Illusion Illusions — Reddit user photoshops the illusions into popular optical illusions #

Higgs particle simulated as sound — I fully expect these to be sampled on the next Frontalot album #

Film the Blanks — ongoing project to abstract classic movie posters #

Yosemitebear's Giant Double Rainbow — I want to be in this guy's head for just one day #

Composer Jason Robert Brown's fight with a teen girl about copyright — hard to argue it's lost income, since she almost certainly wouldn't have bought the sheet music (via) #

Giant Bomb's extensive first look at Limbo gameplay — this game looks amazing, reminiscent of Heart of Darkness and Out of This World #

Rude Boy, compilation of reggae/dub/ska chiptunes — fun, but it's hard to top Mr. Spastic's "Lo-Fi Version" #

Chase Goose — as Tom says, "You will hate this game." (via) #

Maciej Ceglowski on the great Legacy.com swindle — the company that manages death notices for many U.S. newspapers #

Marc Hedlund announces Wesabe shutdown — very sad; just found out Robot Co-op's shutting down 43 People, too #

Diaspora's first month progress report — with screenshots and video; seems like the Facebook protests have passed, even if concerns remain #

Foursquare adds map view — in an unfamiliar city, this should be incredibly useful #

8-bit Twilight: Eclipse — an interactive YouTube game (via) #

Darryl Cunningham's 19-page comic about homeopathy — following his earlier strip on the MMR vaccine controversy #

Luke W. on an elegant sliding alternative to CAPTCHA — faster and simpler, though would still need an accessible option for the blind #

Dan Telfer thinks your favorite dinosaur sucks — don't get him started on velociraptors (via) #

Roger Ebert follows up his controversial post on games as art — though his use of Jericho screenshots is like writing about art films with images from Scream 2 #

Men's Health visits Portland's thriving food cart scene — video interview with several of the best carts #

MaxFunsters for Zach Annel — this guy's very funny, totally deserves to win #

Woot acquired by Amazon — appropriately, they announced the news via a rapping monkey #

It's Oppo! — CalArts student Tyler Chen's demented take on Nick Jr. (via) #