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 #

AutoSummarize — top 100 free books summarized by Microsoft Word into 10 sentences #

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crunches the numbers on the biggest lies in online dating — for example, hotter photos were much more likely to be outdated according to EXIF tags (via) #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