The Pirate Bay shuts down their tracker for good — they're switching to DHT instead #

How Darren at Link Machine Go found Belle de Jour's identity five years ago — Brooke was part of the early UK blog scene #

ICU64, real-time visualization of Commodore 64 memory — the developer also posted videos of Paradroid and Boulder Dash (via) #

Russell Davies on pretending and "barely games" — his SAP prototype looks like great ambient fun (via) #

NYT Magazine on the indie gaming movement — nothing new here, but good overview with a wonderful closing anecdote from Cactus #

Tim O'Reilly on the pending War for the Web — "more than that, it's a war against the web as an interoperable platform" #

Jason Scott rounds up Geocities' top 10 most popular MIDI files — along with a torrent with 51,000 MIDIs rescued by Archive Team #

Matt Haughey on the discovery of his brain tumor, treatment, and the Internet's response — there were about 1,000 #mathowielove tweets in 24 hours #

Belle de Jour reveals herself after six year of anonymity — only six people in the world knew, she only told her parents yesterday (via) #

Paul F. Tompkins debates comedy ethics with Improv Everywhere's Charlie Todd — great discussion, and it's hard not to see where both are coming from (via) #

Rogue Amoeba stops iPhone app development after App Store idiocy — I'm with Marco, the only fix is allowing external apps, but it's unlikely (via) #

Numb3rs on IRC — "Luckily, I speak l33t." #

Prank War 8: The Skydiving Prank — hard to say if life-threatening situations are funnier than public humiliation #

301 Works, Internet Archive works to preserve URL shortener data — the shorteners will provide regular backups and hand over data on closure, though TinyURL's conspicuously missing #

Quizipedia — simple game with trivia scraped from Wikipedia entries #

Kill Screen, funding a new art magazine about videogames — sounds like the English analogue of Amusement I was hoping for #

Auto-Tune the News on Kanye, Charlie Bit Me, and Balloon Boy — if you're in NYC next week, go see them perform live #

EyeWriter — F.A.T./Graffiti Research Lab project lets paralyzed artists draw with their eyes #

Know Your Meme on the Autotune meme — special appearance by guest memeologist, Dr. Al Yankovic (via) #

Nicholas Felton's visualization of 13 years of CNN.com traffic — the three biggest days, in order, were the 2004 election, 9/11, and the 2008 election (via) #

Christian Swinehart's epic Choose Your Own Adventure visualizations — everything here is amazing, from the animations to the playable visualization of Meretzky's Zork: The Cavern of Doom #

Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels' Generous Offer — like the Two of Us short film, Beatles alternate-history fiction inspired by this SNL sketch #

Typekit launches — huge embeddable font collection, reasonably priced, and very well executed #

The Big Pictr — Flickr photos in the style of The Big Picture (via) #

Twitter's new Trends API will use Yahoo's WOE for locations — also used by Flickr, this cements the CC-licensed WOE data as the web's placename database (via) #

The Beatles Never Broke Up — mashup of Beatles solo albums with a backstory; related: Stephen Baxter's short story, The Twelfth Album (via) #

Paul Rogers draws Name That Movie — "Six drawings per movie, in sequence, no movie stars" (via) #

NYT on confusion over how Kiva loans work — nonprofits carefully balancing effective marketing and donor expectations #

Microsoft COFEE, digital forensics tool for police, leaks online — available where you'd expect; sounds like common Windows network utilities with a simple interface #

NYT visualizes the unemployment rate for different demographics — 48.5% of young black men without a high school degree; 3.6% of college-educated white women over 25 #

Another World level ported to Javascript — in other emulation news, a NES and Gameboy emulator in JS and SNES9x ported to Flash (via) #

Blocktronics' ANSI art tribute to RaDMaN — powered by Viewtronics, Peter Nitsch's gorgeous new Flash 10 ANSI viewer (via) #

Aaron Straup-Cope leaves Flickr, joins Stamen Design — one of my favorite geeks joins one of my favorite companies #

Unreal Engine 3 development kit now free for non-commercial use — huge announcement, along with the recent free release of Unity Indie #

The Big Picture's series on Martian landscapes — Kai's Power Tools in real-life (via) #

Preview of McSweeney's Panorama, their one-shot newspaper — as expected, looks incredibly great (via) #

The Grant-Pattishall Award — congrats, Kellan! (via) #

Birdhouse for Your Soul — Greg Knauss finds one small piece of the historical web #

Google open-sources Closure Tools — JS compiler, along with Google's huge widget library (via) #

Video montage of actors speaking the movie's title — great comments with some missed opportunities; "You talkin' to me? You talkin' to The Taxi Driver?" #

The Morning News' Cloud of Atlases — impossible to guess, but look at all the pretty colors #

American Airlines fires UX designer for explaining why their UX isn't great — a lapse of judgment from both American Airlines and an employee who cared too much #

Overheating, photo series of gadgets thrown through walls — from issue 6 of Amusement, the incredible French gaming culture magazine (via) #

Ricardo Autobahn's The Golden Age of Video — insane pop culture video mashup #

The Last Days of Gourmet — sad photo series, reminds me of the dot-com carnage photos #

Put This On — first episode of Jesse Thorn and Adam Lisagor's Kickstarter-funded video series on clothing #

Jono Bacon's The Art of Community released for free download under CC license — looks fantastic and worth buying (via) #

Eric Testroete's papercraft portrait Halloween costume — incredibly creepy, like videogames leaking into the real world (via) #

Mark Pilgrim's history of the IMG element — told through annotated conversations from 1993 (via) #

Every vandalism edit to Nickelback's Wikipedia page — I wonder which edits managed to stay in the longest without detection #