Translating Picture Books: Where the Wild Things Are — academic paper dissects the German, Swedish and Finnish translations and the visual cues they used #

Brandon Hardesty Discovered Something Amazing! — AMAZING! #

Machinarium — new point-and-click adventure from the creator of Samorost and its sequel #

Neven Mrgan's tale of the phantom Mint.com account — he deleted his account with confirmation, and they kept both his login and financial details active #

Raphaël, JS vector graphics library — interactive charts and animation, and works perfectly on the iPhone #

Reenacting Pulp Fiction with Google Wave — also Wave-related: a believable defense of Wave for team collaboration #

Scott Baio is a Twitter jackass — I hate sharing a last name with that guy #

NYT on San Francisco Panorama, McSweeney's one-off newspaper — don't worry, the $55 price is for a year's subscription (via) #

Jason Scott's The Atomic Level of Porn — great NSFW talk covers the early history of digital porn, including teletype, BBSes, and games #

6-year-old boy floats away in homemade helium balloon — at this moment, the scary live video shows him flying through the Colorado skies; update: he wasn't inside #

The Billion Dollar Gram — relative spending visualized, with data on Google Spreadsheets #

Metafilter user's story of creating the first "Under Construction" animated GIF — includes a perfectly preserved animated GIF archive #

Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, and the Computer — includes Bukowski's poem about the 16-bit Intel 8088 chip (via) #

Artwiculate, a Twitter word game — extra points for playing the game without your friends realizing it #

Chris O'Shea's Hand from Above — augmenting reality with pure silliness (via) #

Ubisoft's career choices for girls — depressing #

What's Easier to Understand Than Google Wave? — warning: turn your sound off first (via) #

10/GUI — clever UI concept replaces the mouse with 10-finger multitouch (via) #

Guardian gag order lifted after social media explosion — #trafigura is still a trending topic on Twitter #

Google launches Building Maker — crowdsourcing 3D buildings for Google Earth by making it playful #

Guardian gagged from reporting parliament debate — reporting on their inability to report; it seems to be related to this issue (via) #

Swoopo Profits Greasemonkey Script — exposing how much money they're duping people for #

Derek Powazek on SEO — from the comments: "SEO consultants are just web designers who are incapable of doing the other 90% of the job" #

Visualizing the safety of the HPV vaccine — in short: extremely safe, but costs $360 so insurance companies are fighting it #

Boing Boing Classic — Justin decided to do something about their recent redesign; update: he stopped updating it #

Team Fortress 2's Prop Hunt mod — funniest mod I've ever seen; one team spawns as props and has to hide from the other team #

Jason Scott on the Geocities' Under Construction image archive — Geocities closes forever in only two weeks #

BitTorrent communities using CSS history hack to ban users — first time I've seen the technique used for banning; it works in every major browser #

Game Informer's exclusive coverage of Epic Mickey, Warren Spector's dystopic Disney game for the Wii — the new concept art with Small World, Magic Kingdom, and Haunted Castle references is insane #

Volkswagen turns a Stockholm subway staircase into a piano — 66% more than normal chose the stairs over the elevator (via) #

The Art and Motion of Beatles: Rock Band — the MK12 chapter videos are each amazing #

Brandon Boyer on the end of Offworld, my favorite gaming blog — fortunately, he's writing columns for Boing Boing and working on a big new project #

Video: Generating speech with a piano — here's a similar project explaining how it was done (via) #

Gizmodo on Photosketch — jaw-dropping tech demo turns stick figures to Internet photocollages; the paper has more examples (via) #

Law & Order SVU features Internet Archive's Wayback Machine — used as a forensics tool #

Aaron Swartz posts his FBI file — opened after Aaron downloaded 19M court documents for Resource.org #

FTC requires bloggers to disclose freebies or payments for reviews — regulating blogging for the first time (via) #

Rev. Dan Catt interviews Kids on DSP — their new "reactive album" is built on RjDj, changing music based on your input #

Dark stalking on Facebook — on teasing private information out of FQL, even for users with maxed-out privacy settings #

Google removes Pirate Bay homepage from search results — update: it was a mistake #

Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe — accurate, entertaining, and occasionally insightful primer on gaming history; all six parts #

Cabel Sasser and the Kashiwa Mystery Cafe — cafe as collaborative art #

Sophie Blackall's illustrated Craigslist Missed Connections — the NYT interviewed her about the project (via) #

Nerdrock band uses entire Zork walkthrough as lyrics — "I hate grues." (via) #

Google Docs adds free OCR conversion API — throw it into the OCR toolbox #

Os Gameboys' Super Mario Bros. medley — this Brazilian band does the best live Mario cover I've ever seen (via) #

OKCupid's analysis of race and religion in online dating — more fascinating dataporn #

Ed Champion edits every product mention from a single Jay Leno show — related: Bill Hicks on Jay Leno #

Fall on Your Sword's Back to the Ship — from the creators of Shatner of the Mount, mashing up the brilliant audio from the Kasper Hauser comedy podcast #

We Are Colorblind — design patterns for colorblind users; one of my favorite examples and how they fixed it #