Jonathan Puckey's tool-assisted Delaunay vectorization portraits — don't miss the video at the bottom showing a conversion (via) #

Facebook memorializes profiles for people who have passed away — they no longer show up in Suggested Users and privacy's increased #

xkcd's homage to Geocities — Yahoo! Ate My Balls #

A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database — authoritative source for arcane timezone trivia #

Explaining the math behind ASCIIp0rtal — surprisingly understandable (via) #

iPhone game developer looks at piracy rates for their app — vaguely related: World of Goo's pay-what-you-like sale results #

Hosting Your Windows 7 Torrent Party (via) #

Google Reader adds personalized sorting and recommended items — so far, the "magic" sorting is pretty great #

Torley's review of the Plogue Chipsounds VST plugin — faithfully recreates 9 vintage sound chips, including the 2600, C64, and NES; on sale for $75 #

TSA responds to the "TSA took my son" blogger — blogger insisted first video was altered, they responded with raw footage from nine angles #

Everything is Terrible's Internet for Kidz — the web sure looked different back then #

Small Worlds — short, lo-fi exploration game that exposes the map as you play #

Flickr adds face tagging — great implementation, I hope it makes its way to the API #

ChinaSmack on Happy Farms, an insanely popular Chinese MMO — they were forced to limit signups to 2 million users per day #

Google Street View Guys — Dan Meth imagines life as a Street View driver (via) #

iRobot's morphing blob robot takes its first steps — hmm, this seems familiar (via) #

Mark Pilgrim on his publisher's reaction to the resale of his GNU-licensed book — funny, the copyright notice from the print version is completely contradictory (via) #

Snarkmarket's Robin Sloan posts Twitter's #5,000,000,000 tweet — technically, they stopped using sequential IDs in March 2007 #

Pixar intro parody — nice touches abound, like the prison inmates (via) #

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 #