Newly-discovered Disneyland home movies from 1956 — incredible quality; did you know they had a Space Bar? (via) #

Longest Poem in the World — aggregating tweets that rhyme, compiled into an ever-growing poem with 344,000 verses (via) #

Matt Thompson on the missing parts of news coverage — too much focus on "news" and not enough context #

Codepad — like Pastebin with a built-in compiler/interpreter; examples: Hello World, 99 Bottles (via) #

Fig. 8 — elegant Flash game inspired by architectural blueprints and diagrams (via) #

Aaron Zinman's Personas — barcode visualization of "how the Internet sees you" #

John Resig's eulogy for _why — he treated his online presence like a temporary sand mandala; don't miss the song #

Hacker/artist _why the lucky stiff deletes projects, online presence — still no clues why he killed his blog, Twitter, Hackety Hack, Why's Poignant Guide, Shoes, Try Ruby, and more #

Shnabubula's alternate-reality Super Mario World medley — live jazz improvisation using classic SNES sample sounds #

Neven Mrgan on Zingerman's product illustrations — staggering amount of love put into an online store #

Internet University — if websites were cartoon characters (via) #

Joanne McNeil on the Daily Death — I've wondered this myself, the effects of a microcelebrity culture aging #

Dinosaur Comics meets Twitter — reload for new ones #

Songs from The Point! — Nilsson tribute with songs by Martha Wainwright, Andrew Bird, DeVotchKa, and Nada Surf #

Kind of Bloop released! — Bygone Bureau wrote a great behind-the-scenes feature about the album #

MSNBC acquires EveryBlock — wow, congrats to the team #

Pirate Bay backup archive available on Pirate Bay — 21GB dump of 873,671 torrents on the site, packaged by a user concerned about the sale #

Ars Technica on how ICANN's fees killed domain tasting — from 17 million withdrawn domains in June 2008 to only 58k last month (via) #

Timeline visualization of global media scares — from Y2K to swine flu #

Offworld's gallery of vintage videogame factories — imagining the real-life locations where Tetris's blocks and Sonic's gold rings were made #

Dinner at El Bulli — a travelogue in comic format with video (via) #

Yahoo shuts down Term Extraction API — with a quiet three weeks' notice to developers (via) #

Nieman Journalism Lab's series on the AP's online strategy — asked about Associated Repress, the AP's lawyer said that I'm "wonderful" #

Q-BLOCK, 3D pixel art drawing tool — drag to rotate the objects #

Tiny Sketch — Processing competition with submissions limited to only 200 characters #

RECAP, Firefox extension open-sources public court records — if you've ever dealt with PACER, you'll know how vital this is #

District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's short films and commercials — don't miss TempBot and Tetra Vaal; District 9 is 95% positive so far #

Artist Jon Rafman on Google Street View as art — more of his captures on his site #

Know Your Meme's t-shirt shop — YA RLY #

Multitask — 87 points on the first try (via) #

How a Macworld cover is made — timelapse of the photography, Photoshop, and magazine design (via) #

NYT Mag cover story on the making of The Beatles: Rock Band — great discussion of the difficulties and appeal of rhythm games (via) #

Second Skin, documentary about the real lives of MMO players — looks great, only available free until the end of tomorrow (via) #

BackUpMy.net, online backup of blogs, tweets, mail, and photos — yes, a cloud service that backs up your cloud services (via) #

Silent Conversation — game that plays with text and words as side-scrolling platforms #

How the Soduko Grab sudoku solver for iPhone works — simple explanation of a practical use of computer vision #

Mike Sacks interviews Dan Clowes for McSweeney's — including gossip about his foibles with the New York Times during Mister Wonderful (via) #

Joshua Schachter's A Tiny Thread, very simple Twitter conversations — 208 lines of Python on Google App Engine #

Google opens up next-gen search infrastructure for testing — try it out; seems speedy and seems to rank real-time results higher #

Visualization of a Choose Your Own Adventure book's outcomes — 8 out of 42 endings were favorable #

Facebook buys FriendFeed — will it get sucked into the black hole, or help Facebook open up? Techcrunch says it's a talent acquisition #

Ars Technica on the worries of high-frequency algorithmic trading — used for years, it's accelerated since the Wall Street crisis #

Full House, Alternate Intro (via) #

Tr.im shuts down, breaking millions of shortened links by year's end — we were warned; someone should call Archive Team #

Waterloo Labs' FPS with real-life guns and shovels — needs more crowbar (via) #

Ice T repairs a Macbook Pro — the YouTube comments are a nice blend of racists and PC/Mac wars #

You Only Live Once — more meta-gaming: This Is The Only Level (via) #

Reddit user compiles George Sodini's Internet traces — includes his Google search history, revealed by exploiting his webmail account (via) #

Kate Miller-Heidke's Facebook song — lyrics here (via) #

Steam's Indie Games weekend sale — curated by Braid's Jonathan Blow and World of Goo's Ron Carmel (via) #