The Globe and Mail's Metafilter profile on the 10th anniversary — including an interview with mathowie; reminder, the global birthday party's in a week #

Google adds Creative Commons searching to Image Search — also supports public domain and GNU licenses (via) #

Tom Armitage's roundup of text rendered into real-world locations — reminds me of Wayne White #

Lost Garden's guide to revenue models for Flash game developers — an alternative to Free, very applicable to web startups beyond gaming (via) #

Best of Wikipedia — surfacing some interesting entries, including the color of water and the Feynman point #

Causes Facebook app raises $10M in two years — half of that was in the last six months alone #

Techcrunch on Tiny Speck, the new company from ex-Flickr folks — I'm hoping for Game Neverending 2.0 #

Code Rush documentary on Mozilla 1.0 officially released by director — as promised, David Winton's put it on Viddler, Blip.tv, and for download and he's digitizing unreleased footage soon #

Google announces Chrome OS — as predicted by Kottke in 2004 #

ASCIIpOrtal — just watching the video made my brain ache #

Mega Man 2600, five screen demo for I Am 8-Bit art show — now available for download #

Prowl, push Growl notifications to the iPhone — brilliant, opens up push notifications from virtually any Mac app (via) #

oMaps, offline OpenStreetMap for the iPhone — perfect for travel, when data roaming is insanely expensive (via) #

NYT infoviz of American economic boom-bust cycles — don't miss the the last part, animating consumer confidence indicators before production output (via) #

Benjamin Pollack on Stack Overflow's user experience and hacker arrogance — the Y Combinator thread is hilarious, the worst of the "that's easy" mentality (via) #

Brandon Boyer on Treasure World, DS game that turns wifi hotspots into collectible treasure — to play the game, you have to explore the real world #

TweetCraft, in-game Twitter client for World of Warcraft — supports uploading screenshots with TwitPic (via) #

Augmented reality iPhone London tube station finder — I really could've used this last week (via) #

Sour's "Hibi no Neiro," crowdsourced music video — choreographing 64 fans with webcams (via) #

Slate's Chris Wilson tracks 10,000 random YouTube URLs for 30 days — 3% hit 1,000 views, more than I would've expected (via) #

Pinboard, Maciej Ceglowski's lightweight del.icio.us clone — on the roadmap: "Get acquired by Yahoo and slowly grow useless" #

Donkey Kong easter egg discovered 25 years later — created by DadHacker and discovered by Don Hodges, two of my favorite gaming nerds #

Newspaper Club — building a customizable newspaper printing service in 60 days; they're using InDesign as the backend #

Kevin Kelly's Death Clock in Futurama — this might seem morbid to some, but I find it inspiring #

Paul Lamere's Coolness Index — are female singers uncool? #

Kickstarter's Big Day — 13 projects ended on July 1, raising an average 188% of their goals #

Anil Dash on Malcolm Gladwell's criticism of Chris Anderson's Free — I read through Gladwell's New Yorker piece twice, and the arguments seem petty and off base #

72-year-old retired boxer beats up knife-wielding knucklehead — the inane Facebook photos make this story even more delicious #

Pez sues Burlingame Museum of Pez for copyright infringement — so disappointing #

RIAA wins lawsuit against Usenet.com — judge rules Betamax case doesn't apply; every other Usenet provider is next #

EveryBlock releases source code — it was a requirement of their funding from the Knight Foundation #

Hype Machine detects cheating on charts, names names — one of the bands responds in the comments and gets schooled by Anthony (via) #

Ze Frank on black, white, and shades of green — I'm loving this series #

China bans gold farming, real-world sale of virtual goods — Eurogamer estimates 1 million Chinese gold farmers with worldwide trade worth more than US$10 billion annually (via) #

The Pirate Bay sold to publicly-traded Swedish gaming company — Brokep's statement is delusional; being acquired will almost certainly kill the site #

Michael Rubin's "Droidmaker" book now available for free download! — authoritative 518-page history of Lucasfilm, the creation of Pixar, and much more (via) #

Jason Rohrer interviewed about "selling out" to make iPhone and ad games — he recently switched from free, open-source games; also, EA claims Spielberg's LMNO isn't cancelled #

Nedroid's Cosby Experiment — view all 190 Cosbys #

How the NYT kept their reporter's Taliban kidnapping off Wikipedia for seven months — they collaborated with Jimmy Wales directly to freeze the entry; NPR asks if it was ethical (via) #

David Fincher may direct Facebook film, adapted by Aaron Sorkin — possibly starring Michael Cera or Shia LaBeouf as Zuckerberg; this sounds familiar (via) #

Quarrygirl's undercover investigation of non-vegan ingredients used at L.A.-area vegan restaurants — outstanding blog reporting, with industrial food testing from 17 different restaurants and research into suppliers #

James Barnett's oil paintings of landscapes from video games — looking at the paintings, I felt like I'd actually visited those locations in real-life (via) #

WSJ interviews Brenda Brathwaite about "Train," a board game about the Holocaust — not all games need to be fun (via) #

How Rob Manuel accidentally started a Michael Jackson moonwalk flashmob — I'm in London right now, and I've seen several massive vigils and tributes on the streets (via) #

Top teams join forces to win Netflix Prize — check the leaderboard for the first score to break the 10% improvement threshold (via) #

Wired on the success of Nike+ — backstory on how it works and the Hawthorne effect; simply measuring something can change its behavior (via) #

Imeem to delete all user-added photos and videos, with five days' notice — with no way to back up videos at all (via) #

Shnabubula's chiptune tribute to Michael Jackson — also: Virt's incredible VRC6 cover of Thriller #

Metafilter user highlights 20 years of Elvis Costello's "adenoidal" voice in the NYT — Stephen Holden and Neil Strauss have a limited musical vocabulary (via) #

Flashterm, free telnet client for the web — I love his gallery page, full of BBSes #