Techcrunch on Grand Central's relaunch as Google Voice — they're using speech-to-text to automatically transcribe voicemail #

279 Spore Skeletons — built with Processing using the new Spore API (via) #

Terry Cavanagh's Don't Look Back — 8-bit retelling of Orpheus in the Underworld #

Revision3 exec liveblogs someone breaking into his house — he broadcasted the ordeal on Ustream and Twitter (via) #

Aimee Mullins and her 12 pairs of legs — for some, prosthetics are no longer a disability; she can change her speed and height with augmentation #

Michael Wesch on the Livescribe smartpen in education — see the pen demo, and "pencasts" shared by the community #

Bicycle Built for 2,000 — Aaron Koblin asks 2,088 Mechanical Turk workers to sing parts of "Daisy Bell" without hearing the whole song #

The Comics Archetype Times Table — reminds me of the dessert taxonomy #

Fortunebird, mechanical bird automaton that tweets your fortune — also debuting at Etech: Lensley Automatic, the photobooth that Flickrs and tweets #

TED performance of Pattie Maes' wearable tech demo — like an iPhone with a projector, dangling around your neck and providing context for everyday activities #

Dan Meth's chart of sitcom house floorplans — from the creator of the Trilogy Meter #

Tetris HD — use Enter to drop quickly; the result is abstract art (via) #

Guardian UK opens API platform and Data Store — the Data Store uses Google Spreadsheets for data access #

The Morning News behind-the-scenes report of the controversial Gandhi auction — filmmaker James Otis tried to call it off after Indian protests and death threats #

The "Raiders of the Lost Ark" Story Conference — 125-page transcription of a week-long brainstorming session with Spielberg, Lucas, and Lawrence Kasdan #

Rock Peaks, database of live music videos culled from YouTube — user-editable, including performances from late night talk shows #

Cam Marlow's breakdown of maintained relationships at Facebook — elaborating on his findings discussed in The Economist #

S.F. may crack down on urban prank events — city officials said last month's Pillow Fight cost over $40,000 to clean up #

Topps brings augmented reality to baseball cards — surprising they went with a Windows plugin, instead of Flash ARToolkit (via) #

BackTweets, search for links on Twitter — unlike Twitter Search, this dereferences links from URL shorteners like TinyURL #

Unofficial mirror of Kutiman's Thru-You — the official site resolved their earlier bandwidth issues (via) #

Seattle P-I to become first daily metro newspaper to go web-only — related: Mike Davidson's great piece on saving newspaper journalism, while letting print die (via) #

TheMime on Twitter — if you don't have something nice to say #

Bruce Banit's World Builder short film — like an augmented reality SketchUp (via) #

Kate Beaton's The Origin of Man — great comic in a crummy, Flash-only format #

Pun-Colle, Japanese anime voice actresses cover punk classics — about as horrible as you'd imagine, every song is on his profile page #

Dolphin emulator boots the Wii OS — I had no idea they'd gotten so far; as of last week, it also supports WADs #

Scene.org 2009 award nominees — the best of the demoscene, merging algorithmic art and music #

Thru You, Kutiman's album of YouTube video remixes — serious YouTube crate digging; the acapella track used on Just A Lady only has 198 views (via) #

A Japanese Life of Bento — a tale told in miniature #

Game Set Watch reports on the final moments of Tabula Rasa — bang, whimper #

Flickr launches new Panda API methods — three different pandas, each with their own taste in Flickr photos #

Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension — mapping the cultural shorthand for confusing languages (via) #

Origins of the Windows XP "Bliss" desktop wallpaper — old, but new to me; I love the more recent photo of the Napa Valley site #

Rebecca MacKinnon on how Chinese blog services censor bloggers — great research, finds that individual editors at blog portals make a huge difference #

arc90's Readability — bookmarklet converts any page to an Instapaper-like readable layout #

Bandcamp adds music download codes and Moo card integration — very slickly done #

Some Grey Bloke explains what Facebook is for — now, go friend him (via) #

Jake and Amir interview The Lonely Island — when Internet-to-TV memes collide #

Recording a trip around the sushi conveyor belt — the translated dialogue; videos by others here, here, and here (via) #

Detecting click tracks in popular music using the Echo Nest API — Britney, Green Day, and Nickelback cheated; Metallica, Weezer, and Led Zeppelin kept it real #

The Retr0brite Project — retro computing geeks open-source a cleaning formula to turn yellowing plastics white again (via) #

Volunteers Put the Economist Into Chinese — the NYT asked me to rewrite my entry for today's paper; my first byline in a national newspaper! #

Skittles changes product homepage to Twitter search — other links in their navigation go straight to Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook #

Newsweek's The District, the Obama presidency as an MTV reality show — the Barack impersonator is YouTube's own Alphacat #

Livejournal shuts down scans_daily after Marvel complaint — one complaint, and they've killed six years of work (via) #

Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom — Parry Gripp is a genius; take that, Monteiro #

"What were arcades like?" — in other news, I'm old (via) #

Animated HD promo for Art Spiegelman's Be A Nose! — the new book offers a glimpse of his sketchbooks (via) #

Rocky Mountain News' farewell video — only 55 days short of their 150th birthday #