Jonathan Coulton on The Setup — YACHT's interview ended up causing a big controversy when he admitted to pirating audio software #

IHT on the reinvention of Newsweek — "If we don't have something original to say, we won't." (via) #

Torrentfreak on internal drama on a private BitTorrent tracker — piracy takes effort so it's natural, but still amusing, to see the scene get upset over leaks #

Funky bass lines in the Sonic the Hedgehog series — Dan argues the 16-bit era changed the way composers thought about arranging music #

Elizabeth Gilbert's TED talk on creative genius and the muse — very inspiring talk, she received a standing ovation #

Google Sync beta comes to iPhone and Windows Mobile — using Exchange, wirelessly pushes changes from your Google contacts and calendar #

Smarterware, Gina Trapani's new blog — after leaving Lifehacker, a "slower pace and a more personal approach to online publishing" #

Supercut of every profanity in The Sopranos — added to the list (via) #

Take Away Show with Tom Jones — I'm a little surprised they didn't leave the hotel room #

James Duncan Davidson fought off a mugger trying to take his TED badge — "All I know is that he didn't want money. He wanted access." #

The Lonely Island's "I'm On A Boat" in HD — get your towels ready, it's about to go down (via) #

Ridethrough of revamped "It's A Small World" with added Disney characters — they added stylized versions of at least 25 Disney characters to the ride #

Wired on MIT's wearable computing project with interactive displays — demonstrated at TED, these video demos are very clever #

Boston Phoenix digs up off-color MP3s from Barack Obama's audiobook — April has the clips with an inline player #

Bill Gates talks about ending malaria at TED 2009 — the only TED video released so far; he unleashes the mosquitoes at 5:06 #

Fake parking ticket leads to malware download — malicious spam leaking into real life (via) #

_why on the Art & Code conference for young hackers — created by Golan Levin, who spoke at TED today; here's his 2004 talk #

NYT announces Article Search API — get JSON for every article from 1981 to today #

See You See Me — Evan Roth records the x-ray machines in airports around the world (via) #

LucasArts Posters — fan project to scan and clean up the artwork for oversize printing (via) #

Ze Frank's audio drawing toy used to visualize music — Aerosmith's "Living on the Edge" sketches out a likeness of America (via) #

The Pirate Bay maps connections to its tracker — a third of all connections come from China, which blocks the website entirely #

Kloonigames' 4 Minutes 33 Seconds — a non-interactive game in which you can only win if nobody else in the world is playing it #

Entertainment Weekly on Letterman's airing of the censored Bill Hicks set — with video, in case you missed it #

Celebrity Tweets — not naming names, but they're stretching the definition of "celebrity" a bit #

Alexandria Neonakis's Left 4 Dead valentines — another in a long line of geek valentines #

Sleep Talking on the Mic — a sleep-talker records himself nightly and posts the nonsensical results (via) #

NYT visualizes Twitter activity during the Superbowl — the emoticon and commercial maps are particularly awesome (via) #

David After Dentist, a 7-year-old's first drug trip — "I feel funny. I can't see anything. I don't feel tired. Is this real life?" (via) #

Histogram of name length for all 1,200 SXSW bands — surprisingly, there aren't any one-letter band names #

Wonderfl, build Flash online — community for writing and sharing AS3 code, compiled immediately on the server #

Closure, a game experimenting with light and shadow — from the programmer/designer of Aether #

Please Stand By — test pattern entirely in CSS #

Crackulous developer wants people to stop pirating his App Store piracy app — "I need people to support my work... I deserve appreciation." #

World Superhero Registry — real-life public defenders fighting crime in costume #

Independently Speaking's best of Global Game Jam 2009 — six-part series sorting through the complete list of 300+ two-day games; Custody looks ambitious #

Greasemonkey script shows Twitter mentions and unread count — clever use of the Search API, Twitter should integrate this into the Replies tab #

Pup Contemplates the Heat Death of the Universe — new to me, it was mentioned in McCloud's TED talk #

Scott McCloud's TED talk on vision and understanding comics — a concise and understandable guide to comics theory (via) #

Twittering the daily Depression-era diary of a 13-year-old farm girl — one tweet per day, from 1937 to 1941 (via) #

D-Pad Hero, playable NES version of Guitar Hero — the Guns n' Roses and Daft Punk chiptune remixes stand on their own (via) #

Eric Bauman fired from Ebaumsworld, along with rest of staff — long despised for repurposing other's work without credit, the commenters are having a field day (via) #

Annika's Odyssey — adorable game from 2007 in which you save a bunny, make a mountain blush, and fetch a pail of water (via) #

DeweyMusic, alternate interface for browsing Archive.org's live music collection — 37,483 albums by 2,082 artists, with tags pulled from the Last.fm API #

Dom Sagolla's story of the birth of Twitter — a former employee, he recalls how Jack first discussed the idea on the slide in South Park #

Crummy.com's series on the naming of videogames — every new console followed similar trends, except for pinball; here's the second part of the series #

Conspiracy Rock, 1991 Schoolhouse Rock parody of the Kennedy assassination conspiracy — 4,320 frames painstakingly animated by Jason Scott, online for the first time (via) #

Ben Fry on turning charts into music with Microsoft Songsmith — don't miss the sonification of the Dow Jones compared to the growth of the porn industry #

Coca Cola's Avatar ad for the Superbowl — love the augmented reality HUDs #

Censored Bill Hicks performance airing tonight on Letterman — Hicks's retelling of the appearance; his mom's appearing on the show marking the 15th anniversary of his death #