Muxtape relaunches as artist-friendly MP3 site — Justin also recently released I Hardly Knew Her, a minimalist Flickr browser (via) #

Softwear by Microsoft, their new clothing line — collaboration with Common and Urban Outfitters; this isn't very Microsoft-like (via) #

Blueful, a short story scattered across the web — trust me and just follow the links (via) #

Radio Aporee, field recordings with Google Maps — contribute your own audio to the geographical soundscape #

Ze Frank's Flash toy lets you draw with your voice — it's like Visual Acoustics, inverted #

Unofficial iTunes Store proxy running on AppSpot — this won't last long (via) #

Champion of Guitars, Guitar Hero as text adventure — with z-code, even (via) #

MAD Magazine goes quarterly with issue #500 — I have a strange feeling Cracked will get the last laugh #

Pac-Man Dungeons, Pac-Man as a text adventure dungeon crawl — more elaborate than Pac-TXT, with a map and better writing #

Listable, create and share lists with JSON, SQL, and plaintext output — Andre Torrez scratches an itch with App Engine #

John Resig explains how the Greasemonkey CAPTCHA solver works — step by step #

Greasemonkey: Neural network in Javascript solves Megaupload's CAPTCHAs in the browser — weak captchas, but still impressive; the author explains why cracking reCAPTCHA is much harder, with more discussion on Reddit (via) #

Mr. Tweet, user recommender for Twitter — shockingly well done, doesn't require a Twitter password #

How to use emoji icons in SMS on the iPhone without hacking your phone — a $1 app unlocks the Japanese keyboard, along with 461 picture characters to confuse your friends (via) #

The Boxxy Story, Part 2: The Fall of Boxxy — along with the first part, some of the best research on Internet culture I've ever seen #

Kevin Kelly on access vs. ownership for digital goods and services — for the flipside, see Jason Scott's argument against the cloud #

Google's Ajax APIs Playground — over 170 code samples for eight APIs #

Judging a stranger by their tweets — Dolores Labs asks Mechanical Turkers to rank the top 200 users, and plotted the results #

Waferbaby's The Setup — Daniel Bogan's interviewing writers, coders, and musicians about their computer setup (via) #

St. Petersburg Times' Obameter, tracking Obama's campaign promises — brilliant example of database-backed journalism #

Wired on the outdated IT infrastructure in the White House — the Mac-savvy team found PCs "outfitted with six-year-old versions of Microsoft software" #

Chewbacca trapped in nightstand — like the geek version of a Virgin Mary sighting, in a steering wheel, trash can, vacuum, faucet, bathroom door, or toilet #

I Can Read Movies — covers for imaginary film-to-book adaptations, inspired by Mossy's movie poster remakes #

37 Signals' Movie-to-Website Title Mashups — It's A Wonderful Lifehacker, the Fark Knight, Face/Book/Off, and many more #

Google search volume dropped while Obama spoke — a similar dip happened on Flickr and Last.fm, but Twitter exploded during his oath #

Mat Honan geocodes his life for Wired — funny, I was with Mat when he twittered from Greens and the mentioned awkwardness ensued #

YouTube Street Fighter — short side-scroller built with YouTube annotations #

The Electronic Playground, a massive archive of pinball and arcade game cameos in film and TV — highlights include Charles Bronson with Marble Madness, Michael J. Fox with Death Race, David Hasselhoff playing Atari 2600, and Starsky and Hutch playing Pong #

Visiting the Obama inauguration site in Fallout 3 — instead of Secret Service, the Mall is patrolled by enemy super-mutants #

2D Boy's Ron Carmel and Kyle Gabler talk about developing World of Goo — some insight into the creative process of my favorite game of 2008; the free soundtrack was just released #

The Onion: Bush Dies Peacefully In His Sleep — a fitting finale for their series of news briefs #

Why I'm Happy, Why I'm Not Satisfied — Ill Doctrine on the work ahead #

Twitter's traffic on inauguration day — five times the normal traffic with only slight delays (via) #

Whitehouse.gov's Old and New Robots.txt Files — all third-party content's licensed under Creative Commons and there's a Twitter account, too (via) #

Tom Taylor's Microprinter, a web-connected receipt printer for daily notifications — it pulls data from Google Calendar, iCal, BBC Weather, and Dopplr daily #

Seattle Times on The Game, a large-scale treasure hunt in 2002 that went wrong — the original version of the game inspired the movie 1980s screwball comedy Midnight Madness (via) #

Marble Madness speedrun in 2:35 — related: the original Marble Madness design documents (via) #

The Story of Boxxy — well-written story of how one girl inadvertently launched a 4chan civil war; yesterday, her channel was hacked and videos deleted (via) #

Belkin employee paid Mechanical Turkers to write positive product reviews — Belkin's CEO responded, saying it was a rogue employee #

danah boyd's dissertation on social networks and the American teen — an essential read, she interviewed and observed hundreds of teens across 16 states, tracking the rise of Myspace and Facebook in the process #

Kottke.org's roundup of new footage of the Hudson River plane landing — this also gives me a chance to point to Kottke's new redesign; older designs here #

Paul's SXSW Artist Catalog, annotated with the YouTube and Last.fm APIs — brilliant, SXSW should replace their official list with this immediately #

Jorma Dances to Fleet Foxes during SNL rehearsal — see also: Jorm Dances to My Chemical Romance, Death Cab, and Arcade Fire #

How to use Amazon EC2 for BitTorrent — update: turns out this is actually pretty expensive #

Google releases open-source Blog Converters project — hold up, Google has a Data Liberation team!? #

YouTube offering download links on selected videos — high-quality MP4 files, starting with all Change.gov videos; for everything else, there's KeepVid #

New law threatens handmade children's toy and clothing crafters — used toys are now exempted, but Etsy sellers are rightfully panicking; some endangered toys (via) #

Google search results for "KH(Ax)N" for x=1 to 100 — see also: hmmm, Oh Shiit, and Daaaamn, and X Girls Y Cups (via) #

Seattle Post Intelligencer writes its own obituary — naturally, the staff reporters covered the announcement of the paper's sale in detail #

Hotel for Dogs undisclosed ad on I Can Haz Cheezburger — the community saw right through it, in their own unique way; does editorial integrity apply to LOLCats? (via) #