JS-909, a Javascript drum machine without Flash — through a hack, it even works in IE 6 #

Esquire's hosting Between, the new two-player networked game by Jason Rohrer — from the creator of Passage #

"What's that buzzing noise from my BBQ?" — he thought he was killing a few bees, but ends up annihilating an entire colony (via) #

Kottke explains how to embed high-quality YouTube videos — I knew how to save, link, and change the default, but the embedding hack was new to me #

Web 2.0 Origami — lazyweb, please build a converter that creates folding patterns from an uploaded image #

Pixar's Burn-E short on YouTube — here's an interview with the director #

Valleywag folded into Gawker, all but Owen Thomas laid off — I won't miss it; they hurt a lot of good people and interesting projects in the quest for pageviews (via) #

YouTube engineer adds "Actually Good" tab when viewing Onion video — here's a screenshot in case it goes away #

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow wears pajamas on-air in solidarity with bloggers — maybe Palin was too busy reading every newspaper to actually read a blog #

Jimi Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell, dead at 61 — I wish more newspapers would link to YouTube videos #

Brandon Hardesty reenacts Alec Baldwin's Glengarry Glen Ross monologue — I first linked to Brandon way back in March 2006 #

Videos of CNN's election-night countdown globally — the collective response was spontaneous and virtually identical around the world (via) #

Washington Post blogger shuts down company sending out two-thirds of all spam — in his investigative report, he turned over four months of data-gathering to the colo, who sut them down #

Michael Lewis revisits "Liar's Poker" and writes about the current Wall Street meltdown — a gripping look at who foresaw and acted on the mess (via) #

Japanese isometric PSA about the future of food — lovely design, this could easily be adapted to the US (via) #

QWOP Olympics, ragdoll physics running game — hard to believe, but with practice, it's possible to sprint (via) #

Sluggo ponders the fundamental question of existence  #

LittleBigPlanet's TV commercials, built entirely with the in-game tools — the first one seems inspired by You Suck at Photoshop, no? (via) #

What We Own and Where It's Made — Dorothy's slowly been categorizing all her possessions #

Slate on aXXo, the most popular movie distributor on BitTorrent — this comment explains the drama between aXXo and other competing groups #

The Yes Men pranksters distribute fake New York Times issue across NYC — 100,000 copies with the headline "Iraq War Ends" post-dated July 4, 2009 #

where the things in Cloverfield happen — "this is where things in Cloverfield happen okay" (via) #

Google.org tracking flu spread using search queries — brilliant use of search data; get a flu shot before it gets to your state! (via) #

Google Groups expands to search web-based message boards — if "Sort by Date" appears to be missing, check your ad blocker #

"Dark Days" director explains how the Pentagon cancelled his followup film on the Iraq war — after two years of filming, he sold all his equipment on the same forum #

Dark Days, 2000 documentary about NYC homeless living in abandoned train tunnels — classic documentary with music by DJ Shadow #

Interview with the NASA writer behind the MarsPhoenix Twitter account — written in the first person, more than 38,000 people have followed its adventure (via) #

Touching story of Eugene Allen, a butler who served 34 years in the White House — a must-read with a sad ending (via) #

Super Mario for Busy People — You Have to Find the Princess (via) #

Google Reader adds automatic feed translation — I'm testing it out by throwing some Japanese blogs into a special non-English group #

Worst. Bug. Ever. — the Android phone executes all typed text, so don't text "rm -rf /" to a friend #

CaptionX, multiplayer photo captioning game — built on App Engine with CC-licensed photos on Flickr, with clever YouTube interstitials (via) #

WikiDashboard, Wikipedia mirror with real-time infoviz of edit history — for example, see Barack Obama or Star Wars Kid; I need a Greasemonkey script to pull this into Wikipedia proper #

How many guys in Spider-Man suits can fit inside Jamba Juice? — one customer in the store recorded the madness (via) #

Tetris recreated in LittleBigPlanet — a jetpack-powered sackboy readjusts all the falling pieces (via) #

The irRegularGame of Life — includes a history of Conway's Game of Life (via) #

Sugar Cubes — lovely Flash animation by the creator of Cursor*10 (via) #

MS Paint Adventures — interactive games where the artist acts as parser, drawing the results of the community's actions (via) #

Girl Talk's "I'm A PC" testimonial for Microsoft — no mention of Apple, but still a refreshing approach (via) #

Photoshop in Real-Life — this behind-the-scenes photo gives you a sense of the scale (via) #

Get Your War On: New World Order — the earnestness of this comment made me giggle (via) #

2009 Dance Your Ph.D. Contest — science grad students do interpretive dances on their obscure thesis topics #

Stairway to Heaven played on the iPhone Ocarina app — also, the Zelda theme; surprisingly deep for a $1 app #

Spit DNA evidence leads to arrest in Craigslist/inner-tube robbery — the story keeps getting stranger #

Investigative report into the "Single?" lawn signs across America — completely OCD net research, tracing them all back to a huge Texas dating franchise (via) #

Ze Frank's From 52 to 48 With Love — help repair the damage from the election cycle with a small gesture #

Howard Stern rants on blogs, Facebook, and Myspace — Gary V. responds to the King of All Dead Media #

Factory Balls 2 — I promise to stop posting about politics soon, really (via) #

Salon rounds up the worst election predictions from political pundits — also, Nate Silver's electoral predictions were dead-on across the board; go math! #

Colbert and Stewart talk about Twitter — some people use Twitter like Colbert's SimulTube #