Rososo, the peaceful newsreader — clean and minimalist approach to feedreading for newbies (via) #

Twitter's Biz Stone charts popular terms tweeted during the presidential debate — you can reconstruct the entire debate this way #

I Wish I Were the Moon — experimental gameplay with four endings, part of Daniel Benmergui's Moon Stories mini-trilogy #

SF Gate's profile on Flickr community manager Heather Champ — virtually nobody can understand the job's difficulty or the impact her work has on Flickr's culture #

Very Small Array visualizes #1 hit singles by genre, geographic origin, and song length — great stuff; see also: the Whitburn Project, part one and two #

Metafilter user tracks down the lead singer of Sonseed, the Christian ska band — sometimes, journalism is just picking up the phone #

xkcd draws the universe from top to bottom, on a logarithmic scale — in-jokes galore, inspired by this logarithmic map of the universe #

Footage from Sarah Palin's 1984 Miss Alaska swimsuit competition — video was deleted, here's my local copy on Waxy #

Twitter Elections — based on candidate-related tweets, looks like only 2% of the Twitterverse is conservative #

Shrub, proxy for Amazon S3 with RSS, JSON, and Muxtape-style output — for sharing S3 buckets with the world; more from the creator #

Cisco accidentally removes all letter "T"s from official homepage — regex gone awry (via) #

Justin Ouellette on the meteoric rise and fall of Muxtape — I'm surprised there aren't invite-only Muxtape clones, flying under the RIAA's radar (via) #

Inside a North Korean video arcade — I love the modded Aero City cabinet #

Current TV partners with Twitter to broadcast tweets on live presidential debate broadcast — the first real-time backchannel on live TV? #

Vimeo Toys, real-time interactive visualizations of Vimeo social activity — I'd love to see new comments appear as word balloons in Vimeo Land (via) #

A Car's Life, interactive game built on YouTube annotations — they claim it's the first, but this Spanish adventure game came out in July (via) #

David Letterman on John McCain's cancelled appearance tonight — leaked video, expect this one to disappear shortly; the live feed of him talking to Katie Couric is pretty damning #

Dominoes Made of Dominoes — note the one column of blue trying to hold out (via) #

Hardcore "Claymates" respond to Clay Aiken coming out of the closet — a strange mix of heartbreak, support, and disgust (via) #

Suzanne Vega talks about Tom's Diner, remix culture, and being the "mother of the MP3" — Karlheinz Brandenburg used the 1984 song to help debug the MP3 codec #

Wario Ware Inc: Doc Brown's Microgames — much better (via) #

Larry Lessig's analysis of Sarah Palin's experience — in this very important presentation, he examines every single VP in history to see how she stacks up #

Superconducting maglev toy train — needs more Doc Brown (via) #

Abe Vigoda still alive — thanks for the update, CNN; also, Twitter, Facebook, and single-serving #

Parsons students design Little Big Planet levels — the scale of the Shadow of the Colossus-inspired creature is insane #

Bernanke/Paulson FAIL — is it just me, or am I seeing more of current net culture leaking into mainstream media? (via) #

Nintendo's Wario Land meta-ad destroys YouTube UI — inspired by the HEMA ad? try dragging the UI elements around at the end #

Google Maps adds NYC public transit directions — finally! not perfect yet, but HopStop must be panicking a bit #

SweetAfton23's MyHope — "I hope your MySpace stays forever... and I hope that your kids find it" #

Dragon's Lair walkthrough using YouTube annotations — impressive! now, will someone make it playable with clickable annotations? #

Boxer, Mac-friendly DOS emulation — built on DOSBox, perfect for playing classic DOS games (via) #

Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2008 — detailed demographic study and analysis from Technorati's index, five parts posted over the next five days #

Zen Bound, serene rope-twisting game, coming to the iPhone — based on Moppi's Zen Bondage for the PC, released in 2005 #

Versionista, track changes to any website — the author's writing a political column for Slate; sadly, his background is in nasty SEO software #

MixTube, Muxtape-like playlists built on public YouTube videos — who needs video? #

The NO!SPEC campaign vs. crowdSPRING — the same group of design pros that attacked the very promising Pixish #

Robot Chicken on Excitebike — anus shattering (via) #

Z-Rox, like Flatland as a Flash game — trains your mind to think in 2D #

Google Goatse t-shirt — classic, I bought one #

The Pirate Bay hits 15 million unique simultaneous peers — has any other illegal behavior been this mainstream in history? update: from my readers, alcohol (during Prohibition), speeding, marijuana, and sodomy #

Hoshi Saga 3 — don't miss the first two in the series #

Clay Shirky on information overload filter failure — speculative Web 2.0 keynote says fixing overload requires a shift in social norms #

Bill O'Reilly on Sarah Palin's hacked email and the First Amendment — related: someone hacked into the O'Reilly Factor's admin interface two days ago #

Daft Punk's "Something About Us" on Nintendo DS, vocoder, and theremin — the LED display was added in post-production #

Wine Library's Gary Vaynerchuk at Web 2.0 — I could care less about wine, but I absolutely adore this guy #

Stack Overflow on favorite programming-related cartoons — they're doing some interesting things with reputation, like gaining points to acquire new powers #

Star Simpson speaks out for the first time about her Boston Airport "hoax device" ordeal — her year-long battle's over, and chose Boing Boing to tell her story because they had the most responsible news coverage #

Dan Hanna's Daily Photo Aging Project — the mother of all photo-a-day projects, he shot himself front-to-back for 17 years #

Google adds pirate translation for Talk Like A Pirate Day — be ye feelin' lucky? #

TechCrunch posts the three new Microsoft "I'm A PC" ads — much better than the Seinfeld ads #