Review of the first three SSH clients for the iPhone — a fourth, simply called SSH, was added yesterday #

Ex-Daily Show staffer reveals details about their TiVo setup — also, how they research current and archival video (via) #

Chicago Tribune Magazine's cover story on EveryBlock's Adrian Holovaty — Adrian was still wearing makeup from his cover shoot when we ate deep-dish last month #

SIGGRAPH 2008 papers on the web — I could spend all day looking at these #

Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness — also presented at SIGGRAPH: Face Swapping #

University of Washington team uses static photos to enhance, edit, and modify videos — insanely cool video tech demo; don't miss the sign removal at the 6:00 mark (via) #

Cliffski's response to the game pirates — he solicited feedback from people who pirate games, with hundreds of replies (via) #

Illustrated book of cat stories created with Mechanical Turk — experiment idea: can random turkers create a compelling narrative? (via) #

Constant Setting — real-time photos added to Flickr of the sun setting around the world; more from the developer (via) #

Slate on China's CCTV coverage of the Olympics — along with HD quality, perhaps why the Chinese have been dominating torrent activity #

TechCrunch digs up prototype screenshots of Gmail and Google Groups — dating back to 2002, very fun to see how it evolved (via) #

Mygazines, community for sharing print magazine scans — publishers are trying to shut it down, but having trouble with jurisdiction #

Jason Scott on GIF News, graphical newsletter from 1988-1993 — the largest archive of the lovingly-crafted e-zine, now available on Flickr #

Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet, full-length chiptune documentary freely viewable for one week only — watch it before next Friday! #

Boss battle lasts over 18 hours, causing players to vomit and pass out from stress — people paying money to be abused #

Coign of Vantage — rotate playing field with your mouse to assemble icons (via) #

Antivirus software fails to detect fresh viruses — "the criminals are innovating faster than the antivirus vendors can keep up" (via) #

Jason Scott's collection of BBS-era graphics and advertisements — when an 8-bit VGA image was a show of graphical might; culled from cd.textfiles.com, back from the dead #

View from our room in Kauai — or: why updates are even more sporadic for the next 8 days than normal #

Google Insights shows state-by-state usage of popular websites — also: the spread Twitter and YouTube over time #

Extreme Toothbrushing — viewer warning: this is extreme #

Frotz interpreter added to iPhone App Store as free download — with downloadable games from interactive fiction repositories #

David Friedman's suggested design for cut & paste on the iPhone — not as elegant as Adam's, but a clever alternative #

Brett Erlich's Viral Video Film School — entertaining rambles about found footage on YouTube (via) #

Doveman's Footloose — Thomas Bartlett covers the entire album for a friend, with absolutely no irony (via) #

Blue Screen of Death during the Olympic torch-lighting — appeared for a split second in the broadcast, but attendees took photos (via) #

Google Translate optimized for iPhone — with one release, wiping out the need for pocket dictionaries #

Chatroom, short game simulates a post-apocalyptic IRC — Windows-only, great concept for the One Room One Week game design competition #

Barack Roll (via) #

Yahoo! Answers tackles a tough question — perfect example of an incentive system optimized for quantity, not quality #

Actionsprite's Switch — addictive, mindless Flash fun (via) #

AOL starts offering mcom.com email addresses — blast from the past #

The Art of Braid — how the painterly style evolved, with tons of early concept artwork #

New York Times says Girl Talk album "may be illegal" — you don't say! I think the labels are waiting for the physical CD to drop next month #

Temp Fortress 2 — clever machinima built on Team Fortress, spliced with live video #

Fuelly, track gas usage with friends — built by Matt Haughey and Paul Bausch in two weeks using bits of the Metafilter code base #

Adaptive Path posts second Aurora video — a futurific Upcoming is featured, and a G-Man sighting #

Jonathan Blow's Braid released to critical raves — like Portal, it forces you to rethink what you know about platformers; amazing to see how many people complain about the $15 price tag #

Calvin and Jobs — Gizmodo doesn't mention they're from Mad Magazine's July issue (via) #

Crazy Sprinkler Lady — way, way more paranoia on her YouTube page #

The Girl in the Window — horrific story of a little girl raised feral by neglectful parent; don't miss the video slideshow (via) #

Adaptive Path's Aurora, imagining the future web — part of Mozilla Labs' Concept Series #

Jason Fortuny gets sued for Craigslist trolling — I first broke the story two years ago; from his personal statement: "This was never a plan to embarrass people" #

Zinc Oxide and You — from the Kentucky Fried Movie (via) #

Audio Damage's Automaton, audio plugin controlled by cellular automata — Conway's Game of Life as a beatmaker #

Sneak peek at Google Translation Center — get text translated by volunteers and pros, likely designed to improve their automatic translations #

Microsoft researchers find an average 6.6 degrees of separation between MSN Messenger users — they looked at 30 billion conversations from 240 million people to validate Milgram's findings #

Merlin Mann on YouTube's "cash gifting" pyramid scheme subculture — learn more about Cash Duke's Cash Givanation System #

WSJ reporter's sources for "Obama's too skinny for president" article came from trolling Yahoo! Message Boards — I thought the quotes were suspicious this morning, but should've dug deeper (via) #

Pigeon plays Tap Tap Revenge on the iPhone — I'm surprised the beak's conductive enough to register clicks #