Tom Coates explains Fire Eagle — I played with it today and it's very cool; developers only for now, but someone missed that part #

Solving CAPTCHAs for cash — in the year since the entry was posted, the comments became a global marketplace for human captcha solvers (via) #

Kevin Kelly on 1,000 true fans — this model for indie creators is a natural use of the Internet, but still rare #

1975 unboxing ceremony for an FR80 microfilm recorder — from a massive collection of historical computer photos; don't miss Tomorrow's World and Alien (via) #

MegaPhone, phone-controlled multiplayer gaming — tried an early version at Foo, had a blast (via) #

Gary Gygax, co-creator of D&D, dead at 69 — a good game can change the world #

Gordon Luk on IE8 and how people perceive big companies — decisions aren't made by a giant golem named Microsoft, but by the interactions of thousands of individuals #

Neil Gaiman on giving work away for free — he responds to an independent bookseller arguing that it cuts them out of the process (via) #

The Other Art of Courtroom Sketch Artists — David Friedman asked seven of the most popular artists about their other work #

Possessed, documentary short about obsessive hoarders — in streaming HD through Vimeo #

Video: Justice's DVNO, homage to 1980s CG bumpers — full-size Quicktimes, username/password: justice/dvno #

Nine Inch Nails' new album released under Creative Commons — the site's slammed right now, but it comes in a variety of options (via) #

Games imitating war imitating games — that game-like AC-130 gunship video from Afghanistan was turned into a Call of Duty level #

Scene.org 2008 Awards nominees announced — the best of the demoscene #

Haxed by Megahurtz — extremely strange Flash game; level 3 plays over a landscape of scrolling spam emails (via) #

Gravitation, an experimental game about balancing work and family — from the creator of Passage, the pixel game that made people cry (via) #

Daily WTF's very funny story about truly awful web security — they changed the username, but it's still in plaintext in the source! #

Sched.org, the SXSW 2008 scheduler — elegantly designed, with the simplest signup process I've ever seen #

Heaven's Database transcript from Saturday Night Live — no video online that I can find, but the audio sounds like the sketch fell flat (via) #

iPhone stopwatch hits 1,000 hours — 41.666 days later... (via) #

Editor fired for strangled-kitty joke slipping into production — regret the error, indeed #

FriendFeed publishes a blog of code check-ins — common for open-source projects, but I've never seen this done for a web startup #

One Page Magazine — I'd seen the Wired one, but not the rest (via) #

The Internet circa 1997 featured on Buffy the Vampire Slayer — the entire episode is viewable via Hulu on various sites (via) #

Project Riff, insane dataset compiled by MST3k fans — read more about the project (via) #

826 Valencia opens time travel mart in Los Angeles — like their other stores, it's a front for their non-profit writing center (via) #

Roy Gould presents Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope — lovely, it's like Photosynth for the universe (via) #

Video: Ernie and Bert go BRUTAL — a far-out, super-hep swinging drum solo (via) #

Interview with developer of Trism, lovely new iPhone game — buit in only 10 days, it uses the accelerometer to determine how pieces fall #

Interview with Susan Bradley, Pixar graphic designer — among other things, she designed the hand-drawn type in the Ratatouille titles (via) #

My Favorite Liar — a college professor uses a clever technique to focus attention #

Jason Reitman's "In God We Trust" — great little short film about the afterlife from Juno's director #

Dead Word, the Word.com archive — just stumbled on this 1997-era snapshot of Word, apparently captured by net Yoshi Sodeoka #

Carl Steadman's Two Solitudes — love in the early digital age, originally delivered to subscribers as a series of emails in real time #

His Aim Is Truer, bootleg of historic concert reuniting Elvis Costello with Clover — BigO removed the files, but you can download the MP3s or FLACs here #

Rocketboom's Know Your Meme series — surprisingly good, tries to identify running themes in Internet memes #

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early — "we at Diebold will see to it that we properly safeguard the illusion of democracy" (via) #

Jonathan Coulton performs "Still Alive" in Rock Band — backed by Merlin Mann, Leo Laporte, and Veronica Belmont; it's a geekgasm #

Nestography — Adam reads new meanings into NES screenshots #

Doom Rickroller — more powerful than the BFG (via) #

LimerickDB's Top 150 — in particular, I love this one #

Vice Magazine's cover feature on Shintaro Kago — weak interview, but interesting he's getting more attention; don't miss the Labyrinth scanlation #

Talking Points Memo becames first blogger to win Polk Award — too bad the Pulitzer excludes independent journalism outside of newspapers, online or off #

Map of social network popularity around the world — Asia loves Friendster, Russia loves LiveJournal, and Orkut still dominates Latin America (via) #

Jake and Amir getting MTV show? — if true, College Humor secured digital rights, so good news all around #

Hot Topic selling design pirated from popular Threadless shirt — and a low quality ripoff, too; Jess Fink has a right to be irritated (via) #

Fan creates 3.5GB torrent of SXSW 2008 free MP3s — SXSW won't release a torrent this year, so Greg made one himself #

Boom Blox to include Wiimote head tracking — the inventor of the technique didn't get credit or money for it, but he doesn't mind #

Interview with Tay Zonday on "selling out" — he's eloquent, grounded, and philosophical about his fame (via) #

ForumWarz — supremely brilliant browser-based RPG parodying Internet culture; more about the creators #