Yahtzee Goes to the GDC — very entertaining videos created for the awards show #

Obay Unveiled — Torontoist gets official word from the people behind the ad campaign #

Human Giant, Paul's Time Machine — yay, drunk Waxy Linking! #

I Wanna Be The Guy! — viciously hard Windows platformer with a pastiche of retro games; here's one attempt (via) #

Microsoft announces Xbox Live Community — anyone who pays $99/year for the development kit can submit games for review #

Phun, 2D physics playground — like a freeform Crayon Physics (via) #

The Soul of the Sims — Will Wright's prototype code from 1997 #

Perry Bible Fellowship creator retiring weekly comic strip — switching to periodic updates, which makes more sense for a cartoon like his #

BME interviews man who deliberately amputated his right hand — he felt it was a birth defect, so staged an accident with a power tool (via) #

Torontoist on Obay, mysterious billboard campaign — good research into this cleverly-designed viral campaign #

Lawyers representing gold farmers threaten MMO blogger — nice summary; here's one archive of the original post, now removed #

Video: Jammin' the Blues, 1944 — historic jazz session with sublime performances and gorgeous direction (via) #

Yahoo! filters The Pirate Bay from search results? — a strange move, since people are looking for it constantly #

File Destructor 2.0 — create a corrupted file to send in when you're missing deadline; old, but new to me (via) #

California judge forces Wikileaks.org DNS entries removed — a tactic I've never seen before, the site is still accessible by IP address or multiple mirrors (via) #

Hoax analyst haunts earning calls — this is wonderful, like mundane performance art (via) #

POV-Ray Short Code Contest #5 Winners — creating a ray-traced animation in only 512 characters; see the other rounds (via) #

Kottke's Single Serving Sites — this meme is his new bicycle #

Oscillofy, turn any image into sound — inspired by my oscilloscope hacks entry #

Rex Sorgatz interviews Adrian Holovaty about EveryBlock — excellent interview addresses a bunch of questions I had about the site #

Quake II ported to the Nintendo DS — impressive feat; from the same guy who ported the first Quake (via) #

Video: Chris Vincze's "EVOL" — love in a backwards world (via) #

Rejected valentines from Shoebox Greetings — "I love everything about you... except the things we've already discussed" (via) #

Love blossoms in the lab — it shouldn't be a surprise that romantic love is chemically similar to OCD #

4 Color Rebellion's video game valentines — their Tetris valentine from 2006 became a cult favorite #

MMOG Charts updated — World of Warcraft hits the 10M subscription mark and still exploding #

The Cernettes' "Surfin' on the Web" from 1992 — the band formed at CERN next door to Tim Berners-Lee's office #

We Now Conclude Our Broadcast Day — collection of TV signoff videos #

How Cool Impacts Technology Adoption  #

Jason Scott's final words on The King of Kong — very long, absolutely essential reading; gives tremendous insight into the repercussions of documentary filmmaking #

Spongebob cast dubs classic movies — Nickelodeon meets The Godfather (via) #

Wired founder Louis Rossetto responds to Rex's Wired 1.1 tribute — some fascinating history; I totally agree with him about the innovative design #

EnerJar — DIY power meter measures output of your electrical devices (via) #

john.he.is — parody of the will.i.am "Yes We Can" video #

Derek Powazek launches Pixish — instead of commissioning art or buying stock photos, allows anyone to run a Threadless-like design contest for cash #

Rewind Kindly, contest to create 5-minute-long no-budget film remakes — in the spirit of Be Kind Rewind's sweding method #

Political contributions from tech companies — Google loves Obama, Microsoft loves Hillary, and Yahoo! employees hang on to their money (via) #

The Aimee Mann Christmas Trilogy — "you should do that one song you have about being really depressed" (via) #

Wired's mirroring all the St. Sanders videos — take that, Yngwie #

Previously on Lost — band recaps each episode in song (via) #

TorrentFreedom to offer completely anonymous and unrestricted BitTorrent — built on top of OpenVPN, the pay service bypasses any firewall and keeps no identifying logs, including billing #

Randy Newman, San Francisco 1972 bootleg MP3s — what an odd site; Singapore e-zine posts rare bootlegs weekly #

Niall's technique for sniffing browser history to customize pages — I'd only seen this used for evil before #

Mike Dailly's concept art from the design of Lemmings — including the original animation that inspired the game; there's much more FROM DMA, too (via) #

Smugmug addresses some privacy issues — all new galleries get keys appended to the incremented URLs #

The RICHH Archive — Usenet legend's brilliantly funny writings #

Wired 1.1: An Archaeology — Rex looks back on the first issue of Wired 15 years later #

Yahoo! Live, multi-user video chat — server's getting slammed right now, but I'm surprised to say, it's pretty fun to use with friends #

Yngwie Malmsteen shreds with the New Japan Philharmonic — the video that got Yngwie so pissed, he had Santori's YouTube account shut down #

Video: The making of Brent Spiner's second album, Dreamland — I just found out the followup to his 1991 debut was announced right before my entry; nice timing! #