2008
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December 2008
- Wikipedia over DNS
- Leap year bug caused every 30GB Zune to crash at 2am this morning
- Metafilter's exhaustive tour of the early origins of Adult Swim
- Infochimps' massive scrape of Twitter's friend network
- The Lonely Island's We Like Sportz
- Niall Kennedy documents the undocumented Google Reader API
- Sakurako Shimizu's Waveform Jewelry
- Fimoculous' 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008
- DJ Earworm's United State of Pop 2008
- Twit 4 Dead, four Twitter bots fight zombies in real-time
- Facebook sentiment mining predicts presidential polls
- Giganews reports Usenet upload growth since 2001
- List of Starbucks employee jargon
- Rocketboom covers the history of the Lip Dub
- Jennifer 8. Lee on the history of General Tso's Chicken
- Top 20 freeware games released by Cactus, this year
- Paul and Storm finish their 25 Days of Randy Newman
- AutoPager, infinite scrolling for Firefox
- Net Cafe archives, dot-com nostalgia TV show from 1996-2002
- The Offworld's best indie and overlooked games of 2008
- Left 4k Dead
- NORAD's Santa Tracker on Twitter
- ScummVM adds support for 7th Guest
- Double Fine's Psychopedia, official Psychonauts encyclopedia
- Achievement Unlocked
- Map visualizations from BBC's Britain from Above
- Twitter Venn
- Lore Sjoberg's Secret Origins of Santa Claus
- Digging into groupsquatting on Facebook
- Most Images Of Fish Sandwiches Looked At In One Minute
- Aviary, web-based image editing suite, goes public beta
- Touch Arcade reviews Rolando for the iPhone
- Pitchfork interviews The Lonely Island
- NY Times' Represent, find your elected representatives in NYC
- The Pianocktail, a piano that mixes drinks based on what you play
- Yahoo! Query Language
- Mightier, indie game lets you design levels with pen and paper
- Paul Graham on the end of credentials
- Michael Bywater writes about his father's dignified death
- Brady Forrest on the incredible growth of Open Street Map
- YouTube adds new HD section
- Flickr adds snow, Santa hats/beards for the holidays
- Australian court allows legal papers served via Facebook private messaging
- New HD videos of Noby Noby Boy gameplay footage
- Most Emailed News
- 13-year old Guitar Hero phenom's flawless win on "Devil Went Down to Georgia"
- Evolution of the WordPress interface from 2003-2008
- MTV greenlights CollegeHumor TV show
- James Surowiecki on why newspapers are hurting
- Twelve Days of EFF
- Chris Han's Love Songs, mashup of 33 songs with "love" in the title
- Flickr designer George Oates on her insane layoff from Yahoo!
- Stanley Kubrick's Boxes
- Siam Waxy
- 1UP's exclusive preview of Noby Noby Boy, new game by Katamari Damacy creator
- MusicBox, mapping and visualizing music collections
- Parry Gripp's Young Girl Talking About Herself
- The BennyHillifier
- People who inspired pop songs
- Antville's Best Music Videos of 2008
- Snowstorm, customizable Javascript snow for your website
- I Love Katamari comes to the iPhone
- New York Times' Year in Ideas 2008
- Rara Racer, meta racing game in the form of a YouTube playthrough
- Parkour in the 1930s
- Chef, an esoteric programming language where source resembles recipes
- Jeff Atwood on Swoopo, the most evil shopping site ever
- RoboCop Rap
- Jessica Delfino's I Wanna Be Famous
- Metro Rules of Conduct
- Fetal monitor lets baby twitter kick activity from the womb
- Michal Kosakowski's Just Like the Movies
- 40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes
- Is This Your Paper on Single Serving Sites?
- Library of Congress releases report on success of Flickr Commons
- Bleed the World
- Sol Sender on the evolution of the Obama '08 logo
- The Majesty of Colors
- Dennis Jerz on Google Maps' "Report a Concern" wording on Street View
- WordPress 2.7 released
- Cartoon Particles
- David Rosen's design tour of Knytt Stories
- Image Evolution, evolve your own image with Javascript
- Yahoo! closing Brickhouse by end of year
- How the Perceptron music recommender weights its data sources
- ATMachine's House of LucasArts and Sierra Oddities
- Anil Dash on his night sleeping in the Guggenheim
- Popular Science magazine archives from 1872-2008 on Google Book Search
- Google's Native Client, run x86 apps in the browser
- Text Message Disaster
- Things Bears Love
- 8-Bit Jesus
- Genetically evolving a car in real-time with Flash
- How GoDaddy secretly profits from expired domains
- Pulitzer Prize extended to online "newspapers," but not online "magazines"
- Blog comment spam on Mechanical Turk
- Evolving the Mona Lisa
- The Lonely Island's Jizz in My Pants on SNL
- Wikiscanner2 beta
- WSJ on Elvis Costello's "Spectacle" on the Sundance Channel
- POTOtoo, Pirates of the Amazon recreated as a Greasemonkey script
- Kim Rugg's alphabetized newspaper front pages
- Amazon orders Amazon/Pirate Bay Firefox extension offline
- World of Warcraft is more secure than your bank
- Merlin Mann announces his new Amazon blog
- BetamaXmas, celebrate Christmas in December 1988
- Ze Frank on ideas and doing stuff
- Video bootleg of Elvis Costello and Clover's "My Aim Is True" reunion
- Jason Santa Maria asks designers to share their first websites
- Flickr adds videos to iPhone-optimized site
- Curb This
- Remi Gaillard does Mario Kart in real-life
- Evan Williams on what Blogger should do now
- The Onion: Bush Dragged Behind Presidential Motorcade For 26 Blocks
- Tina Fey's pinball past
- AOL to shut down Ficlets fiction-writing community
- Music and the Market, academic paper compares average BPM to stock prices
- Rob Reger responds to the Emily Strange controversy
- Surfing for Seniors, instructional VHS video from 1997
- Prop 8: The Musical
- Browse uploaded photos from Amazon's iPhone app on Mechanical Turk
- Amazon's Turk-powered app for the iPhone to identify product photos
- Sony deleting user-created LittleBigPlanet levels without warning
- YouTube's new video thumbnails to be determined algorithmically
- David Recordon on building OpenID in the browser
- Image and video manipulation in Mathematica 7
- Pirates of the Amazon, Firefox extension adds Pirate Bay links to Amazon listings
- Songbird hits 1.0
- Whole Foods subpoenas New Seasons' financial and marketing records
- Wired on how Dan Kaminsky and a set of DNS all-stars fixed a serious exploit
- The Guardian publishes six unreleased 999 emergency calls
- Jason Nelson's "I Made This. You Play This. We Are Enemies."
- Design lessons from World of Goo
- Magic/Replace
- How Jeremy Keith's Flickr photo ended up in Iron Man
- Six Apart acquires Pownce, which will shut down in two weeks
- Lolcats postcard from 1905
- Kottke on the "broken windows theory" applied to online communities
- The Simpsons takes on Apple
- Give Me Something to Read
- Change.gov switches from copyright to Creative Commons
- Bio-Bak, the portfolio site of Dutch Flash artist Coen Grift
- Emily the Strange character inspired by Nate the Great's Rosamond?
- NYT on Mark Allen and Machine Project at LACMA
- MIDI Hero, Guitar Hero hack with a drum kit
November 2008
- Danah Boyd on Lori Drew's conviction in the Megan Meier suicide case
- Rogue ported to iPhone
- New York Times' visualization of one year of NYC parking tickets
- Helvetireader, minimal Google Reader redesign with Greasemonkey
- The L.A. Times data desk
- Rick Astley rickrolls the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
- Barack Obama's weekly address on YouTube
- Ed Piskor's Wizzywig #2 released
- The Time Machine, an interactive YouTube adventure
- Zoetrope, search and visualize the historical web
- Vinylscrobbler
- William Shatner responds to the new Star Trek film
- Fimoculous' List of Lists 2008
- StateStats, find correlations between search queries and U.S. state characteristics
- Fleet Foxes on La Blogotheque's Take-Away Shows
- Processing hits 1.0
- Bad Hacks, a repository of vulgar ROM hacks
- Kottke on Shaq's first week on Twitter
- John Gruber on the iPhone's deprecation of "http://"
- Twitter acquires Rael Dornfest
- Autographed Zork first edition manual sells for $2,300 on eBay
- Disney World's Haunted Mansion map in Counter-Strike Source
- Doom ported to Flash 10
- Feedback Army, cheap and quick usability testing built on Mechanical Turk
- Esquire profile of Passage creator Jason Rohrer
- YouTube Live's archived highlights
- Freddie Wong responds to the Bike Hero controversy
- Google's collaborative pixel art in Google Spreadsheets
- Perspectives, video interviews with all dialogue removed
- Robbie Cooper's Immersion, heads-on video of kids playing video games
- Clive Thompson's long NYT feature on the the Netflix Prize and singular value decomposition
- Boston College to stop offering email accounts to new students
- Pixel typography from the 16th century
- 19-year-old commits suicide live on Justin.tv
- "Bike Hero" video was Activision's viral marketing, as suspected
- Kottke on Brian Battjer's I Keep A Diary
- Star Trek theme played on a homebrew Wii theremin
- Chicken Head Tracking
- Torben Sko's experiments with camera-tracked head gestures in first-person games
- Cover Browser's collection of every TV Guide magazine cover
- Dr. Awesome game for iPhone lets you perform surgery on your friends
- The Faces of Mechanical Turk
- Metafilter on John Ziegler vs. Nate Silver (and David Foster Wallace)
- Google to shut down Lively next month
- Jack Handey's The Plan
- Snaptell, product lookup for the iPhone
- Interactive augmented reality demo in Flash with Papervision
- Very lucky kid on The Price is Right
- Space Invaders anime video produced for 30th anniversary
- Derek Powazek revives Kvetch! a decade later
- Musicians Get Meta in Guitar Hero and Rock Band
- Bike Hero, biking a Guitar Hero level in the real world
- Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy
- The A.V. Club's 27 popular websites that became books
- Speed Guitar goes to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- MGMT's "Kids" on the iPhone Ocarina
- Mena Trott responds to Valleywag article about their Disneyland vacation
- LIFE Magazine photo archive hosted by Google
- Amazon launches CloudFront, their pay-as-you-go CDN
- John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, and the Long Winters perform "Tonight You Belong to Me"
- Deconstructing Google Mobile's Voice Search on the iPhone
- Jerry Yang stepping down from Yahoo's CEO post
- Woman asks Apple community about an unusual iPhone glitch
- Greasemonkey script to pull WikiDashboard visualization into Wikipedia
- Lee Byron's Fireflies, anaglyph 3D game for Mac
- Flickr Boundaries, tool to explore Flickr's shapefiles
- Cooking Mama, the Unauthorized PETA Edition
- Boing Boing launches gaming blog, Offworld
- "Violet" wins the Interactive Fiction Comp 2008
- Trailer for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek prequel
- What would Depression 2009 look like?
- The Pirate Bay hits 25 million simultaneous peers
- Peter Hirschberg releases Adventure as a free iPhone app
- The Big Picture on the California wildfires
- Tim-Tams available at Target until March, first time available in the U.S.
- JS-909, a Javascript drum machine without Flash
- Esquire's hosting Between, the new two-player networked game by Jason Rohrer
- "What's that buzzing noise from my BBQ?"
- Kottke explains how to embed high-quality YouTube videos
- Web 2.0 Origami
- Pixar's Burn-E short on YouTube
- Valleywag folded into Gawker, all but Owen Thomas laid off
- YouTube engineer adds "Actually Good" tab when viewing Onion video
- MSNBC's Rachel Maddow wears pajamas on-air in solidarity with bloggers
- Jimi Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell, dead at 61
- Brandon Hardesty reenacts Alec Baldwin's Glengarry Glen Ross monologue
- Videos of CNN's election-night countdown globally
- Washington Post blogger shuts down company sending out two-thirds of all spam
- Michael Lewis revisits "Liar's Poker" and writes about the current Wall Street meltdown
- Japanese isometric PSA about the future of food
- QWOP Olympics, ragdoll physics running game
- Sluggo ponders the fundamental question of existence
- LittleBigPlanet's TV commercials, built entirely with the in-game tools
- What We Own and Where It's Made
- Slate on aXXo, the most popular movie distributor on BitTorrent
- The Yes Men pranksters distribute fake New York Times issue across NYC
- where the things in Cloverfield happen
- Google.org tracking flu spread using search queries
- Google Groups expands to search web-based message boards
- "Dark Days" director explains how the Pentagon cancelled his followup film on the Iraq war
- Dark Days, 2000 documentary about NYC homeless living in abandoned train tunnels
- Interview with the NASA writer behind the MarsPhoenix Twitter account
- Touching story of Eugene Allen, a butler who served 34 years in the White House
- Super Mario for Busy People
- Google Reader adds automatic feed translation
- Worst. Bug. Ever.
- CaptionX, multiplayer photo captioning game
- WikiDashboard, Wikipedia mirror with real-time infoviz of edit history
- How many guys in Spider-Man suits can fit inside Jamba Juice?
- Tetris recreated in LittleBigPlanet
- The irRegularGame of Life
- Sugar Cubes
- MS Paint Adventures
- Girl Talk's "I'm A PC" testimonial for Microsoft
- Photoshop in Real-Life
- Get Your War On: New World Order
- 2009 Dance Your Ph.D. Contest
- Stairway to Heaven played on the iPhone Ocarina app
- Spit DNA evidence leads to arrest in Craigslist/inner-tube robbery
- Investigative report into the "Single?" lawn signs across America
- Ze Frank's From 52 to 48 With Love
- Howard Stern rants on blogs, Facebook, and Myspace
- Factory Balls 2
- Salon rounds up the worst election predictions from political pundits
- Colbert and Stewart talk about Twitter
- Jim Ray's collection of election night homepages
- Channel 101's Sony commercials
- United Features' website goes free, including every Peanuts strip
- Mark Newman's 2008 election maps and cartograms
- South Park's "About Last Night…"
- Tim Schafer releases Grim Fandango's 70-page design document
- Newsweek's exclusive Election 2008 report, embargoed behind-the-scenes story from both campaigns
- Giraffes!
- The Onion: Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress
- Sean Tevis, the xkcd candidate for Kansas state rep, discusses last night's loss
- Kottke's collection of election maps
- xkcd on the end of the election
- Video of CNN's first hologram interview
- 99 Bricks, like Tetris meets World of Goo
- Yes We Did
- Voting machines elect voting machine as President
- CNN to interview 3D hologram guests on tonight's election coverage
- ABC News streaming raw video feed on Ustream.tv
- Philipp rounds up every YouTube video I've ever linked to
- How Nate Phelps escaped the Most Hated Family in America
- Nate Silver's guide to what to watch for on election night
- NYT's Choosing A President: A Look Back
- LittleBigPlanet as a Shmup
- Yahoo! Live to go offline
- Rob Manuel's I-Spot Internet Humour
- Spot.us, crowdfunded journalism
- Ras Trent, the complete lyrics
- 10 Years of Textfiles
October 2008
- The Turker's Gospel
- MTV censors names of P2P apps from Weird Al video
- Lorna Mills' class on outsider net.art from 4chan to Nasty Nets
- YouTube Meta-Art
- ReConstitution 2008, live infoviz remix of the 2008 presidential debates
- Rescue Princess 2.0, ways to make web apps more game-like
- Trailer for Touchgrind, multitouch skateboarding game for the iPhone
- Google's Halloween robots.txt
- Shoot the Player
- Heart made of gears
- Polifics, the Election '08 Fanfiction community
- A funny thing happens when you copy/paste this character…
- Banksy's Village Petstore & Charcoal Grill
- Flickr now offering shape boundaries for 150,000 places
- The Amazing True Story of Disaster Girl
- You Can Vote However You Like
- CNN asks voters to say something nice about the other guy
- James Kochalka hits 10 years of drawing American Elf
- JSSpeccy, a ZX Spectrum emulator in Javascript
- Larry Lessig on California's Proposition 8
- Errol Morris on the history of real-people political ads
- Girl Talk's Feed the Animals: The Official Sample List
- WTF, Broccoli: Part Two
- Free Candy!
- West Virginia vote flipping caught on tape
- Errol Morris launches People in the Middle for Obama
- Mega Man 9 stop-motion with paper
- Christian Science Monitor to go web-only in April 2009
- The Presidential Debates, Synchronized
- NYT launches Movie Reviews API
- The Unfinished Swan, beautiful indie game in an all-white world
- Cursebird
- Anil Dash on Palin's use of folksy language to subvert criticism
- Google strikes deal with book publishers, creates Book Rights Registry
- François Macré's Thriller, an a cappella rendition in 64 parts
- Flaming Lips' Guitar Hero double-necked guitar mod
- MTV Music, huge music video collection with a Hulu-like interface
- Gunman Kills 15 Potential Voters In Crucial Swing State
- Flickr's Rev. Dan Catt on RjDj for the iPhone as augmented reality
- Epic "Thriller" lipdub by French college students
- Gentrify, help San Francisco urban elite find places to live
- Meet Inbetween Us
- Kevin Kelly on the evidence of a global superorganism
- Prince of Persia creator posts first video shoot from 1985
- NYT writer invites 700 Facebook "friends" to a party, one shows up
- Using the NYT Campaign Finance Data API with Google Spreadsheets
- GreenDot Project, identifying humans with body language
- Flight404's Processing flocking experiment turned into $235 Paul Smith shirt
- Generating domain names with Markov chains
- China Channel, Firefox extension let users browse behind China's firewall
- Fred Armisen shows off Weekend Update's new megapixel giant touch map
- CNN's Anderson Cooper experiments with "virtual pie chart"
- AC/DC releases ASCII music video in Microsoft Excel
- Google Earth for the iPhone
- Typeface.js, rendering Truetype fonts with Javascript, Canvas, and VML
- YouTube adds linking to video timecodes
- Tasha's Impossible Ransom of Rage
- NYT on the Hitler "Downfall" remixes
- Ill Doctrine's "A Poem for the Youth Voter"
- Wikipedia DVD available for free by BitTorrent
- Nerdy Robot Playing A Vectrex
- Geography of newspaper endorsements for the 2008 election
- Visualizing bias on political blogs linking to the Ashley Todd hoax story
- rlax, Flash game to remove the top piece
- Remote Impact, multiplayer distance shadowboxing
- Wassup 2008
- Little Boots' Tenori-On cover of Hot Chip's "Ready for the Floor"
- Turn Your Name Into A Face
- Jason Scott on Blu-Ray's mandatory DRM for indie filmmakers
- Garamond Powerline
- Trailer for "RiP: A Remix Manifesto," documentary on remix culture
- Matt Haughey explains how to get the nerd vote
- ZIP File Quine
- Derek Powazek shuts down Pixish
- DOTS Gloves
- Woman gets fastest time at Nike Women's Marathon, loses race
- WTF, Broccoli?
- Macs vs. PCs, the Musical
- Penelope Trott's Best Baby Halloween Costume Ever
- Domai.nr, find domains with wac.ky TLDs beyond .com and .net
- Interviewing the anonymous Twitterers behind FakeJohnMcCain, FakeSarahPalin and FakeJoeBiden
- LittleBigPlanet delayed because of Qur'an verses in background music
- Mygazines shuts down after publisher lawsuits
- Qwitter, get alerts when people unfollow you on Twitter
- McCain and Obama do standup comedy at the Al Smith dinner
- Vimeo launches paid option
- Slate Magazine on the rise of FAIL
- Andrew Sullivan's "Why I Blog"
- The New Yorker challenges xkcd to a Cartoon-Off
- Forumwarz Episode 2 is live!
- Barack Obama meets Joe the Plumber
- First episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from January 1999
- Lexical analysis of the 2008 presidential and VP debates
- Batman debates The Penguin
- Tears for Fears' "Head Over Heels": Literal Video Version
- Newzbin preparing for litigation
- Bluegrass musician plays banjo during his brain surgery
- Kongregate Labs tutorial for creating a side-scrolling shooter in Flash
- Scraping Wikipedia data with Google Spreadsheets and Yahoo! Pipes
- RjDj, reactive generative music app for the iPhone
- Midori-san, the blogging houseplant
- Frotzophone, making music with interactive fiction
- New York Magazine's long profile of FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver
- New York Times releases Campaign Finance API
- New York and the Panic of 1873
- Splatter art exhibit depicts Looney Tunes character murder
- Doodlebuzz, typographic news explorer
- Jeremy Freese's Violet, entry for the IF Comp 2008
- Colleen Venable's connect-the-dots giraffe tattoo
- MoneyTalks, listen to stock prices rise and fall
- iminlikewithyou launches open API for multiplayer games
- Roundup of 84 knockoffs of Shepard Fairey's iconic Obama poster
- World of Goo is released to the public
- Simon Carless on Why LittleBigPlanet Is Web 2.0 For Games, Fulfilled
- Academic paper studying knowledge sharing in Yahoo! Answers (PDF)
- Halfbakery suggests naming recessions after people, like hurricanes
- Ultima creator Richard Garriott launched into space
- Moral psychology testing on Amazon Mechanical Turk
- Conplot, a commandline plotter with ASCII art
- Preview of Gomibako, like Tetris with garbage
- Drew on the financial crisis
- Gary Vaynerchuk on recession-proof marketing and dumb advertising
- You Fell Asleep Watching A DVD
- Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey
- Content-aware scaling in Photoshop CS4
- Unicode Snowman for You
- Tuttuki Bako, poke virtual characters in a little box
- Kevin Mitnick on the indictment of Sarah Palin's email hacker
- Portal: Prelude, extensive fan-made Portal mod, released a day early
- Inspired by xkcd comic, YouTube adds audio previews for comments
- NYT to close International Herald Tribune website
- Steven Levy visits Jay Walker's insane personal library
- Yahoo! Calendar finally, finally launches redesign
- Chuck Klosterman's Brief History of the 21st Century
- YouTube in Super HD!
- Little Big Computer, a virtual electronic 8-bit calculator built in Little Big Planet
- Mail Goggles, Gmail tries to prevent late-night drunk emails
- DJ Z-Trip's Obama Mix
- This American Life's Another Frightening Show About the Economy
- Take on Me: The Literal Version
- TIGSource's Bootleg Demake competition winners
- Sarah Palin's evening gown entry to the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant
- Damn It Feels Good To Be a Banksta
- The Big Picture on Yann Arthus-Bertrand's Earth from Above photographs
- Keith Loutit's tilt-shifted time-lapse videos
- The VP Debate on Auto-Tune
- Flickr adds rainbow-vomiting panda feature to Explore
- Fring, make Skype calls for the iPhone
- Sippey's idea for restaurants to help diners split the bill
- One Metafilter user's personal anecdote about Paul Newman
- Weird Al to release songs on iTunes as soon as he's recorded them
- Slate releases Poll Tracker app for the iPhone
- NYT's interactive VP debate transcript
- Dan Aykroyd pimps vodka in a crystal skull
- Interactive Fiction Competition 2008 entries released!
- Cave Story coming to WiiWare with exclusive new content
- Laser Portraits
- Obama campaign releases official iPhone app
- Nintendo announces new DSi with camera, web browser, downloadable games
- Dabbleboard, social whiteboard drawing tool
- Webmonkey on the clickjacking IFRAME exploit
- The Money Meltdown, excellent primer to the current mess
- Google Blog Search launches new Techmeme-like homepage
- Dexter ad campaign spoofs Wired, Esquire, New Yorker magazine covers
- Visual History of Recessions since 1949
- Dan Rather interviews FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver
- Apple lifts iPhone NDA, developers rejoice
- Netflix launches public Javascript, Atom, REST APIs
- Routefinder, analog mapping wristwatch from the 1920s
- Sarah Palin plays the flute in Miss Alaska pageant
- Splicd, permalink to a YouTube timecode
September 2008
- Try Google Search as it looked in January 2001
- Rososo, the peaceful newsreader
- Twitter's Biz Stone charts popular terms tweeted during the presidential debate
- I Wish I Were the Moon
- SF Gate's profile on Flickr community manager Heather Champ
- Very Small Array visualizes #1 hit singles by genre, geographic origin, and song length
- Metafilter user tracks down the lead singer of Sonseed, the Christian ska band
- xkcd draws the universe from top to bottom, on a logarithmic scale
- Footage from Sarah Palin's 1984 Miss Alaska swimsuit competition
- Twitter Elections
- Found Footage: Sarah Palin's 1984 Miss Alaska Pageant Video, Swimsuit Competition
- Shrub, proxy for Amazon S3 with RSS, JSON, and Muxtape-style output
- Cisco accidentally removes all letter "T"s from official homepage
- Justin Ouellette on the meteoric rise and fall of Muxtape
- Inside a North Korean video arcade
- Current TV partners with Twitter to broadcast tweets on live presidential debate broadcast
- Vimeo Toys, real-time interactive visualizations of Vimeo social activity
- A Car's Life, interactive game built on YouTube annotations
- David Letterman on John McCain's cancelled appearance tonight
- Dominoes Made of Dominoes
- Hardcore "Claymates" respond to Clay Aiken coming out of the closet
- Suzanne Vega talks about Tom's Diner, remix culture, and being the "mother of the MP3"
- Wario Ware Inc: Doc Brown's Microgames
- Larry Lessig's analysis of Sarah Palin's experience
- Superconducting maglev toy train
- Abe Vigoda still alive
- Parsons students design Little Big Planet levels
- Bernanke/Paulson FAIL
- Nintendo's Wario Land meta-ad destroys YouTube UI
- Google Maps adds NYC public transit directions
- Kickstarter
- SweetAfton23's MyHope
- Dragon's Lair walkthrough using YouTube annotations
- Boxer, Mac-friendly DOS emulation
- Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2008
- Zen Bound, serene rope-twisting game, coming to the iPhone
- Versionista, track changes to any website
- MixTube, Muxtape-like playlists built on public YouTube videos
- The NO!SPEC campaign vs. crowdSPRING
- Cheap, Easy Audio Transcription with Mechanical Turk
- Robot Chicken on Excitebike
- Z-Rox, like Flatland as a Flash game
- Google Goatse t-shirt
- The Pirate Bay hits 15 million unique simultaneous peers
- Hoshi Saga 3
- Clay Shirky on information overload filter failure
- Bill O'Reilly on Sarah Palin's hacked email and the First Amendment
- Daft Punk's "Something About Us" on Nintendo DS, vocoder, and theremin
- Wine Library's Gary Vaynerchuk at Web 2.0
- Stack Overflow on favorite programming-related cartoons
- Star Simpson speaks out for the first time about her Boston Airport "hoax device" ordeal
- Interview with David Winton, Director of "Code Rush" Mozilla Documentary
- Dan Hanna's Daily Photo Aging Project
- Google adds pirate translation for Talk Like A Pirate Day
- TechCrunch posts the three new Microsoft "I'm A PC" ads
- Sergey Brin starts blogging
- Twitter launches redesign
- 4chan member explains the Sarah Palin hacking
- Inside Obama's Gmail Account
- Ben Walker's "You're No One If You're Not On Twitter"
- Sarah Palin's Yahoo! Mail account hacked, password posted to 4chan
- Crazy rumor of the day: Google to buy Valve Software?
- Artemis Fowl author asked by Douglas Adams's widow to write new Hitchhiker's novel
- Atari Modern Classics
- Summary of Pew Internet survey of teen gaming habits
- Fifty People, One Question
- Oddpost Co-Founder Launches Bandcamp, Publishing Platform for Musicians
- Soulja Boy reviews Braid
- Cabel Sasser tracks down Sonseed's full album
- Portal: Prelude trailer, fan-made Portal prequel
- Google Audio Indexing
- Wild Beasts' music video using the Droste effect
- Gruber debunks excuses for Apple's removal of the Podcaster app from App Store
- Pakimono, bizarre Mac game about streaking
- Ninja Cat
- Meme Breaks 1.0, famous Internet memes in turntable-friendly format
- Everymoment Now, charting election news coverage
- Hip-hop songs that sampled video games
- Computability: Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows' Computer Video from 1984
- David Foster Wallace, dead at 46
- Every Filter
- Joshua Schachter's Mechanical Turk experiment with behavioral economics
- Redrawing the Obama/McCain tax plan chart to scale
- The Big Picture on the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games
- Adam Kimmel's Claremont HD, downhill skateboard speedrun
- PleaseDressMe, the t-shirt search engine
- The Mountain Goats and Kaki King's "Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is in Another Castle"
- Anil Dash on September 11, Seven Years Later
- When Algorithms Attack
- Dopplr open-sources their "find and invite" feature
- Bioshock creator Ken Levine talks about growing up nerdy in the '70s
- EepyBird's Sticky Note Experiment
- Seth MacFarlane's AdSense Cartoons Now Available
- Hands-on demo video of the Plastic Logic Reader
- OiNK admin charged with "conspiracy to defraud"
- TIGSource's brilliant Bootleg Demakes game dev competition
- Heroes in Guitarland, NES-style remake of Guitar Hero
- Super 3D Portals 6, remaking Portal for the Atari 2600
- Why do people participate in Mechanical Turk?
- Road Trip: Southwest USA
- Sasha Frere-Jones on the use of laptops in live music
- Being a List of Songs Related to the Switching-On of the LHC
- Freestyle Rap Battle, Translated
- Simon Carless announces FingerGaming, new iPhone gaming blog
- Schulze & Webb commercially releasing the Availabot
- World Names Profiler, find people with your last name globally
- Little Hands, documentary short vocalizes the daily conversation of deaf children
- Atmosphir, collaborative 3D platform designer
- Girl Turk: Mechanical Turk Meets Girl Talk's "Feed the Animals"
- MoreCowbell.dj, add cowbell to any MP3
- FlowingData announces winners of the Personal Visualization Project
- Adam Savage inhales sulphur hexafluoride
- Google Turns 20, speculative fiction by Philipp Lenssen
- Audio Puzzler, game that creates timestamped audio transcripts
- Rock Paper Shotgun on the Spore anti-DRM activism on Amazon
- John McCain gets BarackRoll'd
- Craigslist Missed Connections, Visualized
- Bloons Tower Defense 3
- Viddler's 15 Seconds, short videos twittered
- Bre Pettis's pilot on history hacking coming to History Channel on September 26
- Microsoft debuts new Vista ad with Gates and Seinfeld
- Jason Scott on Phil Lapsley's upcoming book on the history of phone phreaking
- Metallica thrilled new album leaked online a week early
- PDF Format's 8-bit cover of the Beach Boys' "God Only Knows"
- John McCain and Tina Fey's LIFE cover photo from September 2004
- Tomorrow Museum on Elitism in the 2008 Elections
- Unplug Your Friends, Meetup.com's viral video about "screen addiction"
- Amazon's Mechanical Turk used for fraudulent activity
- The American People
- The Reemvoweler
- New Yorker's candid profile of Alec Baldwin
- "about:internets" Easter egg in Google Chrome
- Wired documenting the development of a feature article in real-time
- Aether, thoughtful art game from Gish artist
- Picasa adds facial recognition for tagging photos
- Google leaks details on Google Chrome, new open-source browser
August 2008
- Adam Savage's "Obsession with the Dodo Bird" from the Last HOPE
- GameSetWatch's roundup of NVScene's demoscene contest
- Bush covers REM's "The End of the World As We Know It"
- Koyaanisqatsi, 1982 film about urban life, technology, and nature
- First public release of Gazelle, open-source software for BitTorrent communities
- McCain's prickly TIME interview
- WolfenFlickr 3D, mashing up Wolfenstein with Flickr's Javascript API
- John McCain's POW Bros.
- Net mob searches for iPhone girl's identity
- Roz Savage, on 95th day of solo trans-Pacific row, approaches Hawaii
- Bubble flow chart of things to say during sex
- Larry Lessig on McCain's technology policy
- The inspiration behind Guns n' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle"
- Introducing the Chinese to fortune cookies
- iPhone password useless; allows full access to contacts, email, and web
- YouTube on letting copyright holders make money from infringing videos
- Scott Campbell's 8-bit Showdowns
- Soulja Boy on getting his Myspace account hacked by 4chan
- Aza Raskin on Mozilla's Ubiquity
- The untold story of Lucasart's two cancelled Full Throttle sequels
- Rihanna takes on the Numa Numa song in T.I.'s "Live Your Life"
- OpenTape, open-source Muxtape clone
- Brian "Boom Goes the Dynamite" Collins back on the air
- Aviary's How to Draw Anything in One Step
- Burning Man's Black Rock City on Flickr Maps
- X Girls Y Cups
- AIGA designs a better ballot
- Tris, free Tetris clone for iPhone, pulled over copyright claim
- Hands On A Hard Body, full-length documentary from 1997
- 10 Zen Monkeys interviews Mat Honan on "Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle"
- Approval Ratings: The Public vs. McCain
- YouTube Comment Snob, Firefox extension hides idiotic comments
- Lenticular portraits of YouTube memes
- Richard Nixon's Piano Concerto #1
- Metafilter's collection of US presidential campaign commercials from 1958-1998
- BoomBot
- MySQLGame, multiplayer database manipulation game
- Chromeo goes to Daryl Hall's house
- Mycrocosm
- Foxkeh Dance, celebrating 10 years of Hampsterdance and Mozilla
- Bear Creek Apartments
- Dear Lulu, sample book for testing digital printing on Lulu.com
- Daytum, collecting the minutiae of your daily life
- Tom Armitage on what games can learn from social software
- Fleshmap's infographic of body parts mentioned in song lyrics, by genre
- Gamasutra's long oral history of Atari's golden years
- Steven Frank's torn feelings for the iPhone App Store
- Joshua Callaghan's sculptures based on charts & graphs
- Does The New Business Of Music Change The Way Music Sounds?
- The Chameleon, the many lives of Frédéric Bourdin
- Clive Thompson on Weight Watchers as an RPG
- Review of the first three SSH clients for the iPhone
- Ex-Daily Show staffer reveals details about their TiVo setup
- Chicago Tribune Magazine's cover story on EveryBlock's Adrian Holovaty
- SIGGRAPH 2008 papers on the web
- Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness
- University of Washington team uses static photos to enhance, edit, and modify videos
- Cliffski's response to the game pirates
- Illustrated book of cat stories created with Mechanical Turk
- Constant Setting
- Slate on China's CCTV coverage of the Olympics
- TechCrunch digs up prototype screenshots of Gmail and Google Groups
- Mygazines, community for sharing print magazine scans
- Jason Scott on GIF News, graphical newsletter from 1988-1993
- Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet, full-length chiptune documentary freely viewable for one week only
- Boss battle lasts over 18 hours, causing players to vomit and pass out from stress
- Coign of Vantage
- Antivirus software fails to detect fresh viruses
- Jason Scott's collection of BBS-era graphics and advertisements
- View from our room in Kauai
- Google Insights shows state-by-state usage of popular websites
- Extreme Toothbrushing
- Frotz interpreter added to iPhone App Store as free download
- David Friedman's suggested design for cut & paste on the iPhone
- Brett Erlich's Viral Video Film School
- Doveman's Footloose
- Pirating the Olympics, Then and Now
- Blue Screen of Death during the Olympic torch-lighting
- Google Translate optimized for iPhone
- Chatroom, short game simulates a post-apocalyptic IRC
- Barack Roll
- Yahoo! Answers tackles a tough question
- Actionsprite's Switch
- AOL starts offering mcom.com email addresses
- The Art of Braid
- New York Times says Girl Talk album "may be illegal"
- Temp Fortress 2
- Fuelly, track gas usage with friends
- Adaptive Path posts second Aurora video
- Jonathan Blow's Braid released to critical raves
- Calvin and Jobs
- Crazy Sprinkler Lady
- The Girl in the Window
- Adaptive Path's Aurora, imagining the future web
- Jason Fortuny gets sued for Craigslist trolling
- Zinc Oxide and You
- Audio Damage's Automaton, audio plugin controlled by cellular automata
- Sneak peek at Google Translation Center
- Microsoft researchers find an average 6.6 degrees of separation between MSN Messenger users
- Merlin Mann on YouTube's "cash gifting" pyramid scheme subculture
- WSJ reporter's sources for "Obama's too skinny for president" article came from trolling Yahoo! Message Boards
- Pigeon plays Tap Tap Revenge on the iPhone
- John Gruber on the NetShare tethering app for the iPhone
- The Last Guy, Japanese game turns any website into a battlefield
- The Big Picture on CERN's Large Hadron Collider
- Tube Adventures, Spanish interactive adventure game on YouTube
- Get Your War On, the first animated episode
July 2008
- NYT Magazine on Internet trolls and lulz culture
- Michael Wesch's Anthropological Introduction to YouTube
- Del.icio.us 2.0 goes live as Delicious.com
- YouTube introduces text search for political videos
- Librarian responds to complaint about "Uncle Bobby's Wedding"
- Deerhoof releases new single as sheet music, asks people to record their versions
- Caterina Fake joins Hunch.com as CPO
- Speed Racer Video Mosaic
- Judge Judy taping interrupted by L.A. earthquake
- Diesel Sweeties leaves unprofitable print syndication, back to web-only
- 12 Glowing Men
- Don Hodges explains how to control the barrels in Donkey Kong
- Bowser's Minions
- Candid Camera-style show sends "Ugly Americans" to Parisian cafes, records results
- Amazon redesigns Mechanical Turk with web-based creation tools
- OSCON in 37 minutes
- fl0wer gameplay from E3 2008
- Waiter Rant reveals his identity on eve of book tour
- So Open It Hurts
- Derek Powazek's 10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments
- Metafilter on the end of Wired Magazine's Found column
- Phillip Toledano's Days with My Father
- LA Times on Sean Tevis' XKCD-inspired fundraising comic
- Innocent People Should Never Talk to the Police
- Waverly Flams and the Magic Pants
- GOOD Magazine on "vampire energy," power consumed in standby mode
- Internal Apple video from 1987 predicts the year 1997, with tongue in cheek
- Recursive Motivational Poster
- Vimeo decides to ban and delete gaming videos
- NYT's roundup of home electricity monitoring tech
- StupidFilter goes beta, releases code
- College Humor's montage of top 10 eye-gouging scenes
- It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future
- Charles & Ray Eames' "A Computer Glossary" from 1968
- Mondo 2000's RU Sirius banned from Facebook for using a pseudonym
- Journey's new album released on a pre-loaded, branded MP3 player
- Embracing the backchannel at the Start conference
- Google hits one trillion URLs indexed
- Flowing Data redesigns a bar chart
- Randy Pausch, R.I.P.
- New Yorker digs into California's medical marijuana industry
- Tarantino's Mind
- Rush plays "Tom Sawyer" on Rock Band
- The Onion interviews Mike Patton on videogames
- Amir's Super Mega Burn
- The Balcony Is Closed
- The Onion's Random Roles with Teri Garr
- Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'
- Jeffrey McManus runs the numbers on Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
- QA Deathmatch
- Fox News affiliate tries product placement with fake McDonald's iced coffees
- GameBridge, Jabber/XMPP bot for Z-Machine, MUSH, and other text games
- I-Fluid, PC game pilots a water droplet through a kitchen
- Friendfeed and Flickr
- 43 Folders on iPhone security
- Baby's First Internet
- Something Awful tries the 5-minute microwave chocolate cake recipe
- Multiplayer Minesweeper
- Cliche Watch: Pushing over the Leaning Tower of Pisa
- The Quirkbook
- Jane McGonigal on Werewolf at Foo Camp 2008
- Google interviews the creators of WarGames
- Logan Aube's Hockey Night theme
- Sean Tevis is running for Kansas State Representative, XKCD-style
- How to Fake Being a Wine Snob
- The Economist responds to Freakonomics co-author's pasty/pastry mixup
- Mike Arrington interviews Evan Williams at Foo Camp
- Rick Trooper
- Mocha VNC Lite, free VNC client for the iPhone
- Annalee Newitz on Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog
- The Sound of Young America Live interviews Ze Frank
- Defender of the favicon
- Twitter officially acquires Summize
- Deep Note, the Guitar Hero bot
- Unofficial RSS feed of newly-added App Store applications
- Daily Mail tries to unmask Banksy's secret identity
- Trailer for August, indie drama about the dot-com bubble
- Lee Byron maps walkability in San Francisco
- Radiohead releases dataset for House of Cards video
- Preview video of Last.fm's iPhone app
- Wall-E Down to Earth
- Ask the Pilot covers his recent experiences with the TSA
- Techcrunch runs the numbers on App Store's first day pre-sales
- Patton Oswalt's commencement speech at his old high school
- I Eat Beats
- Journalist examines America's rail system on an 85-hour trip from NYC to Oakland
- Bush jokes about America's pollution record to G8 world leaders
- iPhone 3G or Millionaire
- Flickr user hit by lightning while recording a rainstorm
- Wall Street Journal on 4chan and YTMND
- Snarkmarket on John Culberson, the Twittering Congressman
- iTunes 7.7 and iPhone 2.0 software released with App Store update
- Tapulous' Mike Lee on launching three of App Store's biggest releases
- Schrödinger's Cat Was Probably Nicer Than Mine
- All You Need Is epMotion
- Google Image Search in real life
- Fractal Robots, robots building robots
- Western Spaghetti, new stop-motion short by PES
- Warren Ellis on the post-curation years
- Thsrs, the shorter thesaurus
- Square Enix's Song Summoner turns your iPod tracks into playable characters
- Handwritten Typographers
- Improv Everywhere's Human Mirror
- Google launches Lively, their Second Life-ish virtual world
- 12:01 PM, time-travel short film from 1990
- The Quiet Earth
- Wil Shipley's Greatest Bug of All
- Exposure, third-party Flickr app announced for App Store
- The iPhone's Gaming Mettle
- How It Turned Out, the fate of the Peanuts gang
- Google ASCII Art
- Totem Destroyer
- Wii-style controls for the Commodore 64
- R. Lee Ermey on VB.NET
- Thumber, OS X app for making one-second movie mosaics
- Rabble on the gentrification of geek news communities
- Lee Byron's bubbly infographic in the New York Times
- I Met the Walrus, Oscar-nominated animated short
- Zoomii, bookstore-like interface for browsing Amazon
- Adrian Holovaty duets with himself on gypsy-jazz Super Mario Bros. 2 theme
- Segagaga, the Sega game about Sega from 2001
- "I'm not here to make friends."
- Pixar and Courtney, the girl who cried at Wall-E
- BlockOn, procedural freeware game by Cactus
- Showbiz Pizza's Robot Band in MGMT's Electric Feel video
- John McCain on user interface design
- Oh No My Money
- Trailer for The Rock-afire Explosion
- Better Than the Van
- Cabel's roundup of fireworks packaging design
- TED releases the top 10 most-viewed talks
- Features are a one-way street
- Amazon EC2 used to distribute spam, malware
- Rolando, Loco Roco clone for App Store
- Fox News alters photos of NYT reporter in critical segment
- Flowing Data's infographic history of Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest
- The Last Days of Dr. Wily
- Boing Boing responds to "that Violet Blue thing"
June 2008
- Netflix team decides to keep Profiles after community backlash
- Aza Raskin announces Algorithm Ink and ContextFree.js, making art with Javascript
- Chuck Klosterman asks 100 German college students to name the most interesting 20th Century American
- Anil Dash on Bill Gates and The Greatest Tech Hack Ever
- Josh Harris tells Boing Boing that Pseudo.com was conceptual art
- Habbo Hotel may soon overtake World of Warcraft's total subscribers
- GlaGPS, GlaDOS voice for the Garmin Nuvi
- Visualizing 4.5 years of Flickr with code_swarm
- No Country for Raising Arizona
- LA Times on YouTube's Fred
- There's No Such Thing As New Wave
- Sound Chaser
- Tom Taylor's Delighting with Data
- Electronic Arts veteran starts iPhone-only gaming startup
- Last.fm launches new public API
- One Post Wonder
- Google releases data dump of US copyright renewal records
- Nintendo DS homebrew music apps
- Winners of the Procedural Generation Game competition
- Boing Boing removes over 100 70 posts linking to Violet Blue
- Biotech firm Analtech creates viral video to attract the youngsters
- Anonymous Yahoo employee snarks on the re-org
- Kevn Kelly on brute-forcing science
- Wall-E's easter eggs and inside jokes
- Waxy on Vacation
- The Paper Version of the Web
- Exaggeration with Maps
- Metafilter's Guide to Indie Platformers
- The Simpsons map for Quake III Arena
- Perfect game of Peggle, 18 million points
- Gamasutra on Nintendo DS piracy in South Korea
- Jim Le Fevre's zoetrope built from a Technics turntable
- Kanye West on Ice-T vs. Soulja Boy
- "Where the Hell is Matt?", the 2008 sequel in HD quality
- Study: Most Children Strongly Opposed To Children's Healthcare
- Simple Truths, a quiet video of parkour training
- Ian Rogers unveils Topspin, his digital music marketing startup
- History of the TiVo peanut remote control
- Chop Shop's The Internets meme t-shirt, annotated
- Limbo Of The Lost – An Astonishing Tale
- Interview with Alan Taylor, Creator of Boston Globe's The Big Picture
- The Onion AV Club interviews Jonathan Coulton's iPod
- Penny Arcade on Lego fruit snacks
- Edith Macefield, Ballard woman who refused to sell her home, passes away at 86
- Girl Talk's Feed the Animals, outstanding illegal mashup album
- First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival from 1979
- Earliest recordings of computer music revealed
- Firefox 3's robot easter egg
- Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno predict unthinkable futures from 1993
- Twittering Teddy, Teddy Ruxpin modded to speak real-time tweets
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The Abridged Script
- Researchers cure skin cancer with 5 billion of patient's cloned cells
- Puzzle Farter
- A Beginner's Guide to Spore Porn
- Brand New on McCain's logo redesign
- Stewart Butterfield's resignation letter
- Tumblr, the Documentary
- George Dyson's The Birth of the Computer
- Kevin Kelly on the extinction of edge-notched cards
- Stewart and Caterina leave Flickr
- The Industry Standard's Where Are They Now?
- Alex Wright on Paul Otlet and his Mundaneum proto-web
- Spore Creature Creator trial now available for PC/Mac
- Teach the Controversy t-shirts
- Code Rush, the Mozilla Documentary from 2000
- Quirks, the 1980 board-game equivalent of Spore
- Assassin's Creed in real-life
- MagCloud, magazines printed on demand from PDFs
- Pentadact highlights some Spore Creature Creator creations
- FlowingData on using RescueTime to stop procrastinating
- Montage of girls giving the "Myspace salute" to verify their identity
- IMDB Film-Length Project
- Tron Guy on his disappointing nomination for Bravo's A-List Awards
- code_swarm, animated visualizations of major open-source projects
- Verizon offers details of Usenet deletion
- Afro Ninja: The Movie
- Jonathan Coulton's Washy Ad Jeffy
- Garkov, Garfield plus Markov chains
- Neave Analglyph, doodle with 3D glasses
- The Right Hand Didn't Know
- Smashing Magazine's free fonts of the month
- NYC architect turns apartment remodel into an elaborate 18-clue puzzle
- Another Dang Garfield Cartoon
- Yahoo! testing a redesigned logo
- Office worker freakout was a viral video fake
- Stabilized video collages on Flickr
- Gummi Lighthouses
- How many sequels were there?
- An animated meditation on Procrastination
- Wordle
- Insane News Man
- Algorithm Ink in Javascript
- The Onion on "World of World of Warcraft"
- Phillip Toledano's portraits of Phone Sex Operators
- Design Patterns for Reputation
- xkcd's Fields Arranged by Purity
- BMW's GINA concept car, with a flexible fabric skin
- Scribbls, very funny drawing community game-thing
- Spammers using pump-and-dump stock spam to short Amazon
- 2D Google Maps driving simulator
- Is Google Making Us Stupid?
- Apple posted video of the WWDC keynote
- Live streaming audio of the WWDC keynote
- The Machine That Changed the World: The World at Your Fingertips
- Age of Conan griefing fun and games
- Case study of redesigning the new Wells Fargo ATM user experience
- McDonald's Line Rider commercial
- The Machine That Changed the World: The Thinking Machine
- The Machine That Changed the World: The Paperback Computer
- Every brand and company mentioned in the Sex and the City film
- What Newspapers Still Don't Understand About the Web
- Radiohead's "Nude" performed by a ZX Spectrum, dot matrix printer, scanner, and hard disk array
- RepRap prototyping machine achieves self-replication
- Nielsen chart of American video game console usage
- Video tour of Disney World 3D in Google Earth
- Wired interviews You've Been Left Behind creator
- Washington Post profiles one superdelegate's experience in the Democratic primaries
- Gal-Moji, l33t speak for Japanese teen girls
- Kottke on TBS's annoying interstitial promo ads
- Vanity Fair's nine-page oral history of the web
- YouTube adds annotations
- [k]okogiak announces Boston.com's The Big Picture
- The Machine That Changed the World: Inventing the Future
- The Machine That Changed the World: Giant Brains
- "Pork and Beans" acoustic with Tay Zonday
- EveryBlock's "special report" on Operation Crooked Code
- NYT's ombudsman on their controversial op-ed stating Obama's Christianity was apostasy
- Scaring people with Flash's fullScreen
- Read at Work
- NYT interviews Jim Davis about Garfield Minus Garfield
- UK police arrest six former OiNK users
- Coco Wang's Earthquake Strips
- Back to the Future courthouse square destroyed in Universal Studios fire
- The Letter in the Pond
May 2008
- World Without Oil trailer from 2007
- The Sound of Young America interviews comedy legend Jack Handey
- Trailer for The Onion Movie, now on DVD
- FiveThirtyEight, weighted electoral projections
- Dean Kamen's mind-controlled prosthetic arm
- Danah Boyd's "My Long Lost Handwriting" illustrated
- BBC Two's "The Net," Episodes 2 and 5 from 1994
- Trulia Snapshot
- Metagold, a research blog about Nico Nico Douga
- QR-Code Bots, an army of little men convert your URL into QR
- Stitch 2, generate a pixel-art knit cap for purchase
- Roz Savage's blogging her world record solo trip across the Pacific Ocean
- Tegaki, hand-written blogging
- Multiplayer Pong on the iPod touch
- Hello Windows Hello World, Japanese fan song made from Windows system sounds
- Wired's self-retrospective on its 15th anniversary
- Robokill
- Displacements
- Trailer for Guitar Hero: World Tour on the Nintendo DS
- Add Art, Firefox plugin replaces ads with contemporary art
- Internet Love Song
- Paper Console, Pong as a choose your own adventure book
- Tom the Dancing Bug on Disney's eternal copyright
- The Native Faith of Donald
- The eleven-minute Automatic Mario masterpiece
- Interview with the director of Weezer's "Pork and Beans"
- Grabb.it TV, the top 20 music videos for every week from MTV to Napster
- Complete footage of Jason Scott's "Before the LOL" talk at ROFLCon
- "Biggest drawing in the world" art project not real
- The Homebrew Channel, elegant homebrew launcher for the Wii
- Google offers permanent hosting for major Ajax libraries
- Team Genius' Illegal Donkey Kong Remix
- "We Are The World" performed by Japanese celebrity impersonators
- MuxFind, search for songs on Muxtape
- New York Times developing an API
- Philipp Lenssen on historical concepts of collective intelligence
- Microsoft considering removing unpopular games from Xbox Live Arcade
- Parchment, a pure Javascript Z-machine interpreter
- Techdirt on Craigslist's ongoing battle with spammers
- Biggest Drawing in the World
- Weezer's Pork and Beans video is Internet meme madness
- National poll estimates 18 million Americans have been Rickrolled
- Cactus. Cactus cactus.
- Guitar Hero hacker plays Smells Like Teen Spirit without game console
- Philipp Lenssen on using hoax news to boost search rankings
- The New York Times' TimesMachine
- Jamie Livingston's Photo of the Day
- Sneak peek at the new Last.fm redesign
- Star Wars Kid: The Data Dump
- Slow-motion videos of people getting punched in the face
- Offline Oracle Ouija Board
- Huntington Hartford, kooky millionaire, dies at 97
- Mike Sacks' Photos of TV
- Funny Farm
- Amateur footage of the China quake moments after it ended
- 16% of US science teachers are young-Earth creationists
- Chuck Klosterman's list of the most fanatical fanbases
- Errol Morris reveals the backstory behind one Abu Ghraib photograph
- Rory Root, owner of Berkeley's Comic Relief, dead at 50
- How to Use Nico Video
- YouTomb's tracking who ordered YouTube takedowns
- Threadless Prints
- Web Trigrams, visualizing three-word phrases from Google's corpus
- Homer Simpson says, "Beat it, Waxy!"
- SNL's Japanese version of "The Office"
- Music Bounce
- Vice-Presidential Prognosticatin'
- Drew Burrows' virtual girlfriend in bed, a lonely art installation
- Webmonkey relaunches, again
- Garry Kasparov Griefed by Flying Penis
- The London Tower Bridge on Twitter
- Why We Twitter, academic paper from 2007 about microblogging
- Wired News on the new Soulseek client for jailbroken iPhones
- The Whitburn Project: One-Hit Wonders and Pop Longevity
- Bill O'Reilly's Producer
- "Things Younger Than McCain" creator on the subject of ageism
- V8 Engine built out of Lego Mindstorms
- Let's Write a Song with Rivers Cuomo
- Joel Johnson's exhaustive roundup of 25 years of "exergaming"
- George Lucas wanted Indy IV to be "Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men From Mars"
- California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban
- NodeBox, OS X app to create 2D visualizations in Python
- Cubescape, fun tool for building isometric pixel landscapes
- b3ta's Extending Album Art challenge
- Games With A Purpose
- The Whitburn Project: 120 Years of Music Chart History
- MacJesusX
- goodbye, foom
- TwitBuzz
- Simon Stabs
- McSweeney's on good dating advice from a Grand Theft Auto FAQ
- Android Scan, mobile barcode scanner and search utility
- Trailer for Mr. Bounce, an innovative riff on Breakout
- Last.fm Playground
- New Einstein letter elaborates on his views of religion
- Sightseeing in Liberty City
- WalletCards, clever idea to store membership cards on your iPhone
- Christian Mac/PC parody on GodTube
- Sad Trombone
- New Google Reader for the iPhone
- MUTO, an animation on public walls
- Current.tv on Tron Guy at ROFLCon
- BloggerBoard tracks top authors on Techmeme
- Obsessing, a web-based editor for playing with Processing.js
- Yahoo! opens its geo location database to the world
- Things Younger Than John McCain
- PMOG comes out of beta
- Matt Haughey on how PR people should pitch bloggers
- Italians flee Google Street View cameras on streets of Rome
- First-person video of the China 7.7 earthquake
- TinyDB, store tiny data in a tiny URL
- Ian Rogers on Reaper, Justin Frankel's current project
- A Brief History Of Cars Crashing Through Walls On Sitcoms
- Turning the New York Times into a beatbox
- Antville Quarterly, their favorite music videos so far this year
- Gore Verbinski to direct Bioshock film
- Anil Dash's Paste to Win
- John Resig ported Processing to Javascript, using the Canvas element
- Chronotron
- Rock Band hates me
- Piet, a graphical programming language, with source code resembling abstract art
- The Sewer Goblet, The Wu-Tang Clan and the Wu-Tang Baby
- Interview with indie game creator Cactus
- Dino Run
- Kottke on the Yahoo! stock "plunge"
- Interview with astronaut Peggy Whitson about her return to Earth
- SynPet's Newton, 1989 promo video for a personal robot
- Why the Lucky Stiff's Unholy attempt to convert Ruby into Python
- Google's chart of character encoding adoption on the web
- Ben Goldacre debunks the recent "regrown finger" story
- San Diego GOP chairman co-founded warez group Fairlight
- Soundamus
- XSketch, multiplayer Pictionary game
- Ze Frank, Textism, Chip Kidd, and Aviary join The Deck
- Schulze & Webb show off the Olinda prototype
- Twitter typewriter in Second Life
- College Humor's All-Nighter
- Winners of Boing Boing Gadget's 1k contest
- Homer Simpson in CSS, animated
- Jonathan Coulton performs "First of May"
- AT&T wi-fi hotspots now free for iPhone users
- Mena Trott's Wasted on the Young
- Leonard's roundup of the best Web 2.0 presentations
- Grand Theft Auto IV mocks Flickr and tagging
- Damien Jay's Opolis
April 2008
- Tresling, Tetris controlled by arm wrestling
- Paulville, gated communities for Ron Paul supporters
- Rocketboom's coverage of Before the LOL at ROFLCon
- Jason Scott runs the stats on his Goatse hotlinking prank
- Things I Learned About My Dad (in therapy)
- Clustarack's impressive Rube Goldberg contraption
- Antique children's book uses bellows and cones to make sounds
- Google Maps adds Street View for driving directions
- Robot reassembles itself after being broken apart
- Penny Arcade, PVP launch live shows
- Big Fan
- WSJ on Miller Brewing's Brew Blog
- Analysis of malware that creates Blogger spam blogs
- Falindrome
- Mister Bookseller
- Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
- John Resig on Orto, running Java apps in Javascript
- Marc Andreessen's guide to the Microsoft-Yahoo hostile takeover
- Howard Rheingold's footage of a WELL meetup from 1989
- Don Hodges fixed the kill screen bug in Pac-Man
- ROFLCon Live Stream
- Interview with the brains behind 419 Eater
- TypeRacer, multiplayer typing game
- The history of NYC in video games
- Mixwit, mixtape maker from Y Combinator
- Pixel Pour
- How Dave Cassel made $900 writing 300 reviews for Helium's Reward-a-Thon
- Pirate Bay hits 12 million simultaneous peers
- Kyle Bean's The Future of Books
- How Hillary Can Still Win
- Superfan blogger visits the set of The Office
- Color Wars Street View Scavenger Hunt
- Penny Arcade on Twitter
- The Dinosaur Soothsayer
- Chirrp, 8-second voicemail for Twitter
- Wesabe Tips
- BBC Two's Horizon on "The Electronic Frontier" in 1993
- Mighty God King's Atari 2600 games you might have missed
- Human Giant picks the next web-to-TV comedy stars
- Disturbing video of the Golden Eagle throwing goats off cliffs
- Doeo
- A Message to Pennsylvanians from Bill Clinton
- Portishead's Third on Last.fm
- Unreleased Atari 2600, Coleco games found at Oakland flea market
- Project Gazelle open-source tracker debuts on What.cd
- Kevin Kelly interviews musician Robert Rich on the economics of 1,000 True Fans
- Charlie Rose interviews Charlie Rose on technology
- Todd McHatton's Grass-Stained Twilight
- 1977 video explains how the computer graphics in Star Wars were created
- CNN started selling t-shirts with their headlines on it
- David Heinemeier Hansson's Startup School talk on sustainable web startups
- Ohshiit
- Michael Pollan on climate change and carbon footprints
- Google News adds quotation search
- Automating Firefox for Web App Integration
- ZombieURL
- Talking Picture (The Road to Ruin)
- Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- South Park's new episode parodies our Internet dependence
- Kevin Kelly lists his worst predictions
- Let's Tell a Story Together: A History of Interactive Fiction
- Brad Bird's tribute to Ollie Johnston
- LOLGRUES
- Metafilter comment relays a conversation about the origins of man with a 5-year-old
- Ben Heck's custom-made Apple IIgs laptop
- Alpha Twitter
- Oregon state sends cease-and-desists for republishing statutes
- Defamer investigates the Marilyn Monroe sex tape, claims hoax
- Michael Arrington loves the Twitter "block" button
- Youngme/Nowme
- Twilight of the Area Code Master
- Heroes & Villains
- Photorealistic 3D buildings in the new Google Earth
- Django-MMO, open-source clone of Game Neverending
- Winners of the Color Wars rap battle
- Ollie Johnston, the last of Disney's Nine Old Men, passes away at 95
- Fring, a simple Skype/IM/Twitter client for the iPhone
- Time-lapse security cam of Nick White, a man trapped 41 hours in a NYC elevator
- RC car plays Super Mario theme on long line of filled bottles
- I Hate Drake
- Jason Scott analyzes how an Atari Age thread devolves
- Excelsior 1968
- Amazon adds persistent storage to EC2
- Exclusive: Google App Engine ported to Amazon's EC2
- Disney shutting down its Virtual Magic Kingdom MMO
- Numbers Station Bingo
- Download YouTube videos as MP4 files
- Hands Free 3D
- Cartoon Brew on the aborted Yoshifumi Kondo pilot for Little Nemo
- Eric Schwartz' animated Amiga tribute
- The Droste Effect in Packaging
- Martijn Hendriks' "Give Us Today Our Daily Terror"
- Ironic Sans' idea for tactile feedback while driving
- Celebrity Heights
- Chuck Jones' Isolation Studies
- TDD Rickroll
- Jerry Yang and David Filo play Faceball
- Sourcing the 1980s TV bumpers from Justice's DVNO video
- Yahoo! Pipes feed of YouTube channel subscriptions for a user
- Freakonomics guys on the Metafilter vs. YouTube commenters
- Winners of Jay Is Games' Casual Gameplay Comp 5
- Defective Yeti researches the LOST screenplay profanity
- Flickr's buying donuts next Friday for every member in SF who shows up
- Fanboy Supercuts, Obsessive Video Montages
- IFC/Nerve's Top 50 Comedy Sketches
- RSS 2.0 guid is broken by default
- Hulu posts all three seasons of Arrested Development
- No Photos on Flickr!
- Can singing death metal ruin your voice?
- Black & Blue, Quicktime 1.0 sample video from 1992
- Seeing some weirdness in the Waxy.org RSS feed?
- Lies I've told my 3 year old recently
- Waxy.org Redesigns
- Huddle Chat taken offline after cries of plagiarism
- Flickr Video's live!
- Flickr's cheeky acknowledgement of Video support
- Rock Paper Shotgun's roundup of Yoshio Ishii games
- Multiple SIDosis
- Twubble, search for people you might know on Twitter
- Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards
- Friendfeed's Bret Taylor builds a blog CMS on Google App Engine
- Gamasutra catches GamePro (and others) cribbing data without credit
- Official Charlton Heston Postmortem Joke
- Improv Anywhere's Best Little League Game Ever
- Google App Engine
- How OK Go Benefited from Net Neutrality
- Pitchfork.tv goes live
- Ten Thousand Cents
- Imageshack launches free BitTorrent downloading service
- Magic Pen
- You Have to Burn the Rope
- The Making of the Flagpole Sitta lip dub
- fruit mystery, a flash game
- Infochimps, insane collection of open datasets
- Charles Manson's 2005 album released under Creative Commons license
- Adrian Holovaty's jazz acoustic remix of Radiohead's "Nude"
- South Park meets the Internet Stars
- Akon Calls T-Pain
- Mike Gravel's cover of Helter Skelter
- Quest for the Crown
- Metafilter roundup of Paul Green's School of Rock videos
- straightest freehand horizontal one pixel black line contest
- Hoefler & Frere-Jones' Estupido Espezial, a joke version of OCR-A with swashes
- Internet Power Volume 2: Education
- Guncho, a multiplayer IF system based on Inform 7
- Porn for the Blind
- Dropclock, Mac/Windows screensaver
- Blogoscoped has my favorite April 1 joke, so far
- Game Neverending Relaunches
March 2008
- NYT's interactive tribute to the Mad Magazine fold-in
- home.mcom.com is back!
- BBC2's The Net, first episode from April 1994
- Lower back tattoos available at Toys R Us
- Dead Week
- YouTube adds metrics for video uploaders
- TED just posted Clifford Stoll's hypermanic 2006 talk
- FriendFeed releases their API
- Oliver Laric's ↓ ↑
- Smoking Gun reveals LA Times duped by federal inmate's forged FBI documents
- Google removes alleged Chicago drug deal photos from Google Maps
- Tetroid 2012, electronic album of 21 musicians packaged as a Tetris clone
- First demo of Jim Leonard's Monotone
- LA Times interviews Rick Astley about the rickroll phenomenon
- Jason Scott on the Tyranny of the Ratio
- Muxtape
- La Pequeña Hillary Clinton
- Metafilter comments vs. YouTube comments
- Mail Trends, IMAP-based email analysis and visualization
- Rom Check Fail
- Search terms replacing URLs in Japanese advertising
- Bat population dying from mysterious "White Nose Syndrome"
- Paul Robertson releases new film, Kings of Power 4 Billion %
- Pathetic Geek Stories
- NYT Mag on PatientsLikeMe, community and research guide for the sick
- Rock Band for Xbox 360 now selling new songs in-game
- MyMiniCity, SimCity-ish game that grows with passive referral traffic
- PownceFS
- Kotaku's Brian Crescente reviews Super Smash Bros. Brawl
- This Is My Jam
- Simon Willison's Wikinear, Wikipedia pages near your current location
- Clifford Stoll's "The Internet? Bah!" from 1995
- Paul Graham says You Weren't Meant to Have A Boss
- Experimental Gameplay Project shirts and games sold at Target!?
- McCain aide fired for linking Obama video on Twitter
- Olympia School District's Technology Program from 1995
- A Bumper Sticker View into Somebody's Soul
- Fake's You Are Not Dead, A Guide to Modern Living
- Interview with Paul Ford on his 763 six-word SXSW reviews
- Saul Griffith's Wattzon, redefining climate change as an engineering challenge
- Miranda July demonstrates how buttons are made
- Ze Frank on Colorwar 2008
- Video: I Guess You'll Do
- Real-life Portal art in Toronto
- Color Wars on Twitter
- Charles Cumming's The 21 Steps
- Abort, Retry, or EPIC FAIL
- RollTube Firefox extension turns every YouTube video into a RickRoll
- "Hot Hot Sex" Video Removed from YouTube
- Dave Eggers' 826 Project talk at TED
- Six botnets responsible for 85% of all spam
- Ambient Skype
- Video of the BigDog quadruped robot
- Urban exploration photos of Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch
- Chart of random color names provided by Mechanical Turkers
- Internet Power, Volume 1: Flashback to the VHS-Era Web
- Questionaut
- Carrie Brownstein's impressions on leaving SXSW Music
- Jay Is Games' Casual Games 5 entries up for voting and play
- Kate Beaton's History Comics
- HarmoNESica, convert an NES cartridge to a harmonica
- Google Docs' Clippy easter egg
- Streeter's Best Hate Mail Ever
- Mr. Show, The Fairsley Difference
- Chart of organic food companies and their corporate owners
- Jason Rohrer's Game Design Sketchbook
- Scientology critics leak emails endorsing Florida mayoral candidate
- Video: Spy Hunter meets Pontiac commercial
- Retro Sabotage
- Scientology escalates the battle with Anonymous
- "Lost Pig" cleans up at the XYZZY interactive fiction awards
- Eurogamer's review of Barkley, Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden
- Kottke.org turns ten
- Waxweb, the first feature film online
- Jill Sobule reached her goal of $75,000 to fund next album
- Anil Dash on embeddable blog entries
- Interview with a fansubber
- Demo of Melodyne's incredible polyphonic editing tools
- Frauenfelder's lovely eulogy for Eliza creator, Joseph Weizenbaum
- Google Sky, now on the web
- Nice roundup of Twitter visualizations
- The Lost Features of Google
- Paul Ford's six-word reviews of all 763 SXSW MP3s
- Joystiq role-plays a text adventure with Double Fine's Tim Schafer
- Oil paintings inspired by Internet memes
- Bob Ostertag's w00t
- glTrail
- Beginner's guide to Find the Lost Ring, Jane McGonigal's new ARG
- Review of fictional games in Star Trek
- Hyena, scripting language for audio-only one-button games
- Financial Post on Google's death blow to search arbitrage
- Landon Dyer's story of working on Donkey Kong at Atari in the 1980s
- Korg announces synth tools for Nintendo DS
- Matt Webb's Tour of a Fictional Solar System
- Worst Website Ever, Redux
- Mat Honan pretending to twitter SXSW
- Typographica's Favorite Typefaces of 2007
- Evil Gmail backup software charged $30 to steal your password
- Developing 3D games in Microsoft Excel
- Apple announces iPhone SDK and App Store with Spore and Monkey Ball
- Video: Blueberry Garden sneak peek
- You're Not My Father
- Per-capita maps of Starbucks vs. Wal-Mart in the US
- Cultural history of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"
- New gameplay videos for Braid released
- I Am Legend alternate ending
- Rickroll Database
- Tom Coates explains Fire Eagle
- Solving CAPTCHAs for cash
- Interview with the creator of YouTube's new #1 video
- New Video Overtakes "Evolution of Dance" for #1 Spot on YouTube
- Kevin Kelly on 1,000 true fans
- 1975 unboxing ceremony for an FR80 microfilm recorder
- MegaPhone, phone-controlled multiplayer gaming
- Gary Gygax, co-creator of D&D, dead at 69
- Gordon Luk on IE8 and how people perceive big companies
- Neil Gaiman on giving work away for free
- The Other Art of Courtroom Sketch Artists
- Possessed, documentary short about obsessive hoarders
- Worst Website Ever at SXSW Interactive
- Video: Justice's DVNO, homage to 1980s CG bumpers
- Nine Inch Nails' new album released under Creative Commons
- Games imitating war imitating games
- Scene.org 2008 Awards nominees announced
- Haxed by Megahurtz
- Gravitation, an experimental game about balancing work and family
February 2008
- Joni Mitchell’s “The Hissing of Summer Lawns” Demos
- Daily WTF's very funny story about truly awful web security
- Sched.org, the SXSW 2008 scheduler
- Santa Monica Farmer's Market, a First-Person Narrative
- Heaven's Database transcript from Saturday Night Live
- iPhone stopwatch hits 1,000 hours
- Editor fired for strangled-kitty joke slipping into production
- FriendFeed publishes a blog of code check-ins
- One Page Magazine
- The Internet circa 1997 featured on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Project Riff, insane dataset compiled by MST3k fans
- 826 Valencia opens time travel mart in Los Angeles
- Roy Gould presents Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope
- Video: Ernie and Bert go BRUTAL
- Interview with developer of Trism, lovely new iPhone game
- Interview with Susan Bradley, Pixar graphic designer
- My Favorite Liar
- Jason Reitman's "In God We Trust"
- Dead Word, the Word.com archive
- Carl Steadman's Two Solitudes
- His Aim Is Truer, bootleg of historic concert reuniting Elvis Costello with Clover
- Rocketboom's Know Your Meme series
- Greetings from 1993!
- Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
- Jonathan Coulton performs "Still Alive" in Rock Band
- Nestography
- Doom Rickroller
- LimerickDB's Top 150
- Vice Magazine's cover feature on Shintaro Kago
- ForumWarz Postmortem: Interviewing the Game's Creators
- Talking Points Memo becames first blogger to win Polk Award
- Map of social network popularity around the world
- Jake and Amir getting MTV show?
- Hot Topic selling design pirated from popular Threadless shirt
- Fan creates 3.5GB torrent of SXSW 2008 free MP3s
- Boom Blox to include Wiimote head tracking
- Interview with Tay Zonday on "selling out"
- ForumWarz
- Yahtzee Goes to the GDC
- Obay Unveiled
- Still Alive at the Valve Party
- Human Giant, Paul's Time Machine
- The Jonathan Coultons of Gaming
- I Wanna Be The Guy!
- Microsoft announces Xbox Live Community
- Phun, 2D physics playground
- The Soul of the Sims
- Perry Bible Fellowship creator retiring weekly comic strip
- BME interviews man who deliberately amputated his right hand
- Torontoist on Obay, mysterious billboard campaign
- GDC: First Impressions
- Lawyers representing gold farmers threaten MMO blogger
- Video: Jammin' the Blues, 1944
- Yahoo! filters The Pirate Bay from search results?
- File Destructor 2.0
- California judge forces Wikileaks.org DNS entries removed
- Game Developer's Conference 2008
- Hoax analyst haunts earning calls
- POV-Ray Short Code Contest #5 Winners
- Kottke's Single Serving Sites
- Oscillofy, turn any image into sound
- The Online Life of NIU Killer Stephen Kazmierczak
- Rex Sorgatz interviews Adrian Holovaty about EveryBlock
- Quake II ported to the Nintendo DS
- Video: Chris Vincze's "EVOL"
- Rejected valentines from Shoebox Greetings
- Love blossoms in the lab
- 4 Color Rebellion's video game valentines
- Geek Valentines
- MMOG Charts updated
- The Cernettes' "Surfin' on the Web" from 1992
- WIRED and The WELL
- We Now Conclude Our Broadcast Day
- How Cool Impacts Technology Adoption
- Jason Scott's final words on The King of Kong
- Oscilloscope Fun and Games
- Spongebob cast dubs classic movies
- Wired founder Louis Rossetto responds to Rex's Wired 1.1 tribute
- EnerJar
- john.he.is
- Highlights from the British MovieTone Darkweb
- Derek Powazek launches Pixish
- Rewind Kindly, contest to create 5-minute-long no-budget film remakes
- Political contributions from tech companies
- The Aimee Mann Christmas Trilogy
- Wired's mirroring all the St. Sanders videos
- Previously on Lost
- TorrentFreedom to offer completely anonymous and unrestricted BitTorrent
- Randy Newman, San Francisco 1972 bootleg MP3s
- Niall's technique for sniffing browser history to customize pages
- Mike Dailly's concept art from the design of Lemmings
- CNET to Shut Down Consumating
- Smugmug addresses some privacy issues
- The RICHH Archive
- Wired 1.1: An Archaeology
- Yahoo! Live, multi-user video chat
- Yngwie Malmsteen shreds with the New Japan Philharmonic
- Video: The making of Brent Spiner's second album, Dreamland
- Details about a cancelled Naked Gun adventure game from 1997
- Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo join the OpenID Foundation
- The Evolution of Tech Company Logos
- An Assortment of Random Updates, Volume 1
- Trailer for Blip Festival, the chiptune documentary
- Origins of the "Plane on a Treadmill" Meme
- Bully for the 360 adds achievement for kissing 20 boys
- Auto-Tune Abuse in Pop Music
- Akari's Coming Soon page
- Ape Lad's Pappy and the Cryptids
- Matt Webb on Snap, the syndicated next action pattern
- YouTube removes St. Sanders' "Shreds" account
- Twitter stats from Superbowl Sunday
- Groundhog Day screenwriter on the "how long?" question
- 7 Viral Videos You Didn't Know Were Staged
- Pravin Sathe's How You See It
- Kottke's great roundup of time merge media
- Peter Hirschberg opens the doors to his insane new home arcade
- Pirating the 2008 Oscars, Part 2
- Flash: Spin the Black Circle
- Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue
- Jason Scott's scathing critique of The King of Kong
- Eels' 1-second ad for Super Bowl that didn't air
- Hide an image in HTML with CSS3
- Why Leonard Lin's Voting for Barack Obama
- Arcade Fire's "Black Mirror" DIY remixer
- Pirating the 2008 Oscars (Now with 6 Years of Data)
- The Mountain Goats do Super Tuesday
- Dan & Kathryn's Apple //c unboxing
- Dinosaurs & Robots Dispatch #1
- Jason Scott on maximalized pandas
- Cory and Alice's baby girl, Poesy, is born
- Video: Out of Context
- Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward on KCRW
- Drawn Metafilter Comments
- Twenty-Six Types of Animals
- Tweet Scan
- My First Week
- John Gruber's analysis of the Microsoft/Yahoo merger
- Five subtle changes in the event that Microsoft acquires Yahoo!
- Google's Social Graph API
- Brent Spiner's Ol' Yellow Eyes is Back
- Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo!
- Mass Games Human Computer
- Twitter Down Art Collection
- Improv Everywhere's Frozen Grand Central
- Video: Man on the street interviews in Beijing about the U.S. elections
- Mr. Show's Bob Odenkirk created the "Bird Poops in Newscaster's Mouth" video
- Dopplr Raumzeitgeist 2007
January 2008
- Social Media Founders on Undisclosed Mass Promotion
- Adrian Holovaty retires Chicago Crime
- Jason Kottke liveblogged the Mythbusters "plane on a conveyer belt" episode
- Waxy.org: The Times (UK) spamming social media sites
- Tag cloud for the upcoming 2080 State of the Union
- Human Tetris
- Defective Yeti's dead simple Oscar Pool creator
- The story behind Woody Allen's signature typeface
- The Times (UK) Spamming Social Media Sites
- 2 Girls 1 Cup, The Sitcom
- Ellen Page and Michael Cera sing a song about Diablo Cody
- How a deadly BMW M5 crash affected an online community
- Edward Tufte sounds like Gene Simmons
- The real history of woot and w00t
- Hype Machine's 2007 Music Blog Zeitgeist
- Tweetmeme, tracking link popularity in Twitter
- WSJ on Passage, the provocative 5-minute indie game
- Personal Ads of the Digerati
- Colin's Bear Animation
- SmugMug's private photos are public
- Make3D, convert any photo to a dynamic 3D model
- Geek Entertainment TV covers 20 Goto 10's ANSI art show
- Arcade at the Movies
- Game Mod workshop asked non-programmers to mod a Breakout clone in Processing
- Full drum kit as Rock Band controller for Otronicon 2008
- The Heavenly Jukebox, excellent Atlantic Monthly article on digital music from 2000
- Dean Wareham's candid account of his affair with Luna bassist Britta Phillips
- Books That Make You Dumb
- Nathan Rabin finishes his Year of Flops
- Cat On A Dolphin
- Laugh-Out-Loud Cats book released tomorrow
- Entries from the New Yorker's Eustace Tilley redesign contest
- Jill Sobule's fundraiser to make her next album
- TED Jesus Christ God 2008
- Maciej Ceglowski on bedbugs and modafinil
- Baby Instructions
- Vampire Weekend on Blogotheque's Take Away Shows
- Brazilian novelist pirates own books, sees huge increase in sales
- PocketGuitar, virtual guitar for the iPhone
- MP3: David Lee Roth's isolated vocal track from "Runnin' with the Devil"
- 576,000 private Myspace photos leaked to BitTorrent
- EveryBlock launches!
- Ghostface Killah angry at fans for pirating album
- White Whine
- Hardly Working: Office Fantasy
- Early Yahoo and Google (and Brian Lent)
- Jason Scott on the outset of editing GET LAMP
- Metafilter releases infodump of activity data
- Coachella 2008 lineup announced
- Skitch goes into public beta
- DJ Shadow says Happy MLK Day
- JJ Abrams invited Professor Randy "Last Lecture" Pausch to appear in upcoming Star Trek film
- Joel Johnson talks about AT&T's filtering on AT&T show
- NYT on campaign reporting with Twitter
- GameSetWatch on Audiosurf, innovative cross-genre PC game
- Shot-for-shot remake of Journey's "Separate Ways"
- Flickr's new places.find API method
- 8080 terminals playing Portal's "Still Alive"
- Macbook Air's thin obsession
- Crank Dat Soulja Boy, MIT-Style
- Design Police
- Casual vs. hardcore games on Facebook
- Gawker responds to Scientology C&D
- Randy Newman's performance at the Apple keynote
- Philipp Lenssen interviews Ruth Kedar, designer of the Google logo
- Potrzebie System on Google Calculator
- Ze Frank on the closing of the ORG community site
- Feltron Annual Report 2007
- Theinfo.org
- Sad, Sweet One-Act Play, Told Entirely By a Burger King Receipt I Found
- Lasagna Cat
- Ron the Music Maker, the all-star Scientology album
- Nick Denton digs up Tom Cruise's Scientology video
- xkcd's Robot9000 attacks noise in real-time chat
- Urban Mapping opens up neighborhood database
- Erica Sadun's song recognition software for the iPhone
- Superelectronic
- Stupidfilter's random stupid comments
- Music Thing on the "Compendium of Physical Activities"
- How Techmeme Changes Over Time
- Elyse Sewell blogs her violent fight with Shins' keyboardist Martin Crandall
- Army Major Andrew Olmsted's final post
- Adam "Everyware" Greenfield self-publishing his new book
- How to Read Wired Magazine, Revisited
- Video: Excuse Me, Princess
- Game Innovation Database
- Video: Kirby Ferguson on shrinking attention spans
- Flash: Cursor*10
- Scanlation of Shintaro Kago's "Labyrinth"
- DJ Earworm's "United States of Pop"
- Alison Jackson's Confidential photo art exhibit
- Yahoo! Picks of the Week closes after 12 years
- Valve now selling gorgeous Portal shirts
- Branscome International's cringe-inducing Pixar knockoffs
- Kottke posts his Best Links for 2007
- Best freeware games of 2007
- Fret Killer, the mysterious YouTube acoustic guitarist
- Christmas wishbook catalogs on Flickr
- David Cross on accepting the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" role