2009

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December 2009

1. 30 DecAdam Parrish on The Joking Computer
2. 30 DecAnil Dash on the perceived vs. actual value of Twitter's suggested user list
3. 30 DecDemo of Proswitcher, multitasking for jailbroken iPhones
4. 29 DecDJ Earworm's United State of Pop 2009
5. 29 DecPVRBlog's The Decade of DVR
6. 29 DecTuper Tario Tros.
7. 27 DecRobin Sloan's Annabel Scheme
8. 27 DecSlate on Sweden's Christmas Eve tradition of watching a Disney clip show
9. 24 DecCrowdsMachine
10. 24 DecReverse engineering Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up" in Ableton
11. 23 DecAlma
12. 23 Dec4chan founder to speak at TED
13. 23 DecYahoo! to close MyBlogLog next month
14. 22 DecFimoculous's List of Lists 2009
15. 22 DecJonathan Zittrain's "Minds for Sale"
16. 22 DecMetaplace closing January 1
17. 22 DecWired on the Duke Nukem Forever saga
18. 21 DecHP's face-tracking software is racist
19. 21 DecEvery day the same dream
20. 21 DecEd Piskor releases Wizzywig Volume 1 and 2 for free download
21. 20 DecChris Dixon's anatomy of a bad search result
22. 20 DecMultiplayer Basketball
23. 19 Dec_why's Estate
24. 19 DecSwedish Pirate Party launches public Etherpad service
25. 19 DecPomplamoose, "Always in the Season"
26. 18 DecBrowser Pong
27. 18 DecMatt Haughey defends the use of Twitter during personal tragedy
28. 18 Dec70-minute video review of the Phantom Menace
29. 18 DecDresden Codak's Lantern Season
30. 18 DecMichael Johansson's obsessive-compulsive sculpture
31. 18 DecKleptones to release new album for free on January 1 at midnight
32. 18 DecGoogle Maps India evolves driving directions to use local landmarks
33. 17 DecReddit community forms largest Secret Santa gift exchange ever
34. 17 DecMag+, digital magazine UI design concept
35. 17 DecOK To Go
36. 17 DecFacebook Data team releases study on user ethnicity
37. 17 DecGoogle Browser Size
38. 17 DecLet's Enhance
39. 17 DecPlotter Drawings from the 1960s
40. 17 DecDesaturated Santa
41. 17 DecNifflas releases Saira
42. 17 DecCraigslist unblocks Yahoo! Pipes
43. 16 DecColbert joins Alicia Keys on New York State of Mind
44. 16 DecThe LOST Underground Art Show
45. 16 DecInternet Archaeologists Find Ruins of "Friendster" Civilization
46. 16 DecBrandon Boyer's top 10 indie and iPhone games of 2009
47. 16 DecBygone Bureau on the best new blogs of 2009
48. 16 DecCapitol Records sues Vimeo over lip dubs
49. 15 DecHow MC Frontalot quit smoking with Dungeons & Dragons
50. 15 DecTodd McHatton's Christmas Songs
51. 15 DecChristmas Light Hero
52. 14 DecHealth insurers paying Facebook gamers virtual currency to oppose health care reform
53. 11 DecNelson Boles' "This one time…"
54. 11 DecGina Trapani on Dan Bricklin's Note Taker for the iPhone
55. 11 DecMatt Haughey selling PVRBlog.com on eBay
56. 11 DecInteractive Fiction Competition 2009 winners announced
57. 11 DecTeux Deux
58. 11 DecSMBC on the future of generational prejudice
59. 11 DecSuper Pork and Beans All-Stars
60. 11 DecGET LAMP now available for preorder for 25% off until December 31
61. 11 DecBrandon Boyer's top 10 console/handheld games of the year
62. 10 DecNYT's 9th Annual Year in Ideas
63. 10 DecKotaku profiles a young mom addicted to Xbox achievements
64. 10 DecTW1TT3R ART
65. 10 DecJason Louv argues that 4chan is the future of human consciousness
66. 10 DecThe Web Is Large
67. 9 DecFacebook's new privacy controls default to publicly viewable
68. 9 DecPixeljam's Mountain Maniac
69. 8 DecNorman Rockwell's photographic inspiration
70. 8 DecThe Manhattan Tongue Project
71. 8 Dec"Mysterious letters" flood Pennsylvania town
72. 8 DecPanic's lost applications for the Atari 2600
73. 8 DecTarget point-of-sale system uses game mechanics to speed checkout times
74. 8 DecSiON, Flash 10 software synthesizer
75. 8 DecGoogle Chrome launches Mac/Linux betas and support for extensions
76. 8 DecVirgin Galactic unveils first commercial spaceship
77. 7 DecCrunchpad renamed to JooJoo, goes on sale Friday for $499
78. 7 DecDean Allen elaborates on why he shut down Favrd
79. 7 DecWPA Cracker, cloud-based WPA cracking service
80. 7 DecGoogle tests real-time search from Twitter, Facebook, news sources
81. 7 DecBeatles 3000
82. 7 DecDean Allen shuts down Favrd without notice
83. 7 DecEffect Games
84. 4 DecPhoenix on La Blogotheque's Take Away Shows
85. 4 DecMichael Jackson anonymously co-wrote music for Sonic the Hedgehog 3
86. 3 DecPaul Spinrad's unpublished 1988 Ayn Rand "interview" for Wired
87. 3 DecSaid the Gramaphone's 75 Favorite Songs of 2009
88. 3 DecSports Illustrated's design concept for a tablet-based magazine
89. 3 DecGoogle launches Public DNS service
90. 3 DecCutCopyPasteGnome
91. 2 DecToo Much Joy's Tim Quirk details a Warner Bros. royalty statement
92. 2 DecLittle Green Footballs' Charles Johnson no longer identifies with right-wing
93. 2 DecCraigslist blocks Yahoo! Pipes
94. 2 DecMark Coleran's portfolio of fake interface design for films
95. 1 DecGoogle Zeitgeist 2009
96. 1 DecKhoi Vinh on the design of Basic Maths, his new WordPress theme

November 2009

1. 30 NovHollywood vs. New York
2. 30 NovInternal disputes kill the CrunchPad
3. 30 NovAutomatic Mario cover of Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now"
4. 28 NovRoger Avary taken off work furlough, back in prison after Twitter notoriety
5. 26 NovDavid McCandless visualizes the safety/efficacy of the H1N1 vaccine
6. 26 NovA Life Well Wasted episode 5: "Help"
7. 26 NovWaze turns crowdsourced mapping into a game
8. 25 Nov27b/6's David Thorne responds to a client about spec work
9. 25 NovWikileaks releases 573,000 private pager messages from 9/11
10. 25 NovQuake 1 ported to Flash with Alchemy
11. 25 NovNeven Mrgan's Pie Guy, impressive web game for the iPhone
12. 25 NovAn academic history of chiptunes
13. 25 NovJimmy Fallon as Neil Young singing the Fresh Prince theme
14. 24 NovDirector/screenwriter Roger Avary's tweeting his experience of life in jail
15. 24 NovBioshock cosplay at the Georgia Aquarium
16. 24 NovMcSweeney's: Has Bell Invented the "Telegraph Killer"?
17. 23 NovSimon Willison on Node.js
18. 22 NovNicovideo Redirector
19. 22 NovBack to the Future DeLorean mod for Crysis
20. 20 NovRegretsy gets a book deal
21. 20 NovGoogle Chrome OS Demo
22. 20 NovPatrick Moberg's Internet Vices
23. 20 NovCharlotte Gainsbourg and Beck's "Heaven Can Wait"
24. 19 NovYouTube adds machine-translated automatic captions
25. 19 NovMicrosoft tries to patent Edward Tufte's sparklines
26. 19 NovLeonard Lin's Retweet Avatars for Greasemonkey
27. 19 NovWeb-ops god John Allspaw leaves Flickr to join Etsy
28. 19 NovLaptop Steering Wheel Desk
29. 18 NovInterview with Ralph Eggleston, Pixar's production designer on WALL-E
30. 18 NovNSFW: Animated pixel-art video for Flair's "Trucker's Delight"
31. 18 NovNY Observer on Anil Dash's new government 2.0 incubator project
32. 17 NovGoogle's Dan Morrill explains how the Droid autofocus breaks every 24.5 days
33. 17 NovConan O'Brien and Andy Richter on Zach Galifianakis' Between Two Ferns
34. 17 NovThe Pirate Bay shuts down their tracker for good
35. 17 NovHow Darren at Link Machine Go found Belle de Jour's identity five years ago
36. 16 NovICU64, real-time visualization of Commodore 64 memory
37. 16 NovRussell Davies on pretending and "barely games"
38. 16 NovNYT Magazine on the indie gaming movement
39. 16 NovTim O'Reilly on the pending War for the Web
40. 15 NovJason Scott rounds up Geocities' top 10 most popular MIDI files
41. 15 NovMatt Haughey on the discovery of his brain tumor, treatment, and the Internet's response
42. 15 NovBelle de Jour reveals herself after six year of anonymity
43. 14 NovPaul F. Tompkins debates comedy ethics with Improv Everywhere's Charlie Todd
44. 13 NovRogue Amoeba stops iPhone app development after App Store idiocy
45. 13 NovNumb3rs on IRC
46. 13 NovPrank War 8: The Skydiving Prank
47. 13 Nov301 Works, Internet Archive works to preserve URL shortener data
48. 13 NovQuizipedia
49. 12 NovKill Screen, funding a new art magazine about videogames
50. 12 NovAuto-Tune the News on Kanye, Charlie Bit Me, and Balloon Boy
51. 11 NovEyeWriter
52. 11 NovKnow Your Meme on the Autotune meme
53. 11 NovNicholas Felton's visualization of 13 years of CNN.com traffic
54. 10 NovChristian Swinehart's epic Choose Your Own Adventure visualizations
55. 10 NovScenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels' Generous Offer
56. 10 NovTypekit launches
57. 10 NovThe Big Pictr
58. 10 NovTwitter's new Trends API will use Yahoo's WOE for locations
59. 10 NovThe Beatles Never Broke Up
60. 9 NovPaul Rogers draws Name That Movie
61. 9 NovNYT on confusion over how Kiva loans work
62. 8 NovMicrosoft COFEE, digital forensics tool for police, leaks online
63. 7 NovNYT visualizes the unemployment rate for different demographics
64. 7 NovAnother World level ported to Javascript
65. 6 NovBlocktronics' ANSI art tribute to RaDMaN
66. 6 NovAaron Straup-Cope leaves Flickr, joins Stamen Design
67. 6 NovUnreal Engine 3 development kit now free for non-commercial use
68. 6 NovThe Big Picture's series on Martian landscapes
69. 6 NovPreview of McSweeney's Panorama, their one-shot newspaper
70. 6 NovThe Grant-Pattishall Award
71. 6 NovBirdhouse for Your Soul
72. 5 NovGoogle open-sources Closure Tools
73. 5 NovVideo montage of actors speaking the movie's title
74. 5 NovThe Morning News' Cloud of Atlases
75. 5 NovAmerican Airlines fires UX designer for explaining why their UX isn't great
76. 4 NovOverheating, photo series of gadgets thrown through walls
77. 4 NovRicardo Autobahn's The Golden Age of Video
78. 4 NovThe Last Days of Gourmet
79. 4 NovPut This On
80. 4 NovJono Bacon's The Art of Community released for free download under CC license
81. 3 NovEric Testroete's papercraft portrait Halloween costume
82. 3 NovMark Pilgrim's history of the IMG element
83. 3 NovEvery vandalism edit to Nickelback's Wikipedia page
84. 2 NovMike Pusateri's Halloween costume data collection
85. 2 NovXKCD's movie narrative charts

October 2009

1. 31 OctGameCity Squared's 15-Pixel Megamix
2. 29 OctLauren McCarthy's Happiness Hat
3. 29 OctAuto Tune de Nieuws
4. 29 OctFacebook prank memorializes living person
5. 29 Oct2D Boy's pay-what-you-like World of Goo results wrapup
6. 28 OctFreeForm's short film on the Open Internet
7. 28 OctUsing Flickr as a paintbrush
8. 27 OctFootball Hero, three-story-tall Guitar Hero controlled with soccer balls
9. 27 OctChris Ware's Halloween cover and comic for the New Yorker
10. 27 OctInteractive Fiction Competition 2009
11. 27 OctJohn Resig on the serious spam issues with Google Groups lists
12. 27 OctAmazon launches Relational Database Service
13. 27 OctMr. B the Gentleman Rhymer's "A Piece of My Mind"
14. 27 OctGraphic history of newspaper circulations from 1990-2009
15. 27 OctFacebook games analyzed by an MMO player
16. 27 OctPlaying guitar-less Guitar Hero with a muscle-computer interface
17. 26 OctGoogle's Social Search experiment goes live in Labs
18. 26 OctBrandon Boyer's feature on Machinarium's concept artwork
19. 26 OctJonathan Puckey's tool-assisted Delaunay vectorization portraits
20. 26 OctFacebook memorializes profiles for people who have passed away
21. 26 Octxkcd's homage to Geocities
22. 25 OctA literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database
23. 25 OctExplaining the math behind ASCIIp0rtal
24. 24 OctiPhone game developer looks at piracy rates for their app
25. 23 OctHosting Your Windows 7 Torrent Party
26. 23 OctGoogle Reader adds personalized sorting and recommended items
27. 22 OctTorley's review of the Plogue Chipsounds VST plugin
28. 22 OctTSA responds to the "TSA took my son" blogger
29. 22 OctEverything is Terrible's Internet for Kidz
30. 22 OctSmall Worlds
31. 21 OctFlickr adds face tagging
32. 21 OctChinaSmack on Happy Farms, an insanely popular Chinese MMO
33. 20 OctGoogle Street View Guys
34. 20 OctiRobot's morphing blob robot takes its first steps
35. 20 OctMark Pilgrim on his publisher's reaction to the resale of his GNU-licensed book
36. 20 OctSnarkmarket's Robin Sloan posts Twitter's #5,000,000,000 tweet
37. 19 OctPixar intro parody
38. 19 OctTranslating Picture Books: Where the Wild Things Are
39. 17 OctBrandon Hardesty Discovered Something Amazing!
40. 17 OctMachinarium
41. 16 OctNeven Mrgan's tale of the phantom Mint.com account
42. 16 OctRaphaël, JS vector graphics library
43. 16 OctReenacting Pulp Fiction with Google Wave
44. 16 OctScott Baio is a Twitter jackass
45. 16 OctNYT on San Francisco Panorama, McSweeney's one-off newspaper
46. 16 OctJason Scott's The Atomic Level of Porn
47. 15 Oct6-year-old boy floats away in homemade helium balloon
48. 14 OctThe Billion Dollar Gram
49. 14 OctMetafilter user's story of creating the first "Under Construction" animated GIF
50. 14 OctCharles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, and the Computer
51. 14 OctArtwiculate, a Twitter word game
52. 13 OctChris O'Shea's Hand from Above
53. 13 OctUbisoft's career choices for girls
54. 13 OctWhat's Easier to Understand Than Google Wave?
55. 13 Oct10gui
56. 13 OctGuardian gag order lifted after social media explosion
57. 13 OctGoogle launches Building Maker
58. 13 OctGuardian gagged from reporting parliament debate
59. 13 OctSwoopo Profits Greasemonkey Script
60. 13 OctDerek Powazek on SEO
61. 12 OctVisualizing the safety of the HPV vaccine
62. 11 OctBoing Boing Classic
63. 11 OctAudio Analysis of the Beatles Multitrack Masters
64. 10 OctTeam Fortress 2's Prop Hunt mod
65. 9 OctJason Scott on the Geocities' Under Construction image archive
66. 9 OctBitTorrent communities using CSS history hack to ban users
67. 9 OctGame Informer's exclusive coverage of Epic Mickey, Warren Spector's dystopic Disney game for the Wii
68. 8 OctVolkswagen turns a Stockholm subway staircase into a piano
69. 8 OctThe Art and Motion of Beatles: Rock Band
70. 8 OctBrandon Boyer on the end of Offworld, my favorite gaming blog
71. 7 OctVideo: Generating speech with a piano
72. 6 OctGizmodo on Photosketch
73. 6 OctLaw & Order SVU features Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
74. 5 OctAaron Swartz posts his FBI file
75. 5 OctFTC requires bloggers to disclose freebies or payments for reviews
76. 2 OctRev. Dan Catt interviews Kids on DSP
77. 2 OctDark stalking on Facebook
78. 2 OctGoogle removes Pirate Bay homepage from search results
79. 1 OctCharlie Brooker's Gameswipe
80. 1 OctCabel Sasser and the Kashiwa Mystery Cafe

September 2009

1. 30 SepSophie Blackall's illustrated Craigslist Missed Connections
2. 30 SepNerdrock band uses entire Zork walkthrough as lyrics
3. 30 SepGoogle Docs adds free OCR conversion API
4. 30 SepOs Gameboys' Super Mario Bros. medley
5. 29 SepOKCupid's analysis of race and religion in online dating
6. 29 SepEd Champion edits every product mention from a single Jay Leno show
7. 28 SepFall on Your Sword's Back to the Ship
8. 28 SepWe Are Colorblind
9. 27 SepDan Bull responds to Lily Allen's anti-filesharing drama
10. 24 SepPomplamoose's cut-up Single Ladies cover
11. 24 SepDocumentCloud adds MSNBC, New Yorker, Trib, WaPo, and more to primary-source news database
12. 24 SepHipster He-Man
13. 24 SepOne sentence contained in every HTML tag in alphabetical order
14. 24 SepNo Signal
15. 23 SepNokia to buy Dopplr?
16. 23 SepCabel Sasser remixes the Windows 7 Party marketing video
17. 23 SepASCIIpOrtal released for Windows, Mac, Linux
18. 22 SepFlickr gallery of the Sydney dust storm
19. 22 SepChrome Frame plugin turns Internet Explorer into Chrome
20. 22 SepPaul Ohm on anonymization and reidentification of the Netflix Prize 2 dataset
21. 21 SepIcycle, ride a tricycle naked through the next Ice Age
22. 19 SepEmoji Dick
23. 18 SepFan replaces nearly every sound in Half-Life 2 with his own voice
24. 18 SepSquarePixelz, collection of five vintage videogame films
25. 17 SepTime Fcuk
26. 17 SepDeep Green, the pool-playing robot
27. 17 SepList of all 22,802 spawnable objects in Scribblenauts
28. 17 SepScientists cure colorblindness in monkeys with gene therapy
29. 17 SepMonetizing the Hate
30. 16 SepIncredible, awesome, amazing Apple keynote
31. 16 SepChristopher Niemann's Good Night and Tough Luck
32. 16 SepKhoi Vinh's Craigslist redesign for Wired
33. 15 SepNick Montfort's Interactive Fiction suggestions for Fall 2009
34. 15 SepModern Pixel Art
35. 15 SepLukas Biewald demonstrates CrowdFlower
36. 15 SepOK Cupid analyzes 500,000 intro emails to give online dating advice
37. 14 SepBook Titles If They Were Written Today
38. 14 SepInfinite Mario AI contest winner releases source code
39. 14 SepPhiladelphia shutting down all public libraries in October
40. 14 SepFacebook pranks Techcrunch with a working "fax this photo" feature
41. 14 SepStamen and Radian 6's MTV VMA visualization of Twitter activity
42. 13 SepJustin Hall on shutting down PMOG and starting Dictator Wars
43. 11 SepEverything Is Terrible's Advanced DOS Strategies
44. 11 SepUK PM issues official apology for persecution of Alan Turing
45. 11 SepLlamasoft's vintage footage from 1980s computer conventions
46. 10 SepHow one team tracked down missing Wired reporter Evan Ratliff
47. 10 SepGoogle's undocumented embeddable PDF viewer
48. 8 SepBirds on the Wires
49. 8 SepDesigning a Popularity Algorithm
50. 8 SepAdam Mathes compares "new entry" UIs on blogging services
51. 8 SepThe Hierarchy of Digital Distractions
52. 7 SepO'Reilly ends Etech conference
53. 6 SepC64 emulator for the iPhone approved by Apple
54. 5 SepPiano instrumental version of Auto-Tune the News #2
55. 5 SepGawker crowdsources Russian translation of GQ's Putin article
56. 4 SepMC Frontalot releases "Diseases of Yore" single featuring Jonathan Coulton
57. 4 SepThe Beach Boys' rehearsals from 1967
58. 4 SepExtensive photo study of corridors in sci-fi movies
59. 4 SepJapanese programmers' hidden gossip in 8-bit Famicom games
60. 4 SepWhat the Internet Knows About You
61. 4 SepBen Fry visualizes changes to Darwin's Origin of Species over time
62. 4 SepSmule and T-Pain release auto-tune app for the iPhone
63. 3 SepBen Lee, Lou Barlow release new Noise Addict album for free
64. 3 SepDerek Yu's Spelunky hits 1.0
65. 3 SepInfomercial Hell
66. 3 SepAuto-Tune the News #8
67. 3 SepAT&T dumps Kevin Mitnick as a customer
68. 2 SepGameCyte on the history and psychology of game achievements
69. 2 SepRobin Sloan's Google Adwords experiment for naming fictional characters
70. 2 SepVerizon the latest ISP to close free Usenet access
71. 2 SepMedia outlets paying sources in Dugard
72. 1 SepSunlight Labs
73. 1 SepCanabalt
74. 1 SepDavid McCandless visualizes recent swine flu activity
75. 1 SepNPR on the end of Reading Rainbow

August 2009

1. 31 AugPretweeting
2. 31 AugMoldover's circuit board CD packaging
3. 28 AugDooce's washer saga
4. 28 AugWorldwide Lexicon's Firefox Translator
5. 28 AugMorph by Skylined
6. 28 AugGoogle search for "ASCII art"
7. 28 AugYelp iPhone app adds augmented reality easter egg
8. 26 AugLA Times profile of Jani, a 6-year-old girl with early onset schizophrenia
9. 26 AugVisualization of time travel plots in popular TV and film
10. 26 AugTile Drawer
11. 26 AugWikipedia to trial moderated edits for articles about living people
12. 24 AugThe Pirate Bay forced offline by Swedish authorities
13. 24 AugTypedia, encyclopedia of typefaces
14. 24 AugBill Wyman on why newspapers are failing
15. 24 Augxkcd's Tech Support Flowchart
16. 23 AugGabe Askew's fan-made video for Grizzly Bear's "Two Weeks"
17. 23 Aug8-Bit Trip, insane stop-motion Lego film
18. 23 AugUltimate Muscle Roller Legend (mildly NSFW)
19. 23 AugBokode
20. 23 AugThe Boy Who Heard Too Much
21. 23 Aug4chan users launch embarrassing attack on Christian Facebook users
22. 23 Augtldr, app to visualize discussions on Reddit
23. 21 AugPaul Ford's Unicode Table for You
24. 21 AugTipjoy shuts down
25. 21 AugKit Williams reunited with Masquerade's treasure after 30 years
26. 21 AugTwitter adding geocoded tweets
27. 21 AugUncanny parallels between Avatar and Delgo
28. 21 AugTanaka's Friendly Adventure on Kongregate
29. 21 AugThe Grownup's Guide to Indie Rock
30. 21 AugStudy finds smaller banner ads more effective than skyscrapers
31. 20 AugMark Pilgrim's preview of Dive Into HTML 5
32. 20 AugPirate Bay torrent archive spawns a clone
33. 20 AugOne-time stock photo model tracks her own sightings
34. 20 AugNewly-discovered Disneyland home movies from 1956
35. 20 AugLongest Poem in the World
36. 20 AugKind of Bloop On Sale
37. 20 AugMatt Thompson on the missing parts of news coverage
38. 20 AugCodepad
39. 20 AugFig. 8
40. 19 AugAaron Zinman's Personas
41. 19 AugJohn Resig's eulogy for _why
42. 19 AugHacker/artist _why the lucky stiff deletes projects, online presence
43. 19 AugShnabubula's alternate-reality Super Mario World medley
44. 19 AugNeven Mrgan on Zingerman's product illustrations
45. 18 AugInternet University
46. 18 AugJoanne McNeil on the Daily Death
47. 18 AugDinosaur Comics meets Twitter
48. 18 AugSongs from The Point!
49. 17 AugKind of Bloop released!
50. 17 AugMSNBC acquires EveryBlock
51. 17 AugPirate Bay backup archive available on Pirate Bay
52. 15 AugArs Technica on how ICANN's fees killed domain tasting
53. 15 AugTimeline visualization of global media scares
54. 15 AugOffworld's gallery of vintage videogame factories
55. 14 AugDinner at El Bulli
56. 14 AugYahoo shuts down Term Extraction API
57. 14 AugNieman Journalism Lab's series on the AP's online strategy
58. 14 AugQ-BLOCK, 3D pixel art drawing tool
59. 14 AugTiny Sketch
60. 14 AugRECAP, Firefox extension open-sources public court records
61. 14 AugDistrict 9 director Neill Blomkamp's short films and commercials
62. 13 AugArtist Jon Rafman on Google Street View as art
63. 13 AugKnow Your Meme's t-shirt shop
64. 13 AugMultitask
65. 12 AugHow a Macworld cover is made
66. 12 AugNYT Mag cover story on the making of The Beatles: Rock Band
67. 12 AugSecond Skin, documentary about the real lives of MMO players
68. 12 AugBackUpMy.net, online backup of blogs, tweets, mail, and photos
69. 12 AugSilent Conversation
70. 12 AugHow the Soduko Grab sudoku solver for iPhone works
71. 12 AugMike Sacks interviews Dan Clowes for McSweeney's
72. 11 AugJoshua Schachter's A Tiny Thread, very simple Twitter conversations
73. 11 AugGoogle opens up next-gen search infrastructure for testing
74. 11 AugVisualization of a Choose Your Own Adventure book's outcomes
75. 10 AugFacebook buys FriendFeed
76. 10 AugArs Technica on the worries of high-frequency algorithmic trading
77. 10 AugFull House, Alternate Intro
78. 10 AugTr.im shuts down, breaking millions of shortened links by year's end
79. 9 AugWaterloo Labs' FPS with real-life guns and shovels
80. 8 AugIce T repairs a Macbook Pro
81. 8 AugYou Only Live Once
82. 8 AugReddit user compiles George Sodini's Internet traces
83. 8 AugKate Miller-Heidke's Facebook song
84. 8 AugSteam's Indie Games weekend sale
85. 7 AugKnow Your Meme on Weegee
86. 7 AugSkulpt
87. 7 AugTranslation Party
88. 7 AugVacation '58
89. 7 AugSincerely, John Hughes
90. 6 Aug1944 industrial film about making the Minneapolis Star-Journal
91. 6 AugJohn Gruber on Apple's censorship of the NinjaWords dictionary app
92. 5 AugYour World of Text
93. 4 AugMario AI Competition
94. 4 AugThe Smoking Gun unmasks creators of Pranknet, destructive phone hoax group
95. 4 AugInterview with Home of the Underdogs' creator, Sarinee Achavanuntakul
96. 4 AugSticky Light, interact with lasers without a camera or projector
97. 4 AugEurogamer's feature on Tim Langdell's EDGE trademark trolling
98. 4 AugDelicious adds Twitter integration, new search tools
99. 4 AugFlip Flop Fly Ball, Craig Robinson's baseball infoviz
100. 4 AugBygone Bureau interviews GOOD Magazine's infographic designers
101. 3 AugNYT's visualization of music purchasing trends by format
102. 1 AugTransparency Corps, Sunlight Foundation's crowdsourcing project

July 2009

1. 31 JulJude Buffum's Mushroom Recession
2. 31 JulSam Winston's portfolio of word and letterform art
3. 31 JulGameSetWatch interviews Vector Park's Patrick Smith
4. 31 JulPanic cofounder Steven Frank's quitting the iPhone
5. 31 JulCode Rush in the Creative Commons
6. 30 JulBrent Simmons' anatomy of a feature
7. 30 JulMoneySeize, maddening and addictive Flash platformer
8. 30 JulGolan Levin at TED on using technology to make synesthetic art
9. 30 JulHow to Avoid Ads in Gmail
10. 30 JulLaunch years of today's most popular websites
11. 30 JulYahoo! Developer Network on the Microsoft announcement
12. 29 JulLeaked images from Epic Mickey, dystopian Disney videogame led by Warren Spector
13. 29 JulLoren Carpenter's Vol Libre, fractal CG short film from 1980
14. 29 JulKirrily Robert's OSCON keynote about women in open-source projects
15. 29 JulComputer vision project reconstructs 3D cities/landmarks in hours using Flickr photos
16. 29 JulMark Andrew Webber's six-foot-long linocut typographic map of Paris
17. 29 JulArs Technica on AP's confusion over their own technology
18. 29 JulConan O'Brien & Andy Richter dub "Ghost In The Shell"
19. 29 JulYahoo gives up on search in 10-year Microsoft agreement
20. 29 JulCtrl+F'd, bookmarklet to censor any webpage
21. 28 JulCory Arcangel's YouTube mashup of cats playing Arnold Schoenberg's Op11
22. 28 Jul5-year-old boy performs Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues"
23. 28 JulA Cyst, A Scalpel, and Lots of Beer
24. 28 JulMechanical Turk Diaries
25. 27 JulMoot's update on the now-lifted AT&T block on 4chan
26. 27 JulAndrew Plotkin's talk on rule-based programming in interactive fiction
27. 27 JulPreview demonstration of Spotify's iPhone app
28. 27 JulDisney Imagineer unearths 50 minutes of unseen footage of Disneyland's construction
29. 27 JulAT&T DSL blocks access to 4chan
30. 25 JulAP to crack down on article linking with impossible vaporware
31. 24 JulChicago Public Radio helps indie bands fact-check their Wikipedia entries
32. 24 JulTron Legacy trailer
33. 24 JulJason Scott's uploading five years of 4chan to Archive.org
34. 24 Jul"It's the Internet, not English class."
35. 24 JulKickstarter and the 1,000 True Fans
36. 24 JulAnil Dash on the Pushbutton Web
37. 23 JulJoel Johnson bought Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work
38. 23 JulHarry Potter's media counterparts
39. 23 JulVanish, self-destructing digital data
40. 23 JulLisa Katayama's NYT profile on otaku with "2-D lovers"
41. 23 JulComic themes for iGoogle
42. 23 JulOne-Man Rock Band
43. 23 JulJames Paterson's 3D illustrations with Rhonda
44. 23 JulSecret of Monkey Island: Special Edition released for iPhone
45. 23 JulTanaka's Friendly Adventure
46. 23 JulSteven Frank's Internet Garage Sale
47. 22 JulSam Raimi to direct World of Warcraft movie
48. 22 JulKhoi Vinh on two projects reviving newspaper comics in print
49. 22 JulKevin Spacey shows Twitter to David Letterman
50. 22 JulKernest
51. 22 JulMapQuest releases driving directions web service
52. 21 JulThreadless prints Three Keyboard Cat Moon shirt
53. 21 JulWSJ on Michigan credit unions using the lottery effect to encourage saving
54. 21 JulEngine Yard's SHA-1 programming contest
55. 21 JulRetro/Grade, rhythm-based shmup played in reverse
56. 21 JulApollo 11 lunar and command module software open-sourced
57. 21 JulJonas Jaeger's augmented reality business card
58. 20 JulPterodactyl Squad's 8-bit tribute to Weezer
59. 20 JulDJ API's algorithmic remixes
60. 20 JulApollo 11 live TV coverage
61. 20 JulYouTube removes PS22 chorus' account for violating "Terms of Use"
62. 20 JulJoining Kickstarter
63. 20 JulThreadless Cakes
64. 19 JulNYT's texting while driving reflex game
65. 18 JulCrazy 4 Cult 3D, artwork inspired by cult movies
66. 18 JulProve You're Human
67. 18 JulOrigins of videogame character names
68. 18 JulDavid Rosen on meta-games and creating the illusion of accomplishment
69. 17 JulConfCon 2009
70. 17 JulSpotify to expand to U.S. in late summer
71. 17 JulAmazon ironically removes books from the Kindle
72. 17 JulJaney Thomson's Marathon
73. 16 JulImage: Vague Scientist
74. 16 JulThe Google Doodle Triforce Conspiracy
75. 16 JulGlobal Gaming CEO confirms Pirate Bay switching to pay site
76. 16 JulSlate on Spotify
77. 16 JulCitizen Media Project on the legality of Techcrunch publishing stolen Twitter docs
78. 15 JulAugmented reality iPhone app finds the closest NYC subways
79. 15 JulStar Wars Uncut
80. 15 JulMatt Haughey on Metafilter's 10th Anniversary
81. 15 JulKickstarter's $60,000 day
82. 15 JulSystem and method for creating exalted video games and virtual realities
83. 15 JulChristopher Baker's Murmur Study
84. 15 JulDave Chappelle performs unannounced midnight Portland show to thousands
85. 15 JulHid.im, convert torrents into PNG images
86. 14 JulLeonard Richardson's Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs
87. 14 JulYouTube phasing out support for IE6
88. 14 JulYahoo Query Language lets you INSERT INTO the Internet
89. 14 JulLoyola professor griefs City of Heroes players, then surprised they hate him
90. 14 JulWeird Al's "Skipper Dan"
91. 14 JulJay Smooth on Michael Jackson
92. 14 JulDrastic ANSI, online ANSI drawing tool
93. 14 JulMark Frauenfelder's Miniature Bottle
94. 13 JulGoogle users wonder, "What is Twitter?"
95. 13 JulPaul Constant reviews Twitter for The Stranger
96. 13 JulThe Sixty One
97. 12 JulEnviro-Bear 2010, bear driving simulator for the iPhone
98. 12 JulBuzzfeed illustrates ReCaptcha phrases
99. 11 JulMetafilter user spots digital photo manipulation in the NYT
100. 11 JulAuto-Tune the News #6
101. 11 JulInto the Night with Chris Crawford and Jason Rohrer
102. 11 JulThe Onion: New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time
103. 11 JulPew Internet's chart of U.S. Internet usage from 2000-2009
104. 11 JulElliot Malkin reconstructs his parents' 1974 home movies
105. 11 JulExperimental Gameplay Project relaunches
106. 11 JulJeff Atwood on the evolution of Evony's online advertising
107. 11 JulDigg's survey of IE6 users
108. 11 JulSockington is missing; update: he's found
109. 11 JulNegativland's Car Bomb
110. 11 JulJohn Gruber puts the Chrome OS announcement in context
111. 11 JulKnow Your Meme on Keyboard Cat
112. 11 JulThe World Series of 'Tubing
113. 11 JulEvan Roth's letterform studies of Paris graffiti
114. 11 JulThe Globe and Mail's Metafilter profile on the 10th anniversary
115. 11 JulGoogle adds Creative Commons searching to Image Search
116. 11 JulTom Armitage's roundup of text rendered into real-world locations
117. 11 JulLost Garden's guide to revenue models for Flash game developers
118. 10 JulBest of Wikipedia
119. 10 JulCauses Facebook app raises $10M in two years
120. 10 JulTechcrunch on Tiny Speck, the new company from ex-Flickr folks
121. 10 JulCode Rush documentary on Mozilla 1.0 officially released by director
122. 8 JulGoogle announces Chrome OS
123. 8 JulASCIIpOrtal
124. 7 JulMega Man 2600, five screen demo for I Am 8-Bit art show
125. 7 JulProwl, push Growl notifications to the iPhone
126. 7 JuloMaps, offline OpenStreetMap for the iPhone
127. 7 JulNYT infoviz of American economic boom-bust cycles
128. 5 JulBenjamin Pollack on Stack Overflow's user experience and hacker arrogance
129. 4 JulBrandon Boyer on Treasure World, DS game that turns wifi hotspots into collectible treasure
130. 4 JulTweetCraft, in-game Twitter client for World of Warcraft
131. 4 JulAugmented reality iPhone London tube station finder
132. 4 JulSour's "Hibi no Neiro," crowdsourced music video
133. 4 JulSlate's Chris Wilson tracks 10,000 random YouTube URLs for 30 days
134. 4 JulPinboard, Maciej Ceglowski's lightweight del.icio.us clone
135. 4 JulDonkey Kong easter egg discovered 25 years later
136. 4 JulNewspaper Club
137. 3 JulKevin Kelly's Death Clock in Futurama
138. 2 JulPaul Lamere's Coolness Index
139. 2 JulKickstarter's Big Day
140. 2 JulAnil Dash on Malcolm Gladwell's criticism of Chris Anderson's Free
141. 2 Jul72-year-old retired boxer beats up knife-wielding knucklehead
142. 2 JulPez sues Burlingame Museum of Pez for copyright infringement
143. 1 JulRIAA wins lawsuit against Usenet.com
144. 1 JulEveryBlock releases source code

June 2009

1. 30 JunHype Machine detects cheating on charts, names names
2. 30 JunZe Frank on black, white, and shades of green
3. 30 JunChina bans gold farming, real-world sale of virtual goods
4. 30 JunThe Pirate Bay sold to publicly-traded Swedish gaming company
5. 30 JunMichael Rubin's "Droidmaker" book now available for free download!
6. 29 JunJason Rohrer interviewed about "selling out" to make iPhone and ad games
7. 29 JunNedroid's Cosby Experiment
8. 29 JunHow the NYT kept their reporter's Taliban kidnapping off Wikipedia for seven months
9. 29 JunDavid Fincher may direct Facebook film, adapted by Aaron Sorkin
10. 29 JunQuarrygirl's undercover investigation of non-vegan ingredients used at L.A.-area vegan restaurants
11. 28 JunJames Barnett's oil paintings of landscapes from video games
12. 28 JunWSJ interviews Brenda Brathwaite about "Train," a board game about the Holocaust
13. 27 JunHow Rob Manuel accidentally started a Michael Jackson moonwalk flashmob
14. 27 JunTop teams join forces to win Netflix Prize
15. 27 JunWired on the success of Nike+
16. 26 JunImeem to delete all user-added photos and videos, with five days' notice
17. 26 JunShnabubula's chiptune tribute to Michael Jackson
18. 25 JunMetafilter user highlights 20 years of Elvis Costello's "adenoidal" voice in the NYT
19. 24 JunFlashterm, free telnet client for the web
20. 24 JunPeter Nitsch's Flash port of AA-Lib, image-to-ASCII art library
21. 24 JunSimon Willison's four lessons from the Guardian's journalism crowdsourcing experiment
22. 23 JunZe Frank's That Makes Me Think Of…
23. 22 JunPaul Lamere on procedural video remixing with the Echo Nest API
24. 19 JunAnil Dash on the first rapper vs. the first blogger
25. 19 JunPixar grants dying 10-year-old girl's last wish to see "UP"
26. 18 JunGuardian crowdsources investigation into MPs' expenses
27. 18 JunPaul Lamere's Passion Index for measuring band's true fans
28. 18 JunSudden Impact
29. 17 JunHow to enable iPhone OS 3.0 tethering on AT&T's network
30. 17 JunRoss Racine's incredible artwork of aerial views of fictional city maps
31. 17 JunTED interviews Clay Shirky about Iran and Twitter
32. 17 JunShaun Inman releases Fever, an elegantly designed feedreader
33. 17 JunZe Frank's Art Hour
34. 17 JunMicrosoft IE8 contest insults other browsers
35. 17 JunAlice and Kev, the story of being homeless in Sims 3
36. 17 JunSomethingAwful user's "urban exploration" of his neighbor's house
37. 17 JunChris Messina's scathing critique of Opera Unite
38. 17 JunGoogle asks 50 random New Yorkers, "What's a browser?"
39. 17 JunPlay Mario Off, Keyboard Cat
40. 16 JunSweet Juniper on Andrew WK's "Destroy Build Destroy" kid's show
41. 16 JunAutotune the News takes on JFK's inaugural speech
42. 16 JunOpera Unite
43. 16 JunShnabubula's alternate-reality versions of classic videogame music
44. 16 JunAlex Payne's Open Ideas
45. 16 JunPS22 Chorus covers Lady Gaga's "Just Dance"
46. 16 JunWeird Al's "Craigslist"
47. 16 JunBREADBOX64
48. 15 JunJohn Martz's IE6 denial message for Momentile.com
49. 15 JunDiorama, stereoscopic 3D game for the iPhone
50. 15 JunDina Goldstein's Fallen Princesses photo series
51. 15 JunList of most frequently looked-up words on nytimes.com
52. 15 JunBackbars, Greasemonkey script adds ambient bar charts to social news sites
53. 15 JunHunch.com, decision-making engine, opens to the public
54. 14 JunNelson Minar on building social capital in multiplayer games
55. 13 JunE_B_A tells the story behind the "Suing for Hotlinked Images" screenshot
56. 13 Jun140+ versions of Edward Cullen/Robert Pattinson in The Sims 3
57. 13 JunSimon Willison's thoughtful essay on Facebook usernames and OpenID
58. 13 JunARhrrrr, augmented reality first-person shooter on a handheld
59. 13 JunIan Bogost on cascading failure from Google's malware detection
60. 13 JunImage: Facesquatting (fixed)
61. 13 JunFleet Foxes singer on the beneficial effects of filesharing on music
62. 12 JunMythbuster Adam Savage's Colossal Failures
63. 12 JunThe Simpsons Minus The Simpsons
64. 12 JunRob Matthews' printed hardbound edition of Wikipedia's featured articles
65. 12 JunJim Rossignol on the Fermi paradox and why the aliens stayed home
66. 12 JunMicrosia, gorgeous sound game/tool for Windows
67. 12 JunWindosill demo, now playable online
68. 11 JunTrending Topics, tracking Wikipedia zeitgeist
69. 11 JunDaily Show visits the New York Times
70. 11 JunMr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store
71. 11 JunMicrosoft's Project Natal demo on Jimmy Fallon
72. 11 JunSlate on orphaned tweets
73. 11 JunChinese government to require all new computers to ship with "Green Dam" filtering software
74. 11 JunEvaluating Google vs. Bing with Mechanical Turk
75. 11 JunBygone Bureau's feature on the indie gaming scene
76. 11 JunLast.fm's three founders announce their departure
77. 11 JunAnil Dash on the future of Facebook usernames
78. 8 JunBlind Search, compare results from Google, Bing, and Yahoo
79. 8 JunFlixel, a free Actionscript library for building complex games without Flash
80. 6 JunJoystiq on Scribblenauts for the DS
81. 5 JunAlabaster, an interactive fiction fairy tale edited by Emily Short
82. 5 JunNYT publishes a new photo of the Tiananmen Square "Tank Man"
83. 5 JunRon Gilbert plays Secret of Monkey Island, 20 years later
84. 5 JunAsk Metafilter on musical cliches from TV and film
85. 4 JunPocket Retro Game Emulator
86. 4 JunGoogle Squared goes live, structured data search
87. 3 JunDave Eggers on the death of print
88. 3 JunGod Texts the Ten Commandments
89. 3 JunHan Solo, P.I.
90. 3 JunThe Beatles Rock Band animated intro, by Gorillaz animator Peter Candeland
91. 3 JunCool Guys Don't Look at Explosions
92. 3 JunAsk Metafilter on books that people proselytize
93. 2 JunJD Salinger sues over unauthorized Catcher in the Rye sequel
94. 2 JunJohn Martz's hand-drawn versions of famous album covers
95. 2 JunValve releases plugin to import Sketchup 3D models into Source maps
96. 2 JunChina blocking Twitter, Flickr, others in preparation for Tiananmen 20th anniversary
97. 2 JunJohnny Chung Lee reveals he worked on Project Natal
98. 2 JunSteve Wiebe's live E3 attempt to break Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong record
99. 2 JunDan & naD, a palindromic sketch
100. 2 JunChris Messina on Michael Moore's advice to Obama on GM
101. 2 JunKevin Kelly's Internet Mapping Project
102. 2 JunIGN/Gamespy shutting down ClassicGaming.com on August 31
103. 1 JunMTV's new original animated series, DJ & The Fro
104. 1 JunMicrosoft announces Project Natal, full-body motion capture for the Xbox 360
105. 1 JunBoone Oakley
106. 1 JunTwitcaps, stream of images posted to Twitter
107. 1 JunLou Romano's incredible concept art for Pixar's UP
108. 1 JunTelltale Games to release Tales of Monkey Island, five short episodic games
109. 1 JunCrush the Castle
110. 1 Junxkcd inspires 4chan to turn /b/ into Twilight fan forum
111. 1 JunDavid Lynch's Interview Project goes live

May 2009

1. 31 MayKnow Your Meme tracks the origins of the "God Kills a Kitten" meme
2. 31 MayWindows Update quietly installs Firefox extension
3. 30 MayZoho CEO on Google Wave, Microsoft Silverlight, and technology karma
4. 29 MayPatchMatch, incredible video demo of interactive content-aware image editing
5. 29 MayYahoo! 360 closing down in July
6. 29 MayThe Onion's report on tracking down an NYU dorm fire
7. 29 MayNormalware's Bebot, surprisingly deep synth for the iPhone
8. 29 MayTwitter, as viewed by everybody who's never used Twitter
9. 29 MayInvaders! Possibly From Space!
10. 29 MayGoogle Wave's full hour-long demo at Google I/O
11. 28 MayEFF chairman Brad Templeton makes a Hitler Downfall parody
12. 28 MayHulu launches Desktop client for Windows/Mac
13. 28 MayHow Google Wave's spellcheck uses natural language processing
14. 28 MayTim O'Reilly on the newly-announced Google Wave
15. 28 MayDon Bluth's Space Ace ported to iPhone
16. 28 MayJeff Veen announces Typekit, licensing and hosting for web font embedding
17. 28 MayKevin Fox on Nilla wafers
18. 28 MayCabel Sasser on Panic's 50% off sale
19. 27 MayThe Legion of Rock Stars
20. 27 MayPhreakmonkey surfs the web with a 300 baud acoustic modem from 1964
21. 27 MayZero Punctuation reviews Duke Nuke Forever
22. 27 MayDennis Knopf's Bootyclipse series
23. 26 MayPlay Him Off, Green Day
24. 26 MayHighlights from the truly horrible Star Wars first draft script
25. 26 MayPick One
26. 26 MayMeme Scenery
27. 25 Maynasty nets' YouTube Monster
28. 25 MayNéojaponisme on the culture of anonymity for Japanese Internet users
29. 25 MayText Adventure, typography in video games
30. 25 MayJ. Chris Anderson on Toast, his standalone CouchDB chat demo
31. 24 MayApple changes its mind, allows Eucalyptus into App Store
32. 24 MayThe Male Programmer Privilege Checklist
33. 23 MayTechcrunch reports CBS secretly gave Last.fm data to RIAA
34. 23 MayAn Optical Illusion by Ze Frank
35. 22 MayThe Deck Readership Survey
36. 22 MayIntel's nerd rockstar ad
37. 22 MayDavario's Draw Yourself As A Teen meme on Livejournal
38. 22 MayScott Schiller's forensics on a nasty piece of JS malware
39. 22 MayBuzzfeed's top video reactions to American Idol's finale
40. 21 MayJohn Gruber on the next-gen iPhone's specs
41. 21 MaySorry I'm Late, a stop-motion short film
42. 21 MayU.S. government launches Data.gov, national data repository
43. 21 MayProject Gutenberg iPhone app blocked by Apple because of the Kama Sutra
44. 21 MayInfinite Summer, read Infinite Jest this summer
45. 21 MayBrian & Eileen's Wedding Music Video
46. 21 MayTiny Art Director, little kids are difficult clients
47. 21 MayMozilla Jetpack, extend Firefox with HTML, CSS, and jQuery
48. 20 MayYahoo! Placemaker, extract world locations from unstructed content
49. 20 MayAxono.me, isometric pixel art grid library for jQuery
50. 20 MayLEGO announces Frank Lloyd Wright sets
51. 20 MayEvan Roth's Intellectual Property Asshole Competition
52. 20 MayBraid for Mac released
53. 20 MayFast Company on Taipei's innovative "zero landfill, total recycling" program
54. 20 MayLeaked video from Trico, new game by ICO/Shadow of the Colossus creators
55. 20 MayKaty Hargrove's real-life molded Gummi Venus de Milos
56. 19 MayFathom
57. 19 MayGmail Labs adds automatic language translation
58. 19 MayTweeting Too Hard
59. 19 Mayghstbstrsbstrs
60. 19 MayJoel Johnson on the divide between Wired Magazine vs. Wired.com
61. 18 MayAuto Tune The News #3
62. 18 MayLast Day Dream
63. 18 MayWhich of our beliefs will our grandchildren be appalled by?
64. 18 MayNYT's Maureen Dowd steals paragraph from Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall
65. 17 MayAll Your Base dialogue, properly translated from Japanese to English
66. 17 MayJapanese trailer for "Muscle March" for WiiWare
67. 17 MayGoogle's index of Wolfram|Alpha search results
68. 17 Maydanah boyd's answers questions on Twitter about teen practices
69. 16 MayWolframAlpha rendering text as images to prevent indexing
70. 16 MayHard Times with Ze Frank
71. 16 MayDanger Mouse to release blank CD-ROM after legal fight with EMI
72. 15 MayUpdating the Web 2.0 logo collage for 2009
73. 15 MayWired's walkthrough of the May issue's hidden puzzles
74. 15 MayStephen Wolfram demonstrates Wolfram|Alpha in detail
75. 15 MayUs Now
76. 15 MayIan Bogost's Guru Meditation
77. 14 MayVulture crunches the numbers on this season's SNL
78. 14 MayThe Sound of Young America's Pledge Drive
79. 14 MayUbik's Voxel
80. 14 MayF.A.T.'s KANYEFY bookmarklet, turn any site into Kanye West's blog
81. 14 MayGiant net-enabled Etch-A-Sketch hacked out of a 52" HD TV
82. 14 MayGreg Borenstein explains Why the Lucky Stiff's Bloopsaphone, with examples
83. 14 MayBuster Benson leaving Robot Co-op to do Enjoymentland full-time
84. 14 MayGamasutra's Community Manager interview series
85. 14 MayCracked's Most Baffling Pairings from Erotic Slash-Fiction
86. 14 MayPixel City, Shamus Young's procedurally-generated city
87. 13 MaySNL's Casey Wilson Reads Internet Comments About Her
88. 13 MayGod gave me cookies
89. 13 MayLOST-inspired Doomsday Terminal for the iPhone
90. 13 MayAmazon Kindling
91. 13 MayGizmodo's untold story of how three interns stole NASA's moon rocks
92. 13 MayNick Montfort on extremely minimalist games
93. 13 MayMaking old Trek look like new Trek
94. 13 MayGoogle launches Search Options, date ordering for everyone
95. 13 MayTimes Wire, like Digg Spy for the New York Times
96. 12 MaySuzanne Ciani composes the electronic soundtrack for Xenon pinball in 1979
97. 12 MayPogo's Wonderland, free album of Alice in Wonderland mashups
98. 12 MayClap Your Hands Say Mario
99. 12 MayPhil Gyford's list of Ask Metafilter's introductory books
100. 12 MayJudging programming language contentment using Twitter and Mechanical Turk
101. 12 MayTwitter meme could reveal answers to security questions
102. 12 MayCurrent interviews Mark "Afro Ninja" Hicks
103. 12 MayKind of Bloop: An 8-Bit Tribute to Miles Davis
104. 11 MayMonaTweeta II, encoding the Mona Lisa in 140 characters
105. 11 MayBad Astronomy reviews the science of the new Star Trek film
106. 11 MayJer Thorp's animated 3D visualization of take-offs and landings from Twitter
107. 10 MayNintendo's documentary-style ad for Punch-Out
108. 10 MayToday Is A…
109. 10 MayGlobe and Mail's interview with Canadian cartoonist Seth
110. 9 MaySteven Spielberg reunites the Goonies cast
111. 9 MayMud Tub, using a pile of mud as a user interface
112. 9 MayThe Sound of Young America's unaired pilot for Current TV
113. 8 MayZe Frank as Jonah Peretti on Ashton Kutcher on BuzzFeed on Ashton
114. 8 MayThe Stranger's 2009 Sex Survey
115. 8 MayThe Anonymous Hugging Wall
116. 8 MayMike Frumin's sparkline map of NYC subway activity from 1905 to 2006
117. 8 May10 Zen Monkey's exclusive with the "John Doe" and lawyer who sued Jason Fortuny
118. 8 MayTabulating original vs. repurposed content on major gaming blogs
119. 8 MayGawker's Ryan Tate on citizen journalism and civic reporting
120. 8 MayThe Lonely Island's "For Your Consideration" promos for the MTV Movie Awards
121. 7 MayDaniel Benmergui's Today I Die
122. 7 MaySean Tevis raising money for open government and his 2010 campaign
123. 7 MayDuke Nukem developer 3D Realms closes down
124. 6 MayThe Dragnet Fugue aka "Fugue for Friday"
125. 6 MayAlice on YooouuuTuuube
126. 6 MayPlay Him Off, Keyboard Cat
127. 6 MayIn Bb 2.0, a collaborative music and spoken word project
128. 6 MayNew Amazon Kindle supports native PDF reading
129. 6 MaySpewer
130. 6 MayTracing the real-world history of Jughead's crown-like hat
131. 6 MayMetafilter's global 10th Anniversary Party
132. 5 MayChris Ware's animated Quimby the Mouse for This American Life
133. 5 MayRefresh Cannon, multiplayer game played with a single avatar image
134. 5 MayTime interviews Louis CK about consumer cynicism
135. 5 MayThe Biology of B-Movie Monsters
136. 4 MayJim Munroe's GDC: The Game
137. 4 MayAUTO-MEME
138. 4 MayNieman Journalism Lab on @NPRBackstory
139. 4 May"You're," a printed portrait mashing up identity on various social sites
140. 4 MayLA Times tracks the origin of SMS's 160 character limit
141. 4 MayJack Schulze discusses his influences for the Here & There maps
142. 4 May419 Scammer Gets Honest
143. 4 MayJay Leno's new ad slogan for Facebook
144. 4 MayWhere Are You in the Movie?
145. 3 MayMMMMound
146. 2 MayFire alarm jam session
147. 2 MayDanny Sullivan's preview of the Wolfram Alpha search engine
148. 2 MayNedroid's Party Cat
149. 2 MayAdblock Plus on their war with NoScript
150. 1 MayPaper Moon, monochrome Unity-based platformer inspired by pop-up books
151. 1 MayScreenshots from Zen Bound's upcoming Nostalgia level pack
152. 1 MayHigh-res NASA moon landing photos restored by private fans in an abandoned McDonald's
153. 1 MayJonathan Coulton's "First of May" performed in sign language
154. 1 MayMP3: Cliffs of Nintendover
155. 1 MayJack Schulze's incredible 3D horizonless map of Manhattan
156. 1 MayPew study says churchgoers more likely to support torture
157. 1 MayChris Messina on Comixology and the future of connected commerce
158. 1 May79 versions of Popcorn, remixed into a single song
159. 1 MayLessig adds more details about the Warner Music DMCA request against him

April 2009

1. 30 AprTwitter launches integrated search for everyone
2. 30 AprAndroid app turns G1 phone into a metal detector
3. 30 AprRecreating fear of heights in augmented reality
4. 30 AprHandmade grade-school book about the Apple //c from 1985
5. 30 AprRick Astley writes about Moot, 4chan, and the Rickrolling meme
6. 30 AprInterview with Dutch director of "What's In The Box?", Half-Life inspired short film
7. 30 AprBandcamp easter egg turns traffic stats into Defender playfield
8. 30 AprFlickr's Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson working on social gaming startup
9. 30 AprRod Stewart joins Jeff Beck on stage for first time in 25 years
10. 29 AprAdventure 2600 Reboot
11. 29 AprMotion Theory's Google Chrome ad
12. 29 AprDan Gurewich's Real Life Twitter
13. 29 AprSwine Flu amino acid sequence as ambient music
14. 29 AprEveryBlock releases free iPhone app
15. 29 AprDreamhost's history of WebRing
16. 29 AprThe White House joins Flickr
17. 29 AprGoogle adds public data visualizations to search results
18. 29 AprWarner Music files DMCA request against Larry Lessig presentation
19. 28 AprFarbs' resignation letter to 2K Australia
20. 28 AprGoogle's What's Popular
21. 28 AprNizmlab, surfacing the best of YouTube and Vimeo
22. 28 AprType Nesting, photos of birds nesting in storefront signage
23. 28 AprKickstarter Launches!
24. 28 AprHow 4chan defeated reCAPTCHA to win the Time 100 Poll
25. 27 AprJason Scott's progress update on mirroring Geocities
26. 27 AprJeff Jarvis on journalism's original reporting vs. redundancy
27. 27 AprFace mining demo using vintage Star Trek episodes
28. 27 AprInfographic timeline of Evel Knievel's jumps
29. 27 AprWindosill, Vectorpark's new exploration game for Mac/PC
30. 27 AprNYT on Internet startups throttling or blocking global users
31. 27 AprShadow Physics gameplay demo
32. 27 Apr4chan creator handily wins the TIME 100 poll
33. 27 AprScratching vinyl with augmented reality
34. 26 AprHonda Insight's immersive ad on Vimeo
35. 25 AprNewsmap 2.0
36. 25 AprRotatSpin
37. 24 AprRhett Dashwood's Google Maps Typography
38. 24 AprScientists find potential cure for honey bee colony collapse
39. 23 AprRandom Reruns, get a random show from your Hulu subscriptions
40. 23 AprYeti Knight Adventures
41. 23 AprYahoo! to close GeoCities later this year
42. 23 AprIan Bogost simulates the CRT display in an Atari 2600 emulator
43. 23 AprGame Developers and Porn Stars
44. 23 AprTypographica's Favorite Typefaces of 2008
45. 23 AprKottke's In Defense of Twitter
46. 23 AprAuto-Tune the News
47. 22 AprAlice Marwick on Foursquare and prescriptive social software
48. 22 Apr241543903, photos of people putting their head in a freezer
49. 22 AprPhD Comics on the cure for cancer
50. 22 AprLast Year's Model
51. 22 AprMaureen Dowd's ridiculous interview with Twitter's founders
52. 22 AprYouCube, make an interactive cube from YouTube videos
53. 21 AprMcSweeney's "Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era"
54. 21 AprSarien's web-based multiplayer ports of classic Sierra games
55. 21 AprJeff Veen's Designing for Big Data
56. 21 AprBirdFeeder, prototype client for an open decentralized Twitter
57. 21 AprNYT's Saul Hansell researches the costs of broadband Internet providers
58. 21 AprInterface design concepts for Firefox as a URL library
59. 21 AprNYT on Wired's J.J. Abrams-edited Mystery Box issue
60. 20 AprThe Brain-Twitter Interface
61. 20 AprHistory of Rainn Wilson's Twitter feud with Sockington
62. 20 AprCasual Profanity's liquid sculpture made from plastic tubing
63. 20 AprKara Swisher announces changes to AllThingsD's Voices section
64. 20 AprAdam Berg's Carousel, short film capturing a frozen moment in time
65. 20 AprInspired Bicycles: Danny MacAskill
66. 19 AprBraid artist David Hellman releases game's art assets
67. 19 AprBohemian Rhapsody played by vintage computer hardware
68. 18 AprMailChimp used Mechanical Turk to rank 25,960 templates
69. 18 AprJason Fortuny ordered to pay $74k for Craigslist sex baiting prank
70. 17 AprLittle Big Cremaster 1
71. 17 AprScene.org Awards 2009 winners announced
72. 17 AprCovered, a blog with modern artists covering classic comic books
73. 17 AprThe Pac-Man Dossier
74. 17 AprCMU's ClueWeb09, 1 billion website crawl available for researchers
75. 17 AprSwedish court finds The Pirate Bay guilty
76. 17 AprHacklab's laser engraver plays the Super Mario Bros. theme
77. 16 AprSuper Mario 3 "Rainbow Riding" LUA hack for FCEUX emulator
78. 16 AprDash Shaw's Bodyworld
79. 16 AprSpreadtweet, Twitter disguised as an Excel spreadsheet
80. 16 AprAmazon's Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game
81. 16 AprChino Otsuka's digitally adding her modern self to her childhood photos
82. 16 AprKottke digs up The Wire's original pitch, draft outline, and three scripts
83. 16 AprVulture's history of bloggers depicted in film and TV
84. 16 AprTrack 4chan's Twitter race to beat Ashton Kutcher and CNN to 1M followers
85. 16 Apr4chan users discover Twitter, mass-following a new account
86. 16 AprKen Jennings took H&R Block up on their offer
87. 15 AprPaul Lamere interviews a 4chan hacker about the TIME poll manipulation
88. 15 AprSweet Juniper's photos of an abandoned Detroit block
89. 15 AprDigg drops the DiggBar for all non-Digg users
90. 15 AprAmerican expat shows Saudi government's hand-censored version of Katy Perry CD cover
91. 15 AprCanvas visualizations of sorting algorithms
92. 15 AprNancy Cartwright is your insufferable crazy aunt
93. 15 AprClay Shirky on the failure of #amazonfail
94. 14 AprRocketboom spins Know Your Meme off into new site, community
95. 14 AprWe Didn't Start the Flamewar
96. 14 AprAmazon employee blames French office for AmazonFail glitch
97. 14 AprCategory Inflation at the Webbys
98. 14 AprErik Kastner's Super Ear Man Bros. playthrough
99. 14 Apr4chan manipulates all 21 top results on the TIME 100 Poll
100. 13 AprBirdhouse, a Twitter notepad for the iPhone
101. 13 AprElevated, winning 4k PC intro at Breakpoint 2009
102. 13 AprDork Yearbook
103. 13 AprValleywag on Weev taking credit for #amazonfail controversy
104. 13 AprBlogger Training Gym
105. 13 AprUrlesque's top 100 most iconic Internet videos
106. 13 AprMichael Buffington asks Mechanical Turk to write his personal bio
107. 13 AprKnow Your Meme on the Yo Dawg/Sup Dawg image macro
108. 12 AprBoing Boing tracks "lololol" variations on Google
109. 10 AprAdam Curtis on the modern rise of "Oh Dear"-ism in TV news
110. 10 AprComparing word frequency in TV/movie scripts to Craigslist's M4M personal ads
111. 10 AprYelp to allow businesses to respond to negative reviews
112. 10 AprBraid released on PC today
113. 10 AprKanye West responds to South Park parody
114. 10 AprEngadget's Screen Grabs
115. 10 AprChris Ainsworth's advice for Wizards of the Coast
116. 10 AprRoo Reynolds visualizes his web browsing history
117. 10 AprSuper 耳男 Bros.
118. 10 AprJosh Poehlein's Modern History
119. 10 AprTechcrunch releases new photos of their prototype tablet
120. 10 AprJohn Gruber's guide to blocking the DiggBar
121. 10 AprMcSweeney's guide to understanding Twitter
122. 9 AprLA Times talks to former Area 51 workers to debunk UFO myths
123. 9 AprAaron Meyers' Spore Skeletons in augmented reality
124. 9 AprShadow of the Colossus being developed for feature film
125. 9 AprThe Tools Artists Use
126. 9 AprPong in Street Fighter IV and other consensual play modes
127. 9 AprSpike Jonze's "Everyone Poops"
128. 9 AprDustin Glick's The Browsy
129. 8 AprNYT blog posts added to the Times Newswire API
130. 8 AprEverything Is Terrible's compilation of bad introductions
131. 8 AprNate Silver's prediction model for gay marriage bans, state-by-state
132. 8 AprMPA to challenge Newzbin in court
133. 8 AprReddit interviews Mythbusters' Adam Savage
134. 8 AprMad Scientist Labs builds Ironic Sans' concept Bulbdial Clock
135. 8 AprAttribution and Affiliation on All Things Digital
136. 8 AprHand-crafted miniature sets from classic TV shows
137. 8 AprHot New Video Game Consists Solely Of Shooting People Point-Blank In The Face
138. 8 AprEffing Hail
139. 8 AprPerry Russerts, Umbrella Theif
140. 8 AprAndre Michelle's ToneMatrix
141. 8 AprThe Beatles entire catalogue remastered, to be released alongside Rock Band
142. 8 Apr8-Bit Tarot Cards
143. 7 AprFlickr's Aaron Cope walks through building maps from scratch
144. 7 AprVisualizing SF Trees, Crimes, and Cabs with subtractive blending
145. 7 AprGizmodo's Pirate Code of Conduct for BitTorrent
146. 7 AprhighDEAS
147. 7 AprNYT on Hearst's RealAge "test" marketing 27 million medical histories to drug companies
148. 7 AprAmanda Palmer on how Twitter is changing her relationship with fans
149. 7 AprParamount surprises hardcore fans by debuting new Trek film in Austin
150. 7 AprBoxee officially releases new API
151. 7 AprA Visit to id Software in 1993
152. 6 AprBashReduce
153. 5 AprDeepLeap, the word game
154. 5 AprSuper Luigi Bros.
155. 3 AprJoshua Schachter on the dangers of URL shorteners
156. 3 AprHow xkcd's Randall broke his laptop trying to turn off Google's SafeSearch
157. 3 AprIF YOU'RE NOT INDIE, F**K YOU
158. 3 AprUK village mob blocks Google Street View car
159. 3 AprThe Music Explaura, powerful music discovery engine
160. 3 AprThings iPhoto Thinks Are Faces
161. 2 AprConficker Eye Chart
162. 2 AprTinyURL/Bit.ly decoder for Greasemonkey
163. 2 AprAmazon announces Elastic MapReduce service
164. 2 AprGet Down, Goldeneye N64 glitch becomes Japanese meme
165. 2 AprGoogle reveals details about its custom server hardware and datacenters
166. 2 AprValleywag on layoffs at Wired.com and Ars Technica
167. 2 AprFileFront saved, original founders buy it back from Ziff-Davis
168. 2 AprLeechBlock, Firefox extension to block access to sites you love too much
169. 1 AprLegends of Zork goes live
170. 1 AprIJD: Paul Lamere on Echo Nest's new "goodness" API
171. 1 AprWrong Tomorrow, database of provable predictions
172. 1 AprBlogoscoped rounds up Google's April Fools worldwide
173. 1 AprFirst 1
174. 1 AprIJD: SEOmoz launches Webfluence, user-generated search engine
175. 1 AprIJD: Google Chrome adds 3D web browsing
176. 1 AprIJD: YTMND rebrands as Dogchan
177. 1 AprIJD: Improv Anywhere's Best Funeral Ever
178. 1 AprIJD: YouTube videos appear upside-down
179. 1 AprGuardian UK to stop print edition, switches to Twitter only

March 2009

1. 31 MarHumanized versions of Disney and Pixar characters
2. 31 MarApple features John Cage's 4'33" as free iTunes download
3. 31 MarThe Onion on Prague's Franz Kafka International Airport
4. 31 MarShort Storyspreadsheet, character study in Microsoft Excel
5. 31 MariPhone pirating app attacks rival pirate app store
6. 31 MarHarnessing hamster power with nanogenerators
7. 31 MarPixel art "Viagra" spam using HTML tables and colored cells
8. 31 MarCheer Up the Chatbot
9. 30 MarBig Man Japan vs. the Stink Monster
10. 30 MarThe Big Picture on Earth Hour
11. 30 MarGamasutra on the Experimental Gameplay Sessions 2009
12. 30 MarKen Jennings' week of favorite metafiction
13. 30 Mar10 Zen Monkeys tracks down Perry Bible Fellowship's Nicholas Gurewitch
14. 30 Mar24 Hours of Geotagged Photos on Flickr
15. 30 MarOmegle, chat with random strangers
16. 28 MarTwitter shuts down @cwalken account
17. 28 MarGoogle Street View timelapse across the Golden Gate Bridge
18. 27 MarCaterina Fake explains Hunch.com, her new startup
19. 27 MarSoy tu Aire, interactive Flash song visualization
20. 27 MarObsession Times Voice
21. 27 MarRobert Hodgin describes how he made snakes in Processing
22. 27 MarSelfControl, Mac app blocks access to specified websites and email for time limit
23. 27 MarJustine Lai's oil paintings of herself having sex with each US President
24. 26 MarKent Brewster discovers a security flaw in Amazon Wishlists
25. 26 MarFilefront closes with only five days' notice
26. 26 MarAsk Metafilter on the origins of "selective invisibility" and the twit bit
27. 26 MarEurogamer breaks down the technical hurdles of OnLive
28. 26 MarJuicyDrop, music visualization in Javascript with Canvas and SoundManager2
29. 25 MarWikirank, popular and trending articles on Wikipedia
30. 25 MarHD trailer for Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are
31. 25 MarOnLive's GDC press conference, real-time gaming over broadband
32. 25 MarGary "Numa Numa" Brolsma's ad for GEICO
33. 25 MarJohn Carmack releases open-source Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone
34. 25 MarGoogle's Wonder Wheel Experiment
35. 25 MarGreasemonkey script adds Twitter Search results on Google
36. 24 MarHome of the Underdogs revived by fans
37. 24 MarDouble Fine's Host Master and the Conquest of Humor
38. 24 MarPaul Lamere analyzes the Loudness War in modern music
39. 23 MarLegend of Zelda theme performed on two Tesla coils at SXSW
40. 23 MarNPR's All Things Considered interviews Kutiman about Thru-You
41. 23 MarNYT valiantly tries to explain a Chinese anti-censorship meme
42. 23 MarRands on the building of the Brooklyn Bridge
43. 23 Mar419 scammer chats with security company CEO
44. 22 MarSnaggs' giant hand-made Atari 2600 cartridges
45. 21 MarThe Vimeo team gets auto-tuned
46. 21 MarJump on Mushrooms, Super Mario played in reverse
47. 21 MarNewsAlarm, smoke alarm wired up to the New York Times NewsWire API
48. 20 MarPew releases State of the News Media 2009
49. 20 MarSmall Talk, real-time weather visualization using Twitter
50. 20 MarQuietube
51. 20 MarJames Bridle's Tweetbook, two years of tweets as a hardcover book
52. 20 MarVillage Voice digs up saucy clips from Bill O'Reilly's audiobook
53. 20 MarProtovis, visualization toolkit with Javascript and Canvas
54. 20 MarNPR broadcast of Decemberists' new album debut at SXSW
55. 20 MarJustin Mason on "Quoz," the FAIL of the 1870s
56. 20 MarMega Man 9 Rock Medley
57. 20 MarDouglas Bowman explains his decision to leave Google
58. 20 MarNYT's visualization of newspaper circulation declines
59. 20 MarMicrosoft's Remembering Stuff About the Internet
60. 19 MarCraft by Ift, graphic demo running on a 20mhz microcontroller
61. 19 MarDan Meth's Sitcom Map of the USA
62. 19 MarThe Ocarina of Rhyme
63. 19 MarStudy finds creditworthiness can be gauged by physical appearance
64. 19 MarOverly Judgemental IE6 Splash Pages
65. 19 MarGoogle Chrome Experiments
66. 19 MarNYT on the rise of mistrials from jurors' Internet usage
67. 19 MarPaul Ford's six-word reviews of all 1,302 SXSW MP3s
68. 19 MarIs The Big Picture A Bummer Today?
69. 19 MarABC News' Charlie Gibson blames students, Google, and social media for newspaper's demise
70. 17 MarToby Barlow on artists moving into Detroit's $100 homes
71. 17 MarGizmodo's guide to iPhone OS 3.0's new features
72. 17 MarTrent Reznor on the state of ticket reselling and scalping
73. 14 MarClay Shirky on the death of newspapers and reinvention of journalism
74. 13 MarAardvark, social search over instant message
75. 13 MarFoursquare launches with iPhone app
76. 13 MarSXSW 2009 Twitter Visualizer
77. 13 MarHark! A Vagrant
78. 12 MarAnamaguchi's Dawn Metropolis
79. 12 MarWashington Post's horrific article about infant deaths in hot cars
80. 12 MarAP interview outtakes with Ricky Gervais and Elmo on Sesame Street
81. 12 MarWired's untold story of the world's largest diamond heist
82. 12 MarLate Night with Jimmy Fallon's Bryan Binkman Experiment
83. 12 MarTechcrunch on Grand Central's relaunch as Google Voice
84. 11 Mar279 Spore Skeletons
85. 11 MarTerry Cavanagh's Don't Look Back
86. 11 MarRevision3 exec liveblogs someone breaking into his house
87. 11 MarAimee Mullins and her 12 pairs of legs
88. 11 MarMichael Wesch on the Livescribe smartpen in education
89. 11 MarBicycle Built for 2,000
90. 11 MarThe Comics Archetype Times Table
91. 11 MarFortunebird, mechanical bird automaton that tweets your fortune
92. 10 MarTED performance of Pattie Maes' wearable tech demo
93. 10 MarDan Meth's chart of sitcom house floorplans
94. 10 MarTetris HD
95. 10 MarGuardian UK opens API platform and Data Store
96. 10 MarWaxy.org at SXSW Interactive 2009
97. 10 MarThe Morning News behind-the-scenes report of the controversial Gandhi auction
98. 10 MarThe "Raiders of the Lost Ark" Story Conference
99. 9 MarRock Peaks, database of live music videos culled from YouTube
100. 9 MarCam Marlow's breakdown of maintained relationships at Facebook
101. 9 MarS.F. may crack down on urban prank events
102. 9 MarTopps brings augmented reality to baseball cards
103. 8 MarBackTweets, search for links on Twitter
104. 6 MarUnofficial mirror of Kutiman's Thru-You
105. 6 MarSeattle P-I to become first daily metro newspaper to go web-only
106. 6 MarTheMime on Twitter
107. 6 MarBruce Banit's World Builder short film
108. 5 MarKate Beaton's The Origin of Man
109. 4 MarPun-Colle, Japanese anime voice actresses cover punk classics
110. 4 MarDolphin emulator boots the Wii OS
111. 4 MarScene.org 2009 award nominees
112. 4 MarThru You, Kutiman's album of YouTube video remixes
113. 4 MarA Japanese Life of Bento
114. 4 MarGame Set Watch reports on the final moments of Tabula Rasa
115. 3 MarFlickr launches new Panda API methods
116. 3 MarGreek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension
117. 3 MarOrigins of the Windows XP "Bliss" desktop wallpaper
118. 3 MarRebecca MacKinnon on how Chinese blog services censor bloggers
119. 3 Mararc90's Readability
120. 3 MarBandcamp adds music download codes and Moo card integration
121. 3 MarSome Grey Bloke explains what Facebook is for
122. 2 MarJake and Amir interview The Lonely Island
123. 2 MarRecording a trip around the sushi conveyor belt
124. 2 MarDetecting click tracks in popular music using the Echo Nest API
125. 2 MarThe Retr0brite Project
126. 2 MarVolunteers Put the Economist Into Chinese
127. 2 MarSkittles changes product homepage to Twitter search
128. 1 MarNewsweek's The District, the Obama presidency as an MTV reality show
129. 1 MarLivejournal shuts down scans_daily after Marvel complaint

February 2009

1. 28 FebNom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom
2. 27 Feb"What were arcades like?"
3. 27 FebAnimated HD promo for Art Spiegelman's Be A Nose!
4. 27 FebRocky Mountain News' farewell video
5. 27 FebNightline's tongue-in-cheek piece on Twitter
6. 27 FebWho Killed the Rocky Mountain News?
7. 27 FebHighlight2Translate, Greasemonkey script for instant Google Translation
8. 27 FebSudo Make Me a Sandwich Robot
9. 27 FebNina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues animated film released online
10. 27 FebExploring Logo Designs with Mathematica
11. 27 FebThe Economist on Dunbar's number in Facebook
12. 26 FebTranslating "The Economist" Behind China's Great Firewall
13. 26 FebDr. Zilog's gorgeous chiptune remix of MGMT's "Kids"
14. 26 FebPaul Graham's lessons learned on community building from Hacker News
15. 26 FebAndy Richter to rejoin Conan O'Brien on the Tonight Show
16. 25 FebZen Bound released for the iPhone
17. 25 Febxkcd on the Kindle 2
18. 25 FebQuake Live goes public beta
19. 25 FebRecipe community borrows Del.icio.us design/code for redesign
20. 24 FebWinners of Stephen Fry's 50 "L"s Twitter contest
21. 24 FebMaximum Fun excerpts Adam Carolla's new podcast
22. 24 FebBack to the Future, alternate ending
23. 24 FebBackGames, videogame plots in reverse
24. 24 FebVisualizing the number of links on 98 popular websites
25. 24 FebPirate 2 Pirate Kopimi Station
26. 24 FebGOOD Magazine's visualization of fuel use by mode of transportation
27. 24 FebBillboard releases Chart API
28. 24 FebJohn Hodgman on "meh"
29. 23 FebCursor*10 2nd session
30. 23 FebSched.org releases SXSW 2009 schedule
31. 23 FebKate Winslet's Holocaust Oscar
32. 23 FebUserFriendly comic plagiarized multiple punchlines from Metafilter comments
33. 23 FebRadiohead vs. Dave Brubeck's "Five Step"
34. 23 FebUnofficial SXSW 2009 torrents
35. 23 FebLast.fm blogs their response to the false Techcrunch rumor
36. 23 FebNate Silver on why his Oscar predictions missed
37. 21 FebBuzzfeed's Wikipedia Names Your Band album covers
38. 20 FebJosh Freese's very unusual giveaways to promote his solo album
39. 20 FebJandrew Edits
40. 20 FebJumpman, reinventing the retro platformer
41. 20 FebThe Big Picture highlights photos of people at work
42. 20 FebJesse Bearden's Twitter encounter with Shaq
43. 20 FebQuicken Online puts foot in mouth after accusing Mint of incredible growth
44. 20 FebAviary releases Raven, first full-featured online vector editor
45. 20 FebVery Small Array charts Billboard vs. Pitchfork's Top 100 of 2008
46. 20 FebJason Grigsby on the history of Cup o' Noodle and embracing constraints
47. 20 FebEurogamer's detailed review of Noby Noby Boy
48. 19 FebFlickr interviews the Astrometry.net Flickr bot creator
49. 19 FebAvailable Online for Free, the Sticker
50. 19 FebEast Bay Express' long hit piece on Yelp
51. 19 FebMarc Hedlund on Hulu, Boxee, and "content providers"
52. 19 FebHome of the Underdogs goes offline for good
53. 19 FebHulu content providers demand Boxee remove Hulu support
54. 18 FebSanctuary Wood
55. 18 FebDirk's Accident, very graphic images of a Neodymium magnet collision
56. 18 FebRex Sorgatz interviews Moot
57. 18 FebMatt Webb's retweeting Carl Steadman's 99 Secrets from 1996
58. 18 FebWired reviews Retro Game Challenge for the DS
59. 18 FebFacebook reverts to previous Terms of Service after outcry
60. 17 FebSteal This Film, The Trial Edition
61. 17 FebFacebook's TOS changes compared to MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, and more
62. 17 FebWashington Post profile of 4chan's moot
63. 17 FebThe Trilogy Tomatometer
64. 17 FebThe Trilogy Meter
65. 16 FebTorrentFreak summarizes the Pirate Bay's first day in court
66. 16 FebNate Silver predicts the Oscar winners
67. 15 FebThe Simpsons' new HD title sequence
68. 15 FebNYT's Article Skimmer prototype
69. 13 FebYo-Yo Ma Shreds
70. 13 FebPirate Bay trial starts Monday in Stockholm
71. 13 FebTwitter's "Don't Click" clickjacking, explained
72. 13 FebWinners of Information Aesthetics' paper-based visualization competition
73. 12 FebCompression artifact art in Chairlift's "Evident Utensil" music video
74. 12 FebSlyck interviews Giganews, the most popular Usenet provider
75. 12 FebKittens, Inspired by Kittens
76. 11 FebWhatTheFont released as free iPhone app
77. 11 FebAntiques Roadshow 2550
78. 11 FebKevin Kelly on hackers and technology in the Amish community
79. 11 FebBohemian Deconstruction
80. 10 FebBuster McLeod's history of the Morale-o-Meter
81. 10 FebThe Pepsi Gravitational Field
82. 10 FebChad After Dentist
83. 10 FebJonathan Coulton on The Setup
84. 10 FebIHT on the reinvention of Newsweek
85. 9 FebTorrentfreak on internal drama on a private BitTorrent tracker
86. 9 FebFunky bass lines in the Sonic the Hedgehog series
87. 9 FebElizabeth Gilbert's TED talk on creative genius and the muse
88. 9 FebGoogle Sync beta comes to iPhone and Windows Mobile
89. 9 FebSmarterware, Gina Trapani's new blog
90. 9 FebSupercut of every profanity in The Sopranos
91. 9 FebTake Away Show with Tom Jones
92. 9 FebJames Duncan Davidson fought off a mugger trying to take his TED badge
93. 8 FebThe Lonely Island's "I'm On A Boat" in HD
94. 6 FebRidethrough of revamped "It's A Small World" with added Disney characters
95. 6 FebWired on MIT's wearable computing project with interactive displays
96. 6 FebBoston Phoenix digs up off-color MP3s from Barack Obama's audiobook
97. 6 FebBill Gates talks about ending malaria at TED 2009
98. 6 FebFake parking ticket leads to malware download
99. 5 Feb_why on the Art & Code conference for young hackers
100. 5 FebRobin Hood's "Oo De Lally," Translated Into 16 Languages
101. 4 FebNYT announces Article Search API
102. 4 FebSee You See Me
103. 4 FebLucasArts Posters
104. 4 FebZe Frank's audio drawing toy used to visualize music
105. 4 FebThe Pirate Bay maps connections to its tracker
106. 4 FebKloonigames' 4 Minutes 33 Seconds
107. 4 FebEntertainment Weekly on Letterman's airing of the censored Bill Hicks set
108. 4 FebCelebrity Tweets
109. 4 FebAlexandria Neonakis's Left 4 Dead valentines
110. 3 FebSleep Talking on the Mic
111. 3 FebNYT visualizes Twitter activity during the Superbowl
112. 3 FebDavid After Dentist, a 7-year-old's first drug trip
113. 3 FebHistogram of name length for all 1,200 SXSW bands
114. 3 FebWonderfl, build Flash online
115. 3 FebClosure, a game experimenting with light and shadow
116. 3 FebPlease Stand By
117. 3 FebCrackulous developer wants people to stop pirating his App Store piracy app
118. 3 FebWorld Superhero Registry
119. 2 FebIndependently Speaking's best of Global Game Jam 2009
120. 2 FebGreasemonkey script shows Twitter mentions and unread count
121. 2 FebPup Contemplates the Heat Death of the Universe
122. 2 FebScott McCloud's TED talk on vision and understanding comics
123. 2 FebTwittering the daily Depression-era diary of a 13-year-old farm girl
124. 2 FebD-Pad Hero, playable NES version of Guitar Hero
125. 2 FebEric Bauman fired from Ebaumsworld, along with rest of staff
126. 2 FebAnnika's Odyssey
127. 2 FebDeweyMusic, alternate interface for browsing Archive.org's live music collection
128. 2 FebDom Sagolla's story of the birth of Twitter
129. 2 FebCrummy.com's series on the naming of videogames
130. 1 FebConspiracy Rock, 1991 Schoolhouse Rock parody of the Kennedy assassination conspiracy
131. 1 FebBen Fry on turning charts into music with Microsoft Songsmith

January 2009

1. 31 JanCoca Cola's Avatar ad for the Superbowl
2. 31 JanCensored Bill Hicks performance airing tonight on Letterman
3. 30 JanHuffduffer, podcasting found audio around the web
4. 30 JanSpreadsheet of artists, bands, and record labels on Twitter
5. 30 JanMa.gnolia suffers severe data loss, no timeline for recovery
6. 30 JanBig Fat Whale's list of Internet Anti-Memes and Non-Sensations
7. 30 JanDetroit News story of a frozen body found in an abandoned elevator shaft
8. 30 JanWorld of Goo's Kyle Gabler gives the Global Game Jam keynote
9. 30 JanCash4Gold tries to bribe Cockeyed.com not to talk about them
10. 30 JanPseudo-3D videoconferencing with a generic webcam
11. 30 JanMattias Geniar on Academic Earth, online classes from top colleges
12. 30 JanHenry Hey's musical accompaniment to Bush's last press conference
13. 30 JanVelato, an esoteric programming language that uses music as source code
14. 30 JanTelescopic Text
15. 29 JaniPhone app uses photo recognition to solve Rubik's Cube
16. 29 JanLÖVE, a lovely 2D game engine in Lua
17. 29 JanPerfect Balance
18. 29 JanVery Small Array's visual breakdown of Billboard's Hot 100 for 2008
19. 29 JanLast.fm starts auto-correcting typos in artist and song names
20. 29 JanA Life Well Wasted, a new podcast about videogames inspired by This American Life
21. 28 JanMetafilter's history of the Resolute Desk, the President's desk in the Oval Office
22. 28 JanDogster's Ted Rheingold on the quiet death of Yahoo! Pets
23. 28 JanBay Area TV news report about "electronic newspapers" in 1981
24. 27 JanNYT launches Best Sellers API
25. 27 JanThe White House on Vimeo
26. 27 JanMuxtape relaunches as artist-friendly MP3 site
27. 27 JanSoftwear by Microsoft, their new clothing line
28. 27 JanBlueful, a short story scattered across the web
29. 27 JanRadio Aporee, field recordings with Google Maps
30. 27 JanZe Frank's Flash toy lets you draw with your voice
31. 26 JanUnofficial iTunes Store proxy running on AppSpot
32. 26 JanChampion of Guitars, Guitar Hero as text adventure
33. 26 JanMAD Magazine goes quarterly with issue #500
34. 26 JanPac-Man Dungeons, Pac-Man as a text adventure dungeon crawl
35. 25 JanListable, create and share lists with JSON, SQL, and plaintext output
36. 24 JanJohn Resig explains how the Greasemonkey CAPTCHA solver works
37. 23 JanGreasemonkey: Neural network in Javascript solves Megaupload's CAPTCHAs in the browser
38. 23 JanMr. Tweet, user recommender for Twitter
39. 23 JanHow to use emoji icons in SMS on the iPhone without hacking your phone
40. 23 JanThe Boxxy Story, Part 2: The Fall of Boxxy
41. 23 JanKevin Kelly on access vs. ownership for digital goods and services
42. 23 JanGoogle's Ajax APIs Playground
43. 23 JanJudging a stranger by their tweets
44. 23 JanWaferbaby's The Setup
45. 22 JanSt. Petersburg Times' Obameter, tracking Obama's campaign promises
46. 22 JanWired on the outdated IT infrastructure in the White House
47. 22 JanChewbacca trapped in nightstand
48. 22 JanPirating the 2009 Oscars
49. 22 JanI Can Read Movies
50. 21 Jan37 Signals' Movie-to-Website Title Mashups
51. 21 JanGoogle search volume dropped while Obama spoke
52. 21 JanMat Honan geocodes his life for Wired
53. 21 JanYouTube Street Fighter
54. 21 JanThe Electronic Playground, a massive archive of pinball and arcade game cameos in film and TV
55. 21 JanVisiting the Obama inauguration site in Fallout 3
56. 20 Jan2D Boy's Ron Carmel and Kyle Gabler talk about developing World of Goo
57. 20 JanThe Onion: Bush Dies Peacefully In His Sleep
58. 20 JanWhy I'm Happy, Why I'm Not Satisfied
59. 20 JanTwitter's traffic on inauguration day
60. 20 JanWhitehouse.gov's Old and New Robots.txt Files
61. 20 JanTom Taylor's Microprinter, a web-connected receipt printer for daily notifications
62. 19 JanSeattle Times on The Game, a large-scale treasure hunt in 2002 that went wrong
63. 19 JanMarble Madness speedrun in 2:35
64. 19 JanThe Story of Boxxy
65. 19 JanBelkin employee paid Mechanical Turkers to write positive product reviews
66. 19 Jandanah boyd's dissertation on social networks and the American teen
67. 18 JanKottke.org's roundup of new footage of the Hudson River plane landing
68. 18 JanPaul's SXSW Artist Catalog, annotated with the YouTube and Last.fm APIs
69. 18 JanJorma Dances to Fleet Foxes during SNL rehearsal
70. 18 JanHow to use Amazon EC2 for BitTorrent
71. 17 JanGoogle releases open-source Blog Converters project
72. 16 JanYouTube offering download links on selected videos
73. 16 JanNew law threatens handmade children's toy and clothing crafters
74. 16 JanGoogle search results for "KH(Ax)N" for x=1 to 100
75. 16 JanSeattle Post Intelligencer writes its own obituary
76. 16 JanHotel for Dogs undisclosed ad on I Can Haz Cheezburger
77. 16 JanThought bubbles in Brooklyn
78. 16 JanMeasuring gravity in the Super Mario Bros. universe
79. 16 JanMelt-in-the-Mouth Cookies, a brief history
80. 15 JanMicrosoft Songsmith takes on The Police's "Roxanne"
81. 15 JanDopplr's visualization of Barack Obama's travels in 2008
82. 15 JanDennis Crowley on the death of Dodgeball
83. 15 JanSuperuseless Superpowers
84. 15 JanGoogle closes Dodgeball, Google Video uploads, Google Notebook, Google Catalogs
85. 14 JanMelodie, the one-year-old videogame expert
86. 14 JanLegends of Zork
87. 14 JanDeWitt Clinton takes a Twitter sample
88. 14 JanGiant Bomb releases game database API
89. 14 JanBen Terrett on "Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet"
90. 14 JanWeezer's Pork and Beans, alternate video
91. 14 JanDan Bruno on the rhythm battle system in Mother 3
92. 14 JanInterview with a former adware programmer
93. 13 JanThe Hype Machine's Zeigeist 2008
94. 13 JanPretty Loaded, an archive of Flash preloaders
95. 12 JanNew York Mag on the new programmer-journalist movement at the New York Times
96. 12 JanThe Evolution of Dance 2
97. 12 JanCommercials appear on YouTube's most viewed list
98. 12 JanJapanese live-action recreation of Super Mario Bros.
99. 12 JanGoogle responds to the "boiling water" energy usage report
100. 10 JanGlobulous goes free
101. 10 JanColor Blind Gamer
102. 10 JanBastard Tetris in Flash
103. 10 JanThe Remnants, post-apocalyptic web comedy featuring Ze Frank
104. 9 JanDesert Bus reborn as a 4k Java app
105. 9 JanGoogle discusses their new favicon
106. 9 JanLawrence Lessig on the Colbert Report
107. 9 JanRockman 2 Neta, hack to fight every Mega Man 2 boss at once
108. 9 JanRunnin' with the Songsmith
109. 9 Jan11-year-old Steve Martin appeared in Disneyland Dream, 1956 home movie
110. 9 JanMicrosoft Songsmith
111. 9 JanGravity Bone, surreal spy novella as a free indie FPS game
112. 8 JanBurger King asks users to delete 10 Facebook friends for a free Whopper
113. 8 JanAmy Bennett's oil paintings inspired by scale models
114. 8 JanKottke's Best Links of 2008
115. 8 JanNYT launches Congress API
116. 7 JanAmazon customer uploads own photos to Customer Images
117. 7 JanThe Dial-Up Kid
118. 7 JanAutonomous Katamari
119. 7 JanTumbarumba, short-fiction anthology as a Firefox plugin
120. 7 JanGoogle blocks other search engines from indexing LIFE photo archive
121. 7 JanCrayon Physics Deluxe finally released today!
122. 7 JanTrailer for Objectified, a documentary about modern industrial design
123. 7 JanIndependent Games Festival 2009 finalists announced
124. 7 JanLivejournal's engineering and support staff laid off?
125. 7 JanNYT profiles R, a powerful language for stats computing and infoviz
126. 7 JanTwitter hacker explains how he compromised celebrity accounts
127. 6 JanThe Perils of Zero-Gravity Videography
128. 6 JanScreenshot: 4chan hacks MacRumorsLive during Apple keynote
129. 5 Janxkcd's Guide to Converting to Metric
130. 5 JanCrowdsourcing an Ethical Dilemma
131. 3 JanStamen's Mike Migurski on extreme programming vs. interaction design
132. 3 JanJason Scott on the closure of AOL's online communities
133. 2 JanJPG Magazine to stop publishing, turn off website