The Curious Engineer

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2010

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December 2010

  1. Clay Shirky on Wikileaks and the globalization of journalism
  2. The Last Roll of Kodachrome Produced
  3. Canabalt goes open-source
  4. Windows XP simulation recreated in LittleBigPlanet 2 beta
  5. The Joy of Stats, hour-long BBC doc on infoviz
  6. HaikuLeaks, cablegate poetry
  7. Amanda Palmer's Labyrinth with Sock Puppets
  8. The Senate in Pixels
  9. Andrew Sorenson's Variations on a Christmas Theme
  10. 4chan sex survey responses
  11. Yahoo!locaust
  12. Legend of Zelda prototype found and ripped
  13. Books of Adam
  14. Leaky World
  15. IndieGames' Top 10 Indie Games of 2010
  16. Metafilter on Starship Titanic
  17. Human Drum Machine, interactive YouTube video
  18. Pwned by the Owner
  19. Bruce Sterling on Wikileaks and Cablegate
  20. Flight of the Navigator WebGL demo for Firefox 4
  21. Dueling Cameras
  22. Christopher Nolan's hand-written Inception timeline notes
  23. Shaun Inman scratches an 8-bit itch
  24. Hidden
  25. Jaron Lanier on Wikileaks
  26. Good One
  27. Jennifer 8. Lee on raw data, APIs, and the growth of "Little Brother"
  28. Gawker CTO's memo to employees about the Gnosis hack
  29. Google Books Ngram Viewer
  30. Researching the rise of spam on Mechanical Turk
  31. Last.fm's Best of 2010
  32. Word Lens, augmented reality translation for the iPhone
  33. Yahoo! to close or merge Delicious, Upcoming, Fire Eagle, more
  34. Flipboard adds support for Google Reader, Flickr
  35. Favimom, a Javascript RPG played with favicons
  36. We're Not in Kansas Anymore
  37. Glenn Greenwald on Bradley Manning's inhumane treatment in detention
  38. DanKam, an augmented-reality iPhone app for the colorblind
  39. Fuck Yeah, Tumblr
  40. NYT on the Homeland Security seizures of music blog domains
  41. Twitter's 2010 Year in Review
  42. Flowing Data's 10 Best Visualizations of 2010
  43. Gen I.'s Filmography 2010
  44. Visualizing Facebook
  45. So You Want to Be A Journalist…
  46. 60 Best Tumblr Blogs of 2010
  47. very small array's Top 100 Movies by Location
  48. TorrentFreak's snapshot of the public BitTorrent universe
  49. IBM's Watson to challenge Jeopardy champions in February
  50. Humble Indie Bundle #2 is live
  51. Brief Analysis of the Gawker Password Dump
  52. 4chan Declares War On Snow
  53. Gawker hacked, source code and 1.5M user passwords released
  54. Eskmo's "We Got More"
  55. Sour's "Mirror," personalized music video
  56. Portal Done Pro
  57. Better Names (for Baby)
  58. Mashup Breakdown's annotated Night at the Hip-Hopera
  59. Mining of Massive Datasets (PDF)
  60. Intellectual Ventures sues McAfee, Symantec, others for patent infringement
  61. One Chance
  62. Doodling in Math Class
  63. The Twitter Hulks
  64. All Of Billy Joel's Greatest Hits Played At Once
  65. Inception in Real-Time
  66. Michael Jackson DS game bleats vuvuzelas when pirated
  67. Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior
  68. in a cab
  69. Satromizer OS
  70. Agent 008 Ball, HTML5 game using Canvas and Audio
  71. Ask Reddit on culturally untranslatable phrases
  72. Torrentfreak on Tubeify, a YouTube music player
  73. My Holiday Party
  74. First-person remote-control helicopter tour of NYC
  75. Long Felix Salmon essay on the history and future of Gawker
  76. Shop Vac
  77. Why is Scrooge McDuck in Germany named after a 7th-century Frankish king?
  78. Google tweaks algorithm in response to NYT DecorMyEyes story
  79. Fast Company profiles Boing Boing
  80. BitTorrent-based DNS to counter P2P domain seizures

November 2010

  1. Behind-the-scenes profile of recording Kanye West's new album
  2. Deconstructing Gimme Shelter
  3. Wikileaks Cablegate Reactions Roundup
  4. Indie Game: The Movie team talks to Derek Yu about Spelunky
  5. Bygone Bureau's Best New Blogs of 2010
  6. Ken Jennings' list of fake Walt Disneys
  7. NYT covers an eyeglass retailer antagonizing customers for SEO
  8. 1993 NPR show on the future of the Internet
  9. FoxTrot's Bill Amend guest-draws xkcd
  10. Hurt Locker creators sue lawyer who helped downloaders
  11. Erin McKean on "but-heads"
  12. Metafilter on the exposed identity of a fake sex blogger
  13. Give Me Something To Read's Best of 2010
  14. Mashup Breakdown
  15. Nicolas Cage Losing His Shit
  16. Pixar's It Gets Better
  17. CandyBar for the Atari 2600 found
  18. Boilerpipe
  19. How 7,000 Twitter users balanced the budget
  20. flight404's real-time body distortion with Kinect
  21. Jonathan Koshi's Mexican sugar skulls
  22. Glitch launches new website and trailer
  23. NYT on teen distraction by social media
  24. Vanity Fair profiles a hotel detective's quest to find a serial rapist
  25. Nate Silver on the hidden costs of increased airport security
  26. From Robocop, With Love
  27. 20 Things I Learned about Browsers and the Web
  28. Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving
  29. 'T' Shirts
  30. Real-time samples from Girl Talk's All Day
  31. Minecraft CPU map released
  32. The Theory of Hipster Relativity
  33. Jimmy Fallon (as Neil Young) and Bruce Springsteen cover "Whip My Hair"
  34. 9eyes, a tumblelog of Google Street View photography
  35. The World's Biggest Harry Potter Fan
  36. Results of Wikipedia's fundraiser A/B banner testing
  37. IFComp 2010 results released
  38. Google Refine
  39. PokerStars investigates a human that plays poker like a machine
  40. Facebook announces email support, social inbox
  41. Girl Talk releases All Day
  42. "You Look Like Shit"
  43. Roundup of open-source Kinect hacks
  44. NYT's You Fix the Budget
  45. If We Don't, Remember Me.
  46. GIFSoup
  47. TextCaptcha Breaker
  48. #mathowielove
  49. Mob
  50. Joining Expert Labs
  51. Andy Rehfeldt's metal rickroll
  52. First programmable 8-bit CPU built in Minecraft
  53. 3fram.es
  54. Cory Doctorow on the cosmopolitan fanboy
  55. Kutiman's Blog Party
  56. Cindy Royal on Wired's cover treatment of women
  57. "What The Old Timers Used To Call Cabin Fever"
  58. Open Kinect drivers released, wins $3k bounty
  59. PRESENTCAT
  60. Playable Zork easter egg in Call of Duty: Black Ops
  61. danah boyd on teens' unorthodox use of Facebook
  62. textCAPTCHA
  63. AviGlitch
  64. Universal Subtitles
  65. node-canvas
  66. Beautiful Modeler
  67. Gameboy Emulation in Javascript
  68. Testing the myth of the 12-year-old McDonald's burger
  69. Mad Men meets Nat King Cole
  70. TorrentFreak rounds up record-breaking BitTorrent files
  71. Wired's behind the scenes profile of Phineas and Ferb
  72. The Real Life Social Network
  73. Midwest Mom Mistakes Neil Gaiman for Neil Patrick Harris
  74. Bing, amazing Groundhog Day mashup
  75. Pogo's Wishery
  76. John Hodgman solves violent videogames
  77. How Twitter was used by media orgs on election day
  78. Your Fucking Polling Location
  79. Automatypewriter
  80. Tweeql
  81. Geocachers celebrate the ten year anniversary of New Hampshire's first cache
  82. MapCrunch
  83. His Face All Red
  84. Blekko goes live

October 2010

  1. Archive Team releases massive Geocities archive
  2. Dead Drops
  3. Firesheep, simple session hijacking on public networks for Firefox
  4. Reddit users list the most expensive mistake they've ever made
  5. Corporate Climber
  6. MuckRock
  7. Anil Dash on types of app stores
  8. Comics artist Steve Lieber takes on 4chan comics sharers, everyone wins
  9. Penny Arcade community recreates Bioshock's Rapture in Minecraft
  10. Dalton Caldwell's lessons from the death of Imeem
  11. Super Twario turns Twitter into a side-scrolling platformer
  12. Get Home
  13. Swivel founders interviewed about its closure
  14. Lying to My Kids
  15. Frank Chimero's How to Have An Idea
  16. Gene Simmons threatens Anonymous
  17. Coachelletta, tilt-shift video of Coachella 2010
  18. Echo Nest adds personalization APIs
  19. Unfunny Things takes on The Oatmeal
  20. Tate Modern fills Turbine Hall with 100M porcelain sunflower seeds
  21. Diminished Reality
  22. MovieReshape, manipulating body proportions in arbitrary video footage
  23. 99chan user claims to spend two years in prison for armed robbery, tells story
  24. Frames of Reference, physics instructional film from 1960
  25. Infinite Blank, collaboratively-drawn 2D platformer for Mac/PC/Linux
  26. Antoine Dodson performs Bed Intruder Song at the BET Hip-Hop Awards
  27. Adam Saltsman breaks down the mechanics of Canabalt
  28. New footage of Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future
  29. OK Cupid crunches the numbers on the gay vs. straight divide
  30. Minecraft Interstate
  31. Canvas Rider
  32. Processing.A4
  33. Austin Seraphin goes starwatching with an iPhone
  34. WonderTao
  35. Google develops cars that drive themselves
  36. Soylent, Microsoft Word add-on uses Mechanical Turk to crowdsource editing
  37. MongoDB lead's postmortem on Foursquare's extended downtime
  38. How the Glif iPhone stand went from bits to atoms
  39. Dinner Date
  40. Disney's California Adventures to open Flynn's Arcade recreation
  41. Hollerado's "Americanarama," human 8-bit music video
  42. Reddit users note tacky BP America sponsored posts on Digg
  43. Mirrored Las Vegas hotel turns into parabolic solar cooker
  44. Software Evolution Storylines
  45. Textagon
  46. Mr. Doob ports a classic IE6 effect in HTML5
  47. Uffie's "Difficult"
  48. .ly registrar pulls Violet Blue's domain for offensive content
  49. 0boxer
  50. xkcd's updated Map of Online Communities
  51. Peter Freitag's Private Stages
  52. Father and son send weather balloon to space, record results
  53. Adam Rogers on what Batman taught him about parenthood
  54. River of the Net
  55. St. Petersburg Times' wonderful obit, written in response to anonymous online troll
  56. Visualizing.org
  57. NYT on the cause of the DJIA "Flash Crash" in May
  58. Games for Change Festival posts talk videos
  59. Notch announces major Minecraft update for Halloween
  60. You're Stealing It Wrong: 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles
  61. Jonathan McIntosh's Right Wing Radio Duck
  62. Seaquence
  63. Marc Hedlund on why Wesabe lost to Mint

September 2010

  1. The Case of the "Audiosonic Identiglyph"
  2. 8 Bit Wood
  3. Cyberpunk Style Guide
  4. Asteroids Bookmarklet
  5. Wired on the rise of ThinkGeek
  6. AOL acquires TechCrunch
  7. Journalism in the Age of Data
  8. Anasomnia
  9. Norwegian Recycling's "Miracles"
  10. Michael Heilemann's analysis of user behavior by blog
  11. Google Blacklist
  12. Jason Schwartzman introduces the New Yorker iPad app
  13. Ron Gilbert joins Double Fine
  14. Portal mod for Minecraft
  15. MSN Spaces closing down
  16. ThinkUp beta released
  17. Kanye Jordan
  18. Tilt-Shift Van Gogh
  19. MakerBot announces the Thing-O-Matic 3D printer
  20. Google Pizza
  21. Anil Dash on the launch of Gourmet Live
  22. Maker Faire New York starts this weekend
  23. Mojo
  24. What happens if you put your hand in front of the LHC beam?
  25. Gourmet Magazine relaunched as an iPad app
  26. Evercookie, proof-of-concept undeletable tracking cookie
  27. Recreating Shazam in Java
  28. M.I.A.'s Story to Be Told
  29. Aaron Meyers maps the moon's topography to frames of a Paul Robertson animated GIF
  30. Mena's farewell to Six Apart
  31. Last.fm plots listening preferences by gender and age
  32. 12×5 pixel LED display built in Minecraft
  33. VideoEgg to acquire Six Apart, rename to Say Media
  34. Never Mind the Bullets
  35. Starring the Computer
  36. Chinese employees get creative with holiday work schedules
  37. White Knuckles by OK Go
  38. First homebrew game and emulator released for the PS3
  39. The Visual 6502
  40. Misspelled Food
  41. Looxcie, always-on POV video recorder
  42. Austin Seraphin's first week on the iPhone
  43. Steven Frank compiles Newton emulator for the iPad
  44. Jim Henson making Muppets in 1969
  45. Derek Yu's guide to finishing a game
  46. Rock, Paper, Shotgun reviews Minecraft, indie sleeper hit of the year
  47. Steven Colbert/Jon Stewart announce dual rallies in DC, October 30
  48. Ico and Shadow of the Colossus remastered in HD for PS3 in 2011
  49. Increpare's Cascode
  50. Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival poster
  51. The Reverse Geocache Puzzle Box
  52. Alex Payne on the new Twitter
  53. Diaspora releases first source code
  54. SF Chronicle goes inside the French Laundry kitchen
  55. Frank Chimero imagines the Atlantis World's Fair in 1962
  56. Stamen on their Twitter visualization for the MTV VMAs
  57. Hyperbole and a Half's The Party
  58. 10k Apart contest winners announced
  59. The Live Shifter, a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure on Twitter
  60. Justin Watt's guide to blogging from the middle of the ocean
  61. Jsterm
  62. Twitter announces new design
  63. Excerpt of Ian Bogost's book on games as journalism
  64. BERG's light painting with the iPad
  65. SiftLinks, turn links on Twitter into an RSS feed
  66. Everything is a Remix, Part 1
  67. Musopen raises $45k to set classical music recordings free
  68. Burnbit
  69. New Yorker's long, personal profile of Mark Zuckerberg
  70. Digital Comic Museum
  71. Guardian on Nokia's failure to support Dopplr
  72. YouTube Time Machine
  73. Graph Your Inbox
  74. Marco Arment's list of common words in 1-star and 5-star App Store reviews
  75. FFFFUUU statue
  76. xkcd on password reuse and evil plans
  77. Rob O'Hare's playable review of GET LAMP
  78. Anil Dash on the cultural implications of forking
  79. YouTube Instant
  80. Bloglines to shut down on October 1
  81. Pixar's Up gets BLAM'd
  82. Inside the Soviet arcade museum
  83. James Bridle's 12-volume set of edits to the Wikipedia Iraq War page
  84. Monstrous Discrepancies
  85. The Room: The Game
  86. Cache Rules Everything Around Me
  87. Google Scribe, autocomplete any text
  88. OK Trends crunches the data to find what white people really like
  89. George and Jonathan's "The Best Music"
  90. MC Frontalot, Jonathan Coulton, and Paul & Storm cover Double Rainbow/Bed Intruder Song
  91. Jonathan Blow's anonymous PAX playtest of The Witness
  92. Craigslist shuts down adult services section
  93. Health Month
  94. There is a Horse in the Apple Store
  95. Duke Nukem Forever is revived, to be released in 2011 by Gearbox
  96. NYC health dept. shuts down underground lobster roll dealer
  97. Copyright holders choosing ad income over cease-and-desists on YouTube
  98. Buzzfeed's "infographic" about infographic spam
  99. Six Apart shuts down Vox
  100. LA Times interview with the author behind Slaughterhouse 90210
  101. Informative Prints
  102. Cheerleader wins lawsuit by suing the wrong website
  103. Anatomy of a Rickroll, hypnotic visualization of network packets
  104. Building a Scrabble MMO in 48 hours with Node.js and MongoDB
  105. Bear's Double Rainbow ad for Microsoft
  106. First details on Telltale's episodic Back to the Future game emerge
  107. Cee Lo Green's official video for F**K YOU
  108. Slate interviews Innocence Project cofounder about false convictions
  109. Unreal Engine 3 tech demo Epic Citadel for the iPhone/iPad
  110. GameSetWatch covers Assembly 2010's PC demo contest
  111. Apple announces Ping, a social network built into iTunes
  112. All four issues of Daniel Raeburn's The Imp available for free download
  113. Eclectic Method's 8-bit Mixtape

August 2010

  1. Vanity Fair's glimpse into the day in the life of the President
  2. Lanyrd, social conference directory
  3. Copyrighting Fashion
  4. Tom Scott's Evil hack shows phone numbers exposed by Facebook users
  5. Unhear It
  6. Stay Free's Illegal Art mix tape
  7. Mads Peitersen's paintings of gadget anatomy
  8. Hark! A Vagrant's Nancy Drew covers
  9. Markov chaining Kickstarter blurbs
  10. Pomplamoose teams up with Ben Folds & Nick Hornby
  11. The Wilderness Downtown
  12. Swarmation
  13. Disney remixes old cartoons into "Blam!"
  14. PieLabPDX food cart makes customers play games to buy pie
  15. Dirpy
  16. Indie Game: The Movie interviews Adam Saltsman on Canabalt
  17. Jerry Stiller Unscripted
  18. Members of Paramore, New Found Glory, and Relient K cover "Bed Intruder Song"
  19. Happylife
  20. "Learning to Be Me" by Greg Egan
  21. "Where Am I?" by Daniel Dennett
  22. Icons of the Web
  23. Taliban Bike Gangs from Hell
  24. Zero Views
  25. Portland bike lane turns Mario Kart
  26. Scott Pilgrim vs. the Matrix
  27. Wil Wheaton's response to a fan, 21 years later
  28. Silicon Valley's secret rock star
  29. TIME Magazine announces new version of magazine for adults
  30. Star Wars Uncut wins an Emmy
  31. Searching for Me
  32. Vice interviews Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA
  33. Voting machine hacked to play Pac-Man on MAME
  34. Fortune on the secretive world of Trader Joe's
  35. Solipskier
  36. The Slow-Motion Music Quiz
  37. Imagesoak
  38. E7, atmospheric Flash platformer
  39. Tila Tequila vs. the Juggalos
  40. Watch Reformat the Planet for free
  41. Polymaps
  42. Auralization of sorting algorithms
  43. Desperate Pandora employees struggle to find song area man likes
  44. Kindergarten enrollment dates affect ADHD diagnosis rates
  45. Hallowed Ground
  46. Journalism Warning Labels
  47. Paul Robertson's sprites for the Scott Pilgrim game
  48. Unsuck It
  49. Paul Graham on the long decline of Yahoo
  50. Project Springfield, 3D pixel art construction of Springfield
  51. Everynone's "Words"
  52. Documentary episode on the making of Future Crew's Second Reality
  53. Five Philippines inmates escape while guard plays Plants vs. Zombies
  54. Numen Camera for the iPhone
  55. TechCrunch's postmortem on the Jenny "dry erase" quitting hoax
  56. EFF's analysis of the Verizon/Google net neutrality proposal
  57. Henry Jenkins on Inception
  58. The Ballad of Steven Slater
  59. Man Lives In Futuristic Sci-Fi World Where All His Interactions Take Place In Cyberspace
  60. Scott Pilgrim trailer recreated with scenes from the graphic novels
  61. Weeplaces, visualize your Foursquare checkins
  62. Trojan image reproduces itself on 4chan with user assistance
  63. Yakuza 3 game fact-checked by actual Japanese yakuza
  64. The Incident released for iPhone and iPad
  65. Chris Poole's testimony in the Sarah Palin hacking case
  66. OK Cupid on the impact of camera settings on attractiveness
  67. Blackstar Warrior, blaxploitation Star Wars trailer
  68. All Rubik's Cube positions can be solved in 20 moves
  69. Monotoning Music with Echonest Remix
  70. Chill Space
  71. Kyle Pulver's Depict1 ported to Flash
  72. The Making of a 1k Javascript demo effect
  73. CaptchArt
  74. Maslow's Hierarchy of Robot Needs
  75. David Friedman finds a 1910 NYT article written about him
  76. How Jami Attenberg got her stolen bike back in Brooklyn
  77. Chad Dickerson on scaling startups
  78. Massive censorship of Digg uncovered
  79. GearBox, robotic ball controlled with an iPhone
  80. NPR on Antoine Dodson and the Bed Intruder Meme
  81. Fata Morgana
  82. Memeorandum Colors v0.2, or How Not to Ask for A Bugfix
  83. Osmos released for iPhone
  84. Google stops Wave development
  85. Microsoft Street Slide
  86. Racer, a physical racing arcade game
  87. Achievement Unlocked 2
  88. Chris Hecker's "Achievements Considered Harmful?" talk at GDC
  89. Rdio opens to the public
  90. Cyriak's Cycles
  91. Halo for the Atari 2600
  92. The Birds and the Beedrills
  93. junkboy's collection of game demake mockups
  94. Auto-Tune the News' Bed Intruder Song

July 2010

  1. Craig Mod's incredible postmortem of raising money with Kickstarter
  2. GET LAMP, the text adventure documentary, is done
  3. FC64 Commodore 64 emulator in Javascript
  4. 10k Apart
  5. TorrentFreak on the BitTorrent releasers vs. the Scene
  6. Google Alarm Firefox add-on
  7. Bradley and Bethany
  8. Michael Jackson's estate demands Popcap change Dancing Zombie character
  9. Paul Graham on the acceleration of addictiveness
  10. GameStop buys Kongregate
  11. Ron Livingston does Keyboard Cat
  12. Andrew Plotkin reviews The Ultimate Alphabet for the iPad
  13. EFF wins DMCA exemptions for bypassing DRM, phone jailbreaking/unlocking
  14. 8-bit color cycling with HTML 5
  15. Guardian UK's report on the Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs
  16. The No Twinkie Database
  17. Aza Raskin on Tab Candy, experimental tab management for Firefox
  18. The Chipophone
  19. Philipp Lenssen's book on Graphic Adventure games
  20. Cow Clicker
  21. Sledgehammer and Whore
  22. Adam Lisagor on Flipboard
  23. 4chan trying to take down Gawker
  24. Top Secret America
  25. Xbox 360 developer recounts the history of their achievements system
  26. Apple donates MacPaint/QuickDraw source to Computer History Museum
  27. GQ's rare interview with Bill Murray
  28. You've Either Shipped or You Haven't
  29. Hacked Sonic the Hedgehog gains weight as he consumes fried rings
  30. Rigid-Body Fracture Sound
  31. Aaron Cohen tests the "I Write Like" authors
  32. AutoSummarize
  33. Google acquires Metaweb
  34. OK Cupid crunches the numbers on the biggest lies in online dating
  35. Drew Blas' analysis of GPL'ed code in Thesis
  36. Trailer for The Social Network released
  37. Matt Mullenweg and WordPress theme developer argue GPL licensing
  38. The Revolving Internet
  39. Old Spice Guy's video responses to individual tweets
  40. Yiying Lu's repositionable wall graphics
  41. The Men Who Stare at Screens
  42. I Write Like
  43. Massachusetts newspaper to charge fee to comment
  44. BLU's Big Bang Big Boom
  45. Pond
  46. SuperMe
  47. Man Enough
  48. Twirdie
  49. Ask Metafilter takes on men's bathroom etiquette
  50. Harvey Pekar, dead at 70
  51. Google's App Inventor for Android
  52. Blizzard backs down on real names in their forums
  53. Slate on the competitive eating industry
  54. Multiuser Sketchpad
  55. Epic Win, to-do list game for the iPhone
  56. Ask Metafilter on things you realized you were doing wrong
  57. Super Mario Bros. speedrun visualized as one long projection
  58. Auto-Tune the News' Double Rainbow Song
  59. Starcraft/World of Warcraft official forums to display real names
  60. Andy Weir's "The Egg"
  61. Jim Rossignol's This Gaming Life now available online for free
  62. Optical Illusion Illusions
  63. Higgs particle simulated as sound
  64. Film the Blanks
  65. Yosemitebear's Giant Double Rainbow
  66. Composer Jason Robert Brown's fight with a teen girl about copyright
  67. Giant Bomb's extensive first look at Limbo gameplay
  68. Rude Boy, compilation of reggae/dub/ska chiptunes
  69. Chase Goose
  70. Maciej Ceglowski on the great Legacy.com swindle
  71. Marc Hedlund announces Wesabe shutdown
  72. Diaspora's first month progress report
  73. Foursquare adds map view
  74. 8-bit Twilight: Eclipse
  75. Darryl Cunningham's 19-page comic about homeopathy
  76. Luke W. on an elegant sliding alternative to CAPTCHA
  77. Dan Telfer thinks your favorite dinosaur sucks
  78. Roger Ebert follows up his controversial post on games as art

June 2010

  1. Men's Health visits Portland's thriving food cart scene
  2. MaxFunsters for Zach Annel
  3. Woot acquired by Amazon
  4. It's Oppo!
  5. Kickstarter Film Festival
  6. Evelin Kasikov's cross-stitched CMYK alphabet
  7. Conan the Barbarian: The Musical
  8. Josh Millard's The Crane That Feeds
  9. Hulu launches subscription service
  10. Appsaurus, iPhone app recommender
  11. Fan-made King's Quest remake back from the dead
  12. iPhone vs. HTC Evo
  13. No Sleep 'Til Fusion
  14. Laser death cat punishes Team Fortress grinders
  15. The Fab Faux's live cover of side two of Abbey Road
  16. Trip through the Mandelbox
  17. iOS icons in pure CSS
  18. They Don't Complain and They Die Quietly
  19. Roethlisberger & Jahic's hand-drawn Star Wars Kid animation
  20. Lazeroids
  21. Joel Johnson visits John McAfee in Belize
  22. Walt Disney World's closed Adventurer's Club recreated in Half-Life 2
  23. David Thorne makes a poster to find Missy the Cat
  24. Studio Ghibli to make games with Professor Layton team
  25. Smirnoff shuts down Bros Icing Bros
  26. FEED Magazine archives return after nine years offline
  27. ALT/1977, modern electronics redesigned for the '70s
  28. Wolfire's review of OnLive
  29. Recreating the RCA Photophone
  30. Making of Pixar's Day & Night, the short preceding Toy Story 3
  31. I Dream In Retro
  32. The Daily Show on U.S. presidential promises of energy independence
  33. Tiny Inventions' Something Left, Something Taken
  34. Stamen wins $400k Knight grant to visualize civic data
  35. Dotwar
  36. Real-Life Portal Gun
  37. NYT Mag on Watson, IBM's Jeopardy-playing computer
  38. Freedom Bridge
  39. Nitrome's Faultline
  40. Harmonix demos the new Fender Squire guitar controller
  41. First gameplay videos of Portal 2
  42. Stage demo of Rock Band 3 at E3
  43. Lifehacker's guide to silencing vuvuzela horns with an EQ filter
  44. Alex Noriega's Stuff No One Told Me
  45. Shawn Smith's pixelated sculptures
  46. Hidden posters of the Notting Hill subway station
  47. Flash Game Dojo
  48. OnLive cloud gaming service to launch Thursday with free year of service
  49. McSweeney's list of Great Literature Retitled to Boost Website Traffic
  50. Openbook
  51. Monica Narula and Joshua Schachter's Guilt Market
  52. Charles Schultz's Teen Comics
  53. History of the NBC Pipes decorated by Jim Henson in 1964
  54. Jason Scott on The Guy in the Get Lamp artwork
  55. Support call from the Google Pac-Man doodle
  56. Glee and copyright
  57. Slate reveals the story behind the recycled newspaper prop
  58. Jordan Bower's portraits of modern Nepalese porters and their t-shirts
  59. Dr. Demento ends 40 years of radio
  60. U.S. Army intelligence analyst arrested for leaking Wikileaks helicopter video
  61. Visualizing tourists vs. locals on Flickr
  62. gdgt's live coverage of the Apple keynote and the new iPhone and iOS 4
  63. Bit and Run, "Mario's Ladder"
  64. Every actor reads the same newspaper
  65. David McCandless visualizes musician revenues online
  66. California college student suspended for Twitter messages
  67. A letter from "Leroy Stick," the person behind @BPGlobalPR
  68. Motherboard.tv's short doc on ROFLCon
  69. Robot Unicorn Attack released for the iPhone
  70. Danny Sullivan on misattribution and lazy reporting in the mainstream press
  71. AI::General
  72. moot's TED talk about 4chan culture and online anonymity
  73. Time Traveling Finger
  74. Ars Technica digs up the details of the P2P indie film lawsuits
  75. Jus' Checkin'
  76. Destroy the Web
  77. LOST reimagined as a Lucasarts adventure game

May 2010

  1. Portland Mercury goes inside the Achewood test kitchen
  2. Exit Path
  3. Kevin Kelly's 1997 list of quotes from the first five years of Wired
  4. Smokescreen, a Flash player in Javascript
  5. Ken Jennings' anatomy of a Wikipedia hoax
  6. Super Mario Bros. Crossover creator commentary
  7. M.I.A. takes revenge on NYT Magazine writer for unflattering cover story
  8. Nifflas releases FiNCK
  9. My Desk Is 8-Bit
  10. GQ on the National Enquirer and their attempt to win the Pulitzer
  11. 1983 Naked Eyes Song Was A Burt Bacharach Remake?
  12. Collection of bowling alley scoreboards
  13. Jeff Rubin's Unanswered Lost Questions
  14. Phoenix Wright released for the iPhone
  15. D-Pad Hero 2 released for NES
  16. Sean Bonner on the near-death of Metblogs
  17. Short film on the making of 48HR Magazine
  18. The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield
  19. The Big Caption
  20. Pixel: An Art Documentary
  21. The Swinger
  22. spta's MonsterMaker
  23. The Discography of Greyson Chance
  24. Hurt Locker producer calls downloaders morons who belong in jail
  25. Google's Pac-Man homepage doodle
  26. Superbien's video projection onto mapped blocks
  27. Ask Metafilter saves two Russian students from NYC sex traffickers
  28. How Etsy does deploys
  29. First synthetic cell created
  30. Google releases BigQuery and Prediction API
  31. Typekit and Google announce open-source collaboration
  32. HTML 5 Zombo.com
  33. CBS threatens 48 Hr. Magazine over trademark
  34. Google open-sources VP8 video codec
  35. Girl Talk's Feed the Animals sample visualizer
  36. Newzbin closes down
  37. Alex Payne leaves Twitter for BankSimple
  38. Ronnie James Dio, dead at 67
  39. Why Peter Serafinowicz pirates movies, including his own
  40. Gink
  41. SNL's Timecrowave, meals from the future
  42. 4chan's moot raises $625k for stealth startup
  43. 50 Greatest Samples in Hip-Hop History
  44. Drunk History of Frederick Douglass
  45. Valve's Portal recruitment video
  46. Shaun Inman's study of the Super Mario 3 camera behavior
  47. Greyson Chance performs on the Ellen show
  48. NYT's chart of Facebook privacy settings
  49. Panic loads Apple //e Grandaddy music video source using an iPad
  50. Ben Folds covers Elliot Smith's "Say Yes"
  51. Steam for Mac released
  52. An Open-Source History of Mondo 2000
  53. Sixth-grader covers "Paparazzi"
  54. Twitter follower hack discovered by Turkish heavy metal fan
  55. Samorost 2 added to the Humble Indie Bundle
  56. Conan O'Brien at Google
  57. Creepy Robots
  58. Tasman Richardson, "The Game"
  59. View to Corrupt
  60. Get Out of There!
  61. Coney Island's last arcade burns in suspicious fire
  62. Non-Latin TLDs go live
  63. Disneyland tests talking Mickey Mouse
  64. Hue Shift
  65. The Paywall
  66. Google Chrome's slow-motion speed tests
  67. Star Wars Pregnancy Announcement
  68. If Mario Was Designed in 2010
  69. Jason Scott researches the story of Computer Beach Party
  70. Tim & Eric, Paul Rudd's Computer
  71. GameSetWatch on Pitch to Pixel, an album of jazz-inspired chiptunes
  72. Fanedit.org's most famous fan edits of all-time
  73. Sean Young's Super-8 footage on the set of David Lynch's Dune
  74. Face.com opens free facial recognition APIs
  75. xkcd's Color Survey Results
  76. Joel Johnson interviews 48 Hour Magazine's all-star team
  77. Inc. Magazine's cover story on Tim O'Reilly
  78. Keyboard Matt
  79. Sketch Processing
  80. Telltale announces Puzzle Agent
  81. "Anatomy of a T-shirt" on Threadless
  82. Feed Filter plugin for Firefox removes key features after Facebook C&D
  83. How Wired tracked down the prototype iPhone seller
  84. Duke University to shut down historic Usenet server this weekend month
  85. Fun with secret questions & answers

April 2010

  1. How To Draw God-Man
  2. Irish music blogs under attack
  3. Know Your Meme's guide to challenging YouTube takedowns with fair use
  4. Getty Images Graffiti
  5. Steve Jobs' Thoughts on Flash
  6. War and Peace: The Missing Footnote
  7. John Goerzen's downloadable archive of Gopherspace circa 2007
  8. Food, Inc. now available for free online viewing
  9. Happy Birthday, Kickstarter!
  10. 2 Girls 1 Cup: The Infographic
  11. Ze Frank's Chillout Song
  12. Super Mario Crossover
  13. Indianapolis Star reporter researches a teenager with no official identity
  14. Match.com threatens Plenty of Fish over growth stats
  15. Sydney's Siberia
  16. Obama Nails the National Anthem
  17. Spotify adds social features in newest version
  18. Mr. Spastic's Lo-Fi Version
  19. Agenda Circling Forth, first-place demo at Breakpoint 2010
  20. Transmit 4 released
  21. Laptopograms
  22. Waiting for Bieber
  23. The Geocities-izer
  24. Apple //t, Twitter display for the Apple II
  25. Police seize Gizmodo editor's computers
  26. Enough Plumbers
  27. YouTube explains "fair use" option for disputed videos
  28. Android OS running on the iPhone
  29. White House releases open-source code
  30. Useless Fliers
  31. Testing the limits of YouTube's fingerprinting system
  32. Akihabara, open-source HTML5 pixel game toolkit
  33. How an Apple employee lost the iPhone 4G prototype
  34. Poto & Cabenga
  35. New York Magazine's cover story on the NYC tech scene
  36. PlayPen
  37. Roger Ebert believes videogames can never be art
  38. Will It Metablend?
  39. Hey, Guys!
  40. DAN the MAN
  41. Library of Congress acquires entire Twitter archive
  42. Stupid Fight on Twitter
  43. Nieman Lab on the results of Gawker's comment moderation experiments
  44. Nate Silver takes on NYC neighborhood livability
  45. Google to open-source On2's VP8 codec for HTML5 video
  46. I Am Free Enterprise
  47. Star Wars Uncut's "The Escape," five-minute teaser
  48. Flash CS5 to support limited HTML5 canvas export
  49. Phil Gyford's "Infographic"
  50. Giant Bomb adds elaborate quests system
  51. Katsu's virtual tagging of Picasso's Girl Before A Mirror at MoMA
  52. Pixels by Patrick Jean
  53. South Park takes on Facebook and Farmville
  54. Penny's Computer Book, Inspector Gadget wallpaper for the iPad
  55. Gizmodo's iPad review as a personal journal
  56. Particle You
  57. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Game
  58. 2D Boy's Ron Carmel makes a "Suck Goo" level for WarioWare D.I.Y.
  59. Hunch's Twitter predictor game
  60. The GET LAMP interactive fiction panel at PAX East
  61. Math teacher's April Fools day shadow prank
  62. Wikileaks releases classified US military video
  63. "Hello, My Future Girlfriend" AMA on Reddit
  64. Pcubee
  65. Gizmodo's list of essential iPad apps
  66. Heather Champ leaves Flickr
  67. John Gruber on open vs. closed tech culture and the iPad
  68. How a Fish Almost Destroyed My Childhood
  69. Play Adventure with voice recognition
  70. Quake 2 ported to HTML5
  71. Thinkgeek's iCade prank arcade for the iPad
  72. Bieber or Die

March 2010

  1. A real person, a lot like you
  2. Moon8
  3. Snopes debunks the Scarface school play
  4. I Can Hold My Breath Forever
  5. Tim O'Reilly on the state of the Internet operating system
  6. Colorbind for the iPhone
  7. Chat Roulette Piano Improv #2
  8. Run, Jesus Run!
  9. First images of Scott Pilgrim game, with music by Anamanaguchi and pixel art by Paul Robertson
  10. Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt get coffee
  11. SimpleGeo's visualization of SXSW checkin activity
  12. Auto Smiley
  13. I'm Here, A Love Story
  14. Future Sounds shuts down WOXY one year after Lala sale
  15. Specter Spelunker Shrinks
  16. Less Talk, More Rock
  17. Paris Smaragdis' demo video of user-assisted audio selection
  18. Preview of Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill feature
  19. Nintendo's mini-feature on Cave Story's elusive creator Pixel
  20. How a gaming community flamewar spawned a real game
  21. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
  22. Slate's experiments with running Google TV Ads
  23. Come On Paint Me White Again
  24. Google stops censoring Chinese search results
  25. MC Frontalot released Zero Day for digital download
  26. Pixeljam and James Kochalka's Glorkian Warrior
  27. Ben Folds' live piano improv on Chat Roulette
  28. Brandon Boyer plays with Jason Rohrer's Sleep Is Death
  29. Soren Johnson's "Fear and Loathing in Farmville," notes from GDC 2010
  30. Fredrik Larsson's TV Theme Song Medley
  31. Jane McGonigal's TED talk on using games to save the world
  32. C-SPAN opens massive video archives
  33. Joel Johnson, "Raiding Eternity"
  34. xkcd's Google phrase frequency charts
  35. Newspaper Club designs, prints, distributes overnight newspaper at SXSW
  36. Crowdsourced demographic study of Chatroulette
  37. Progress Wars
  38. Piano Improvisation on Chat Roulette
  39. 8-Bit Austin
  40. Spritely, jQuery plugin for sprite and background animation
  41. Trololololololo Shreds
  42. Preview of Sword & Sworcery EP for the iPhone
  43. Sitby.us
  44. Kickstarter at SXSW 2010
  45. Danc on the release of Ribbon Hero
  46. "Play" by David Kaplan and Eric Zimmerman
  47. Chatroulette Map
  48. Steamshovel Harry
  49. El Fin Del Mundo by Alberto González Vázquez
  50. Wired Reread, blogging the best ads from '90s-era Wired
  51. Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer
  52. Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg perform Lazy Sunday live
  53. Adam Savage's pursuit of the perfect Blade Runner gun replica
  54. The Panic Status Board
  55. Valve ports game library and Steam service to Mac
  56. Maciej Ceglowski on the discovery, loss, and rediscovery of the cure for scurvy
  57. 8-Bit NYC, Brett Camper's videogame map of New York
  58. Sleep Is Death, Jason Rohrer's new conversational two-player game
  59. Obama appoints Edward Tufte to advise on stimulus transparency
  60. PS22 Chorus sings Phoenix's Lisztomania
  61. Echo Nest and SCHED's guide to SXSW Music
  62. GameInformer's Portal 2 exclusive cover story
  63. Cal Henderson on gaming probability in World of Warcraft
  64. LiveJournal rewrites outbound links with affiliate codes
  65. NYT on Chinese "human-flesh search engines"
  66. YouTube launches auto-captioning for all videos
  67. OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass"
  68. Roger Ebert starts subscription service
  69. Yelp's official response to the business extortion accusation
  70. Valve updates Portal with mysterious achievement and ARG trailhead
  71. Unit Testing Achievements
  72. The Skull of Regret
  73. NYT's auralization of crossing the Olympic finish line
  74. Activision shuts down 8-year King's Quest fan project
  75. Bioshock's lead level designer remakes Arcadia in Doom 2

February 2010

  1. Pictures for Sad Children, "Play Play Play"
  2. Nieman Labs tallies original reporting vs. rewrites for the Google/China hacking story
  3. Joel Johnson's extremely painful, personal story of sexual abuse
  4. Casey Neistat's excellent short film about Chat Roulette
  5. NYT on Bloom Energy's public debut
  6. Yelp accused of extortion in class-action lawsuit
  7. The Effing Typeface
  8. YouTube removes most popular, fan-uploaded Rickroll
  9. Neurosonics Live
  10. Andrew vs. the Collective's "Search Engine Optimization"
  11. Italian court finds Google Video guilty of privacy violation for uploaded video
  12. danah boyd on ChatRoulette as a throwback to the early web
  13. The Spy at Harrington High
  14. Sushi Cat
  15. 4chan on Jeopardy
  16. Interview with the manager of Coney Island's Cyclone
  17. The Gruber 10 at Macworld
  18. Auto-Tune the News #10
  19. Passage in 10 Seconds
  20. Twitter releases growth stats for first three years
  21. Matt Haughey's updates on Mechanical Turk human spam
  22. Interviewing Ted Rall on Comics Journalism in Afghanistan
  23. Slate on the government's alcohol poisoning during Prohibition
  24. Filipinos scared to sing Sinatra after "My Way" karaoke murders
  25. Jesse Schell's DICE talk about Facebook, reality, and the future of pervasive gaming
  26. Regarding Foursquare and Please Rob Me
  27. CodeOrgan
  28. Google prototypes real-time OCR and translation in Google Goggles
  29. Music Journalism Is the New Piracy
  30. OK Cupid covers the effects of age on dating and attractiveness
  31. Please Rob Me
  32. Bunnie Huang's forensic research into irregular MicroSD cards
  33. Plants vs. Zombies released for iPhone
  34. Esquire profiles Roger Ebert
  35. Wired's magazine concept for tablet computers
  36. David Crane's iPhone app on Atari 2600 programming
  37. Clive Thompson on obscurity and social scaling
  38. Mayor of the North Pole
  39. Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented reality maps at TED
  40. Augmented hyper(Reality): Domestic Robocop
  41. What makes Blip tick?
  42. Chatroulette creator outs himself as Russian high school student
  43. "Who else loves ice cream?"
  44. Nathan Myhrvold's Death Star laser kills mosquitoes in flight
  45. Google Chrome for Mac beta gets extensions
  46. YouTube's Video Speed History
  47. Ars Technica covers moot's TED talk
  48. Bing Maps adds augmented Photosynth street views with Flickr photos
  49. DEN.net and the Top 100 Websites of 1999
  50. Confused Facebook users think ReadWriteWeb is the new Facebook login page
  51. CNET's Daniel Terdiman digs into the evolution of Glitch's back story
  52. Logorama
  53. Adam Kempa helps spot the hidden image on New Yorker's 85th anniversary covers
  54. Google launches Buzz, social updates and sharing
  55. Mirror Scare Supercut
  56. Tiny Speck announces Glitch, Flash MMO coming later this year
  57. ChatRoulette, videochat with a random person
  58. Recursive webcast on Justin.tv
  59. Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread
  60. We love xkcd
  61. Choire Sicha interviews Paul Ford, Harper's web editor
  62. Record Tripping
  63. Patrick Stewart on Twitter, the Internet, iPhone, and games
  64. Help Giant Robot
  65. Shutup, disable comments on popular websites
  66. Pirating the 2010 Oscars
  67. Where We Remain
  68. Loudon Wainwright III on the Sound of Young America
  69. Google Chrome 4 adds support for native Greasemonkey scripts
  70. Greg Knauss time-travels to visit his 1990 self
  71. Gnilley, indie game where you kill enemies by screaming
  72. Ze Frank's Pain Pack

January 2010

  1. HacKey, chart popular keys in your Last.fm favorites
  2. Kate Beaton illustrates the Gorey book covers
  3. Echo Nest previews new APIs
  4. Bram Cohen takes on Freenode
  5. How to Report the News
  6. The Virtual Piano
  7. Alaska Nanooks 2010 Hockey Intro
  8. Comedian asks New Yorkers to carry him across Manhattan
  9. Steven Frank on the iPad and a generational shift in computing
  10. xkcd's Spirit
  11. Brandon Boyer asks indie game all-stars about the iPad
  12. J. D. Salinger, dead at 91
  13. Rafe Colburn on the iPad and the closed future of consumer computing
  14. The Prisoner's Dilemma recreated in Mechanical Turk
  15. Anil Dash on geek attention on the iPad vs. tonight's State of the Union
  16. Apple iPad official promo video
  17. Nieman Lab's interactive calculator for estimating effects of newspaper paywalls
  18. David Cole on metagaming and boundaries in reading the web
  19. If Global Warming Is Real, Then Why Is It Cold?
  20. Directed Edge opens up recommendations API for free non-commercial use
  21. Roman Cortes' 3D coke can in pure CSS
  22. App.itize.us
  23. Lookwell
  24. Bandcamp starts record "unlabel" with first vinyl release
  25. Wisconsin jail bans Dungeons & Dragons
  26. Confessions of a Book Pirate
  27. Weird Al directing his first feature film for Cartoon Network
  28. Gnop
  29. Robin Sloan on telling stories with interfaces
  30. Vanishing Point
  31. Vvvvvv
  32. CNN's 360° video of Port-au-Prince
  33. YouTube's Music Discovery Project
  34. Caleb Larsen's sculpture perpetually sells itself on eBay
  35. OK Cupid's myths of profile pictures
  36. Zeldman on posthumous hosting and the fragility of the creative web
  37. Joseph Ducreux, 18th century French artist turned 4chan meme
  38. Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer are engaged
  39. The Sixty One undergoes major redesign
  40. Enter The Magical Mystery Chambers
  41. Lukas Ketner's retro style artwork for GET LAMP
  42. New York Times to charge for frequent access next year
  43. Charting the Beatles
  44. General Larry Platt's "Pants on the Ground"
  45. Caterina Fake on participatory media
  46. GameSetWatch's Best of the 2009 Demoscene
  47. OK Go explains why their new YouTube video can't be embedded
  48. WSJ writer follows a man trying to rescue his family in Haiti
  49. Baratunde Thurston speculates how MLK might have used Twitter
  50. ASCIImeo, Vimeo videos in text
  51. Visual timeline of Crayola color changes from 1903-2010
  52. 2010: Living in the Future
  53. Frank Cifaldi's annotated Mr. Gimmick playthrough
  54. Google Australia censors Encyclopedia Dramatica in search results
  55. Oink founder cleared of fraud charges
  56. Acme Novelty Library in Chinese
  57. Nick Montfort on the origins of the word "Zork"
  58. Retro Sabotage's Jumping
  59. Dispersion of sound waves in ice sheets
  60. Gordon, an open-source Flash runtime in Javascript
  61. Google to stop censoring Chinese search results or close China office
  62. John Kricfalusi's 1998 illustrated letter to a young cartoonist
  63. The Kickstarter Awards: Best in Show
  64. Al Gore requests a typeface tweak
  65. What boyfriends and girlfriends search for on Google
  66. Maciej Ceglowski on six months of Pinboard
  67. 100 Games Cupcakes
  68. Gumby creator Art Clokey dies
  69. Python script takes a webcam snapshot when code commits fail
  70. Russell Davies on RIG's dataviz Christmas ornaments
  71. Newspaper Club announces prices for custom-printed papers
  72. Zach Gage's Antagonistic Books
  73. Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
  74. The Third & The Seventh
  75. Roger Ebert on losing the ability to eat, drink, and speak
  76. Blink-182's Tom DeLonge tries to sell Vampire Weekend a social network
  77. Boing Boing's guide to the IGF 2010 finalists
  78. Project 880, summary of James Cameron's original Avatar treatment
  79. Vintage Ad Browser
  80. The Kickstarter Awards, Part 1
  81. Metafilter community on the tragic death of Brad Graham
  82. Rex's 30 Best Blogs of 2009
  83. Volker Shreiner's Counter, short film from 2004
  84. One Frame of Fame
  85. 15,740 self-proclaimed social media gurus on Twitter
  86. Daniel Raffel's favorite new geek projects of 2009
  87. Spam Assassin scores any email in 2010 as spammy

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