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December 2011

  1. James Joyce and Virginia Woolf copyrights expire tonight
  2. The Verge's best tech writing of 2011
  3. Why Notch isn't hiring more Minecraft developers
  4. Shot-by-shot comparison of Raiders of the Lost Ark intro to vintage adventure movies
  5. Daniel Sinker's best hacker-journalism of 2011
  6. Instant webserver for the current directory
  7. Wikipeetia
  8. The Ramsey Brothers' Home Video Commentaries
  9. Marvel lawyers insist mutants aren't humans
  10. imgur's best images of 2011
  11. New Yorker's profile of Carrie Brownstein's double-life
  12. College professor seeds Internet with fake term paper to catch plagiarists
  13. Augmented Reality with Processing
  14. Tim Minchin's Woody Allen Jesus
  15. NYT on fair use and appropriation in the art world
  16. It's A Wonderful Life, As Told By TV Sitcoms
  17. Remaking famous artworks with photographs
  18. Dissecting misogyny on a Reddit /r/atheism post
  19. Penny Arcade destroys scumbag marketing firm
  20. Said the Gramophone's Best Songs of 2011
  21. Stamen's Angry Birds time tracker
  22. Metafilter backgrounder on the O Brother, Where Are Thou? soundtrack
  23. Fireplace beta
  24. Hitler reacts to SOPA
  25. Technology Review profiles Jason Scott and Archive Team
  26. #DearInventor
  27. Creative Applications' top 10 projects of 2011
  28. Bradley Manning Had Secrets
  29. ARTorNOT
  30. The Lives They Loved
  31. Wired Magazine feature on Ian Bogost and Cow Clicker
  32. Frank Chimero on the shame in Louis C.K.'s comedy
  33. The Verge's in-depth feature on Kickstarter's impact on product development
  34. Amazon Web Services is excited
  35. NYT's obituary for Christopher Hitchens
  36. Twitter by Post
  37. Spotify vs. Rdio: Who Has the Exclusives?
  38. Louis CK on the success of his $5 video sales experiment
  39. Ed Piskor's Nostalgic Memories of the NES
  40. The Single Lane Super Highway
  41. Flight Plan
  42. Sony, Universal, Fox, Google employees caught pirating
  43. Give Me Something to Read's 2011 Highlights
  44. FAA approves iPads in cockpits
  45. Megaupload sues Universal over fraudulent DMCA takedowns
  46. The pr0n Index
  47. Google Shoot View
  48. Louis CK's Live at the Beacon
  49. Michael Robertson on the record labels' demands on streaming services
  50. Future Drama
  51. You Have Downloaded
  52. Rage Cast Member
  53. Twine
  54. Major label stars endorse Megaupload in video
  55. First chapter of Clay Johnson's The Information Diet
  56. The Daily Show on predatory "free" iOS games for kids
  57. Xeni Jardin on her breast cancer diagnosis
  58. Indie Game: The Movie on meeting Kevin Smith and following dreams
  59. Occupy Wall Street occupies Law & Order replica of Zuccotti Park
  60. No Copyright Intended
  61. Once Upon
  62. ICE releases popular hip-hop blog's domain after year of deception
  63. Shigeru Miyamoto to work on smaller games at Nintendo
  64. Family Guy writer's first-person account of his Occupy LA arrest
  65. Cowbird
  66. Twitter launches major redesign
  67. Maciej Ceglowski on the dangers of free web services
  68. Interregnum, an animated short on French proto-hacker René Carmille
  69. Swiss government keeps downloading legal after piracy study
  70. Echofi
  71. Introducing the Federal Social Media Index
  72. Matt Haughey interviews Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda

November 2011

  1. US judge orders hundreds of domains "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook, Twitter
  2. The Willard Asylum Suitcases
  3. Spotify adds apps
  4. Gregg Gethard recounts the story of his painfully awkward Carmen Sandiego appearance
  5. Tracking the U.S. Government’s Response to #Occupy on Twitter
  6. Taco Fiction
  7. BERG's Little Printer
  8. Jamie Zawinski on Mike Arrington and the myths of startup success
  9. Hacking carbon emissions into Minecraft
  10. David OReilly's The External World
  11. Every Beatles song, played at once
  12. Feast
  13. The Karate Kid Rehearsal Movie
  14. SiriProxy
  15. Prelude of the Chambered in Minecraft
  16. Alex Howard's comprehensive overview of SOPA and PROTECT IP
  17. UMG sues Grooveshark for 100,000 uploaded songs
  18. Gawker on Megyn Kelly downplaying pepper spray as a "food product"
  19. Paul Motian, dead at 80
  20. Sophia Grace and Rosie interview celebs at the AMAs
  21. DARPA Shredder Challenge
  22. Address Is Approximate
  23. NYT on NYPD's mistreatment of reporters covering Occupy
  24. Occuprint
  25. GQ takes Aziz Ansari, David Chang, and James Murphy to Tokyo
  26. xkcd's Money chart
  27. Desert Bus ported to iOS
  28. Idea Lab on the web's political movement against SOPA
  29. Facebook shows 4.74 average distance between users
  30. The Atlantic's online ad revenue exceeds print
  31. Viewing the UC Davis Pepper Spraying from Multiple Angles
  32. Occupy Lulz
  33. Jim Romenesko on his resignation from Poynter
  34. Occupy Wall Street as Pong
  35. Arrested Development returning as a Netflix exclusive in 2013
  36. Minecraft 1.0 launched at MineCon
  37. A History of the Sky
  38. Google Analytics A Potential Threat to Anonymous Bloggers
  39. Nintendo Preview Music Jam
  40. Vines, a flipbook love story from Paul to Anna
  41. Google adds verbatim search mode
  42. Irina Werning's second Back to the Future series
  43. Visualization of 11/11/11 11:11 activity on Twitter
  44. Cave Story tool-assisted speedrun
  45. Jailbreak the Patriarchy
  46. 24 Hours of Flickr
  47. The Awl profiles the creator of Is Anyone Up?
  48. Olly, the web-connected smelly robot
  49. Parallel Flickr
  50. Abobo's Big Adventure trailer released
  51. Bil Keane's dysfunctional relationship with the Internet
  52. Novelist interviews reviewer who hated his book
  53. NYT Magazine on Internet satirists in China
  54. Mixel
  55. Arcade Improv: Humans Pretending to Be Videogames
  56. Canvas community reinterprets memes
  57. What I Didn't Write About When I Wrote About Quitting Facebook
  58. The GAG Quartet's le Internet Medley
  59. Kinect BeatWheel
  60. Zorba, a game by Pippin Barr
  61. PoleRiders
  62. Adobe ends development of mobile Flash player, refocuses on HTML5
  63. The Social Graph Is Neither
  64. Meanwhile released for iPhone/iPad
  65. Story of Genki
  66. Bohemian Rhapsichord
  67. 86th Birthday Rage
  68. Supercut: Anatomy of a Meme
  69. Chris Wetherell on dreams, discernment, and Google Reader
  70. Skinemax
  71. Petman
  72. Supercut.org

October 2011

  1. src img
  2. Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)
  3. Christian Marclay's Telephones
  4. Codify, game editor for the iPad
  5. How Caitlin Curran lost her job over Occupy Wall Street
  6. When I Do This, I Imagine I'm Doing This…
  7. Hyperbole and a Half's Adventures in Depression
  8. PataNoir
  9. Shape Type
  10. Baroque.me
  11. Vimeo vs. Indie Game Developers
  12. Google Kills Its Other Plus, and How to Bring It Back
  13. Richard Stallman's list of requests when speaking
  14. Melissa Gira Grant on early camgirl culture
  15. Class-action Yelp lawsuits dismissed
  16. Oakland police throw flash grenade into crowd helping injured protestor
  17. PROTECT IP Act Breaks the Internet
  18. John Hodgman is The Deranged Millionaire
  19. Nest
  20. Siri Meets Eliza
  21. A Game About Game Literacy
  22. RIP John McCarthy, AI pioneer
  23. Analysis of the Steve Jobs tribute messages
  24. Teaser for Next Restaurant's Childhood menu
  25. Occupy the Internet
  26. Mourning the death of Google Reader's social features
  27. Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon at Wembley Empire Pool, 1974
  28. Google redesigning Reader, removing existing social features next week
  29. Adobe's official post on the Photoshop deblur tech demo
  30. 2012 IGF Pirate Kart
  31. Google Books' WebGL Bookcase
  32. Take This Lollipop
  33. Killing the Abraham
  34. Jotly
  35. Dan Bruno designed his first game at age 5
  36. German theater group stages live-action, point-and-click adventure games
  37. SocialFlow's analysis of the spread of the #OccupyWallStreet hashtag
  38. Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It
  39. 140bytes Music SoftSynth
  40. Void Gaze, Nullsleep's interactive fiction meets animated GIFs
  41. Chris Poole's talk on online identity and self-expression
  42. The Billboard Wayback Machine
  43. Adrian Holovaty's YouTube-powered insult generator
  44. Easter eggs in Siri
  45. Matt Taibbi suggests concrete demands for Occupy Wall Street protestors
  46. Blackboards in Porn
  47. Vanity Fair's The Woman Who Knew Too Much
  48. Ira Glass Sex Tape
  49. Bret Victor's Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
  50. Echo Nest's Brian Whitman on music resolution issues in Facebook
  51. Justin Hall's GameLayers postmortem
  52. Make Pixel Art
  53. Internet Story
  54. Kickstarter hits one million backers
  55. Watsky's "Amazing Grace" at #OccupyLA
  56. The Wub Machine
  57. Plink, a multiplayer audio experiment built with Node and Web Audio
  58. Photojojo/Jelly founder Amit Gupta's search for a bone marrow donor
  59. Jason Kottke's roundup of Steve Jobs memories
  60. Olson timezone database shut down over IP case
  61. Steven Levy's Wired obituary for Steve Jobs
  62. Apple's "Think Different" ad narrated by Steve Jobs
  63. Brian Lam's Regrets of An Asshole
  64. Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
  65. The Play
  66. Leigh Alexander on the rapture of Ian Bogost's Cow Clicker
  67. Ghostery
  68. Apple's 1987 Knowledge Navigator, Only One Month Late
  69. Disneyland's Haunted Mansion recreated in Minecraft
  70. Analog vinyl sampling
  71. 2011 Interactive Fiction Comp entries released
  72. Experimental one-line algorithmic music

September 2011

  1. The Morning After
  2. Geek's Guide to Portland
  3. Most Popular Infographics You Can Find Around the Web
  4. Rick Perry: The Bad Lip Reading
  5. "It's the '90s."
  6. Joe Hewitt on the future of the web vs. native apps
  7. MAD's ThunderLOLCats takes on overused Internet memes
  8. YouTube founders launch new Del.icio.us
  9. Glitch opens to the public
  10. Typewriter Cocktail Machine
  11. Kids React to Star Wars Kid
  12. The Deleted City
  13. Schrödinger's Nyan Cat
  14. The U.S. State Capitals Supercut
  15. Twin Peaks: Escape from Black Lodge for the Atari 2600
  16. QR Time
  17. Tweetures
  18. Last call to migrate your Del.icio.us bookmarks
  19. Laura Bifano's Menagerie
  20. Louis C.K. walks the AV Club through Louie's second season
  21. Marco Arment on Business Insider's borrowing
  22. Scientists reconstruct video from monitored brain activity
  23. Video Riot
  24. Warco, a prototype photojournalism FPS game
  25. Matthew Baldwin writes up his PAX experience for the Morning News
  26. Something Awful's 50 Greatest Video Game Characters of All Time
  27. Real-time face substitution
  28. Super Smash Land
  29. Gamers solve molecular puzzle that baffled scientists
  30. Jonathan Hardesty's Journey of an Absolute Rookie
  31. At My Funeral
  32. My Family's Experiment in Extreme Schooling
  33. The Artist Is Present, real-time Marina Abramovic performance art simulation
  34. Chat History
  35. Ifttt
  36. Phone Story, an anti-iPhone serious game for the iPhone
  37. Ludum Dare 21 winners announced
  38. Shoshana Hebshi handcuffed, jailed, strip-searched for flying while brown yesterday
  39. George Lucas re-edits classic films
  40. 8-bit Fashion
  41. Ten is Love and Everything After
  42. Code Hero, learning game with a gun that shoots and edits Javascript
  43. Ghosts with Shit Jobs, sci-fi documentary on crappy Western jobs in the year 2040
  44. Gamer Recreations of the World Trade Center
  45. DIY side-scroller game in a box
  46. RIP Michael Hart, Project Gutenberg founder
  47. VidRhythm
  48. Facial rigging with WebGL
  49. Jimmy Kimmel's touching tribute to his Uncle Frank
  50. Food bloggers revolt after ConAgra hidden camera PR stunt
  51. 9/11: The Photographer's Stories
  52. Venus Patrol, Brandon Boyer's new indie gaming blog, on Kickstarter
  53. The Likeable Constitution
  54. Shake to Undo for Mac OS X
  55. Jim Romenesko shuts down the Obscure Store
  56. Little Boat
  57. Canv.as opens to the public
  58. Andrew Plotkin's My Secret Hideout
  59. Jason Scott's DEFCON talk on Archive Team
  60. Keygen Jukebox
  61. Google Correlate searches trends by drawing
  62. Markov Bible
  63. going to the store
  64. Yahoo retiring Maps API on September 13
  65. Wikileaks Cablegate emails leak in full online

August 2011

  1. That's All Folks
  2. Blogger get major redesign
  3. Minecraft in Minecraft
  4. Daily Dot on Hollywood Leaks
  5. Monsters of Grok
  6. Flickr introduces geofence privacy controls
  7. Kerry Callen's Super Antics #2
  8. Mari0, a work-in-progress Mario meets Portal game
  9. Chess@home
  10. Two chatbots talk to each other
  11. Portal's Kim Swift demos Quantum Conundrum
  12. Ben Purdy's real-life Minecraft block
  13. Jig goes live
  14. Why Amazon Can't Make a Kindle in the US
  15. Jeff Rubin interviews Muxtape creator Justin Ouellette
  16. Akemi, a WebGL and haXe experiment
  17. Jason McIntosh on Pilgrim in the Microworld, a 1983 book about Breakout
  18. New Apple CEO Tim Cook: "I'm Thinking Printers"
  19. Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda retires from Slashdot
  20. Unnerving Korean ghost story comic
  21. Steve Jobs steps down as Apple's CEO
  22. The Kid Should See This
  23. Terry Gilliam on his process of making cut-out animations
  24. Astronaut Suicides
  25. Jeopardy world champion Ken Jennings competes in the Disney Store Trivia Challenge
  26. Retaliation, a weaponized build monitor
  27. Talk O' Clock
  28. Dan Cohen animates the "So What" sheet music
  29. Understanding 9/11
  30. Programmable piano in Minecraft
  31. Nieman Lab on curation in the age of information abundance
  32. Vi Hart on the science and math of sound
  33. First look at Disney's Wreck-It Ralph
  34. The Redditor
  35. MC Frontalot's Solved, new album out today
  36. The Daily Dot
  37. Gary Hudston's Portal 2 marriage proposal
  38. Rasta.js
  39. Duck Tron
  40. Prelude of the Chambered, a 48-hour Ludum Dare game by Minecraft's Notch
  41. Cow Clicker: The Text Adventure
  42. Maciej Cegłowski on why Arabic is terrific
  43. Gameboy and Intel 8080 emulators running in Garry's Mod
  44. Wonderputt
  45. West Memphis Three freed under unusual plea deal
  46. Jon Rafman's Codes of Honor
  47. Ben and Julia's Engagement Photos
  48. Golden Grid System
  49. Plea deal could lead to release of West Memphis Three
  50. Evernote acquires Skitch
  51. Foursquare adds checkins for concerts, movies, sporting events
  52. Codecademy
  53. Tom Waits/Cookie Monster mashup
  54. Epic Rap Battles of History: Dr. Seuss vs. Shakespeare
  55. Whyday is Friday
  56. Leonard Richardson's board game data experiments
  57. Safety Instructions
  58. Skrekkøgle's sculpture of the Windows Solitaire win screen
  59. Obama's Kickstarter campaign to solve the debt crisis
  60. The Shapes of CSS
  61. David Weinberger on Reddit and community journalism
  62. Envisioning the tablet newspaper in 1994
  63. Warren Buffett's NYT op-ed asks government to tax the super-rich
  64. Hide, an atmospheric indie game for Mac/PC
  65. Lil Wayne samples the Sword & Sworcery soundtrack
  66. Tech entrepreneur drains $625 from Jonathan's Card, sells on eBay
  67. Winnebago Man, full-length film now available for free streaming
  68. Aled Lewis's mashups of historical paintings with '80s adventure games
  69. KinectFusion, real-time 3D reconstruction using the Kinect
  70. Craig Thompson's process sketches for Habibi
  71. Rabble on Blackberry's shift from executives to the urban poor
  72. Muon Baryon, 4k PC graphics demo ported to Javascript/WebGL
  73. Nilay Patel on the subtle complexities of patent system reform
  74. Minecon
  75. Fark settles lawsuit from a patent troll for zero dollars
  76. Heello is Twitter for Pretending
  77. Ars Technica on accuracy over speed in emulator development
  78. Inception in 60 Seconds
  79. Lloydtube, add a Cusack boombox to any YouTube video
  80. Jonathan's Starbucks Card
  81. Miles Fisher's New Romance
  82. danah boyd on "real name" policies
  83. NYT Magazine feature on Kickstarter
  84. Things That Look Like Other Things
  85. How to Build a Newsroom Time Machine
  86. Betabeat on how 4chan spawned the Bronies community
  87. The Stanley Parable
  88. Why Ryan Barrett is weird about privacy
  89. SMBC's story of a dying cat
  90. Humble Indie Bundle #3
  91. Johann Sebastian Joust
  92. A Dot-Com Memoir
  93. Longshot Magazine #2: Debt
  94. VVVVVV beaten in 14 minutes with no deaths
  95. John Mayer on why he quit Twitter
  96. Space Trek, background scenery from Star Trek episodes
  97. Distorted scans in Google Books
  98. Kirby Ferguson's The Language of Christianity
  99. Boing Boing's collection of hacker stock art
  100. RiffTrax's five-year "best of" reel
  101. Neil Illusions
  102. Sergey Brin on "To Tell the Truth" in 2000

July 2011

  1. CrowdDB, answering queries with crowdsourcing
  2. Rorschmap
  3. Kevin Slavin's TED talk on how algorithms shape our world
  4. MTV News on The Internet in 1995
  5. Kevin Huizenga's Time Travelling
  6. Topiary from LulzSec arrested
  7. The Crowdfunding Cargo Cult
  8. Danny Choo on 3D printed vanity dolls in Japan
  9. 0-DAY ART
  10. Stereogum's tribute to the Strokes' Is This It
  11. Selected
  12. This American Life's brilliant episode on Intellectual Ventures and patent trolling
  13. NYT on how the deficit got this big
  14. Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake preview
  15. There's No Wrong Way to Play Monopoly
  16. Sweet Tea
  17. 12×8 pixel display built in Minecraft
  18. Infinite Mario in HTML5
  19. Mini-doc tells the story behind the Eli Porter rap battle viral video
  20. Rob Ager's detailed analysis of set design flaws in The Shining
  21. The Internet Tidal Wave
  22. Clay Johnson tests engagement on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+
  23. NYT Magazine feature on Dwarf Fortress
  24. Lessons Learned from the President's Tweet
  25. Etsy promotes Chad Dickerson to CEO
  26. Papers from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
  27. Fake Apple Store knockoffs in China
  28. Ze Frank revisits the "Brain Crack" episode
  29. Madeon's "Pop Culture"
  30. Kickstarter hits $15M pledged, 10,000 successful projects
  31. Benjamin Shaykin's Lo-Res Books
  32. A real person, a lot like you
  33. Graphic Nothing's minimalist art and album cover remixes
  34. Aaron Swartz indicted by feds for scraping academic journal database
  35. A slight discrepancy
  36. Plain Text Offenders
  37. Untris
  38. Ironic Sans digs up the Comic-Con 1988 schedule
  39. Where I Go At Night
  40. A Videogame Tour of NYC
  41. The Final Image
  42. Wired on how Stuxnet was deciphered
  43. A Geek's Journal, 1976
  44. Craig Hockenberry on the rise and fall of the indie developer
  45. MetaFilter Memories
  46. A Day in the Life of John Lasseter
  47. Wired releases entire Manning-Lamo chat logs
  48. NYT on tomorrow's launch of Spotify in the U.S.
  49. Willamette Week's cover profile of Matt Haughey
  50. TIME's Lev Grossman on fan fiction culture
  51. Paul Ford's The Age of Mechanical Reproduction
  52. Anil Dash on the triumph of the animated GIF
  53. Clay Shirky on the new news environment
  54. Steve Lambert's most awkward 404 page on the Internet
  55. Kotaku interviews Keita Takahashi and Stewart Butterfield on joining Glitch
  56. RoboHash
  57. Katamari creator Keita Takahashi joins Glitch
  58. Cory Doctorow reviews "Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling"
  59. Talking Funny
  60. Dan Warren's "Son of Strelka, Son of God," a cut-up story narrated by Barack Obama
  61. Questions asked by Twitter users vs. White House press
  62. Shuu.sh
  63. Tesco's virtual supermarket in South Korean subway stations
  64. MK12's Follow the Sun
  65. Jonathan Stampf's touching photo for Dear Photograph
  66. Google may retire Blogger, Picasa names in rebranding
  67. Cinemagraphs of Dogfish Head's strawberry beer-making process
  68. Svk
  69. Physical GIF
  70. Chuck Klosterman interviews Al Yankovic
  71. Cabel Sasser's Fireworks 2011 roundup

June 2011

  1. Paper.js
  2. rep.lic.ants
  3. GOOD on the shame of your first online handle
  4. Myspace, originally bought for $580M, to be sold for $35M
  5. Google's Data Liberation Front launches Takeout
  6. Kataminey Damacraft
  7. Google announces Google+, their next big social effort
  8. Yahoo! and the Yippies logos
  9. Pogo's Mellow Brick Road video contest winners
  10. Transformerer, shooting 32 Lou Reed sidewalk stencils with Everyday
  11. Ian Bogost's limited edition of A Slow Year
  12. Supreme Court rules videogames protected under First Amendment
  13. Darryl Cunningham takes on evolution skepticism
  14. Buying a lunch in Manhattan with Bitcoins
  15. Where Am I?
  16. Gene Yang and Thien Pham's Legends of the Joystick
  17. LulzSec calls it quits
  18. How Gov. Cuomo delivered gay marriage to New York
  19. Zac Gorman's I Draw Nintendo
  20. Artist's Statement by Charlotte Young
  21. King of Kong director to reboot Wargames
  22. Guardian on the the LulzSec IRC chat log leak
  23. Errol Morris' investigation into his brother's role in the invention of email
  24. N SKY C
  25. 8-Bit Invader
  26. "In the future, everything is games"
  27. 1982 NYT article on a NSF study on how society will be transformed by computer networks
  28. Jordan Crane's Keeping Two
  29. Marco Arment on the FBI's incidental seizure of an Instapaper server
  30. Rave On Buddy Holly
  31. Kind of Screwed
  32. Knight News Challenge announces 16 grant winners
  33. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas comes out as an undocumented immigrant
  34. "You've Got Blackmail"
  35. Indie Game: The Movie releases official trailer
  36. Wreck and Salvage's "I Can Copy"
  37. Everything Is A Remix Part 3
  38. Watsky & the GetBand, "A Love Story"
  39. Miss USA contestants on teaching evolution
  40. The Loving Trap
  41. ICANN opens up new TLD registrations
  42. Weird Al's Perform This Way video
  43. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
  44. NYT Magazine profile of Amanda Hocking, self-publishing star
  45. Receipt Racer
  46. Paranoid Android: YouTube Artists Mix
  47. Legacy Music Dance Party
  48. Peanutweeter taken offline by DMCA claim
  49. Rebecca Black's Friday removed from YouTube
  50. TorrentFreak on Spotify's P2P architecture
  51. Bitcoin-stealing trojan found in the wild
  52. Why Kickstarter just lowered max project length to 60 days
  53. Kevin Kelly on the 10,000 Year Clock
  54. Ars Technica on the LulzSec manifesto
  55. jsmad, a pure Javascript MP3 decoder
  56. GlitchBot
  57. Worst commit ever
  58. C64 Yourself
  59. The Depths of Aperture
  60. Dan Budiac finds his 15-year-old self in Telehack
  61. The first supercut?
  62. Famous Opening Lines from Novels Updated for the Modern Age
  63. Sarah's Inbox
  64. Don't Play Games With Me
  65. Google adds search by image
  66. gleeBox
  67. Wheels of Steel, incredible Javascript turntables
  68. Kutiman's Thru Jerusalem
  69. GameBoy Color emulator in Javascript
  70. Leonard Lin revisits his 2006 tech predictions, five years later
  71. Robot Flâneur
  72. Video of every password from the LulzSec porn hack
  73. Asciiflow
  74. CSS Panic, a game built entirely in HTML/CSS
  75. Ze Frank revisits the first Fabuloso Friday, five years later
  76. Jer Thorp's algorithmic name placement at the 9/11 Memorial
  77. Rutt-Etra-Izer
  78. Sam Spratt's illustrated meme faces
  79. Aaron Straup Cope on web history and the suspension of @towerbridge
  80. How Andy Carvin debunked the "Gay Girl in Damascus" hoax
  81. Playable Archaeology: An Interview with Telehack's Anonymous Creator
  82. Derek Powazek on On the Media's anti-tech bias
  83. Google's playable Les Paul tribute doodle
  84. The Digi-Comp II
  85. URLTE.AM
  86. Slate's Hollywood Career-o-Matic
  87. Inbox Influence
  88. Jim Gilliam's "The Internet Is My Religion"
  89. The World's Most Exclusive Website
  90. Analysis of the leaked Sony user passwords
  91. Video of Apple's WWDC presentation
  92. Olduse.net
  93. Oglaf's Muse
  94. The Atlantic on Project Euler and teaching how to code
  95. Hooray for Earth's "True Loves" music video
  96. George Plimpton's Video Falconry
  97. Telehack, playful simulation of the early net
  98. Stencyl
  99. YouTube introduces Creative Commons licensing
  100. Gawker on Silk Road, the Bitcoin-driven underground marketplace
  101. Outside Aperture
  102. Animal XXXing
  103. The Chewbacca Supercut

May 2011

  1. Intel's Museum of Me
  2. The Grand Rapids Lipdub
  3. Depixelizing Pixel Art
  4. Jeri Ellsworth's Brain Bulb
  5. VHX opens to the public
  6. Rocketboom on the origins of Nyan Cat
  7. Visualizing 11 million player deaths in Just Cause 2
  8. Literally Unbelievable
  9. Chinese prisoners forced to farm gold in World of Warcraft
  10. Olly Moss's Paper Cuts
  11. Random New Yorkers asked what they're listening to
  12. Sonar for iPhone
  13. Outloud.fm
  14. MIT study analyzes participation on 4chan and /b/
  15. Google Correlate
  16. Scott Rosenberg on the end of Salon's Table Talk
  17. Fragmentr
  18. Data Wrangler
  19. PBS Frontline releases Bradley Manning's Facebook archive
  20. Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure
  21. Duke Nukem Forever goes gold
  22. NYT on Cory Arcangel
  23. Goldfish's "We Come Together"
  24. Jonathan Coulton on Snuggies and business models
  25. Annoying.js
  26. Day Glo Freaks
  27. Ronen's Adventure: Trapped in an iPhone
  28. Amazon now selling more Kindle books than all print books
  29. Gamespot's Video Game History Month with Double Fine's Tim Schafer
  30. NYT on yarnbombing
  31. SMBC on Victorian tech support
  32. NYT editor Bill Keller on "The Twitter Trap"
  33. Plush statistical distribution pillows
  34. TermKit
  35. Netflix passes BitTorrent in U.S. bandwidth traffic
  36. PC Emulator in Javascript
  37. NEA grants expanded to include Internet, mobile, and videogame media
  38. Bret Victor's Interactive Exploration of a Dynamical System
  39. Lost Type Co-op
  40. Radiolab's Rober Krulwich addresses Berkeley graduates on the future of journalism
  41. Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualized
  42. RAGE for iOS rendered with WebGL
  43. Jason Calacanis on BitCoin
  44. Paul Ford's "Nanolaw"
  45. Making Supercut.org
  46. Supercut.org, algorithmic supercuts of supercuts
  47. AIM AV
  48. Comcast helps The Pirate Bay resolve connection issues
  49. The Mavenist on Permutations & Loops
  50. Like An Artist
  51. ROME's 3 Dreams of Black, Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin's new Chrome experiment
  52. Chrome Angry Birds
  53. Lady Gaga to debut new songs on Farmville
  54. NaClBox, DOSBox ported to Google's Native Client
  55. Pattern Matters
  56. Automated BitTorrent lawsuit targets 140,000 film downloaders
  57. Clay Johnson on rebooting public notices
  58. Olly Moss's Cut Out Show
  59. Bin Laden's compound recreated as a Counter-Strike map
  60. Zach Seward on using sparklines in WSJ tweets
  61. Paul Ford on interacting with his archived self
  62. Visualizing the spread of Bin Laden's death on Twitter
  63. Cool but Obscure Unix Tools
  64. Raspberry Pi
  65. Adam Parrish's month of textperiments
  66. Wall Street Journal launches leak site
  67. Spike: A Love Story
  68. Derek Miller's last post
  69. NYT visualizes the reactions to Osama bin Laden's death
  70. Tim Carmody tracks down the fake MLK and Twain quotes
  71. Encyclopedia Dramatica capture from January 2010
  72. Omgimg
  73. ThinkBack, Playing with ThinkUp's New API
  74. Planetary, Bloom's music visualization for the iPad
  75. Street interviews with NYC teens about The Beatles

April 2011

  1. Mockingbirdz
  2. Chris Allick's automated Predator supercut
  3. Bose Corporation founder donates majority of company stock to MIT
  4. It's okay to not like things
  5. Kickstarter turns two, releases every major statistic
  6. Yahoo sells Delicious to YouTube founders
  7. Fleet Foxes' Helplessness Blues
  8. PlayStation Network hacked, 75M user accounts compromised
  9. Misery, a Drupal module to frustrate trolls
  10. Archive Team's distributed effort to download all of Google Video
  11. 8 in 8's Nighty Night
  12. Friendster to delete all user photos and blogs on May 31
  13. Frank Stockton's Hamburgers for One
  14. Ani Up
  15. Cranking
  16. Amazon's $23,698,655.93 book about flies
  17. Google Video to migrate all videos to YouTube
  18. Metafilter's Josh Millard on NPR about the Scott Adams incident
  19. hackertyper
  20. From Me to You
  21. Matt Haughey on Ev's character and the origins of Twitter
  22. showoff.io
  23. Weird Al Yankovic's battle with Lady Gaga
  24. iPhone Tracker
  25. Hashify, store documents as URLs
  26. Radiolab Presents Symmetry
  27. OkCupid's ten charts about sex
  28. NON-STOP NYAN CAT!
  29. Metafilter's Best of Google Video
  30. Mirror
  31. The Curators
  32. xkcd's The Future According to Google Search Results
  33. Google Video to remove all videos by May 13
  34. Otomata
  35. World's Biggest Pac-Man
  36. Panic releases Prompt for iOS
  37. Business Insider's untold history of how Twitter was founded
  38. Ivan Cash's Infographic of Infographics
  39. Sorting algorithms as folk dances
  40. Gina Trapani on cultivating an open-source community
  41. Ev Williams breaks down five parts of online identity
  42. That can be my next tweet
  43. Austin Kleon's How to Steal Like an Artist
  44. Access Main Computer File
  45. Joerg Piringer's unicode
  46. Trailer for Fight for Your Right Revisited
  47. The Pierley/Redford Dissociative Affect Diagnostic
  48. Nieman Lab on the decline of The Daily
  49. Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story
  50. Chuck D, Clyde Stubblefield, Eclectic Method, and the Roots perform "Fight the Power" on Jimmy Fallon
  51. Metafilter's new Comics Digest Podcast
  52. YouTube 1911
  53. xkcd converts all comics to 3D
  54. Heroku for Logo
  55. Hulu circa 1996
  56. Congressional budget cuts threaten open government websites
  57. Neesful Katamari
  58. Creepy, Windows/Linux app maps locations from shared online photos

March 2011

  1. "Our lives are spent trying to pixellate a fractal planet."
  2. BlockBattle
  3. G4TV admits to manipulating Reddit
  4. Quadrocopter Ball Juggling
  5. Madmanimation
  6. Jeff Koons Must Die!!
  7. Anil Dash consults an expert on the actual dangers of radiation exposure
  8. 37signals profiles Coudal Partners
  9. 3eanuts
  10. I Can Has Cheezeburger acquires Know Your Meme in seven-figure deal
  11. text align: centaur;
  12. Girp
  13. Paul Baran, R.I.P.
  14. Swoopo quietly files for bankruptcy
  15. Leonard Lin's SXSW 2011 postmortem
  16. Data Science Toolkit
  17. Microworld, short 1976 film about microprocessors
  18. Last Night Never Happened
  19. Rob Beschizza's compilation of classic arcade game deaths
  20. Safety Maps
  21. Rebecca Black's Gang Fight
  22. Pica Pic
  23. Sword & Sworcery released for iPad
  24. Brandon Boyer's GDC microtalk on the games he loves
  25. Eleven very short stories about SXSW
  26. No Time to Explain
  27. PhantomJS
  28. Chess Without Turns
  29. Real-time visualization of Firefox 4 downloads
  30. Wired Magazine's feature on Kickstarter
  31. Stephan Tillmans' Luminant Point Arrays
  32. GDC releases classic game postmortem videos
  33. Julian Assange: Houseguest
  34. Everyday for iPhone
  35. The Brother IntelliFax 2800 App Store
  36. EveryBlock launches first major redesign
  37. Stick a Dickbar on it
  38. Ze Frank replays The Show
  39. James Face
  40. xkcd's radiation dose chart
  41. Kutiman's "My Favorite Color"
  42. Albert Wenger on the NYT's pay fence and Kickstarter
  43. Bloomberg feature on the history of Twitter
  44. Jake "virt" Kaufman's AAA sound design for vintage videogames
  45. Notch shares some of his pre-Minecraft games
  46. Ze Frank's The Show debuted five years ago today
  47. SMBC on old computing and the snug blanket of nostalgia
  48. Paul Graham shares his email exchanges with Fred Wilson over Airbnb
  49. NYT announces their paywall, effective March 28
  50. An Open Letter to Jon Bon Jovi
  51. How Fred Wilson missed Airbnb
  52. NYT editorial on the abuse of Bradley Manning
  53. Jeri Ellsworth makes $10 alternative to $4k bus alert system, gets harassed by contractor
  54. Chatroulette Love Song
  55. Jack Dorsey's Twttr stories
  56. Horrifying first-person video as tsunami sweeps Japanese city
  57. Topspin opens publicly, available to every musician
  58. Matt Haughey's SXSW talk on community lessons learned from Metafilter
  59. OkTrends asks, what if there weren't so many white people?
  60. Kat Hack
  61. Mr. Rogers' Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Emmys
  62. What if you'd bought Apple stock instead of their products?
  63. Dreamhost CEO shares his heartbreaking, preventable homebirth story
  64. Instapaper goes social with 3.0 version
  65. Browser DNS prefetching harmful for sites with many subdomains
  66. Ushahidi launches open-source location service
  67. MIT Media Lab's new logo is a Processing sketch
  68. Is Scoble In This Room?
  69. Bytejacker goes to GDC 2011
  70. The Smartest Dog in the World
  71. The Content Farm launches new website
  72. Kellan predicts the year of the anti-social SXSW
  73. South by Southwest Homesick Blues
  74. Chicago Tribune feature on Kickstarter and crowdfunding
  75. Clay Johnson on why he joined Expert Labs
  76. Lanyrd releases Chrome/Firefox extension to instantly hide all SXSW tweets
  77. NYT on the Groupon clone cottage industry
  78. Jason Kottke introduces Stellar.io
  79. The Like Log Study
  80. Colbert interviews Dan Sinker, the journalism professor behind @MayorEmanuel
  81. Windows 7's Microsoft Paint executable interpreted as audio
  82. TIME's video feature on the indie gaming scene
  83. Thanks for Trumpet Winsock
  84. Lanyrd adds Firefox/Chrome extensions to see SXSW sessions in Twitter
  85. Lag
  86. Anatomy of a Crushing
  87. Slipstream, Chrome addon hides tweets by user or keyword
  88. URL Hunter
  89. Foursquare releasing 3.0 for iPhone/Android tonight
  90. Tinted Sheen, browser blocker for Chrome and Firefox
  91. Adobe's Wallaby, experimental converter from Flash to HTML5
  92. Koalas to the Max
  93. d3.js, Javascript library for manipulating data-driven documents
  94. The Million Song Dataset
  95. moviebarcode
  96. The IF Theory Reader
  97. Auto-Tune the News takes on Charlie Sheen
  98. You Are Listening to Los Angeles
  99. Yu Suzuki reveals how Shenmue was meant to end
  100. Bluetooth fingerless glove lets you talk to your hand
  101. TED video of Anthony Atala printing a human kidney
  102. Jacob Gilbreath's kinetic type treatment of Conan's farewell message
  103. Waxy Goes to SXSW Interactive 2011
  104. Digitalkoot
  105. Bestselling Kindle author Amanda Hocking on reproducing her success
  106. Black history charts from 1900
  107. Situationist
  108. FUCK YEAH NOUNS
  109. Play against the NYT's Rock Paper Scissors robot
  110. Reddit interviews a 4-year-old boy
  111. Make TV profile on kinetic wave sculptor Reuben Margolin
  112. 37 Signals' Jason Fried on how to make money
  113. Help Archive Team save Yahoo! Video
  114. Tissue engineer prints a new kidney on TED stage
  115. Marble Run, collaborative HTML5 marble game
  116. Reddit interviews Ken Jennings
  117. Gina Trapani on the case against drop-down identities
  118. Warner Bros. acquires Blade Runner prequel/sequel rights
  119. Full Text RSS Feed
  120. The Double Slit Experiment in Minecraft
  121. Snapshots from a rock n' roll marriage
  122. Installing every version of Windows from 1.0 to Windows 7, in order
  123. Esquire's profile of Ray Towler, a Cleveland man wrongly convicted to 30 years in prison
  124. Apple introduces iPad 2
  125. Mitoza, surreal web toy
  126. placekitten
  127. Thom Yorke Smashes Dead Fish on Washer-Dryer
  128. Lanyrd's Guide to SXSW Interactive
  129. Sheen Family Circus
  130. Charlie Sheen on Good Morning America
  131. Tracking the biggest losers in Google's content farm algorithm changes
  132. The economics of indie writers in the Kindle Marketplace
  133. Antimatière
  134. Gina Trapani runs the numbers on ThinkUp's first year
  135. Peter Weller on the RoboCop status in Detroit

February 2011

  1. Inside a Star-Filled Sky
  2. Pattern, a Python module for mining web data
  3. Turtlecalls.com
  4. How I Indexed The Daily
  5. CHARM DOG on Twitter
  6. How DJ Stolen blackmailed shoutouts from Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, and others
  7. Slate crunches the numbers on the Jeopardy archives
  8. Scouting NY on the last arcade in Chinatown
  9. Pixelfari, Neven Mrgan's 8-bit Safari
  10. The King Spits
  11. Ars Technica on HBGary's proposed plan to discredit Wikileaks and Glenn Greenwald
  12. Molly Lewis' "An Open Letter to Stephen Fry"
  13. Dissertation Haiku
  14. How Team EMP won the Socialbot competition
  15. The Great Gatsby for NES
  16. The Atlantic writer competes for the Most Human award in the Loebner's Turing test
  17. IBM's Watson sizes up Ken Jennings before their Jeopardy match
  18. Hulu Plus gets the complete Criterion Collection
  19. Eye-tracking There Will Be Blood
  20. Manu Sporny open-sources his genetic data
  21. Rich Vreeland's "January"
  22. NintendOscope, Gameboy on an oscilloscope
  23. Robocop Valentines
  24. Irina Werning's Back to the Future
  25. Reddit chats with Cleverbot
  26. Kottke shares the first Gawker design
  27. Interim Apple Chief Under Fire After Unveiling Grotesque New MacBook
  28. Craigslisp
  29. Remnants of a Disappearing UI
  30. Stuart McMillen's "St. Matthew Island"
  31. Phantom of the Floppera
  32. Unofficial SXSW Music 2011 torrent now available
  33. Byrne Reese on why MovableType lost to WordPress
  34. Threatened BBC websites crawled and shared as 1.88GB torrent
  35. Video: DJ Filetype SWF
  36. Clement Valla's Seed Drawings
  37. Johnny Chung Lee's low-cost video chat robot
  38. Twitter Parade
  39. 2D Boy on World of Goo's iPad launch and sales figures
  40. Washington Post's visualization of global weight gain since 1980
  41. Google releases Translate for iPhone
  42. OkCupid crunches the data on best first-date questions
  43. Robot orders a scone in a Mountain View coffeeshop
  44. Feltron 2010 Annual Report
  45. NBC's Community takes on Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
  46. Gawker Network launches major redesign
  47. New Yorker's long Scientology expose
  48. Darryl Cunningham's comic on climate change
  49. Ze Frank's Star.me launches private beta
  50. When Should I Visit?
  51. xkcd on trochee fixation
  52. Island Survival
  53. Penny Arcade responds to the "Dickwolves" debacle
  54. The Making of "The Social Network"
  55. The Daily: Indexed
  56. Nick Montfort releases Curveship, new interactive fiction framework
  57. Match.com acquires OkCupid
  58. Robert Sheckley's "The Prize of Peril"
  59. Everything is a Remix, Part 2
  60. New York Observer on the "end of blogging"
  61. Wired on a Toronto statistician who cracked a lottery ticket system
  62. NYMag feature on the changing landscape of online porn
  63. Final IPv4 blocks allocated
  64. Google engineers set up sting operation, discover Bing copying results
  65. Metagames: Games About Games
  66. Readability launches as subscription service
  67. Al Jazeera English streaming live on YouTube
  68. Canvas launches first public release
  69. Speak to Tweet

January 2011

  1. Keanu Reeves on the "Sad Keanu" meme
  2. 10 Google Commandments
  3. Axe Cop: The Movie
  4. Conductor
  5. Sarien.net gets Activision's official approval to simulate Sierra games
  6. Al Jazeera's live stream of the Egypt protests
  7. Nate Silver on approval ratings and re-election odds
  8. Egypt government shuts down all Internet access
  9. Traps
  10. Making a BoingBoing API with FluidDB in an evening
  11. Colorblind Leading the Blind
  12. BBC Radio's Secret History of Social Networking
  13. Zero Punctuation on Minecraft
  14. Live-action LittleBigPlanet adventure in one take
  15. Ivan Guerrero premakes Pixar's "Up" as a 1960s film
  16. Print Stuff
  17. Kevin Smith's screening experiment for Red State
  18. Pirating the 2011 Oscars
  19. White House's interactive State of the Union 2011
  20. Boing Boing releases complete dump of every post
  21. Cathode, vintage terminal emulator for OS X
  22. Wolfenstein 1-D
  23. MIT researchers demonstrate 15 fps holographic display with Kinect
  24. Foursquare's 2010 activity visualized
  25. Nancy Duarte visualizes MLK's I Have A Dream speech
  26. Security guard's photos from the Back to the Future set
  27. They Were There
  28. The Dow Piano
  29. CNN sportswriter tracks down his online haters
  30. ScentScape to add smells to games and videos
  31. Infocom acquires Movable Type and the Six Apart brand
  32. Tracking streaming vs. rental availability for 2010's box office hits
  33. Horoscoped
  34. Dan Provost's postmortem on making the Glif
  35. Cowclickification
  36. Evan Roth's Mashed Up Mashup
  37. Starborn
  38. Big Picture creator Alan Taylor moves to The Atlantic
  39. Aled Lewis' Make Something Cool Every Day
  40. Das Racist's Who's That? Brooown!
  41. Plastic.com to shut down one month after 10 year anniversary
  42. ProPublica's guide to scraping data
  43. Music for Shuffle Mode
  44. Pong, Breakout, Pac-Man, and pinball played with living paramecium
  45. "Still Alive" in Minecraft
  46. Clay Shirky celebrates 10 years of Wikipedia
  47. Gizmodo on one MMO's attempt at crowdsourced justice
  48. Grand Theft Auto Frictionless
  49. Death Wears A Snuggie
  50. Jeopardy practice match with IBM's Watson supercomputer
  51. Gabriela Herman's Blogger Portraits
  52. bieber.ly
  53. Every Line of Dialogue in The Lost Boys is "Michael"
  54. Google Translate for Android adds real-time conversation mode
  55. Nominees for Reddit's Best of 2010 Awards
  56. reblololo's Studies 1
  57. A Day in the Future
  58. What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?
  59. A gadget's life
  60. Google Chrome to drop support for H.264 video
  61. Why Twitter challenged the secret Wikileaks subpoenas
  62. oops, found video of camera drops
  63. Notabilia
  64. NASA, The Frontier Is Everywhere
  65. Dot Dot Dot
  66. Kinect 3D statues in Minecraft
  67. The Kickstarter Awards: By the Numbers
  68. Google Science Fair Experiment
  69. Glengarry Glen Sith
  70. Energy and Dynamic Braking
  71. French kids play with vintage technology
  72. Why Wasn't I Consulted?
  73. RIP Bill Zeller
  74. James Van Der Memes
  75. Daytum released for iPhone
  76. The Best Cover Songs of 2010
  77. Pogo's Joburg Jam
  78. Works that would been public domain this year under pre-1978 copyright law
  79. JWT's 100 Things to Watch in 2011
  80. Metafilter's Year in 2010 Infographic
  81. Pogo remixes the real world
  82. Charlie Stross's Reasons to be Cheerful

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