interesting geographical formation, as seen via Google Maps

cute little toy with animated color pages

Adobe strikes again; WoW accounts stolen via bug in Flash. So can anything else on your computer, no doubt.

guide to getting everything working

Great little casual game. Smash TV + upgrades

Corporate committee makes a video "hip" to the "kids"

Amazing trip photos

All you need to know about getting hopped up on sugarcubes

My old friend Amit is doing some demos of game programming in Flash

A particularly insane Chick tract

Sad set of tweets as the Mars Phoenix robot is shutting down for winter

Some of the archetypes that Warcraft draws from

Interesting article about the lack of royalty payments to video game talent

Watch the teaser video; interesting UI for seeking in video

crippling "game does not launch" bug; official forums require login to read

No big surprise here, but the whole "few bad eggs" thing is shown to be a lie

Interesting mom's eye view of how Wii Fit made her kids feel bad. Maybe a Japan/US culture clash?

Rubber ducks spilled in the ocean, cross through Bering Strait ten years later

A very detailed examination of how the bug happened

Waxy gives us server stats for his role in the Star Wars Kid video

Odd atmospheric effect

Photographer at a Sichuan wedding gets amazing photos during earthquake

North Korea builds runways in tunnels

Enormous turnout in Oregon for the Obama rally

Must be great to be so completely bizarre

One recommended fix: deliberately overheat your console. No frickin way, thanks.

My console died. Apparently that's not uncommon.

Funny, creepy story

Old anthropologist friend of mine has a nice bit about the movie

A few days before the Debian disclosure there was a significant increase in attacks on ssh servers. That is bad news.

Costik has a ground floor investment opportunity

Everyone's favourite curmudgeon game critic

Pretty amazing application of facial recognition technology

Someone published a list of all possible Debian ssh keys. In case you weren't sure the bug was serious.

For two years the ssh keys generated by Debian have been broken.

Andy documents another awesome underground resource; a database of all the top songs since the 1890s

Bea Arthur's birthday; ten video clips to remind you what an amazing performer she is. Don't miss her singing about getting high with Rock Hudson.

Incredibly detailed blog about Java garbage collection

Great list with links to purchase. Note the lack of Amazon associate IDs in the links; d'oh!

Side by side photos from GTA and New York

Yahoo makes their geodatabase available for free, 50,000 queries / day

Fascinating story of a gaijin crime reporter in Tokyo

aw, cute kitties!

Italians having none of being filmed on the street

I had no idea there was a simple way to tell search engines about your sitemaps

Reviews are pretty bad

A heroic project, the design Java framework ported to run in Javascript

Robey ports Starling to Scala, talks about what he learned

The forces of good fought a Patriot Act gag order and won

Very creepy, but kinda funny. Also, a Twitter shoutout

Bad, but good. Review from an old friend of mine

incredibly enormous first week sales, half a billion dollars

Programming language whose programs are 2d images

Insightful reading of Google's strategy with advertising

Founder of one of the most famous pirate groups is now a Republican Party official in california

Nice critical commentary

New video from the French group. Very disturbing, what are they playing at?

Google Maps-style UI with fan-added comments on things in the game

According to Urban Dictionary, intended to remove sexual orientation from the insult

Google's released something much like its internal code review tool

Beautiful visualization of all the roads in the US

It's Friday, look at some funny cats

Quick and easy hosting of an MP3 mixtape

"Powdered cocaine not just for white yuppies any more"

Lots o' spoilers

Terrible website, but the Faire is in San Mateo this weekend

Good overview of the challenges and history