Such a shame

Great series of intimate autoportraits. Some NSFW

Dangerous affliction or funny hoax? Yeah, hoax.

Not sure if this is official, but a way to browse iPhone apps that's not iTunes

Thoughtful essay pointing out that old kids games were much stupider than new ones

It's pretty astonishing that federal money is used to pay failing bank executive bonuses

What's new in the release. Lots of fixes to warts, mostly.

Breakthrough simulation

Minter's newest crazy game

Timelapse video of where additions were made to the map

Obama's first action is to make it clear how he's going to run the government

Amazingly curated collection; I linked to my favourite, #10

Hacker's cobbled together sensor system

5x traffic, suffered some short delays. Good job folks!

Sad, fascinating little video

I'd forgotten how great the sound is in this game

Mike Arrington makes it clear, "I don’t claim to be a journalist, and I’m never neutral."

Power monitor hooked to Twitter

Beat-boxing by early 60s hillbillies

Are there any bad photographs of Obama?

Amazing child's map of his journey out of Nazi Germany to a new home in South America

FCC allocation chart of where it all goes

Tweetie adds a flashlight and fart noises to improve its iPhone app store rankings

Interesting visualization: words arranged by semantic meaning, then represented by average images

Vocals from The Police fed through the auto-harmony Microsoft doodad

Sex is funny. Balloon animal sex is hilarious.

Cutting some unsuccessful or redundant products. Including, sadly, Jaiku and Dodgeball

Great visualization of who has the most robots / worker

Great little reminiscence from one of the Bush daughter's friends on his casual dinners with the family

fascinating article about how evil malware works

Great, simple explanation of what white balance is and how to adjust it

Beautiful visualization of places you can go from Luzern

Jaw-droppingly awful ad. OTOH, the researchers who made the software are the actors, so that's kinda cute

Amazing fish uses a focussing mirror instead of a lens to see

List of businesses that donated to the anti-gay measure proposition 8.

Firefox extension to let you get to Amazon S3 files in your browser

Firefox addon that looks up info on books in stores and libraries. Using this to help me check out a book at the library rather than buy it.

Did I really read this right?

Funny nerd humour

Interesting differences

Awesome Google Images search

Heat map of how long it takes to get to a major city from everywhere in the world

Practical advice for thieves who want to avoid being scammed

Review of how the Internet creates a community of nutjobs who argue HIV doesn't cause AIDS

LJ is a great example of a hugely valuable service that has never quite been a hugely valuable business

Very well executed parody

Yet another awesome Big Picture

Scathing, detailed argument that the government's response to the financial crisis has been exactly wrong. Read the followup, too.

Images of people using Zimbabwe's hyperinflated currency

amazing BASE jump flying

Great article about the movie pirating scene

Absolutely mind-boggling painting of presidents playing poker