Oppo makes video players that can also play AVI and MKV files off a hard drive.

Financial startup just launched a new site, signed a customer, and released an iPhone app

Utility for making game maps out of tiles

Atari classic remade for Windows, with a 16 bit aesthetic

Panda has a product that watches millions of PCs to detect new malware

Hustler does a Star Trek spoof (SFW link)

Great profile of the latest financial fraud wizard

Examination of the idea that HFCS is really worse than other sugars

This tweet is a great example of how Twitter makes a terrible medium for some things. Picture, a bunch of retweet and other non-English markup

Exploration of a very early computer role playing game

Like TinyURL, but bigger and therefore better

Notes from the team spidering Geocities before it's shut down

The 4chan nerds actually typed 30 captchas / minute.

Full of lolz

That gal was funny

Breaking up the Lone Star state

C'est existe

Spam infests all media

Bejeweled wasn't just a one-off, now there's Peggle. 10 million potential new players, why not?

Simple explanation of the value of casual social media

Military satellites rebroadcast whatever they receive. Brazilian truck drivers take advantage.

The underground is willing to pay a lot of money for a specific model of cell phone, apparently because it can be hacked. In related news: the cell phone network is insecure.

The film is more complicated than you'd think

Software to delete software you don't want from mass market PCs

History of early 1990s MMOs in the form of DikuMUD

nice obituary

Mark Pilgrim, as always, eloquent

Unpossible

Great collection of old Kids in the Hall sketches

Lord that sounds good

Heartbreaking

Buster Friendly and his Friendly Friends do Twitter

CMU is making a web crawl available via hard drive mailing

Apples are now a large enough minority to be worth the trouble to attack

The cops infect computers with keyloggers, too

Blizzard takes the license away from previous company, gives it to a new partner

Anil's right, this holds up well

Music direction matters

Detailed disassembly of the classic Atari VCS game

Great David Sedaris bit

Somehow I missed this first go around. As the comments say: bien joué

Remarkably chilling Peanuts comic

Ethan digs into data about Twitter usage in the recent Moldovan political upheaval

Believable explanation of what wrong, with some detail

During the French Revolution they put up examples of the new measure of length, the meter

Good blog post about the ongoing war in Eve Online

Finally a great use for an Apple product

Animal rights activism in online game goes terribly funny

Sweet photos with surprisingly sympathetic commentary

Livejournal user claims responsibility for flagging all gay books on Amazon as adult via an XSS vulnerability. Unverified, but the attack sounds plausible.

Very clever animation

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence agenda

How to find rows in table A that are somehow not present in table B

Hysterical pitch video

Twitter tag on a wall in Germany

Crazy architecture: 11 churches carved out of granite bedrock

People tweet "lost my job" an awful lot

Fascinating fraud: thin electronics shims steal ATM card stripes and your PIN code

simple Javascript tool for interactively building a Google chart

Clever library for displaying thousands of markers on a Google map efficiently

Interesting Google map of some military history in paris

Good for Google!

Eve Online guys talk about how they have performance bugs that only show up on live server with 300+ people affected at once

Brilliant spoof FPS from The Onion. Playable!

Some brilliant publicist found the best way ever to preview the new Star Trek movie

Lolerific coffee mug

Mathowie's reflections on hitting your children. Man knows how to write.

Giant stone falls in Greenland, endless source of iron for harpoon points

Crazy story of a major financial fraud. Like Madoff, but way more brazen.

I'm way, way behind the times here, but interesting profile of a party photographer

some notes from Al3x's talk

Nice collection of commentary on Bioshock

Am I going to hell for linking a lolcat?

Spooky

Thoughtful essay on how tinyurl, etc are bad for the Web

Bible illustrated via photos of Playmobil figures

Python project evaluates distributed source code control systems. In a shocker, picks the one implemented in Python

= awesome

Detailed documents from an Xbox Live Arcade game. Development notes, Microsoft approval, etc.

Some detail on Google hardware

Not much money being made

Larger version of the map I linked awhile back