One of my favourite people from Google is rumoured to be going to work in the Obama adminstration

Literally hundreds of gamers to be displaced

Jeff Veen and the folks at Small Batch are providing a font embedding service

magic script looks at a running MySQL and makes suggestions on how to tune it

Fugure played by two people on a giant walk-on piano

Graphs of PvP activity in the online game

last.fm and CBS are both on the record denying Techcrunch's anonymously sourced story

Gay marriage protest plan

Crazy code obfuscation exploits a bug in debuggers to make the debugger crash

Crazy machine for rolling a million dice a day

Potato chip 2.0 company is based in SF, founded by AllBusiness.com founder

Decent snack food, low fat

Funny little meme thing

May the force of others be with you all

Techcrunch has resurrected their full-of-shit story about the RIAA. last.fm has a beginning of a response

Lovely bit of underworld slang

Every aspect of this story sucks: last.fm, CBS, RIAA, Techcrunch. But the truth of it is important. What is it?

Really smooth version of the classic magician trick

Photos of goths. In hot weather.

Interesting solution to elections for illiterate (and multiliterate) people

Great series of photos

Base 10 is easy. Base 16 isn't too hard. Irrational bases? A little trickier.

A framework for CSS, a good starting point for desgin

The Thai hot sauce we all love is actually a Vietnamese American thing

Long paper from Google about datacenters

NYT editorialist steals a sentence from Talking Points Memo. Clearly she's asking to be let go

Cheney, et al not guilty because they were only giving orders

Great little short story posing as a Metafilter comment

Google is indexing random Wolfram Alpha results

Time-lapse video of traversing the smoking aftermath of armageddon

Report that the vice president's office specifically pressed to torture an Iraqi prisoner to make a connection between Hussein and Al Qaeda

Pretty little art game

Print your own official looking document demonstrating your constitutional right to take pictures of most anything you please

Great detailed breakdown of what a third party learned about Google's sandboxing technology

Horrifying, direct story of an NYT economics reporter getting underwater with credit

Half the Internet was sad today when Google got slow. Sounds like they had a routing mishap.

Author got around to releasing a screensaver + source

Great graphics demo, procedurally generated city

I thought it looked fantastic

It's going to be brand new IP, whole new world, etc. That's ambitious.

Hadoop sorts a petabyte in 16 hours. Compare Google's 6 hour petabyte sort, but then that's not open source

Genius Doug Cutting working on a simple serialization framework

Neat video reimagining of classic minimalism

Trying to encode images in Twitter's 140 character limit

Great map and interactive visualization

Windows app takes screenshots every few seconds during the day, then replays a movie of what you did on your computer

Humane Python wrapper for the fast libxml2 parser

Sweet looking low power server. 6 watts, $300, runs Linux or WinXP

A version of the PuTTY windows terminal emulator that can open a cygwin session on the localhost. Finally, a decent terminal environment for cygwin!

Crazy bit of power generation history; early 1900s tidal power

Exclusive look, going mainstream

World's longest running game vapourware seems to be dead

Can't stop laughing

A really transport sophisticated simulation game with a lot of detail; based on the classic Transport Tycoon

Simple rundown of the new features.

Neat collection of 70s era biology textbook drawings

Ad filter as HTTP proxy

Good guys hijack a botnet for 10 days, see what the bad guys are getting

Interesting user interface device from 1901

Detailed look into Madoff's history

A ping-like tool for testing HTTP

A brave athlete comes out

Statistical analysis of a fast food burrito's calories

The hypocrisy and sheer cockblocking of the Jonas' Brothers

Interesting bit of uncomfortable history

Simple hosting for web pages

Merck pays academic publisher to publish a phony journal

.NET has a productive sounding facility for querying object collections in programs. Doubles as a database interface.

Simple depiction of a health crisis

Game designer who worked on Fallout 2, Planescape: Torment, Kotor 2, and other amazing RPGs

Creepy

Coulton's naughty song done in sign performance