Their ad campaign is bad, but this is truly awful. Memorable, though

My Twitter doppelganger; I get a bunch of @nelson stuff intended for him

"a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original"

New website with MMO subscriber data. MMOG Chart was the leader here, but sadly not updated in over a year

Gay pride icon burned at 5am this morning.

All the data the telescope collects is made available for download

OK, this is pretty good

Some simple analysis of 18 days of tweets. Most telling to me: all the activity is during prime time in the US, but off hours in Iran

Looks like the real think

Just what it says

Legal questions of who owns this data about local transit arrivals

Interesting notes from the director about what it was like to make the movie

Great list of resources in San Francisco for researching the history of a building

SF Public Library provides access to library card holders; look for the Sanborn link in this page

Crazy-detailed maps of cities from 1867-1970

Xbox community games thing lets you build your own games. Looks aimed at kids.

A compiler for a simple language whose result is CSS

Amazingly detailed investigative reporting, sourced from some high up insiders

Experiment with Google Maps

What a shame, Greg Costikyan's pioneering game distribution startup is closing

Photo of dear old dad

Quirk of the British control over Hong Kong left a lawless interzone in the middle of the city

Photos and info on towns abandoned

Detailed analysis of who might have given the Wall Street Journal the story about Jobs' liver transplant. When your company is run by The Messiah, people are gonna ask questions.

Roasting Obama at the Radio & TV Correspondents dinner, totally great

Back channel in poker tournaments changes the game

Street artist invader is having a new show in New York, here's time-lapse of him making art with Rubiks cubes

Pretty complete

Browser based version of one of the best games ever

Now you can do work on Google's cluster without having to be an HTTP request handler

interesting live overlay of cargo ships on a Google map

Interesting insider perspective

If you're gonna go with it, might as well go all the way

Review of online mapping sites; user contributed data seems to be best

Amazing drawings of imaginary cities

List of good sounding places to eat in Houston

Electricity grid infrastructure has security holes

Political single serving site

Crazy story of a Cuban activist pretending to be a hot chick, ensnaring the son of Fidel Castro.

Good briefing on how Twitter and other social media are being used in Iran election protests

beautiful art installation

The man behind the theft of Eve money from EBANK

Makes the NYT! This is a very interesting in-game story

Removes the blur effect, but nude models are not particularly detailed

Complaints from players about the cost of downloadable content

Gallery of 140+ virtual Edward Cullen characters made in Sims 3

spooky video

A blackbird living in downtown SF is something of a celebrity

pretty, restful sound toy

Quick Twitter search showing the birth of a new word

handy illustrated guide

Cached copy of the web page of the alleged Holocaust Museum shooter. Full of crazy.

Run any full screen Windows game in a window. Maybe?

Stayed here last night, very pleasant and more than a little odd

A very simple website