Handy set of geographic tools, all hosted on the site

Guide to the GPS data format standard

Outrageous: Blizzard turned over a customer's private data to an unauthorized law enforcement agency

Good summary of how HDR can be for good

Promotional video, it could change your life!

Really sweet love story

Ridiculously awesome javascript hack

Great analysis by the company of the race of their users

A bit ranty, but good summary of SF's dysfunction

Popular aviation iPhone app. Used to be $75 in the app store, now it's a $60 / year subscription but includes data downloads

Graph of Amazon pricing

Nice stats on 5 years of spam collection. Fraud is on the upswing

Maiden flight of the new Boeing plane today, if the weather cooperates

Great idea: put unused EC2 power up for auction. Dying to see where the price settles

Amazingly, the Democratic administration was able to find the missing emails!

Interesting, detailed investigative journalism about Aafia Siddiqui, a woman who may or may not have been detained by the CIA in Pakistan.

Awesome lightbox photo of a miniature

Great demonstration of innate music scales

Fight!

Remake of the popular classic Atari game

Fantastic, funny aerobatics

One of the first AdSense-supported tech blogs, mathowie's side project when not doing Metafilter

Detailed analysis of all the hidden stories and puzzles within The Truth segments. Massive spoilers.

Great article about using compression to make distributed computation faster

Nice appraisal of a classic uncomfortable Japanese film

Amazing bit of blog journalism

Map of all the places reviewed on the TV show

Database of things to do near airports

Database of restaurants near airports

Interesting interview with a woman who plays awful Xbox games just for the achievements

Newspaper typeset map of Michigan, quite beautiful

Great little hand luggage for pilots. A zillion outside zipper pockets might make it useful for other folks, too.

Funny set of photos

Crazy lights in the Norweigan sky

Folks got rewt, now the fun begins

Open source project to build a public database of cell tower locations

Great analysis of wire taps, pen registers, etc. GPS logs from mobile phones are very popular.

Yahoo has a specific legal compliance document detailing what data they can turn over to law enforcement, at what cost. Flickr account? About $40

Nice visualization of an accidental mathematical structure

Looks interesting

For when you need to use a spoon as a screwdriver

Interesting Flash game

OMG totally awesome Flash game; build a modular spaceship and pew pew, picking up new modules as you go

Phenomenal feature: automatically translate your English searches into other languages, then read the results translated back into English

Google now runs a public DNS server at 8.8.8.8

Free aviation charts, approach plates, etc. PDF.

Free PDF downloads of airport approach plates, etc.

Climactic scene from The Black Hole

Great journalism, somewhat negative

Clever Flash game: sort of a puzzle thing

Defer the execution of the Google Analytics tracking script

Awesome "re-enactment" from a Chinese TV station

1988 PSA video from Miami. Or a reasonable imitation of same

Live, free tracking of US flights; gives you access to air traffic control data. The KML tracks of historical flights are fun.

Amazing collection of geometric Arabic calligraphy