Thoughtful piece on an early Facebook competitor

Fascinating set of pictures from Ecuador, via Twitter

Great selection of overhead photos of metastasis

This is brilliant

Moving to Palo Alto, working on AIM and AOL Lifestreams

Bunch of smart guys there, congrats

Play asteroids in your browser!

The value of a bunch of advertisements plastered on a site with no journalistic ethics

Squee!

Bellovin's analysis of Stuxnet is great. Turns out it is targettable, but we don't know who the target is.

Olsen Twins ephemera given a bit of chop-n-screw

Analysis of the malware that seems to target Siemens industrial control installations

Cute story of an NPR reporter buying a toxic tranche of housing debt

First human powered flight with flapping wings. Includes video

Great reflection on how git has changed open source development

Clever UI showing where planes are on your iPhone

Javascript library to force data into a browser in a bunch of different places, so it's hard to ever remove

Online payment system that does not allow for refunds; apparently a payment system of choice for thieves online

NSFWish for potty mouth. Also, hysterical.

Software for selling used books. Apparently this is the dominant pricing mechanism on Amazon.

Everyone loves the Catholic Church

great explanation of how a modern web site is built

Great visualization of census data; block by block views of where people live colored by race/ethnicity

Incomprehensible clip from a Japanese ninja movie. Mostly SFW.

Great news; Google's going to offer very strong security for their logins

Amazing close-up video of the U-2 taking off and landing

Emulated at the transistor level. In Javascript.

Apple's iPhone interface for blind users

He loves it; didn't know Apple had bothered to build voice navigation

Technology for enabling web transclusion

Anil's notes on how transclusion can work in an open way

Great site showing all the user-hostile design patterns scummy sites use to trick you

Nice video showing the terrain generator

I don't quite get why anyone would choose to do Colbert, but Saul did alright

Sound effect generator

Interesting pilot tourist business, looks terrific

The most frightening video I've ever seen

how to get Internet access from the ocean

Twitter publishes some stats as part of today's presentation. That's 1000 tweets / second.

Incredible photography. (The pilot lived)

It's a shame, it's a pretty amazing collection

Game developer Notch talks about piracy, the balance of allowing cultural transmission vs. paying software developers

Great narrative of what playing this amazing game is like

A movie about Finns hunting down Santa Claus

Here's the actual purported key: 1600 56bit numbers

Someone's published the master key

Both Reader and Flash this time. Why do we install this crap?

Simple example of how to uose the cool new mapping library

Very thoughtful piece on Facebook, privacy, and the cult of Zuckerberg

Yet another confidence game, this one a long con. Bad Bobby absconds with $45,000 worth of in-game currency. He's quite unrepentant in the forums, too, interesting reading.

Terrible visualization but awesome to have this data visible

Justin is having an adventure, travelling on a container ship

Eve sets a new record: 2000 people together in Jita. Big concurrency problem for them

Great interview with Jon Shafer, a Civ fan turned lead game designer

Great presentation of Twitter scale. 70,000 API calls / second!

Discussion of my blog post

Rebuttal to my blog post

An illustration

“For waxing, 12 years old is the ‘new normal,’ ”

How Google counts ad impressions for the new predictive searching thing

OkCupid's latest data, textual analysis broken down by race. They're not afraid of controversy

My favourite semi-pornographic publication, Butt Magazine, with two excellent photos

Interesting use of OpenID: making it easy for Yahoo users to create Google accounts

Interesting experiments in procedurally generated maps for games

Algorithm for taking a complex line and simplifying it, removing points

Libraries for working with geographic data in Python

Highly optimized tool to crunch PNG images down to fewer colors

USGS data for maps

Another Dwarf Fortress illustrated story

Great article of someone trying to explain a simple game to someone with no game experience

Finally a reasonable multiplayer guide

Does a great job showing initial handshake, then the up-to-speed full stream

Code to turn a tcpdump into an animation of the connection

Review of the rocky start Google's philanthropic arm has had

Promising set of videos from some very smart folks formerly at Google, an introduction to HTML, Javascript, etc

Large analysis of backbone traffic for the Internet shows trends in traffic from 2007 to 2009. Web is up, P2P is down.

Live view of Burning Man via tweeted photos

Every version moves UI controls for no good damn reason

"he Boxee Box is going to be $100 more expensive than the Apple TV, but will give you the freedom to watch what you want. We think it’s worth it."

Interesting history of the plant life on Ascension, I wonder if it's true?