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Regretsy gets a book deal

Google Chrome OS Demo

Patrick Moberg's Internet Vices

Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck's "Heaven Can Wait"

YouTube adds machine-translated automatic captions

Microsoft tries to patent Edward Tufte's sparklines

Leonard Lin's Retweet Avatars for Greasemonkey

Web-ops god John Allspaw leaves Flickr to join Etsy

Laptop Steering Wheel Desk

Interview with Ralph Eggleston, Pixar's production designer on WALL-E

NSFW: Animated pixel-art video for Flair's "Trucker's Delight"

NY Observer on Anil Dash's new government 2.0 incubator project

Google's Dan Morrill explains how the Droid autofocus breaks every 24.5 days

Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter on Zach Galifianakis' Between Two Ferns

The Pirate Bay shuts down their tracker for good

How Darren at Link Machine Go found Belle de Jour's identity five years ago

ICU64, real-time visualization of Commodore 64 memory

Russell Davies on pretending and "barely games"

NYT Magazine on the indie gaming movement

Tim O'Reilly on the pending War for the Web

Jason Scott rounds up Geocities' top 10 most popular MIDI files

Matt Haughey on the discovery of his brain tumor, treatment, and the Internet's response

Belle de Jour reveals herself after six year of anonymity

Paul F. Tompkins debates comedy ethics with Improv Everywhere's Charlie Todd

Rogue Amoeba stops iPhone app development after App Store idiocy

Numb3rs on IRC

Prank War 8: The Skydiving Prank

301 Works, Internet Archive works to preserve URL shortener data

Quizipedia

Kill Screen, funding a new art magazine about videogames

Auto-Tune the News on Kanye, Charlie Bit Me, and Balloon Boy

EyeWriter

Know Your Meme on the Autotune meme

Nicholas Felton's visualization of 13 years of CNN.com traffic

Christian Swinehart's epic Choose Your Own Adventure visualizations

Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels' Generous Offer

Typekit launches

The Big Pictr

Twitter's new Trends API will use Yahoo's WOE for locations

The Beatles Never Broke Up

Paul Rogers draws Name That Movie

NYT on confusion over how Kiva loans work

Microsoft COFEE, digital forensics tool for police, leaks online

NYT visualizes the unemployment rate for different demographics

Another World level ported to Javascript

Blocktronics' ANSI art tribute to RaDMaN

Aaron Straup-Cope leaves Flickr, joins Stamen Design

Unreal Engine 3 development kit now free for non-commercial use

The Big Picture's series on Martian landscapes

Preview of McSweeney's Panorama, their one-shot newspaper