BITS: a Windows service for downloading stuff with unused bandwidth

4 simultaneous specially crafted Mario levels play along with "Don't Stop Me Now". It's unfathomable.

Mao's 1969 plan to build a whole city underground; photos from current urban explorers

Nice demo of their lighting system

Google Maps based aviation; wonder if there's one for the US?

Not mentioned in this description, but patch notes say the new Eve Online in game browser is based on Chromium

Game rendered in slow motion, interesting to see the animation

USB bootable Chromium OS. No idea if this is the best one, Engadget mentioned it

Great set of WPA works

Geolocative app for cruising. Tap on your phone and get photos and chat links for other gay men near you. Looks hugely efficient.

Now I know what kids these days are talking about

Works out to 6 CPUs and 10 gigabytes of RAM per 1000 subscribers

Alternatives to the pie chart

List of all the places pilots aren't allowed to fly. Includes a permanent "temporary" restriction around Disneyland, and a small bit of Dallas

Stolen pager messages from 9/11. Wonder where it came from?

Big collection of Google Earth datasets

Crazy planned community that never was, a modern Nazca lines

Need a magic flag to startup

Heartfelt paean. Note irony: stolen article

Dwarf Fortress graphics!

Sweetly nostalgic set of photos

Online personal finance tool; just launched a simple private branding program for banks

Exhaustively documented John Doe case

Trading community for games and movies.

Jordan Mechner's diaries from the 1980s, when making games like Karateka and Prince of Persia

electronic music generation programs short enough to tweet

FAA's publication of all flight data. Not free, but only a nominal fee

Lets you view all little airports in Google Earth; Google's airport database prefers only showing commercial airports

Load aviation charts into Google Earth. The demo is for San Francisco

Handy little tool for drawing circles on top of Google Earth

Fantastic parody of Twilight

Weather for the San Carlos airport

Worship simulator videogame (note: actually, advertisement for another game)

Sparklines seem to be the visualization tool in search of a problem, but maybe in a spreadsheet would work

Funny spoof / game mashup

Raw source for weather reports

Great set of photos

Anil Dash's new project; getting tech folks to help government

Online travel guides with lots of rich data from photographs, Google Maps, etc. Founded by some former Google colleagues

Senate hearings into "loyalty programs", companies that charge people monthly fees without their consent

San Francisco's iPhone experience is horrible; AT&T now claims it is getting better

Stupid copy protection prevents the product from being installed, requires Windows owners reinstall the OS

Nice roundup of the growing indie game scene

Some data about logins via various OpenID providers

Flying is full of domain specific jargon

Interesting view in what people are stealing.

Great little animation of Dock Ellis' infamous no-hitter

YouTube's increasing quality is one of the best things about the web

15 year old design decision in Visual C++ precompiled headers turns into serious bug with Windows 7 address space randomization

Highlighting the similarities

Great shot from the side of the set

Nice little tutorial: get the SVG for a blank map, edit it for colours

Internet pioneer Phil Agre has been missing for several months

Great roundup of Murdoch-owned websites that "parasite" content from the web

Amazing process, historical footage

Very interesting change in the game design, particularly the transition plan

Guys behind Plan 9 (now at Google) launch a C-like programming language with built in concurrent coroutines

Sneak preview of the new ultrarealistic military game

List of iPhone pilot apps

Latest quarterly report from the in-game economist. Interesting analysis of the impact of banning a bunch of gold farmers, also increasing the supply of a low level crafting material

Simple data structures for storing and finding geodata

Nice notes from a Google engineer about using Google's Javascript compiler and library

One product: 10 different styles for a single UI control

Ridiculous 1930s era Russian flying fortress. Really crazy.

A primer for children

People make their farms look like haunted houses

Popular game engine is now available (without source) free of charge for non-commercial use. 25% royalty.

Google publishes all the data it's collected about you. This is great for users

Little review of why we have 11 different types of plugs in the world

Well made remix of Brimley's lolfamous "diabeetus" infomercial

Healthcare overhaul bill includes "religious and spiritual healthcare" as covered

Multi-factor authentication dongle. Emulates a USB keyboard to generate one time passwords

Great timeline visualization

Fake town in Google's database

Tampa Bay paper publishes part 3 of their investigation, including crazy stories on how hard it is to leave Scientology

Great little trip down 16 year old mailing list discussions

Javascript library for iPhone development

Girlie-girl gear for feminine flyers

Library for overlaying data on Google Maps