• Mapnificent – this service shows you how far you can get on public transit (warning: slow to load in some browsers) in a given time in 17 cities around the world. Explanation. [Video]
• Newzfor.me – a news feeder for twitter. You can select the various news sources and have relevant news tweeted to your twitter followers.
• Tagxedo – tag cloud with styles. Similar concept to Wordle, but with much greater customization and word control.
• Twitario – allows you to see your tweets, chronologically, in an elegant, ordered and plain diary. With Twitario, you can surf your tweets page by page, month by month, or year by year.

Tech News

• Oregon Senator Wyden effectively kills Internet censorship bill
• US internet hosts are linchpin of criminal botnets

Software

• 7 Essential Financial Calculator Apps for Android and iPhone
• 10 iPad Apps Everyone Should Have
• 12 Fun Hacks for Getting More Out of YouTube: 1. TubeReplay. 2. Dragontape. 3. YouTube Doubler. 4. SynchTube. 5. infiniTube. 6. Splicd. 7. TubeChop. 8. YouCube. 9. MixTube. 10. YouFlow. 11. QuieTube. 12. YouTube TestTube.
• A free version of the Chatter microblogging software will soon be available.
• Another Hacker’s Laptop, Cellphones Searched at Border
• Google Voice For iPhone Now In App Store
• Microsoft vs. Software Piracy – Inside the War Room
• Real world implementation of the buy-bot from xkcd.
• Ruby on Rails for Zombies

Internet

• 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web
• The decline of Yahoo in handy timeline infographic form. It turns out that Yahoo’s situation is far worse than it seems.
• Long Live the Web is an impassioned plea to actively support openness on the Web from Tim Berners-Lee.
• Teen Girls Play Down Intelligence and Kindness Online
• The Race to Replace Ticketmaster – an article on the oft-despised ticketing company, those going after it, and the people and technology behind it all.
• Sued BitTorrent Users Score Win In Far Cry Case

Gaming

• Hacking Microsoft’s Kinect: Two Weeks In, Six Amazing Projects.
• Kotaku names The PC’s Best Free Games Right Now.

Gadgets

• Another Apple Prototype Leaked: the iBox!!

Entertainment

• 8 Amazing Uses of an iPad
• 11 Uses for an Old PC
• Damn You Autocorrect – Sometimes the iPhone can be funny.
• Kotaku has compiled a list of the best free iPhone games.
• MeetingBoy has a Tumblr and Twitter feed devoted to venting workplace gripes.

Discussion / OpEd

• 10 Ways Technology Has Ruined Modern Men
• Did Google Arm Its Own Enemies With Android?
• How the Cell Phone Is Changing the World.
• The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending.

• Floola 6.1 – a popular alternative iPod manager that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation that supports all commonly used iPod features including artwork, podcasts and smart playlists.
• Gist – an online contacts management system that knows about your social media contacts as well as your IRL friends.

Software

• Beyond DEFCON 15 Must See Hacking Conferences
• 6 Things That Have to Change About iTunes

Internet

• 10 Most Followed People On Twitter Who Aren’t Celebrities
• Disney, Warner Win $400k Case Against Firm With Ads on Pirate Sites
• Nicaragua invades Costa Rica because of a Google Maps error..
• Privacy: Keeping the Government Out of Online Accounts
• UGO shares The 50 Awesomest Viral Videos Under 30 Seconds Long.

Gaming

• Why Startups Should Only Hire Good Starcraft Players

Entertainment

• So You Want to Start a Web Startup [SLYT]

Discussion / OpEd

• Jack and the interstalk: why the computer is not a scary monster. “With a little common sense, parents have nothing to fear from letting young children share their screen time.”

• Audiotool – an online flash-based service that behaves like a desktop workshop.
• MapCrunch.com – Google Street View Randomizer
• RadioTime – remember radio? If you ever feel like becoming re-acquainted, this is a great place to start. RadioTime is an exhaustive directory of streaming radio stations in the U.S. and U.K.

Tech News

• Google could face fines in UK under privacy laws
• It’s official! The twentieth century is officially over. This week, Sony has announced that it is ceasing production of the Walkman. This comes just months after the discontinuation of floppy disks.

Internet

• Geocities to be released as a torrent
• Google Tightening Privacy Controls
• Google Traffic Now More than 6% of All Internet Use
• Is Goo.gl really the fastest URL shortener?
• Larry And Sergey Wanted Steve Jobs To Be Google’s First CEO
• Paypal Launches Micropayments for Facebook
• Why Can’t I Create Multiple Facebook Accounts?
• Yahoo Upgrades E-mail – In an attempt to fend off competition from Gmail, they’re introducing Twitter integration and faster speeds.

Gaming

• Blizzard To Offer Marketplace For Custom Maps for MMO users who want to design their own game modes and maps, then market them to other users.
• Inside story: The birth of Xbox
• Nintendo Claims 65 Million Wiimotes Sold in U.S.

Gadgets

• MIT Student-designed CNC mill you can build for less than $100
• Real Men Use Android: Special Forces Favor Google Phone

Entertainment

• How to Make an ATM Spew Out Money
• Russian Hacker Builds 70 Terabyte Home Computer

Discussion / OpEd

• Hey, you with the open Wi-Fi: You’re an idiot

• Autoruns 9 – this utility lists every program and process that launches when you start the computer the utility is installed on. It’s useful for figuring out why your computer takes so long to boot and for detecting malware.
• Ducklink – this is a screen capture utility that lets you capture shots of an entire scrollable length of a webpage or just a specific portion of your screen.
• WizardRSS – supposedly turns a partial feed into a full feed.

Tutorials

• How to Become a Game Programmer
• How to disinfect and clean iPhones and other gadgets.
• How to Measure Page Load Time With Google Analytics
• Use jQuery to Detect if User has Scrolled to the Bottom or Top of a Page

Tech News

• A campaign to build Babbage’s analytical engine is underway.
• Facebook admits ‘inadvertent’ privacy breach
• Google apologizes for privacy lapses, to tighten controls
• Netflix Losing the Disc and Upgrading on PS3
• Smarter Than You Think – Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
• Startling testimony offered by the U. of Michigan computer science professor whose team penetrated D.C.’s ‘pilot program’ server for what was to have been a live election beginning in just days…
• Tech Startup Executive Pay on the Mend
• Wikileaks Hacked By “Very Skilled” Attackers Prior To Iraq Doc Release

Software

• Another blow to boxed software: Apple brings its App Store to Macs
• Boston College offers this animated Flash demonstration of the Advanced Encryption Standard.
• The Never-Ending Language Learning system or NELL is learning the internet. Follow NELL’s discoveries on Twitter.
• Programmers Who Defined The Technology Industry: Where Are They Now?
• Sleep Cycle for iPhone Picks the Best Time to Wake You Up
• What did a teenager get out of attending Startup School?

Internet

• CopyProtected.com, a site used to inform on copy protection and DRM on DVD and Blu-ray movie discs, now displays a missive from Anonymous. After a few seconds it redirects visitors to the homepage of The Pirate Bay.
• Eric Schmidt: Google gets close to ‘the creepy line
• The incredible growth of the Internet since 2000
• Netnography: The Marketer’s Secret Ingredient. How Campbell’s and other marketers are using the tools of anthropology online.
• Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, Steps Down
• Survey: 71 percent of tweets are ignored (Ironically, via Twitter)
• Texas slaps Amazon with $269M bill for uncollected sales taxes
• The UK Telegraph profiles Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
• Vint Cerf Keeps Blaming Himself For IPv4 Limit
• Web Design Ledger is a publication written by web designers for web designers. The primary purpose of the site is to act as a platform for sharing web design related knowledge and resources. Topics range from design inspiration to tips and tutorials and everything in between.

Gaming

• Angry Birds, the iPhone gaming sensation (and possible movie), is now available on Android for free in ad supported form. Not got a fancy phone? Maybe you can play the home game.
• Game designer Raphael “Raph” Koster (Wikipedia) has republished his essay “The Fundamentals of Game Design.” Koster was the lead designer of the wildly successful MMORPG Ultima Online.

Gadgets

• With this printer, what you see is what you smell

Entertainment

• Being A Code Made Easy – Chapter 1
• Dead Frontier, a browser based zombie apocalypse shooter, just went open beta and is free to play. There’s also a game play trailer after the break. Try not to get fired playing at work.
• “Despite having been on the job for nine months, RadioShack CEO Julian Day says he still has ‘no idea’ how the home electronics store manages to stay open.”
• Scrabb.ly: Massively multiplayer online Scrabble.
• The New Yorker parodies the E-Mail Auto-Response. It’s funny because it’s true.
• You’re Stealing it Wrong: 30 Years of Inter-Pirate Battles

Discussion / OpEd

• Cyber attack threat ‘could be next Pearl Harbor’
• How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today
• Is the rise of automation from computers software and robotics and web-fueled outsourcing leading to a shrinking middle class? MIT Economist David Autor thinks so. Good Magazine speculates on the implications for America’s future.
• Why CPUs Aren’t Getting Any Faster
• Yep, Apple Killed The CD Today

• BuzzVoice – this app grabs news from any of over 1,600 top blogs and news sources, and converts them into audio files in real time. You can stream the audio to your PC, iPod, or iPhone any time.
• HTML Instant – a real-time online HTML editor. Great for figuring out what’s going wrong with your code when you hit a kink.
• ShoutKey – a temporary URL shortener that allows users to pick the duration for which a link will be accessible.
• txtSpoof – allows you to send a text message and decide who the message appears to be sent from. This should provide endless hours of fun for high schoolers everywhere.
• Wozaik – Cut the best portions of your favorite websites and keep them all on the same page. If you have a lot of web pages you like to regularly visit, you can use this site can to create your own custom interfaces to view them all at once.

Tutorials

• How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer
• How To Replace Your Landline With Google Voice

Tech News

• Countries reach tentative anti-counterfeiting pact
• Google’s new VP8-based image format could replace JPEG
• Internet Explorer Is Below 50% Market Share for the First Time
• New Internet Censorship Bill Introduced: this bill lets the Attorney General and Justice Department “break the Internet one domain at a time – by requiring domain registrars/registries, ISPs, DNS providers, and others to block Internet users from reaching certain websites.”
• A new startup named Social Intelligence promises to do a deep scan of a potential employee’s socnet presences in 48 hours, focussing on such catch-all categories as “‘Poor Judgment,’ ‘Gangs,’ ‘Drugs and Drug Lingo’ and ‘Demonstrating Potentially Violent Behavior.’”
• Only 1.7% of sites blocked by Scandinavia’s “child-porn” filters are actually porn
• Youth jailed for not handing over encryption password

Software

• A computer science professor explains how he hacked Washington D.C.’s trial internet voting system.
• Google Earth now offers a plugin that can Track US flights in near-realtime.

Internet

• Have you ever tried typing “sunset” into Google?

Gadgets

• Apple TV teardown reveals $64 manufacturing cost as well as the same internal design and components as the iPad, iPhone 4, and iPod Touch.
• A Pool that Creates Waves In The Shape of Anything
• Netflix for iPhone Now Streaming To Your TV

Discussion / OpEd

• Angel Investors Duke It Out Over Women In Tech
• The ‘Legal Blackmail’ Business: Inside a P2P-Settlement Factory
• Public Humiliation: It’s Not The Web, It’s Us
• Why Broadband Service in the U.S. Is So Awful
• Would Wiretapping Laws Spell the End of Quantum Encryption?: Scientific American

• CintaNotes – a self-contained application that organizing notes into a strip running down the side of a screen or minimized. Really useful for online research.
• Goo.gl – Google has finally launched its own url shortener, which it’s being billed as the “Stablest, Most Secure, And Fastest URL Shortener On The Web.” Plus, if you simply add “.qr” to the end of any goo.gl URL, it will create a QR code!
• Soylent – a plugin for Micro$oft Word that farms out fact-checking, editing, rewriting and proofreading for pennies on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service.
• Sumatra PDF – a small, portable alternative to Adobe Reader.

Tutorials

• 10 dead simple Gmail tips, tricks and shortcuts

Tech News

• BitTorrent preps live streaming technology – make your own YouTube
• Rutgers Student’s Suicide Follows Secret Webcast
• “They can promise strong encryption. They just need to figure out how they can provide us plain text.” The administration plans to submit legislation to Congress in 2011 which would mandate any communications technology operating in the United States to include technical measures to comply with wiretap orders.
• “U.S. should be able to shut Internet, former CIA chief says”

Software

• 5 Steps to a Family-Safe Internet
• Brain Coprocessors: The need for operating systems to help brains and machines work together.
• Novacut, a new open-source video editor, owes its origins to Joss. “We’re developing [this] video editor because there’s no reason for Joss Whedon to ever have a show canceled.
• The OpenOffice.org Project has unveiled a major restructuring that separates itself from Oracle and that takes responsibility for OpenOffice away from a single company. … Driving home the changes, OpenOffice.org project is now The Document Foundation while the OpenOffice.org suite has been given the temporary name of LibreOffice.
• PC Magazine picks the Best Free Mac Software 2010.

Gadgets

• A NerdKit is a combination of electronic parts and wisdom, which together will teach you about digital electronics, embedded systems, and how to bridge computers with the “real world”.
• With the unveiling of the BlackBerry Playbook, a 7″ iPad competitor solidly aimed at business, are the tablet wars heating up?

Entertainment

• Google has added Antarctica to street view, complete with penguins.
• Is the Media Obsessed with Apple?
• A Tour of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Home
• Who else feels this way about phone books?

Discussion / OpEd

• The Twitter Devolution: Far from being a tool of revolution in Iran over the last year, the Internet, in many ways, just complicated the picture. [Also]

• DIY Dynamic Templates – This utility lets users create and print schedules and pages for filofaxes. Save big over the overpriced daily planners from stores.
• Flux utility – An awesome utility that adjusts the color of your monitor from florescent to halogen with the time of day to reduce eye strain.
• Hashapass – An online service for creating really strong passwords. Great for professional who work in high-security industries.
• Pixlr – A seriously amazing online image editor nearly comparable to Photoshop.
• Scr.im – Convert your email address into a short, safe web link you can share without fear of a spambot collecting it and bombarding your with junk mail.
• Zamzom – This utility lists all of the computers connected to your wireless network. Useful if you think your connection is being used by a neighbor.

Tutorials

• How to Convert an iPod Hard Drive to Compact Flash. Via
• How to Record the Cops – A guide to the technology for keeping government accountable with out becoming the next victim of taser abuse.

Tech News

• $250,000-a-day Minecraft strikes indie game gold
• 17 year old girl awarded $33,000 after suing school
• Apple acquisition hints facial recognition coming to iPhone
• Canadian Recording Industry Demands 45% Of Revenue; Then Blames ‘Pirates’ For No Streaming Music Services
• FCC votes unanimously in favor of using whitespace for ‘super WiFi’
• Gamers shun stores for downloads
• US Gov wants the right to remove anything from the internet at any time

General

• Google Blacklist – Words That Google Instant Doesn’t Like
• Top 10 Ways to Organize and Streamline Your Workspace

Gadgets

• A Hungarian developed bicycle that uses wires instead of chains has been launched today
• Impressive and slightly scary coilgun build

Entertainment

• Can you write a hack in 140 characters? Someone figured out how, and now Twitter is infested with them. They say they’ll have a fix today. In the mean time, the twitter page belonging to the wife of the British PM has been hacked, making it redirect to a Japanese porn site.
• From Chicago to Shanghai, 138 Visionary Years of World’s Fairs
• Infographic: The Evolution of Photoshop

Discussion / OpEd

• A geek speaks about women in engineering
• Achieving Techno-Literacy “Every new technology will bite back. The more powerful its gifts, the more powerfully it can be abused. Look for its costs.”
• Google: Internet freedom is declining
• Google Is Now Officially Evil
• Is the Internet Making You Lose Your Mind?
• Sometime its seems like you’re living in a William Gibson novel. Was Stuxnet Built to Attack Iran’s Nuclear Program?
• The truth about iPad: It’s only good for two things
• Why GMail’s Priority Inbox Needs to Get Off the Web (And Why It’s the Future)
• Why Startups Should Only Hire Good Starcraft Players

• About.Me – a new site that lets users create a custom splash page and personal analytics dashboard for their web identity.
• Facebook Slideshow – Browse a photos on Facebook without having to click back and forth with this experimental slideshow app.
• Fences 1.01 – Fences is a program that helps you organize your desktop, and can hide your icons when they’re not in use. A “Fence”, a term coined by this program, is an icon group on your desktop. Fences is an add-on to your desktop, not a replacement.
• Motif – This experimental version of the Yahoo search engine displays different possible contexts for the term users are searching in a small drop down box.
• Primal – An amazing new project that creates pages filled with content on any topic of your choosing. Very similar to a search engine but with the potential to become a tremendous research tool.
• toread – An email-based free bookmark service that lets users e-mail themselves web pages simply by clicking a bookmarklet. Excellent for research.
• Veezzle – A free stock photo search engine that scans the largest stock photo sites for results, saving a great deal of time.
• Xinorbis 5.1 – This utility compiles detailed lists of where all the space on your hard drive has gone.

Tutorials

• How to convert video to watch on a Droid.
• Keyboard Shortcuts That’ll Make Your Google Instant Searching Even Faster.

Tech News

• Developers pull plug on anti-censorship tool for Iranians – it wasn’t much help
• Fastest Net Service in U.S. Coming to Chattanooga
• Google’s Biggest Advertisers (And What They Tell Us About Online Media)
• A Google engineer was recently fired for spying on several teens through their GTalk, Gmail, and Google Voice accounts. Google statement confirming the shenanigans.
• Linux Torvalds Is Now Finally an US Citizen
• Macs gain favor with college students despite PC decline
• Old rumors appear to be true. Google will introduce “a social layer” into online search, video and Google Maps this Fall.
• Russia Uses Microsoft to Suppress Dissent – Adding to its long-running series on corruption and abuse in post-Communist Russia, the New York Times has reported on Russian authorities using the pretext of software piracy to seize computers from journalists and political dissidents critical of current policies.
• Steve Jobs Caught Trying to Bring Ninja Stars on Plane

General

• Google Instant is trying to kill me
• “If the website you need doesn’t exist, let Primal Pages build it for you in seconds.” Launching this week at the DEMO Conference, Primal addresses “a core problem with the Internet: our ability to create information has far exceeded our ability to easily manage and consume it.”
• Remote Desktop Software Comparison Chart
• The real size of Google explained with a big infographic.

Entertainment

• Gamers make faster decisions than nongamers, just as accurate
• Infographic: The Automated Workplace: Robots On The Rise
• Infographic: The Evolution of Storage
• Infographic: How Much We Share With The Big Three (Apple, Facebook, Google)
• Microsoft holds Funeral for iPhone.

Discussion / OpEd

• Artists Make More Money in File-Sharing Age Than Before It
• As reported on NPR’s All Tech Considered (“Tech” and “Religion”?) on 9/13. “In a world where Google has put every bit of information at our fingertips, some people are now demanding less information when they surf the Internet” by using religion-based search engines.
• Guess what, you don’t own that software you bought.
• The Man Who Makes Your iPhone – Bloomberg Businessweek profiles Terry Gou, the founder and chairman of Foxconn, the controversial manufacturer of consumer electronic devices for Apple, Sony, HP and Dell, among others.
• ‘Super Wi-Fi’ nears final approval in U.S.
• Using ‘white space’ for faster Internet
• A virtual counter-revolution: The internet has been a great unifier of people, companies and online networks. Powerful forces are threatening to balkanise it.

2Do – This iPhone app was designed to work around your fingers. 2Do surrounds you with your projects and actions, grouped the way you like them, sorted the way you need them and reminding you at the time you want them done.

30 Boxes – A web based calendar solution with a good list feature.

Bla Bla List – A fast, simple to-do list product built on the RIFE open-source Java web application framework. It offers the basic to-do list features with an easy-to-use interface, but new lists begin as an annoyingly small pop-up window.

Google Calendar To Do List – Firefox users can setup this neat Greasemonkey script that adds a to do list to your Google Calendar account. Firefox and Greasemonkey extension required.

Now Do This – A ridiculously simple web app. NDT allows users to make a text based list and mark them as done as you get them done.

Remember The Milk – This utility is one of the most popular todo lists around thanks to its easy integration with email, IM clients, and SMS. Milk features a smooth Ajax interface loaded with metadata like date information, repeat events, and tag clouds. Tasks can be organized by tab, prioritized, and sent to contacts. It also pulls up Google maps to help you plan real-life errands.

Sproutliner – A structured todo list that has the more advanced feel to it.

Ta-da List – 37signals built this wonderfully simple online todo list based on Ruby on Rails. Ta-da list uses lots of white space and larger fonts for easy reading.

TaskFreak! – This is an excellent script to run on your own server it’s a great system. It offers both status marking and priority control.

TaskThis! – This service bills itself as “web 2.0″ ToDo lists. Create tasks with notes, publish lists via RSS, or collaborate on lists.

TaskToy – Todo list service with note taking, bookmarking, and projects.

TeuxDeux – A simple, free, browser-based todo app that allows you to divide your tasks into useful buckets, including one that places tasks into a “someday” bucket.

Time Tracker – A simple tool to keep track of the time you spend on any task. Add a task and split it up into its component parts. Great for freelancers working online.

TODO List Google Module – Add a to do list to your Google Personalized start page. Includes simple add, edit, and removal of tasks as well as setting due-dates.

Todoist – A sophisticated-looking task manager featuring subprojects, hierarchies, a built-in calendar, and more. Great for project management,

Tom’s Planner – Allows anyone to create, collaborate, and share Gantt Charts online with drag and drop simplicity.

Toodledo – Features an interface similar to an e-mail account. Toodledo allows you to organize tasks into different folders, assign due-dates, prioritize tasks, and attach notes. Very sophisticated.

Tudu List – an open-source application that can be installed on your own server. With Tudu, users can create multiple to-do lists, prioritize tasks, and set deadline. Backup and restore lists or download XML files.

Voo2do – Very complex project management software capable of designating a priority, due date, and time estimates for each task. Voo2do also allows you to adds tasks via email, collaborate on todo lists, and browse your task history.

• Clavier+ – this handy utility allows users to create keyboard shortcuts using any key combination, including the Windows key. The shortcuts can be used to launch programs or paste in frequently used text.
• Google Code University – a collection of tutorials on languages like Python, Java and Go for relative beginners.
• Mappiness – a free iPhone app that allows you to keep track of your happiness. It’s also a research tool for London School of Economics scholars Susana Mourato and George MacKerron, who are using it to learn “how people’s feelings are affected by features of their current environment—things like air pollution, noise, and green spaces.”
• Photovisi – a free and easy to use online tool to create photo collages. Select one of the many collage templates, add your photos and then customize by dragging items around.

Tutorials

• 20 Useful Free PDF ebooks for Designers and Bloggers

Tech News

• Apple launches social network for music called Ping
• It turns out that Intel pays Dell a whole lot of money to prevent them from using chips made by rivals.
• Japanese man has broken the world record for calculating the value of Pi, reaching 5 trillion digits on a computer that he built himself
• Obama administration: “Piracy is flat, unadulterated theft”… so, it looks like the lobbiest’s check cleared.
• Plan for nationwide free wireless broadband has been shot down
• Tea Partiers Take a Stand Against the Internet by opposing Net Neutrality
• Five-Nanometer Silicon Oxide Switches Could Create Terabyte Chips

Gadgets

• This looks like a fantastic idea. Sena, who is known for the quality of their cases, has developed an folio case for the iPad that includes a bluetooth keyboard.

Entertainment

• 4chan Decides to Do Something Nice For a Change
• Lots of people remember the Cray-1A. And how could you not, it was a supercomputer with built-in seats. But Chris Fenton has done more than just reminisce, he he built his own 1/10 scale Cray-1A. It’s not just a model, it actually runs Cray software.
• PopSci has posted a gallery of 30 Awesome College Labs.
• The Programmer Hierarchy demonstrates the superiority of programmers.
• The Tragic Death of Practically Everything
• Vintage calculator museums

Discussion / OpEd

• Alan Jacobs laments the Hobbesian reality that is modern Internet discourse in his article “The Online State of Nature” at Big Questions Online.
• Ben Kunz at Bloomberg Businessweek has an interesting post on Apple’s pricing practices. Kunz posits that Apple uses psychological pricing tricks such as reference prices and price “decoys” to boost sales of more expensive items.
• Google CEO Eric Schmidt has suggested that in the near future every person might be entitled to change their name on reaching adulthood, in order that they can live unhindered by the online record of their youthful indiscretions
• Google’s Earth by William Gibson
• Some lesser-known truths about programming
• The Promise and Peril of ‘Smart’ Keyboards
• Why the use of unmanned drones should be considered a war crime.

Download and assemble your own Scott Pilgrim Sex Bob-omb at Cubcraft.
The Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas is selling an alternate Scott Pilgrim Poster.
Scott Pilgrim Evil Exes Poster
Scott Pilgrim vs Ladies by 021
Scott Pilgrim Wars by CaptainSloth

Discussion

Indie Comic to Media Phenomenon.
L.A. Times asks Is Scott Pilgrim vs. the World the year’s most honest romance?
Scott Pilgrim Versus The Unfortunate Tendency To Review The Audience
Scott Pilgrim vs. Ageism?

Entertainment

Scott Pilgrim and the 11 Most Evil Boyfriends in Movie History.
Scott Pilgrim: Graphic Novel To Movie And The 7 Other Best Film Adaptations.
Vanity Fair asks Exactly How Canadian Is Scott Pilgrim vs. the World? Very.

Interviews

Anna Kendrick talks Scott Pilgrim and Meeting Edgar Wright.
Director Edgar Wright Exclusive Video Interview Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
Director Edgar Wright Sees No Difference Between Video Games and Heroin.
Edgar Wright, Michael Cera and Jason Schwartzman Talks Scott Pilgrim
Edgar Wright Talks Scott Pilgrim Versus the World
Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour Arrives for Bryan Lee O’Malley.

News

And Scott Pilgrim Is …
August 13th Is Scott Pilgrim Day.
Behold Scott Pilgrim’s Musical Foes.
COMIC-CON 2010: Hollywood invades the Scott Pilgrim comics
The Epic Of Epic Epicness, In Trailer Form.
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I’m Not Sure Why You’d Want To Market A Movie Around Michael Cera Screaming …
It’s Scott Pilgrim Versus Lucas Lee! 
Kill An Hour Or So With The Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World Interactive Trailer.
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Scott Pilgrim Creates Comic-Con Pandemonium
Scott Pilgrim: Day One!
Scott Pilgrim. Flaming Sword. Random Back Flip.
Scott Pilgrim Gets Animated!
Scott Pilgrim In Eight Glorious Bits!
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Scott Pilgrim: Knives shops and Ramona’s massive hammer!
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Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World K.O.’s the Internet (TEASER APPEARS!)
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Photos

Check out these images from Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World.
Scott Pilgrim Versus the World Screenshots
Scott Pilgrim Video Blog on Vimeo
Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World Behind The Scenes Photos

Reviews

The Daily Beast: Michael Cera Gets a Life
Entertainment Weekly: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
io9: Scott Pilgrim is an epic for the Nintendo generation
MTV: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: Big Fun
SFGate: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Review
Twitch Film: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Review
USA Today: Michael Cera in Scott Pilgrim: A comedic world-beater

Trailers

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World Clip from the Comic Con.
A Second TV Spot Brings You Your Scott Pilgrim Fix For The Day.

Trivia

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: Five Secrets Revealed!

• JonDo – a free JonDonym client for anonyimizing your connection through a proxy.
• MediaRover – this free and easy app syncs your iTunes libraries and lists across all your computers and media devices.
• MozBackup – a free program that let’s you backup settings, passwords, cookies, bookmarks, history, certificates, details, and extensions from a copy of Mozilla Firefox running on one computer and transfer it to another.
• Online Convert – An online tool for converting file formats.

Tutorials

• Design for Hackers: Why You Don’t Use Garamond on The Web

Tech News

• Google Raided by Korea Police in Probe of Street View
• Google’s Widening Reach
• HP aims to measure Twitter influence

General

• Google’s Brin And Page Shouted At Each Other Over Google’s Decision To Become Evil (Target Ads)–Then Brin Caved
• Google unveils Google’s Plan for the Internet.

Entertainment

• 4Chan Founder Gives Courtroom Lesson In Net Slang
• 15 Surprising Facts about Wikipedia
• Can The iPhone Get You Laid?
• Microsoft defines irony; recommends Chrome to fix Hotmail issues
• Who Said the Parallel Port Was Dead?

Discussion / OpEd

• Bill Gates sez: screw university, study online
• Ditching the cell phone can be a power move
• How the Google/Verizon proposal could kill the internet in 5 years
• Is free Wi-Fi killing the coffeehouse?
• Paul Graham weighs in on what happened at Yahoo. In short, there was too much money and too much adult supervision.
• Why Google Became A Carrier-Humping, Net Neutrality Surrender Monkey

• 50 Must Have Open Source Application for Mac
• Dizzy Dragon – this is one of the best random dungeon generators out there.
• Flowdock – for those of you upset over the loss of Google Wave, Flowdock combines the best features of Yammer And Google Wave in one project management service.
• Jailbreakme.com – a service that lets users jailbreak an iPhone 4 even without a computer. Hand for those working behind a firewall.

Tutorials

• How to Migrate Your Entire Google Account to a New One.
• How to Create Polaroids with CSS3
• What’s the Best Way to Block a Number from Calling My Cellphone?

Tech News

• Google begins rolling out multiple account sign-in
• Google Multiple Sign-in, Now Available
• US, EU agree: OK to buy trademarked terms on AdWords.
• Wikipedia and FBI in logo use row… Wikipedia Refuses FBI Order to Remove Seal From Site… F.B.I. Challenges Wikipedia Over Use of Its Seal
• YouTube Upload limit increases to 15 minutes for all users.

Entertainment

• Do You Know Who’s Watching You? An infographic on Facebook Privacy
• Hack pinpoints where you live: How I met your girlfriend.
• How hackers at Def Con almost closed down the Sands casino.
• Live demos show how the Nintendo DS and the Wii can spread malware.
• The Perils of the Internet: An Infographic.

Discussion / OpEd

• From Samizdat to Twitter: How Technology Is Making Censorship Irrelevant.
• Read On: Why the iPad hasn’t killed the Kindle.
• Should Videotaping the Police Really Be a Crime?
• When phones are too big for pockets
• Why the Desktop Gets No Respect, and Should.

• Roomle – this online tool allows users to draw up floor plans in order to plan how to lay out a room prior to moving in to a new apartment.
• PilotHandwriting – this site allows you to turn your handwriting into a font using your computer’s webcam. Download the letter template from the web site. Fill it in. Hold the template up in front of your webcam. Watch a demo.
• Yet Another YouTube Script – unlike nearly every other predecessing YouTube userscripts that erratically worked or broke with site revisions, this userscript interfaces with the YouTube Player API to globally control autoplay and playback quality to stop the repeated web annoyance of YouTube autoplay. (It also lets you pick a lower or higher quality video as your default.)

Tutorials

• 10 Cool Facebook Status Tips and Tricks
• The College Student’s Guide to Google Scholar
• How to Find the Font Used in an Image

Tech News

• Apple Reports Record Revenue on Mac, iPhone Sales.
• Artists lose out as fans stop burning CDs – The Local.
• EFF Fights To Allow People To Comment Anonymously Online
• Facebook Has No Effect On College Grades, Study Finds
• Google’s Revenues Rise 24%, Now Has $30 Billion in the Bank
• How a 15-yo Kid Tricked Apple With a Disguised iPhone Tethering App
• India unveils world’s cheapest laptop
• Less than three weeks after the Times paywall went up, data shows a massive decline in web traffic
• Only 0.3% of files on BitTorrent confirmed to be legal.
• New gov’t rules allow unapproved iPhone apps.
• Stanford researchers say TCP extension tcpcrpt could make encryption omnipresent

General

• PBS MediaShift takes a week-long look at content farms. “I was completely aware that I was writing crap,” she said. “I was like, ‘I hope to God people don’t read my advice on how to make gin at home because they’ll probably poison themselves.’”

Entertainment

• 10 weird places your data gets stored
• Learn How Google Works: in Gory Detail
• The tale of San Francisco’s unluckiest thief

Discussion

• The Agnostic Cartographer: How Google’s open-ended maps are embroiling the company in some of the world’s touchiest geopolitical disputes.
• Cory Doctorow says Reports of blogging’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
• Has DRM just been dealt a crippling blow? “Today [the US Copyright Office has] designated six classes of works. Persons who circumvent access controls in order to engage in noninfringing uses of works in these six classes will not be subject to the statutory prohibition against circumvention.”
• IT World states the obvious: The RIAA wants your Fear more than your Money.
• No more vacation: How technology is stealing our lives
• Should ISPs Pay for Music Piracy?
• The Web Means the End of Forgetting.
• Who gets to make money off WordPress? Dust-up brewing in the world of WordPress as theme author Chris Pearson and WordPress head honcho Matt Mullenweg battle out the question: Is a theme a ‘derivative work’?
• Why Many Teens Are Moving on from Facebook
• Why the world needs WikiLeaks

• Prey – a lightweight application that will help you track and find your laptop if it ever gets stolen. It works in all operating systems and not only is it Open Source but also completely free.
• LastPass – the last password manager you’ll ever need. Available on almost all common platforms, its easy to use, and free.
• Hid.im – a new web-based service that allows users to hide .torrent files inside PNG images. This means that users can easily upload hidden torrent files to their favorite image hosting service and forums, or use it as an avatar on social networking sites without being censored.
• Audiobox – a full-featured desktop-like HTML 5 application right into your browser, the AudioBox.fm Cloud Web Player. Accessing, streaming, organizing and storing your media files is easier than ever.

Tutorials

• CSS Ninja has created an amazing Pure CSS collapsible tree menu.
• How To: Make a DIY iPad stand from pencils and rubber bands
• How to access Hulu from outside the U.S. without a proxy server.
• HOW TO: Transfer Your iTunes Library Onto Your New OS
• Run Android Apps on Your Windows PC

Tech News

• Barnes & Noble introduces NOOKstudy, a free e-studying tool.
• BitTorrent Admins Charged in $1.25bn Movie Piracy Case
• Google App Inventor: Now Anyone Can Create an Android App. Could App Inventor, Google’s new easy development software for Android, be Hypercard for phones?
• A New Way to Outwit Internet Fraudsters
• Pirate Bay’s Booty of Email Addresses Plundered
• RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000

Entertainment

• 10 Things the Internet has Ruined and Five Things it Hasn’t
• The Onion: Apple’s Friend Bar Is Genius
• The Perfect IT Guy Business Card. [Pic]

Discussion

• Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications…
• Threat of ‘cyberwar’ has been hugely hyped