video games
12/28/13 Gil's LotD: Mario Kart analytics
http://www.joyent.com/blog/introducing-kartlytics-mario-kart-64-analytics Studying Mario Kart performance over time with video analytics software.
12/25/13 Gil's LotD: Engie cannon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7-rfLVxf-M Exploiting glitches in Team Fortress 2.
12/18/13 Gil's LotD: IMFDB
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Main_Page The Internet Movie Firearm Database. Identifies every gun in every movie and video game.
7/28/12 Gil's LotD: Source Filmmaker
Valve has released the tool used to make its animated skits. It's already been put to good use to make the impressive Falcon punch video and a parody of Kayne West's music video for his song Power. I expect some great, high-quality videos to be made by hobbyists with this tool over the next year.
5/10/12 Gil's LotD: Katawa Crash
http://gilslotd.com/files/katawa_crash_beta_8-36.swf Katawa Crash is the spiritual successor to Nanaca Crash. There's a wiki explaining all the combos. My high score is unbeatable.
4/2/12 Gil's LotD: MapsTD
http://www.mapstd.com/ MapsTD is a tower defense game with maps dynamically generated from Google Maps locations.
3/30/12 Gil's LotD: GoldenEye
http://www.therwp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48139 There's a hidden ZX Spectrum emulator in the GoldenEye 64 release carts.
3/7/12 Gil's LotD: SNES Coprocessors
http://byuu.org/articles/emulation/snes-coprocessors All of the coprocessors released with SNES games have been reverse engineered.