Waxy.org: Links Miniblog

MC Frontalot, Jonathan Coulton, and Paul & Storm cover Double Rainbow/Bed Intruder Song (with lead vocals by the very talented Ken Flagg)

Jonathan Blow's anonymous PAX playtest of The Witness (the followup to Braid was at an unmarked table)

Craigslist shuts down adult services section (17 Attorneys General asked them last month to shut it down )

Health Month (like Epic Win, Buster Benson's trying to turn self-improvement into a game)

There is a Horse in the Apple Store (Frank Chimero is not hallucinating)

Duke Nukem Forever is revived, to be released in 2011 by Gearbox (everyone's favorite vaporware is playable on the PAX show floor, 13 years in the making)

NYC health dept. shuts down underground lobster roll dealer (Jeff Rubin shows how people ordered from "Dr. Claw") [via]

Copyright holders choosing ad income over cease-and-desists on YouTube (more than a third of YouTube's 2B weekly ad views are infringing videos deliberately left online) [via]

Buzzfeed's "infographic" about infographic spam (thanks to this Reddit user for exposing this unusual SEO trickery)

Six Apart shuts down Vox (less than a month's notice, with export tools to Typepad and Flickr)

LA Times interview with the author behind Slaughterhouse 90210 (interesting process behind her Tumblr curation)

Informative Prints (by 16-year-old Swedish graphic artist Kiko Seiz)

Cheerleader wins lawsuit by suing the wrong website (Dan Quayle's son famously wrote a column for TheDirty.com) [via]

Anatomy of a Rickroll, hypnotic visualization of network packets (here's an image request slowed down 40x; made with Packet Flight)

Building a Scrabble MMO in 48 hours with Node.js and MongoDB (the results are impressive; some of the Node.js Knockout entries are amazing)

Bear's Double Rainbow ad for Microsoft (also: meet Bear) [via]

First details on Telltale's episodic Back to the Future game emerge (they also secured rights to make games based on Jurassic Park)

Cee Lo Green's official video for F**K YOU (even better than the typography video, I'm perfectly content to have this song stuck in my head 24/7)

Slate interviews Innocence Project cofounder about false convictions (over 250 people have been freed by new DNA evidence, many of them with false confessions)

Unreal Engine 3 tech demo Epic Citadel for the iPhone/iPad (impressive tech demo, now available for free)

GameSetWatch covers Assembly 2010's PC demo contest (if you have the hardware, I highly recommend trying out the two winners yourself)

Apple announces Ping, a social network built into iTunes (their first foray into social, finally; seems inevitable that app/location/TV/music sharing will follow)

All four issues of Daniel Raeburn's The Imp available for free download (highly recommended, covers Daniel Clowes, Jack Chick, Chris Ware, and dirty Mexican comics) [via]

Eclectic Method's 8-bit Mixtape (not particularly great music, but the visuals make it) [via]

Vanity Fair's glimpse into the day in the life of the President (long, must-read look at the insane complexity of today's political landscape)

Lanyrd, social conference directory (brilliantly executed social event discovery; it should be pronounced "La Nerd")

Copyrighting Fashion (a new bill would subject fashion to copyright, but at what cost?)

Tom Scott's Evil hack shows phone numbers exposed by Facebook users (culled from public "lost my phone" groups)

Unhear It (replace one earworm with another)

Stay Free's Illegal Art mix tape (the files all moved here)

Mads Peitersen's paintings of gadget anatomy (love the iPhone guts) [via]

Hark! A Vagrant's Nancy Drew covers (previously: the Gorey covers)

Markov chaining Kickstarter blurbs (this also doubles as a Kickstarter project idea generator)

Pomplamoose teams up with Ben Folds & Nick Hornby (Hornby wrote all the lyrics for Folds' new album) [via]

The Wilderness Downtown (an HTML5 music video for Arcade Fire with some fun geo integration)

Swarmation (like musical chairs for pixels) [via]

Disney remixes old cartoons into "Blam!" (truly awful)

PieLabPDX food cart makes customers play games to buy pie (they had to win a game of Rock Scissors Paper to get their choice)

Dirpy (convert YouTube videos to MP3s with surprisingly deep transcoding options)

Indie Game: The Movie interviews Adam Saltsman on Canabalt (every one of these shorts gets me more excited for the full-length film)

Jerry Stiller Unscripted (an adorable encounter with the owners of the Costanza house)

Members of Paramore, New Found Glory, and Relient K cover "Bed Intruder Song" (the original broke the Billboard Top 100) [via]

Happylife (prototype device ambiently shows a family's collective mood) [via]

"Learning to Be Me" by Greg Egan (a better-written short story with a similar theme as "Where Am I?")

"Where Am I?" by Daniel Dennett (short sci-fi story from 1978 about where consciousness resides) [via]

Icons of the Web (map of the top million websites' favicons, sized by popularity) [via]

Taliban Bike Gangs from Hell (from Ted Rall's awesome daily comic blog from Afghanistan; start here and page forward)

Zero Views (Tumblr devoted to undiscovered Youtube videos)

Portland bike lane turns Mario Kart (though it's not nice to throw turtle shells at passing bicyclists)

Scott Pilgrim vs. the Matrix (unusually well-done mashup) [via]

Wil Wheaton's response to a fan, 21 years later (the last official member of WilPower)

Silicon Valley's secret rock star (Sony exec rejoined the Stooges after 30 years)

TIME Magazine announces new version of magazine for adults (devastating satire by the Onion) [via]

Star Wars Uncut wins an Emmy (the entire film is now viewable, 473 15-seconds clips recreated by fans)

Searching for Me (voice actor searches for himself in the virtual world of Red Dead Redemption)

Vice interviews Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA (from their Anti-Music issue) [via]

Voting machine hacked to play Pac-Man on MAME (and without breaking the tamper-evident seals) [via]

Fortune on the secretive world of Trader Joe's (the well-loved chain is owned by Germany's Albrecht family)

Solipskier (addictive new iPhone game, along with The Incident and the free Piczle Lines)

The Slow-Motion Music Quiz (Josh Millard slows down 24 popular songs, Justin Bieber-style)

Imagesoak (Adam Mathes' new thing browses the web with images; I like the Infovis category)

E7, atmospheric Flash platformer (I also enjoyed Liferaft: Zero, though it's much more difficult)

Tila Tequila vs. the Juggalos (the A.V. Club has another good outsider first-person account) [via]

Watch Reformat the Planet for free (documentary about the NYC chiptune scene; at $34, the DVD/t-shirt combo is a steal) [via]

Polymaps (Stamen and SimpleGeo's JS library for gorgeous vector visualizations on map tiles) [via]

Auralization of sorting algorithms (the heap sort sounds like a 1960s sci-fi sound effect) [via]

Desperate Pandora employees struggle to find song area man likes ("At this point, I think he's just fucking with us.")

Kindergarten enrollment dates affect ADHD diagnosis rates (children born just after the cutoff date are 25% less likely to be diagnosed as those born just before) [via]

Hallowed Ground (photos of stuff the same distance from the WTC as the "Ground Zero Mosque") [via]

Journalism Warning Labels [via]

Paul Robertson's sprites for the Scott Pilgrim game (you really need to zoom in to appreciate the detail)

Unsuck It (translate obnoxious business jargon back to non-douchey English)

Paul Graham on the long decline of Yahoo (the Flickr acquisition had a halo effect too, but it was ultimately short-lived)

Project Springfield, 3D pixel art construction of Springfield (watch him build Springfield Elementary in the Kickstarter project video)

Everynone's "Words" (a collaboration with Radiolab) [via]

Documentary episode on the making of Future Crew's Second Reality (with home video and interviews with the team; from a new documentary about the demoscene) [via]

Five Philippines inmates escape while guard plays Plants vs. Zombies (I like to think they danced their way out) [via]

Numen Camera for the iPhone (incredibly useful application recreates any photo using tiny, naked pixel men) [via]

TechCrunch's postmortem on the Jenny "dry erase" quitting hoax (their publicist advised them to specifically target TechCrunch)

EFF's analysis of the Verizon/Google net neutrality proposal (a sound legal analysis without the handwringing)

Henry Jenkins on Inception (gamers are better equipped to understand the narrative structure than most)

The Ballad of Steven Slater (performed by Josh "Cortex" Millard, with lyrics from a Metafilter comment) [via]

Man Lives In Futuristic Sci-Fi World Where All His Interactions Take Place In Cyberspace ("until the day our world catches up with his, Royce will be out there on the virtual nexus, searching.")

Scott Pilgrim trailer recreated with scenes from the graphic novels (also for superfans only, the interactive trailer) [via]

Weeplaces, visualize your Foursquare checkins (though it makes your checkin history public by default, you can change it with the lock icon)

Trojan image reproduces itself on 4chan with user assistance (clever mix of social engineering and Windows exploit)

Yakuza 3 game fact-checked by actual Japanese yakuza (also, I love the design for these Boing Boing features) [via]

The Incident released for iPhone and iPad (I've been beta-testing it for months, pixel art by Neven Mrgan and chiptunes by Cabel Sasser) [via]

Chris Poole's testimony in the Sarah Palin hacking case (he was asked to explain rickrolling, newfags, and /b/tards to government prosecutors) [via]

OK Cupid on the impact of camera settings on attractiveness (more data porn, including evidence that iPhone users have more sex)

Blackstar Warrior, blaxploitation Star Wars trailer (found on Devour, Uncrate's iPad-friendly best-of-YouTube blog)

All Rubik's Cube positions can be solved in 20 moves (proven with the help of 35 CPU-years donated by Google)

Monotoning Music with Echonest Remix (related: The Swing Thing)

Chill Space (net art by Daniel Leyva) [via]

Kyle Pulver's Depict1 ported to Flash (like Portal, an unreliable narrator)

The Making of a 1k Javascript demo effect (more at the JS1k contest)

CaptchArt (4chan makes art from found CAPTCHAs) [via]

Maslow's Hierarchy of Robot Needs [via]

David Friedman finds a 1910 NYT article written about him (what will be of interest to future historians? you never know, so just keep everything)

How Jami Attenberg got her stolen bike back in Brooklyn (with help from Craigslist and the Brooklyn PD)

Chad Dickerson on scaling startups (specifically, how to scale an engineering-driven culture)

Massive censorship of Digg uncovered (a conservative group's been effectively manipulating Digg stories for over a year)

GearBox, robotic ball controlled with an iPhone (like Marble Madness in real-life)

NPR on Antoine Dodson and the Bed Intruder Meme (interviews with Kenyatta and Baratunde, and links to Antoine's new blog, Twitter, and YouTube channel)

Fata Morgana (Google maps without the map, by Damon Zucconi) [via]

Osmos released for iPhone (at $3, this is a steal; one of the best PC games released last year)

Google stops Wave development (worth re-reading: Anil Dash on the Web way vs. the Wave way)

Microsoft Street Slide (multi-perspective street panoramas from street view imagery) [via]

Racer, a physical racing arcade game (remote-control car in a cardboard track streaming to a sit-down arcade game) [via]

Achievement Unlocked 2 (like the original, but even more stupidly addictive)

Chris Hecker's "Achievements Considered Harmful?" talk at GDC (in short, he argues achievements only work well for motivating dull tasks)

Rdio opens to the public (like Spotify for the US, highly recommended)

Cyriak's Cycles (more insanity) [via]

Halo for the Atari 2600 (here's the creator's backstory and the ROM) [via]

The Birds and the Beedrills (geek rap uses all 151 original Pokemon names as sexual innuendo; the lyrics)

junkboy's collection of game demake mockups (modern games turned retro; look at the filenames if you need hints) [via]

Auto-Tune the News' Bed Intruder Song (here's the original newscast-turned-meme, in case you missed it )

Craig Mod's incredible postmortem of raising money with Kickstarter (gorgeously designed article with plenty of solid data)

GET LAMP, the text adventure documentary, is done (five years in the making with incredible attention to detail; you can order the DVDs here)

FC64 Commodore 64 emulator in Javascript (a bit CPU-intensive, but it works!)

10k Apart (build a web app in less than 10k, though you can use jQuery/Prototype and Typekit)

TorrentFreak on the BitTorrent releasers vs. the Scene (insidery article covering an interesting shift in online movie releasing)

Google Alarm Firefox add-on (audio alerts when your personal info's sent to Google servers)

Bradley and Bethany (Dan Wineman's App Store review fanfic)

Michael Jackson's estate demands Popcap change Dancing Zombie character (they're retroactively changing him in all versions of the game)

Paul Graham on the acceleration of addictiveness (the iPhone and iPad is the Internet's equivalent of a hip flask)

GameStop buys Kongregate (this seems like a bad fit; has a retail chain ever acquired an online community?) [via]

Ron Livingston does Keyboard Cat (previously: Keyboard Kato) [via]

Andrew Plotkin reviews The Ultimate Alphabet for the iPad (based on Mike Wilks' insane picture book from 1986; here's the gameplay)

EFF wins DMCA exemptions for bypassing DRM, phone jailbreaking/unlocking (Ars Technica breaks down the changes)

8-bit color cycling with HTML 5 (how it works)

Guardian UK's report on the Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs (they call it the "biggest leak in intelligence history"; more from the NYT)

The No Twinkie Database (anti-patterns for game design)

Aza Raskin on Tab Candy, experimental tab management for Firefox (not an extension, the download is a Firefox build)

The Chipophone (8-bit synth in an electronic organ, don't miss the video) [via]

Philipp Lenssen's book on Graphic Adventure games (culled from Wikipedia entries, edited, and fleshed out with original interviews)

Cow Clicker (Ian Bogost's Facebook game about Facebook games)

Sledgehammer and Whore (a screenwriter deals with a very unusual break-in at his office, and how he might pitch it as a show) [via]

Adam Lisagor on Flipboard (free iPad app creates a personalized magazine of your friends' FB/Twitter links)

4chan trying to take down Gawker (in response to their critical Jessi Slaughter posts and a post yesterday taunting them)

Top Secret America (Washington Post's two-year investigation into federal use of private contractors after 9/11)

Xbox 360 developer recounts the history of their achievements system (how it was developed and how they work) [via]

Apple donates MacPaint/QuickDraw source to Computer History Museum (see Folklore.org's evolution of MacPaint and the long, great oral history)

GQ's rare interview with Bill Murray (Sofia Coppola tells the story of trying to track him down for Lost in Translation)

You've Either Shipped or You Haven't (from Tom Taylor, who ships; journalist Bobbie Johnson's response and Tom's followup)

Hacked Sonic the Hedgehog gains weight as he consumes fried rings (as he grows, he eventually becomes completely immobile)

Rigid-Body Fracture Sound (rendering sound effects from physics simulations, from this year's SIGGRAPH)

Aaron Cohen tests the "I Write Like" authors (F. Scott Fitzgerald writes like H.P. Lovecraft, who writes like Edgar Allen Poe)

AutoSummarize (top 100 free books summarized by Microsoft Word into 10 sentences)

Google acquires Metaweb (very happy they won't be shutting down Freebase) [via]

OK Cupid crunches the numbers on the biggest lies in online dating (for example, hotter photos were much more likely to be outdated according to EXIF tags) [via]

Drew Blas' analysis of GPL'ed code in Thesis (he found several blocks of Wordpress code)

Trailer for The Social Network released (but will it be better than The First $20 Million?)

Matt Mullenweg and Wordpress theme developer argue GPL licensing (the debate about the GPL and derivative works may finally go to court)

The Revolving Internet [via]

Old Spice Guy's video responses to individual tweets (brilliant marketing campaign; in a meta moment, the actor responds to himself) [via]

Yiying Lu's repositionable wall graphics (the Twitter Fail Whale was originally an elephant)

The Men Who Stare at Screens (going to the gym might not help long stretches of inactivity)

I Write Like (Dan Brown!? I'll take comfort in knowing Shakespeare writes like butt) [via]

Massachusetts newspaper to charge fee to comment (and no anonymity, they'll post with the name on their credit card) [via]

BLU's Big Bang Big Boom (months in the making, their new wall-painted animation is a brief history of the world)

pOnd (a five-minute zen game that takes an unexpected turn, or two) [via]

SuperMe (multiplayer game about resilience and positive thinking) [via]

Man Enough (I think I'm just a sucker for games with vocals by the developers)

Twirdie (golf game played by guessing the popularity of Twitter searches)

Ask Metafilter takes on men's bathroom etiquette (increasingly hilarious thread, everyone thinks their method's "right"; over or through the flap, sit or stand to wipe, fold or crumple)

Harvey Pekar, dead at 70 (illustrated by comic greats, American Splendor published for over 30 years)

Google's App Inventor for Android (Scratch-like programming for non-programmers)

Blizzard backs down on real names in their forums (Randy outlined some of the issues with losing anonymity)

Slate on the competitive eating industry (Kobayashi couldn't compete this year because he wouldn't sign an exclusivity contract)

Multiuser Sketchpad (how it was made, built with node.js and WebSockets)

Epic Win, to-do list game for the iPhone (by the visual designer behind Little Big Planet) [via]

Ask Metafilter on things you realized you were doing wrong (related: This American Life's A Little Bit of Knowledge) [via]

Super Mario Bros. speedrun visualized as one long projection (composited into a long tracking shot of a wall, incredibly well done) [via]

Auto-Tune the News' Double Rainbow Song (they all join in at the end)

Starcraft/World of Warcraft official forums to display real names (Blizzard's lifting anonymity to try to stem abusive behavior)

Andy Weir's "The Egg" (related: Greg Knauss's The Damnation of Richard Gillman)

Jim Rossignol's This Gaming Life now available online for free (highly recommended reading; you can still buy the book at Amazon) [via]

Optical Illusion Illusions (Reddit user photoshops the illusions into popular optical illusions)

Higgs particle simulated as sound (I fully expect these to be sampled on the next Frontalot album)

Film the Blanks (ongoing project to abstract classic movie posters)

Yosemitebear's Giant Double Rainbow (I want to be in this guy's head for just one day)

Composer Jason Robert Brown's fight with a teen girl about copyright (hard to argue it's lost income, since she almost certainly wouldn't have bought the sheet music) [via]

Giant Bomb's extensive first look at Limbo gameplay (this game looks amazing, reminiscent of Heart of Darkness and Out of This World)

Rude Boy, compilation of reggae/dub/ska chiptunes (fun, but it's hard to top Mr. Spastic's "Lo-Fi Version")

Chase Goose (as Tom says, "You will hate this game.") [via]

Maciej Ceglowski on the great Legacy.com swindle (the company that manages death notices for many U.S. newspapers)

Marc Hedlund announces Wesabe shutdown (very sad; just found out Robot Co-op's shutting down 43 People, too)

Diaspora's first month progress report (with screenshots and video; seems like the Facebook protests have passed, even if concerns remain)

Foursquare adds map view (in an unfamiliar city, this should be incredibly useful)

8-bit Twilight: Eclipse (an interactive YouTube game) [via]

Darryl Cunningham's 19-page comic about homeopathy (following his earlier strip on the MMR vaccine controversy)

Luke W. on an elegant sliding alternative to CAPTCHA (faster and simpler, though would still need an accessible option for the blind)

Dan Telfer thinks your favorite dinosaur sucks (don't get him started on velociraptors) [via]

Roger Ebert follows up his controversial post on games as art (though his use of Jericho screenshots is like writing about art films with images from Scream 2)

Men's Health visits Portland's thriving food cart scene (video interview with several of the best carts)

MaxFunsters for Zach Annel (this guy's very funny, totally deserves to win)

Woot acquired by Amazon (appropriately, they announced the news via a rapping monkey)

It's Oppo! (CalArts student Tyler Chen's demented take on Nick Jr.) [via]

Kickstarter Film Festival (12 film projects projected on a Brooklyn rooftop on Friday, July 9 )

Evelin Kasikov's cross-stitched CMYK alphabet (all of her CMYK work is just amazing)

Conan the Barbarian: The Musical (these guys are brilliant; they also did Total Recall, Fatal Attraction, 24, and Silence! The Musical)

Josh Millard's The Crane That Feeds (his second attempt at using the Echonest API to remake NIN songs with audio from Frasier episodes) [via]

Hulu launches subscription service (full TV seasons and iPhone/iPad streaming for $10/month)

Appsaurus, iPhone app recommender (after entering a few favorites, the recommendations were unusually great)

Fan-made King's Quest remake back from the dead (eight years in the making, Vivendi rescinded their cease-and-desist) [via]

iPhone vs. HTC Evo ("I want the one with the bigger GBs"; see the counterpoint)

No Sleep 'Til Fusion (Quinn Norton interviews Famulus, creator of the Kickstarter-funded fusion reactor in Brooklyn)

Laser death cat punishes Team Fortress grinders (the creator added more background in the video description)

The Fab Faux's live cover of side two of Abbey Road (obsessive, note-for-note recreation)

Trip through the Mandelbox (rendered with Mandelbulber; don't get lost)

iOS icons in pure CSS (very impressive; also, iPhone's World Clock in CSS)

They Don't Complain and They Die Quietly (Derek Powazek on death, chaos, and gardening)

Roethlisberger & Jahic's hand-drawn Star Wars Kid animation (the Swiss art duo made 605 framed drawings; see their other YouTube art or buy the shirt)

Lazeroids (multiplayer HTML5 Asteroids with Node.js, JQuery, and audio; source here)

Joel Johnson visits John McAfee in Belize (details on his quorum-sensing project, a more neutral take than the Fast Company profile)

Walt Disney World's closed Adventurer's Club recreated in Half-Life 2 (related: the Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror recreations) [via]

David Thorne makes a poster to find Missy the Cat (I'd like to see an interview with all his targets)

Studio Ghibli to make games with Professor Layton team (two of my favorite studios team up on original IP for the DS and PS3; some scans)

Smirnoff shuts down Bros Icing Bros ("We had a good run Bros.")

FEED Magazine archives return after nine years offline (love the tributes from the staff, including Steven Johnson, Stefanie Syman, Clay Shirky, and Julian Dibbell) [via]

ALT/1977, modern electronics redesigned for the '70s (anachronistic product concepts from people who definitely aren't time travelers)

Wolfire's review of OnLive (in short, it really works; even more frictionless than Steam, this feels like the future)

Recreating the RCA Photophone (Russ DeMuth built a machine from scratch to play the obsolete audio format, recorded on 35mm film)

Making of Pixar's Day & Night, the short preceding Toy Story 3 (my new favorite Pixar short, the 3D was used to great effect)

I Dream In Retro (insane videogame mashup based on a real dream)

The Daily Show on U.S. presidential promises of energy independence (some great archival footage from the last eight presidents)

Tiny Inventions' Something Left, Something Taken (adorable animated short about the Zodiac Killer, with a detailed look at how it was made) [via]

Stamen wins $400k Knight grant to visualize civic data (they also gave a grant to Cartoonist, Ian Bogost's editorial cartoon game/authoring system)

DotWar (Twitter avatars compete as two armies of tiny soldiers) [via]

Real-Life Portal Gun (from Guitar Hero champ Freddie Wong)

NYT Mag on Watson, IBM's Jeopardy-playing computer (Ken Jennings, you're our only hope)

Freedom Bridge (very short and serious "notgame")

Nitrome's Faultline (Flash game with a clever game mechanic, folding the world)

Harmonix demos the new Fender Squire guitar controller (a real strat that lets you play Rock Band 3 and through an amp simultaneously)

First gameplay videos of Portal 2 (incredibly creative; love the fluid dynamics with the repulsion/propulsion gels)

Stage demo of Rock Band 3 at E3 (in Pro mode, you're effectively playing the real instruments; Pro guitar looks insane) [via]

Lifehacker's guide to silencing vuvuzela horns with an EQ filter (related: @the_vuvuzela on Twitter, Vuvuzela radio, or browse the web like you're at World Cup)

Alex Noriega's Stuff No One Told Me (single-panel illustrations from a Barcelona artist) [via]

Shawn Smith's pixelated sculptures (made with hand-painted plywood rods)

Hidden posters of the Notting Hill subway station (sealed off in the late 1950s and kept perfectly intact)

Flash Game Dojo (learning tools from the creators of Flixel and Flashpunk) [via]

OnLive cloud gaming service to launch Thursday with free year of service (limited offer, so sign up quick)

McSweeney's list of Great Literature Retitled to Boost Website Traffic ("The 11 Stupidest Things Phonies Do To Ruin The World")

Openbook (search public wall posts using Facebook's API; lots of people seem unaware of their settings)

Monica Narula and Joshua Schachter's Guilt Market (part of the Seven on Seven event pairing artists with geeks)

Charles Schultz's Teen Comics (Charlie Brown grown up)

History of the NBC Pipes decorated by Jim Henson in 1964 (Henson explains them in 1980, Jack Parr shows them to Letterman in 1984, and Frank Oz visits them this week) [via]

Jason Scott on The Guy in the Get Lamp artwork (I found this very touching)

Support call from the Google Pac-Man doodle (this wasn't an isolated problem)

Glee and copyright (everything the actors do on the show would be illegal in real-life, like every cover on YouTube) [via]

Slate reveals the story behind the recycled newspaper prop (aside from newspapers, I love their fake product packaging and magazines)

Jordan Bower's portraits of modern Nepalese porters and their t-shirts (from Britney to Cobain)

Dr. Demento ends 40 years of radio (switching to online-only after this weekend's broadcast) [via]

U.S. Army intelligence analyst arrested for leaking Wikileaks helicopter video (he outed himself to "homeless hacker" Adrian Lamo, who called the Army)

Visualizing tourists vs. locals on Flickr (the full set of maps) [via]

gdgt's live coverage of the Apple keynote and the new iPhone and iOS 4 (major changes: huge battery upgrade, HD camera, iMovie app, new display, gyroscope, and big OS changes)

Bit and Run, "Mario's Ladder" (papercut Mario with a great and terrible secret) [via]

Every actor reads the same newspaper (must be a standard newspaper prop; more examples here) [via]

David McCandless visualizes musician revenues online (not surprising that streaming royalties are significantly less than direct sales) [via]

California college student suspended for Twitter messages (breaking news from the student newsroom where my mom teaches)

A letter from "Leroy Stick," the person behind @BPGlobalPR ("the best way to get the public to respect your brand? Have a respectable brand.") [via]

Motherboard.tv's short doc on ROFLCon (best coverage I've seen, includes interviews with several meme legends)

Robot Unicorn Attack released for the iPhone (complete with Erasure soundtrack; play the original)

Danny Sullivan on misattribution and lazy reporting in the mainstream press (interesting to see which outlets added the citation after being called out) [via]

AI::General (a general-purpose artificial intelligence by Maciej Ceglowski) [via]

moot's TED talk about 4chan culture and online anonymity (the Dusty story shows how even when anonymous, you can still be found)

Time Traveling Finger (help him make the last two episodes)

Ars Technica digs up the details of the P2P indie film lawsuits (at least 14.5k users so far this year, netting an easy $20M in a horrible new revenue model)

Jus' Checkin' [via]

Destroy the Web (Firefox extension turns webpages into a playable shoot 'em up)

LOST reimagined as a Lucasarts adventure game (if this existed, it'd be 120 hours of gameplay where 95% of the puzzles had no solution) [via]

Portland Mercury goes inside the Achewood test kitchen (Chris Onstad ate your balls) [via]

Exit Path (addictive runner inspired by Portal and Canabalt, from the creator of Achievement Unlocked; try the multiplayer mode)

Kevin Kelly's 1997 list of quotes from the first five years of Wired ("predictions of the future are really just predictions of the present")

Smokescreen, a Flash player in Javascript (don't miss the Strongbad demos; Simon breaks down how it works, with reformatted source)

Ken Jennings' anatomy of a Wikipedia hoax (in fact, the founder of Orange Julius never invented an inflatable shrimp trap or pigeon shower)

Super Mario Bros. Crossover creator commentary (he announced this week he's adding Ryu from Ninja Gaiden)

M.I.A. takes revenge on NYT Magazine writer for unflattering cover story (she tweeted the reporter's phone number; summary of the story) [via]

Nifflas releases FiNCK (devious free platform puzzles inspired by SMB 2, from the genius behind Knytt and Saira)

My Desk Is 8-Bit (simulated stop-motion inspired by Michel Gondry and R-Type)

GQ on the National Enquirer and their attempt to win the Pulitzer (reminds me of someone)

1983 Naked Eyes Song Was A Burt Bacharach Remake? (strangely disorienting and anachronistic, like hearing Biz Markie's "Just A Friend" as '60s soul)

Collection of bowling alley scoreboards (design that smells like old shoes and beer)

Jeff Rubin's Unanswered Lost Questions (all the answers are in the mystery box, and you can't have it) [via]

Phoenix Wright released for the iPhone (weird gem for the DS makes it to the App Store)

D-Pad Hero 2 released for NES (worth it just for the Queen cover)

Sean Bonner on the near-death of Metblogs (people are pledging to keep it alive, and they may be saved)

Short film on the making of 48HR Magazine ("The most powerful thing in the universe is a whole bunch of people paying attention to the same thing at the same time.") [via]

The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield (15-page comic about the discredited link between autism and the MMR vaccine)

The Big Caption (reminds me of Wayne White's art)

Pixel: An Art Documentary (11-minute short about modern pixel animation) [via]

The Swinger (EchoNest-powered hack makes any song swing)

spta's MonsterMaker (fun with face tracking)

The Discography of Greyson Chance (a safe prediction)

Hurt Locker producer calls downloaders morons who belong in jail ("I hope your family and your kids end up in jail")

Google's Pac-Man homepage doodle (the first playable doodle, with audio!)

Superbien's video projection onto mapped blocks (when I first saw this, I thought it was CGI) [via]

Ask Metafilter saves two Russian students from NYC sex traffickers (Internet heroes save the day in real-life)

How Etsy does deploys (save the princess!)