Sprout — lovely entry in the Casual Gameplay competition #

Video: Background ephemera from "Children of Men" — including commercials, billboards, and interface design (via) #

Maps from Memory — more in the Flickr group #

Ning relaunches with new focus — "Clone this app" replaced by "Create your own social network"; watch Gina's demo (via) #

History of Minesweeper — including an overview of the modern remakes and variations #

54 of Pitchfork's 100 Awesome Music Videos were removed from YouTube — as Rex notes, everyone loses here #

Google testing in-line video results in main search — moving to a plus box world #

The Merlin Show — starting tomorrow, Merlin Mann goes video #

Rainn Wilson on Saturday Night Live — both clips are great; "Captain Pajama Shark!" #

Six cool things you can build with OpenID — great list; the biggest hurdle is getting developers to understand what OpenID isn't #

Guitar Hero hack for the Commodore 64 — don't miss the MP3 sample of the output (via) #

Drunken Jedi Trailer Trash — Star Wars for the MySpace crowd #

Video: Teaser trailer for This American Life, the TV show — my favorite radio show comes to Showtime, premiering March 22 #

New Barenaked Ladies video stars YouTube celebs — I must be an addict; I recognized all but one person (via) #

Evan Williams looking to sell Odeo — as Anil points out, Ev's freedom leads to interesting moves #

SXSW Music releases huge showcase torrent — 739 MP3s from 739 artists #

Matt and Jessamyn launch a weekly Metafilter podcast — I'm interested in the potential impact of this as a reinforcement for good behavior #

Omninerd on the accuracy of Internet weather forecasts — tracking a month of weather predictions on the top 10 weather sites #

Uniqlo Explorer — insane Flash photo mosaic work; click the "Uniqlo Explorer" box and start clicking around #

Macrochan, the 4chan image browser — culls and tags meme images from 4chan forums; beware, some tags very NSFW #

Jason Scott on Computer Camps in the 1980s — Computer Tutor sounds like heaven on earth; many similar camps continue today, but avoid this one #

Video of 12,000 foot skydiver accident and post-landing interview — hit the ground at 80 miles an hour and survived, with cameras recording everything from two angles #

Michael Crook settles out of court — and rescinds his false DMCA notices #

Video: Osama Team Hunger Force — "we will disrupt their workday with a mildly offensive blinking neon light!" (via) #

Schwarzenegger & Chan Terminate Piracy — I don't know how I missed this PSA, mentioned in the Vanity Fair article #

Pirates of the Multiplex — the Pirate Bay make Vanity Fair (via) #

You've Ruined Everything — Jason Scott's archetypes for online community members and the critical events that shape it #

Oscar Torrents — arrogant, but a good companion to my article #

WFMU's Ten Albums in Ten Minutes contest — don't miss Nevermind on 45; see also: Sixty-Second Song Remixes #

RU Sirius interviews Cory Doctorow — Cory may be a zealot, but he's my kind of zealot #

Guitar Hero coming to the Wii — I think Guitar Hero DS would be funny; see also: M-06, the Nintendo DS guitar #

Video: Adventure Time — "your mind has been transported back in time... and to Mars!" (via) #

Long exposure photos of '80s arcade games — Tempest is gorgeous #

Yahoo! Pipes, like Unix pipes for the web — Tim O'Reilly nails why this is so neat #

Outstanding Metatalk post from a former engineer at Data General — also news to me from that thread, Jessamyn is the daughter of Tom West (via) #

Steve Jobs argues against DRM for the music industry — wow, Cory Doctorow must be in hog heaven #

Microsoft to support OpenID — wonderful news #

Gizmodo's Superbowl ad roundup — Robert Goulet and Mr. Turkey Neck were my personal favorites, but overall, nothing too exciting #

Cyclowiz, the first real Nintendo Wii modchip, hits market — here's a video of the installation process #

Waiters Who Are Nauseated by Food — Carell and Colbert from the underrated Dana Carvey Show, which also had Robert Smigel and Charlie Kaufman as writers #

Bram Cohen vs. Marc Cuban — low blows from both sides #

Video: David Sedaris on the Stadium Pal — the testimonials have many happy NASCAR fans; see also: the Beerbelly #

Mooninites LED bomb scare on eBay — $2000, cheap! #

Boston ad prank suspects talk about hair — best press conference ever; is it somehow illegal to create LED displays in public? #