Adam Savage's "Obsession with the Dodo Bird" from the Last HOPE — great talk about geek obsession and DIY; he built a dodo and a Maltese Falcon! (via) #

GameSetWatch's roundup of NVScene's demoscene contest — second the recommendation on ASD's Midnight Run; here's the video cap of the real-time demo #

Bush covers REM's "The End of the World As We Know It" — don't know how I missed this mashup from Rx, creator of the Sunday Bloody Sunday remix #

Koyaanisqatsi, 1982 film about urban life, technology, and nature — full-length in 420p; the spliced-in Hulu ads break the mood a bit, but worth watching (via) #

First public release of Gazelle, open-source software for BitTorrent communities — brave move, opening up what.cd to potential attacks #

McCain's prickly TIME interview — I'd recommend listening to the MP3, which is different from the transcript, and in some ways much more painful #

WolfenFlickr 3D, mashing up Wolfenstein with Flickr's Javascript API — browse your photos in 3D, hit ctrl-click to view photos in high-res; more on the project (via) #

John McCain's POW Bros. — like Mario, he should only be able to use it three times before it disappears #

Net mob searches for iPhone girl's identity — the "human flesh search engine" tracked her down to the fifth floor of a FoxConn building in Shenzhen #

Roz Savage, on 95th day of solo trans-Pacific row, approaches Hawaii — she's been blogging and podcasting the whole trip #

Bubble flow chart of things to say during sex — "Thanks... for that." (via) #

Larry Lessig on McCain's technology policy — he argues McCain's taking a strong stance against Internet growth in the US #

The inspiration behind Guns n' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" — great origin story (via) #

Introducing the Chinese to fortune cookies — from the full article, "they always think it's contamination of some sort" (via) #

iPhone password useless; allows full access to contacts, email, and web — not mentioned: you can dial any number with the "Emergency Call" button #

YouTube on letting copyright holders make money from infringing videos — they're automatically detecting cam video; only 10% of detected videos are blocked by the rights-holder #

Scott Campbell's 8-bit Showdowns — see also: great showdowns from the movies, and its sequel (via) #

Soulja Boy on getting his Myspace account hacked by 4chan — they did it for the lulz #

Aza Raskin on Mozilla's Ubiquity — extremely powerful add-on, like Quicksilver for the whole web; more in the tutorial #

The untold story of Lucasart's two cancelled Full Throttle sequels — with concept art, sketches, and prototype screenshots #

Rihanna takes on the Numa Numa song in T.I.'s "Live Your Life" — this is the actual single, not a fan-made mashup; what's next, a duet with Tay Zonday? (via) #

OpenTape, open-source Muxtape clone — nicely designed but requires PHP hosting, ruling out most Muxtape users (via) #

Brian "Boom Goes the Dynamite" Collins back on the air — he's got a reporting job and he's improved since college, but that's not saying much #

Aviary's How to Draw Anything in One Step — step 1: draw a dog #

Burning Man's Black Rock City on Flickr Maps — nice implementation #

X Girls Y Cups — I'm going to pass on "7 girls 3 cups," thanks #

AIGA designs a better ballot — amazing how awful the original is; "Vote for Not More Than One (1)" (via) #

Tris, free Tetris clone for iPhone, pulled over copyright claim — it's hard to compete with free; will they C&D TetoTeto, too? #

Hands On A Hard Body, full-length documentary from 1997 — 24 Texans compete in an epic endurance contest to win a truck, last one standing wins #

10 Zen Monkeys interviews Mat Honan on "Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle" — great interview with the backstory and repercussions of the site #

Approval Ratings: The Public vs. McCain — fan-made campaign ad, which is way more effective than Obama's new negative ads #

YouTube Comment Snob, Firefox extension hides idiotic comments — customizable filter based on spelling errors, punctuation, and capitalization; the result is stark #

Lenticular portraits of YouTube memes — meme artifacts left behind in real-life places #

Richard Nixon's Piano Concerto #1 — a story related to one of the best videos buried in that Metafilter post #

Metafilter's collection of US presidential campaign commercials from 1958-1998 — use the play icons to watch the videos inline #

BoomBot — addictive Flash game from the maker of Bloons #

MySQLGame, multiplayer database manipulation game — very odd use of SQL statements as a proof-of-concept game UI (via) #

Chromeo goes to Daryl Hall's house — occasionally awkward but mostly awesome, I really love this format #

Mycrocosm — very, very similar to Daytum, but supports OpenID and a mobile/email interface #

Foxkeh Dance, celebrating 10 years of Hampsterdance and Mozilla — could only be better if they used the original sound clip instead of the dance remix from 2000 (via) #

Bear Creek Apartments — a mini-comic written by Hope Larson and drawn by Bryan Lee O'Malley (via) #

Dear Lulu, sample book for testing digital printing on Lulu.com — pushing the edges of color, type, patterns, weights, and cuts; download the PDF (via) #

Daytum, collecting the minutiae of your daily life — private beta service from Nicholas Felton, author of the Feltron Annual Reports (via) #

Tom Armitage on what games can learn from social software — I love this talk, great reading for both game and web geeks (via) #

Fleshmap's infographic of body parts mentioned in song lyrics, by genre — mildly NSFW; I love the sharp distinction between hip-hop and everything else (via) #

Gamasutra's long oral history of Atari's golden years — 23,000 words! also, don't miss Steve Fulton's earlier feature on Atari's roots #

Steven Frank's torn feelings for the iPhone App Store — a Panic co-founder weighs in with a thoughtful criticism and defense (via) #

Joshua Callaghan's sculptures based on charts & graphs — very minimalist, stripped of labels and axes (via) #

Does The New Business Of Music Change The Way Music Sounds? — some heartfelt predictions from Ian Rogers #

The Chameleon, the many lives of Frédéric Bourdin — long New Yorker tale of the arrest of a serial imposter (via) #