Thsrs, the shorter thesaurus — enter a long word to get a shorter synonym #

Square Enix's Song Summoner turns your iPod tracks into playable characters — it's like Audiosurf as an RPG (via) #

Handwritten Typographers — comparing type designers' handwriting to the typefaces they created #

Improv Everywhere's Human Mirror — Cam Barrett, a participant, mentioned an aborted four-hour prank at Starbucks (via) #

Google launches Lively, their Second Life-ish virtual world — XP-only for now; more on the launch including an interview with Niniane Wang #

12:01 PM, time-travel short film from 1990 — Kurtwood Smith lives a grim version of Groundhog Day where time repeats every hour #

The Quiet Earth — apocalyptic "last man on Earth" film from 1985, in its entirety on YouTube #

Wil Shipley's Greatest Bug of All — I love a good bug-slaying yarn (via) #

Exposure, third-party Flickr app announced for App Store — with two versions, free ad-supported or $10 with no ads #

The iPhone's Gaming Mettle — DS and PSP comparison from Touch Arcade, a new weblog devoted to iPhone gaming (via) #

How It Turned Out, the fate of the Peanuts gang — pulled from this collection of Peanuts futurism, with more in the comments #

Google ASCII Art — hmm, no results (via) #

Totem Destroyer — like a stripped-down, Flash version of Boom Blox #

Wii-style controls for the Commodore 64 — also, the first C64 LAN party was held last weekend #

R. Lee Ermey on VB.NET — it's like boot camp that never ends (via) #

Thumber, OS X app for making one-second movie mosaics — in the style of Brendan Dawes' Cinema Redux; see also: a similar technique using averaging (via) #

Rabble on the gentrification of geek news communities — I hadn't thought of it in those terms before #

Lee Byron's bubbly infographic in the New York Times — bubbles try to push themselves out when clicked; the first infographic with physics? #

I Met the Walrus, Oscar-nominated animated short — 1969 conversation with John Lennon; be sure to switch to high quality (via) #

Zoomii, bookstore-like interface for browsing Amazon — Google Maps-like controls for zooming and panning the shelves (via) #

Adrian Holovaty duets with himself on gypsy-jazz Super Mario Bros. 2 theme — the most talented guitarist-programmer-journalist I know #

Segagaga, the Sega game about Sega from 2001 — very meta, the endgame pits you against retro consoles; see also: Home Computer Wars (via) #

"I'm not here to make friends." — a reality TV supercut #

Pixar and Courtney, the girl who cried at Wall-E — wonderful first-person anecdote about Pixar in a long politicized thread (via) #

BlockOn, procedural freeware game by Cactus — like Crayon Physics in a chiptune platformer #

Showbiz Pizza's Robot Band in MGMT's Electric Feel video — this $1200 winning bid by the band was money well spent #

John McCain on user interface design — made me laugh (via) #

Oh No My Money — use the savings to pay off the credit card debt, Eric #

Trailer for The Rock-afire Explosion — documentary about animatronics nuts keeping Showbiz Pizza nostalgia alive #

Better Than the Van — open up your couches for bands on tour (via) #

Cabel's roundup of fireworks packaging design — I love the Web 2.0-ified "frwrx" #

TED releases the top 10 most-viewed talks — the usual suspects, but a great primer #

Features are a one-way street — once your userbase is big enough, you can't pull features without backlash (via) #

Amazon EC2 used to distribute spam, malware — inevitable, but it'll be very hard to stop (via) #

Rolando, Loco Roco clone for App Store — looks promising #

Fox News alters photos of NYT reporter in critical segment — watching the clip reminded me of high school (via) #

Flowing Data's infographic history of Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest — barring another breakthrough, my money's on Chestnut #

The Last Days of Dr. Wily — don't miss the screenshots at the end (via) #

Boing Boing responds to "that Violet Blue thing" — Xeni and David respond in the comments #