Humanized versions of Disney and Pixar characters — also: humanized Spongebob, South Park, and Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem (via) #

Apple features John Cage's 4'33" as free iTunes download — the first movement's free, the other two are a steal for $0.99 each (via) #

The Onion on Prague's Franz Kafka International Airport — don't miss the attention to detail in the signage #

Short Storyspreadsheet, character study in Microsoft Excel — action, dialogue, and each character's thoughts in separate columns (via) #

iPhone pirating app attacks rival pirate app store — glimpse into the increasingly sophisticated iPhone warez scene #

Harnessing hamster power with nanogenerators — this is like Matt's dream realized #

Pixel art "Viagra" spam using HTML tables and colored cells — just spotted this myself, the spam equivalent of ANSI art #

Cheer Up the Chatbot — don't read how it works until you've played a little (via) #

Big Man Japan vs. the Stink Monster — inexplicable clip from the alternative monster movie, Big Man Japan (via) #

The Big Picture on Earth Hour — click each image to see the before and after photos #

Gamasutra on the Experimental Gameplay Sessions 2009 — the Achron gameplay videos are hurting my brain #

Ken Jennings' week of favorite metafiction — he also highlighted his favorite meta films, songs, and TV series #

10 Zen Monkeys tracks down Perry Bible Fellowship's Nicholas Gurewitch — the new book came out Wednesday; his Fox News appearance was bizarre #

24 Hours of Geotagged Photos on Flickr — 64,410 photos visualized in Processing #

Omegle, chat with random strangers — a social experiment populated by lolkidz, trolls, and confused people like you (via) #

Twitter shuts down @cwalken account — in the past, Twitter's renamed fakesters like Cliffy_B, Richard Dawkins, and Henry Rollins #

Google Street View timelapse across the Golden Gate Bridge — here's an earlier automated version from 2007 #

Caterina Fake explains Hunch.com, her new startup — decision trees, informed by machine learning and user contributions #

Soy tu Aire, interactive Flash song visualization — worth the loading time (via) #

Obsession Times Voice — John Gruber, Merlin Mann, and Jonathan Coulton on writing for a living #

Robert Hodgin describes how he made snakes in Processing — don't miss his other snake studies (via) #

SelfControl, Mac app blocks access to specified websites and email for time limit — once set, it can't be undone by the app or restarting the computer (via) #

Justine Lai's oil paintings of herself having sex with each US President — in chronological order, she's up to Ulysses S. Grant spanking her; Rule 34, anyone? #

Kent Brewster discovers a security flaw in Amazon Wishlists — he'd been trying to get them to patch it since last October (via) #

Filefront closes with only five days' notice — Jason Scott notes it's 48 terabytes of user-contributed data, gone #

Ask Metafilter on the origins of "selective invisibility" and the twit bit — Clive Thompson said the technique was invented by Disqus, but it dates back to the BBS era #

Eurogamer breaks down the technical hurdles of OnLive — on the surface, it seems impossible without huge sacrifices to quality and responsiveness #

JuicyDrop, music visualization in Javascript with Canvas and SoundManager2 — a port of Winamp's classic MilkDrop visualizer with support for its presets #

Wikirank, popular and trending articles on Wikipedia — related: WikiChanges, which charts edit activity over time #

HD trailer for Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are — looks stunning (via) #

OnLive's GDC press conference, real-time gaming over broadband — demo starts at 10:30; stream PS3-level graphics to a low-end Macbook, or your TV with a tiny set-top box #

Gary "Numa Numa" Brolsma's ad for GEICO — like Cherry Chocolate Rain, this just makes me sad #

John Carmack releases open-source Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone — his detailed design notes explain his gameplay changes #

Google's Wonder Wheel Experiment — first example of dataviz in their results, plus the new option to restrict and sort by date #

Greasemonkey script adds Twitter Search results on Google — surprisingly useful; I'm surprised Google hasn't found a way to order the web by date #

Home of the Underdogs revived by fans — the best abandonware site is back; the original reviews are up, but without downloads for now (via) #

Double Fine's Host Master and the Conquest of Humor — an excellent one-room adventure game starring Tim Schafer himself; find all 22 jokes! #

Paul Lamere analyzes the Loudness War in modern music — Avril Lavigne and Soulja Boy are louder than Megadeth #

Legend of Zelda theme performed on two Tesla coils at SXSW — and it's a SexyBack mashup, too #

NPR's All Things Considered interviews Kutiman about Thru-You — he worked on it for two straight months, and only pitch-shifted three samples on the album #

NYT valiantly tries to explain a Chinese anti-censorship meme — the original video was removed, but this explains the lyrics with translated wordplay #

Rands on the building of the Brooklyn Bridge — a nice allegory for American innovation, which we need right about now #

419 scammer chats with security company CEO — the brutal honesty is refreshing and continued for another hour #

Snaggs' giant hand-made Atari 2600 cartridges — check out the detail, they're sewn onto vinyl (via) #

The Vimeo team gets auto-tuned — I suggest a College Humor spin-off (via) #

Jump on Mushrooms, Super Mario played in reverse — mind-bending experimental PC game, reminiscent of Braid (via) #

NewsAlarm, smoke alarm wired up to the New York Times NewsWire API — could be good for finance, severe weather, or even vanity alarms (via) #

Pew releases State of the News Media 2009 — comprehensive and bleak report, studying all sectors of journalism; key findings here #

Small Talk, real-time weather visualization using Twitter — part of the Google Chrome Experiments #

Quietube — like Readability for YouTube; here's a quick demo (via) #