S.F. may crack down on urban prank events — city officials said last month's Pillow Fight cost over $40,000 to clean up #

Topps brings augmented reality to baseball cards — surprising they went with a Windows plugin, instead of Flash ARToolkit (via) #

BackTweets, search for links on Twitter — unlike Twitter Search, this dereferences links from URL shorteners like TinyURL #

Unofficial mirror of Kutiman's Thru-You — the official site resolved their earlier bandwidth issues (via) #

Seattle P-I to become first daily metro newspaper to go web-only — related: Mike Davidson's great piece on saving newspaper journalism, while letting print die (via) #

TheMime on Twitter — if you don't have something nice to say #

Bruce Banit's World Builder short film — like an augmented reality SketchUp (via) #

Kate Beaton's The Origin of Man — great comic in a crummy, Flash-only format #

Pun-Colle, Japanese anime voice actresses cover punk classics — about as horrible as you'd imagine, every song is on his profile page #

Dolphin emulator boots the Wii OS — I had no idea they'd gotten so far; as of last week, it also supports WADs #

Scene.org 2009 award nominees — the best of the demoscene, merging algorithmic art and music #

Thru You, Kutiman's album of YouTube video remixes — serious YouTube crate digging; the acapella track used on Just A Lady only has 198 views (via) #

A Japanese Life of Bento — a tale told in miniature #

Game Set Watch reports on the final moments of Tabula Rasa — bang, whimper #

Flickr launches new Panda API methods — three different pandas, each with their own taste in Flickr photos #

Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension — mapping the cultural shorthand for confusing languages (via) #

Origins of the Windows XP "Bliss" desktop wallpaper — old, but new to me; I love the more recent photo of the Napa Valley site #

Rebecca MacKinnon on how Chinese blog services censor bloggers — great research, finds that individual editors at blog portals make a huge difference #

arc90's Readability — bookmarklet converts any page to an Instapaper-like readable layout #

Bandcamp adds music download codes and Moo card integration — very slickly done #

Some Grey Bloke explains what Facebook is for — now, go friend him (via) #

Jake and Amir interview The Lonely Island — when Internet-to-TV memes collide #

Recording a trip around the sushi conveyor belt — the translated dialogue; videos by others here, here, and here (via) #

Detecting click tracks in popular music using the Echo Nest API — Britney, Green Day, and Nickelback cheated; Metallica, Weezer, and Led Zeppelin kept it real #

The Retr0brite Project — retro computing geeks open-source a cleaning formula to turn yellowing plastics white again (via) #

Volunteers Put the Economist Into Chinese — the NYT asked me to rewrite my entry for today's paper; my first byline in a national newspaper! #

Skittles changes product homepage to Twitter search — other links in their navigation go straight to Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook #

Newsweek's The District, the Obama presidency as an MTV reality show — the Barack impersonator is YouTube's own Alphacat #