Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer — related: McSweeney's categories for the meta-awards (via) #

Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg perform Lazy Sunday live — for the first time, backed by The Roots #

Adam Savage's pursuit of the perfect Blade Runner gun replica — related: his quest for the perfect replica Maltese Falcon and dodo skeleton #

The Panic Status Board — the instant feedback made work more game-like #

Valve ports game library and Steam service to Mac — Portal 2 will be released for Mac simultaneously with PC, along with "all of our future games" #

Maciej Ceglowski on the discovery, loss, and rediscovery of the cure for scurvy — fascinating story of bad science and the unintended effects of new information #

8-Bit NYC, Brett Camper's videogame map of New York — he's using Kickstarter to expand to 15 other cities worldwide #

Sleep Is Death, Jason Rohrer's new conversational two-player game — watch the slideshow for details; I just wish it was on the web instead #

Obama appoints Edward Tufte to advise on stimulus transparency — "Maybe I'll learn something." #

PS22 Chorus sings Phoenix's Lisztomania — I love how expressive they are #

Echo Nest and SCHED's guide to SXSW Music — very nicely done, uses Echo Nest's recommendation engine #

GameInformer's Portal 2 exclusive cover story — scans, since it's not on GameInformer's site yet; Valve hired the TAG: The Power of Paint team right out of Digipen #

Cal Henderson on gaming probability in World of Warcraft — he's collected 118 pets, some of which only drop 1 in 10,000 attempts #

LiveJournal rewrites outbound links with affiliate codes — looks like the regex was a bit greedy #

NYT on Chinese "human-flesh search engines" — very similar to the H+ article on the topic from last year #

YouTube launches auto-captioning for all videos — a free, automated audio transcription service based on YouTube should be viable now #

OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass" — Rube Goldberg machine built by Synn Labs in Los Angeles #

Roger Ebert starts subscription service — $4.99 for a year, goes up to $5.00 on April 1 #

Yelp's official response to the business extortion accusation — nicely lays out the case against the conspiracy theories #

Valve updates Portal with mysterious achievement and ARG trailhead — radio transmissions convert into Morse code and images pointing to a telnet BBS with ASCII screenshots #

Unit Testing Achievements — I'm still waiting for a ticket tracker with game mechanics (via) #

The Skull of Regret — even Pictures for Sad Children's guest comics are great #

NYT's auralization of crossing the Olympic finish line — hear the women's 1,000-meter speedskating gold medalist win by .02 of a second (via) #

Activision shuts down 8-year King's Quest fan project — even though Vivendi, the former IP owners, granted them a non-commercial license (via) #

Bioshock's lead level designer remakes Arcadia in Doom 2 — don't miss his companion article about Doom as Robotron #