Men's Health visits Portland's thriving food cart scene — video interview with several of the best carts #

MaxFunsters for Zach Annel — this guy's very funny, totally deserves to win #

Woot acquired by Amazon — appropriately, they announced the news via a rapping monkey #

It's Oppo! — CalArts student Tyler Chen's demented take on Nick Jr. (via) #

Kickstarter Film Festival — 12 film projects projected on a Brooklyn rooftop on Friday, July 9 #

Evelin Kasikov's cross-stitched CMYK alphabet — all of her CMYK work is just amazing #

Conan the Barbarian: The Musical — these guys are brilliant; they also did Total Recall, Fatal Attraction, 24, and Silence! The Musical #

Josh Millard's The Crane That Feeds — his second attempt at using the Echonest API to remake NIN songs with audio from Frasier episodes (via) #

Hulu launches subscription service — full TV seasons and iPhone/iPad streaming for $10/month #

Appsaurus, iPhone app recommender — after entering a few favorites, the recommendations were unusually great #

Fan-made King's Quest remake back from the dead — eight years in the making, Vivendi rescinded their cease-and-desist (via) #

iPhone vs. HTC Evo — "I want the one with the bigger GBs"; see the counterpoint #

No Sleep 'Til Fusion — Quinn Norton interviews Famulus, creator of the Kickstarter-funded fusion reactor in Brooklyn #

Laser death cat punishes Team Fortress grinders — the creator added more background in the video description #

The Fab Faux's live cover of side two of Abbey Road — obsessive, note-for-note recreation #

Trip through the Mandelbox — rendered with Mandelbulber; don't get lost #

iOS icons in pure CSS — very impressive; also, iPhone's World Clock in CSS #

They Don't Complain and They Die Quietly — Derek Powazek on death, chaos, and gardening #

Roethlisberger & Jahic's hand-drawn Star Wars Kid animation — the Swiss art duo made 605 framed drawings; see their other YouTube art or buy the shirt #

Lazeroids — multiplayer HTML5 Asteroids with Node.js, JQuery, and audio; source here #

Joel Johnson visits John McAfee in Belize — details on his quorum-sensing project, a more neutral take than the Fast Company profile #

Walt Disney World's closed Adventurer's Club recreated in Half-Life 2 — related: the Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror recreations (via) #

David Thorne makes a poster to find Missy the Cat — I'd like to see an interview with all his targets #

Studio Ghibli to make games with Professor Layton team — two of my favorite studios team up on original IP for the DS and PS3; some scans #

Smirnoff shuts down Bros Icing Bros — "We had a good run Bros." #

FEED Magazine archives return after nine years offline — love the tributes from the staff, including Steven Johnson, Stefanie Syman, Clay Shirky, and Julian Dibbell (via) #

ALT/1977, modern electronics redesigned for the '70s — anachronistic product concepts from people who definitely aren't time travelers #

Wolfire's review of OnLive — in short, it really works; even more frictionless than Steam, this feels like the future #

Recreating the RCA Photophone — Russ DeMuth built a machine from scratch to play the obsolete audio format, recorded on 35mm film #

Making of Pixar's Day & Night, the short preceding Toy Story 3 — my new favorite Pixar short, the 3D was used to great effect #

I Dream In Retro — insane videogame mashup based on a real dream #

The Daily Show on U.S. presidential promises of energy independence — some great archival footage from the last eight presidents #

Tiny Inventions' Something Left, Something Taken — adorable animated short about the Zodiac Killer, with a detailed look at how it was made (via) #

Stamen wins $400k Knight grant to visualize civic data — they also gave a grant to Cartoonist, Ian Bogost's editorial cartoon game/authoring system #

DotWar — Twitter avatars compete as two armies of tiny soldiers (via) #

Real-Life Portal Gun — from Guitar Hero champ Freddie Wong #

NYT Mag on Watson, IBM's Jeopardy-playing computer — Ken Jennings, you're our only hope #

Freedom Bridge — very short and serious "notgame" #

Nitrome's Faultline — Flash game with a clever game mechanic, folding the world #

Harmonix demos the new Fender Squire guitar controller — a real strat that lets you play Rock Band 3 and through an amp simultaneously #

First gameplay videos of Portal 2 — incredibly creative; love the fluid dynamics with the repulsion/propulsion gels #

Stage demo of Rock Band 3 at E3 — in Pro mode, you're effectively playing the real instruments; Pro guitar looks insane (via) #

Lifehacker's guide to silencing vuvuzela horns with an EQ filter — related: @the_vuvuzela on Twitter, Vuvuzela radio, or browse the web like you're at World Cup #

Alex Noriega's Stuff No One Told Me — single-panel illustrations from a Barcelona artist (via) #

Shawn Smith's pixelated sculptures — made with hand-painted plywood rods #

Hidden posters of the Notting Hill subway station — sealed off in the late 1950s and kept perfectly intact #

Flash Game Dojo — learning tools from the creators of Flixel and Flashpunk (via) #

OnLive cloud gaming service to launch Thursday with free year of service — limited offer, so sign up quick #

McSweeney's list of Great Literature Retitled to Boost Website Traffic — "The 11 Stupidest Things Phonies Do To Ruin The World" #

Openbook — search public wall posts using Facebook's API; lots of people seem unaware of their settings #