Harvey Pekar, dead at 70 — illustrated by comic greats, American Splendor published for over 30 years #

Google's App Inventor for Android — Scratch-like programming for non-programmers #

Blizzard backs down on real names in their forums — Randy outlined some of the issues with losing anonymity #

Slate on the competitive eating industry — Kobayashi couldn't compete this year because he wouldn't sign an exclusivity contract #

Multiuser Sketchpad — how it was made, built with node.js and WebSockets #

Epic Win, to-do list game for the iPhone — by the visual designer behind Little Big Planet (via) #

Ask Metafilter on things you realized you were doing wrong — related: This American Life's A Little Bit of Knowledge (via) #

Super Mario Bros. speedrun visualized as one long projection — composited into a long tracking shot of a wall, incredibly well done (via) #

Auto-Tune the News' Double Rainbow Song — they all join in at the end #

Starcraft/World of Warcraft official forums to display real names — Blizzard's lifting anonymity to try to stem abusive behavior #

Andy Weir's "The Egg" — related: Greg Knauss's The Damnation of Richard Gillman #

Jim Rossignol's This Gaming Life now available online for free — highly recommended reading; you can still buy the book at Amazon (via) #

Optical Illusion Illusions — Reddit user photoshops the illusions into popular optical illusions #

Higgs particle simulated as sound — I fully expect these to be sampled on the next Frontalot album #

Film the Blanks — ongoing project to abstract classic movie posters #

Yosemitebear's Giant Double Rainbow — I want to be in this guy's head for just one day #

Composer Jason Robert Brown's fight with a teen girl about copyright — hard to argue it's lost income, since she almost certainly wouldn't have bought the sheet music (via) #

Giant Bomb's extensive first look at Limbo gameplay — this game looks amazing, reminiscent of Heart of Darkness and Out of This World #

Rude Boy, compilation of reggae/dub/ska chiptunes — fun, but it's hard to top Mr. Spastic's "Lo-Fi Version" #

Chase Goose — as Tom says, "You will hate this game." (via) #

Maciej Ceglowski on the great Legacy.com swindle — the company that manages death notices for many U.S. newspapers #

Marc Hedlund announces Wesabe shutdown — very sad; just found out Robot Co-op's shutting down 43 People, too #

Diaspora's first month progress report — with screenshots and video; seems like the Facebook protests have passed, even if concerns remain #

Foursquare adds map view — in an unfamiliar city, this should be incredibly useful #

8-bit Twilight: Eclipse — an interactive YouTube game (via) #

Darryl Cunningham's 19-page comic about homeopathy — following his earlier strip on the MMR vaccine controversy #

Luke W. on an elegant sliding alternative to CAPTCHA — faster and simpler, though would still need an accessible option for the blind #

Dan Telfer thinks your favorite dinosaur sucks — don't get him started on velociraptors (via) #

Roger Ebert follows up his controversial post on games as art — though his use of Jericho screenshots is like writing about art films with images from Scream 2 #