The Play — clever hyperlinked interactive fiction built with the Undum framework #

Leigh Alexander on the rapture of Ian Bogost's Cow Clicker — a biting satire of Facebook games became frustratingly popular for its creator #

Ghostery — browser add-on auto-blocks sketchy ad trackers, web bugs, and other includes #

Disneyland's Haunted Mansion recreated in Minecraft — inspired use of custom textures and pistons in part two; see the rest of his recreations #

Analog vinyl sampling — laser-cutting records and taping pieces together to create new music #

2011 Interactive Fiction Comp entries released — almost all of them playable online #

Experimental one-line algorithmic music — try making your own! this one is lovely (via) #

The Morning After — the active fanfic community on Delicious abandoned it for Pinboard in the wake of the relaunch #

Most Popular Infographics You Can Find Around the Web — "a crapload of irrelevant data put together in a big vertical image" (via) #

Rick Perry: The Bad Lip Reading — related: President Obama's turn (via) #

"It's the '90s." — an Everything Is Terrible supercut #

Joe Hewitt on the future of the web vs. native apps — don't miss his followup #

MAD's ThunderLOLCats takes on overused Internet memes — amused at how furious people are in the comments (via) #

YouTube founders launch new Del.icio.us — some new stuff and tons still broken or missing, so I'm reserving judgment for now #

Glitch opens to the public — adorable MMO from the creators of Flickr, Game Neverending, and Katamari Damacy #

Typewriter Cocktail Machine — love the syringe-driven keyboard and liquid display, works without electricity (via) #

Kids React to Star Wars Kid — correction: he was never trying to do Star Wars moves; that was an assumption by people who first spread the video #

The Deleted City — spatial Geocities visualization with MIDI pulled from neighboring pages, built with Archive Team's backup (via) #

Schrödinger's Nyan Cat (via) #

The U.S. State Capitals Supercut — related: The Movie Alphabet (via) #

Twin Peaks: Escape from Black Lodge for the Atari 2600 — trivia: a Twin Peaks game for the NES was planned but never released #

QR Time — for additional obfuscation, when someone asks for the time, show them this #

Tweetures — Kunal Anand's Processing visualization of Twitter users as single-celled creatures #

Last call to migrate your Del.icio.us bookmarks — today's the last day to agree to the new TOS, or all your bookmarks will be deleted! #

Laura Bifano's Menagerie — pixel-ish animal paintings (via) #

Louis C.K. walks the AV Club through Louie's second season — this is the only TV show I watch regularly; if you haven't seen it, you're missing out (via) #

Marco Arment on Business Insider's borrowing — reminds me of All Things D's attribution issues #

Scientists reconstruct video from monitored brain activity — pieced together from 18 million seconds of random YouTube clips, this is epic jetpack science (via) #

Video Riot — make your own psychedelic YouTube mashups with WebGL luma key compositing (via) #

Warco, a prototype photojournalism FPS game — shooting with a camera instead of a gun #

Matthew Baldwin writes up his PAX experience for the Morning News — I regret not going this year, but won't miss it next year #

Something Awful's 50 Greatest Video Game Characters of All Time — don't miss the debate on Metafilter (via) #

Real-time face substitution — I could totally imagine this used in video chat for anonymity (via) #

Super Smash Land — incredible Gameboy-style demake of Super Smash Brothers #

Gamers solve molecular puzzle that baffled scientists — Foldit software leads to breakthroughs; the full paper (via) #

Jonathan Hardesty's Journey of an Absolute Rookie — epic nine-year thread of learning to paint by making and posting something new every day; before and after (via) #

At My Funeral — YouTube commenters choose the songs they want played when they die (via) #

My Family's Experiment in Extreme Schooling — Pulitzer-winning NYT writer enrolls his three American kids in a Russian school; don't miss the video (via) #

The Artist Is Present, real-time Marina Abramovic performance art simulation — if you want a better place in line, start playing before MOMA opens at 10:30am EST (via) #

Chat History — devastatingly sad story of mining Gmail for memories #

ifttt — like a minimalist Yahoo Pipes for mortals; check out all the popular recipes #

Phone Story, an anti-iPhone serious game for the iPhone — two hours after launch, it was pulled for violating multiple App Store guidelines #

Ludum Dare 21 winners announced — ranking the 499 entries from the 48-hour game competition #

Shoshana Hebshi handcuffed, jailed, strip-searched for flying while brown yesterday — "It's 9/11 and people are seeing ghosts"; here's the AP version #

George Lucas re-edits classic films — p.s. Alderaan shot first (via) #

8-bit Fashion — like Sword & Sworcery on the runway; related: Anrealage's real-life pixel fashion and store #

Ten is Love and Everything After — Anil's annual post commemorating 9/11; related: Neven Mrgan's Amerikanac #

Code Hero, learning game with a gun that shoots and edits Javascript — pretty much exactly what 1995-era Hollywood thought coding would look like in 2011 (via) #

Ghosts with Shit Jobs, sci-fi documentary on crappy Western jobs in the year 2040 — written by Jim Munroe, who wrote an Inform 7 prequel for the film (walkthrough) (via) #

DIY side-scroller game in a box — made with paper, tape, popsicle sticks, a soda straw, and Teagueduino #