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 #

RIP Michael Hart, Project Gutenberg founder — a true visionary, he pioneered the ebook and open access to the world's knowledge #

VidRhythm — new meme-compliant video remixing toy by Harmonix for iOS #

Facial rigging with WebGL — also: skin rendering demo, both were made with three.js #

Jimmy Kimmel's touching tribute to his Uncle Frank — hard to watch; p.s. now might be a good time to call your oldest living relative (via) #

Food bloggers revolt after ConAgra hidden camera PR stunt — TLC "celebrity" chef and frozen lasagna backfires badly; nice twist in the last graf (via) #

9/11: The Photographer's Stories — oral history from pro photographers at ground zero #

Venus Patrol, Brandon Boyer's new indie gaming blog, on Kickstarter — his followup to Offworld, my favorite blog of 2009; the rewards are insane, with unreleased games by indie gaming's all-stars #

The Likeable Constitution — rank your favorite parts of the U.S. Constitution on Facebook (via) #

Shake to Undo for Mac OS X — reminds me of Hang Time for iPhone #

Jim Romenesko shuts down the Obscure Store — one of the oldest active blogs, it ran for 13 years (via) #

Little Boat — another brilliant animation by animation student Nelson Boles #

Canv.as opens to the public — the popular lists are usually offensive and entertaining #

Andrew Plotkin's My Secret Hideout — experimental procedural text toy for iPad from my favorite IF author #

Jason Scott's DEFCON talk on Archive Team — powerful talk highlighting their incredibly important digital preservation work #

Keygen Jukebox — songs bundled with warez serial code generators #

Google Correlate searches trends by drawing — Austin Kleon fed Vonnegut's story shapes in with amusing results (via) #

Markov Bible — random Markov-chain generated snippets from the King James Bible (via) #

going to the store — made for the recently-cancelled Everything on Channel 101 (via) #

Yahoo retiring Maps API on September 13 — as if hundreds of mashups suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced #

Wikileaks Cablegate emails leak in full online — the Guardian published the password in a book, but they blame Wikileaks for lax security #

That's All Folks  #

Blogger get major redesign — insanely huge leap from the previous UI #

Minecraft in Minecraft — a very, very minimalist 2D Minecraft built with redstone circuits in Minecraft (via) #

Daily Dot on Hollywood Leaks — the new group is skipping the politics and hacking the entertainment industry for lulz #

Monsters of Grok — great thinkers as rock band t-shirts #

Flickr introduces geofence privacy controls — more on their dev blog about how the feature came to be #

Kerry Callen's Super Antics #2 — more: Super Antics #1, faces in nature, if DC published Marvel, alternate Batman, and dramatic Wonder Woman #

Mari0, a work-in-progress Mario meets Portal game — from the creator of Not Tetris 2, Tetris with physics (via) #

Chess@home — distributed chess AI in JS using Web Workers, written in 48 hours for node.js Knockout #

Two chatbots talk to each other — "I am not a robot. I am a unicorn." (via) #