Don't Play Games With Me — Sebastian Deterding's brilliant presentation on the present and future of gameful design #

Google adds search by image — extending Google Goggles to the web, and the end of TinEye #

gleeBox — browser add-on gives new keyboard navigation options to Chrome, Safari, and Firefox (via) #

Wheels of Steel, incredible Javascript turntables — don't miss Scott Schiller's detailed breakdown of how it works and Nyan Cat mode #

Kutiman's Thru Jerusalem — reminds me of Pogo's World Remix project #

GameBoy Color emulator in Javascript — supports save states and local ROMs, or load these as URLs; code's on Github #

Leonard Lin revisits his 2006 tech predictions, five years later — pretty solid report card #

Robot Flâneur — a Google Street View explorer by James Bridle #

Video of every password from the LulzSec porn hack — one per frame, from the creator of the Unicode video #

Asciiflow — make ASCII art diagrams (via) #

CSS Panic, a game built entirely in HTML/CSS — no Javascript at all; Chrome and Safari only (via) #

Ze Frank revisits the first Fabuloso Friday, five years later — the script was collaboratively written by fans of The Show #

Jer Thorp's algorithmic name placement at the 9/11 Memorial — "information carries weight" #

Rutt-Etra-Izer — WebGL emulation of the Rutt-Etra video synthesizer #

Sam Spratt's illustrated meme faces — nightmare material #

Aaron Straup Cope on web history and the suspension of @towerbridge — over the weekend, Twitter removed one of its first Twitter bots and removed its three-year archive #

How Andy Carvin debunked the "Gay Girl in Damascus" hoax — some amazing sleuthing that played out on Twitter #

Derek Powazek on On the Media's anti-tech bias — his new On the Network tumblelog documents historical examples #

Google's playable Les Paul tribute doodle — the keyboard works, here's a solid cover of Here Comes the Sun #

The Digi-Comp II — huge automatic mechanical computer that uses billiard balls instead of marbles #

URLTE.AM — Archive Team project scraping and dumping uncooperative URL shorteners (via) #

Slate's Hollywood Career-o-Matic — interactive tool to measure actor/director careers using Rotten Tomatoes ratings (via) #

Inbox Influence — browser add-on that checks for political contributions from Gmail senders #

Jim Gilliam's "The Internet Is My Religion" — intense speech about faith, technology and activism, from the creator of NationBuilder, GovLuv, and Act.ly #

The World's Most Exclusive Website — courtesy of Wonder-Tonic #

Analysis of the leaked Sony user passwords — 67% of people with accounts at both Gawker and Sony reused their passwords (via) #

Video of Apple's WWDC presentation — the whole thing's worth watching, or read Gizmodo's coverage of the major announcements #

Olduse.net — Usenet archive updated in real-time as it looked 30 years ago (via) #

Oglaf's Muse — so prolific! #

The Atlantic on Project Euler and teaching how to code — parallels to the standard, miserable approach for teaching math #

Hooray for Earth's "True Loves" music video — animated by Cyriak, Aaron Koblin nails it as "Minecraft meets Powers of Ten" (via) #

George Plimpton's Video Falconry — first mentioned by Judge John Hodgman at the two-minute mark here, now unearthed and ported to the web (via) #

Telehack, playful simulation of the early net — way, way deeper than I originally thought; 25,000 virtual hosts to connect/hack/explore, with ghost users from the past (via) #

Stencyl — drag-and-drop 2D Flash gamemaker for PC and Mac #

YouTube introduces Creative Commons licensing — yay! #

Gawker on Silk Road, the Bitcoin-driven underground marketplace — view it through a proxy; Bitcoins aren't anonymous, so they're laundering them (via) #

Outside Aperture — live-action, fan-made Portal epilogue (via) #

Animal XXXing — Anna Anthropy's safe-for-work analysis of Animal Crossing fan-made porn #

The Chewbacca Supercut — every Chewbacca scene in A New Hope; also: Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi #

Intel's Museum of Me — clever Flash work; most interesting if you're active on Facebook #

The Grand Rapids Lipdub — what hath Lodwick wrought? #

Depixelizing Pixel Art — the site was slammed last week; side-by-side video from Super Mario World and other comparisons (via) #

Jeri Ellsworth's Brain Bulb — lightbulb over your head that lights on brainwave activity #

VHX opens to the public — playful video discovery from the Internet's Jamie Wilkinson and Casey Pugh #

Rocketboom on the origins of Nyan Cat — trivia: this episode was written by Keyboard Cat's own Brad O'Farrell #

Visualizing 11 million player deaths in Just Cause 2 — mapping every impact death creates a ghostly landscape #

Literally Unbelievable — Facebook users who think stories from The Onion are real #

Chinese prisoners forced to farm gold in World of Warcraft — Chinese officials denied the report, saying they disallow contact with the outside world #

Olly Moss's Paper Cuts — paper silhouettes of pop culture icons (via) #

Random New Yorkers asked what they're listening to — if devices passively broadcast song metadata, someone could actually build this #