OK Trends crunches the data to find what white people really like
— as always, funny, insightful, and controversial; don't miss the religion and writing proficiency charts #
George and Jonathan's "The Best Music"
— free superhappy chiptune album created with Cave Story creator Pixel's Piston Collage (via) #
MC Frontalot, Jonathan Coulton, and Paul & Storm cover Double Rainbow/Bed Intruder Song
— with lead vocals by the very talented Ken Flagg #
Jonathan Blow's anonymous PAX playtest of The Witness
— the followup to Braid was at an unmarked table #
Craigslist shuts down adult services section
— 17 Attorneys General asked them last month to shut it down #
Duke Nukem Forever is revived, to be released in 2011 by Gearbox
— everyone's favorite vaporware is playable on the PAX show floor, 13 years in the making #
NYC health dept. shuts down underground lobster roll dealer
— Jeff Rubin shows how people ordered from "Dr. Claw" (via) #
Copyright holders choosing ad income over cease-and-desists on YouTube
— more than a third of YouTube's 2B weekly ad views are infringing videos deliberately left online (via) #
Buzzfeed's "infographic" about infographic spam
— thanks to this Reddit user for exposing this unusual SEO trickery #
LA Times interview with the author behind Slaughterhouse 90210
— interesting process behind her Tumblr curation #
Cheerleader wins lawsuit by suing the wrong website
— Dan Quayle's son famously wrote a column for TheDirty.com (via) #
Building a Scrabble MMO in 48 hours with Node.js and MongoDB
— the results are impressive; some of the Node.js Knockout entries are amazing #
First details on Telltale's episodic Back to the Future game emerge
— they also secured rights to make games based on Jurassic Park #
Cee Lo Green's official video for F**K YOU
— even better than the typography video, I'm perfectly content to have this song stuck in my head 24/7 #
Slate interviews Innocence Project cofounder about false convictions
— over 250 people have been freed by new DNA evidence, many of them with false confessions #
Unreal Engine 3 tech demo Epic Citadel for the iPhone/iPad
— impressive tech demo, now available for free #
GameSetWatch covers Assembly 2010's PC demo contest
— if you have the hardware, I highly recommend trying out the two winners yourself #
Apple announces Ping, a social network built into iTunes
— their first foray into social, finally; seems inevitable that app/location/TV/music sharing will follow #
All four issues of Daniel Raeburn's The Imp available for free download
— highly recommended, covers Daniel Clowes, Jack Chick, Chris Ware, and dirty Mexican comics (via) #
Vanity Fair's glimpse into the day in the life of the President
— long, must-read look at the insane complexity of today's political landscape #
Lanyrd, social conference directory
— brilliantly executed social event discovery; it should be pronounced "La Nerd" #
Tom Scott's Evil hack shows phone numbers exposed by Facebook users
— culled from public "lost my phone" groups #
Pomplamoose teams up with Ben Folds & Nick Hornby
— Hornby wrote all the lyrics for Folds' new album (via) #
PieLabPDX food cart makes customers play games to buy pie
— they had to win a game of Rock Scissors Paper to get their choice #
Indie Game: The Movie interviews Adam Saltsman on Canabalt
— every one of these shorts gets me more excited for the full-length film #
"Learning to Be Me" by Greg Egan
— a better-written short story with a similar theme as "Where Am I?" #
"Where Am I?" by Daniel Dennett
— short sci-fi story from 1978 about where consciousness resides (via) #
Taliban Bike Gangs from Hell
— from Ted Rall's awesome daily comic blog from Afghanistan; start here and page forward #