Bear's Double Rainbow ad for Microsoft — also: meet Bear (via) #

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) #

Eclectic Method's 8-bit Mixtape — not particularly great music, but the visuals make it (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" #

Copyrighting Fashion — a new bill would subject fashion to copyright, but at what cost? #

Tom Scott's Evil hack shows phone numbers exposed by Facebook users — culled from public "lost my phone" groups #

Unhear It — replace one earworm with another #

Stay Free's Illegal Art mix tape — the files all moved here #

Mads Peitersen's paintings of gadget anatomy — love the iPhone guts (via) #

Hark! A Vagrant's Nancy Drew covers — previously: the Gorey covers #

Markov chaining Kickstarter blurbs — this also doubles as a Kickstarter project idea generator #

Pomplamoose teams up with Ben Folds & Nick Hornby — Hornby wrote all the lyrics for Folds' new album (via) #

The Wilderness Downtown — an HTML5 music video for Arcade Fire with some fun geo integration #

Swarmation — like musical chairs for pixels (via) #

Disney remixes old cartoons into "Blam!" — truly awful #

PieLabPDX food cart makes customers play games to buy pie — they had to win a game of Rock Scissors Paper to get their choice #

Dirpy — convert YouTube videos to MP3s with surprisingly deep transcoding options #

Indie Game: The Movie interviews Adam Saltsman on Canabalt — every one of these shorts gets me more excited for the full-length film #

Jerry Stiller Unscripted — an adorable encounter with the owners of the Costanza house #

Members of Paramore, New Found Glory, and Relient K cover "Bed Intruder Song" — the original broke the Billboard Top 100 (via) #

Happylife — prototype device ambiently shows a family's collective mood (via) #

"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) #

Icons of the Web — map of the top million websites' favicons, sized by popularity (via) #

Taliban Bike Gangs from Hell — from Ted Rall's awesome daily comic blog from Afghanistan; start here and page forward #

Zero Views — Tumblr devoted to undiscovered Youtube videos #

Portland bike lane turns Mario Kart — though it's not nice to throw turtle shells at passing bicyclists #

Scott Pilgrim vs. the Matrix — unusually well-done mashup (via) #

Wil Wheaton's response to a fan, 21 years later — the last official member of WilPower #

Silicon Valley's secret rock star — Sony exec rejoined the Stooges after 30 years #

TIME Magazine announces new version of magazine for adults — devastating satire by the Onion (via) #

Star Wars Uncut wins an Emmy — the entire film is now viewable, 473 15-seconds clips recreated by fans #

Searching for Me — voice actor searches for himself in the virtual world of Red Dead Redemption #

Vice interviews Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA — from their Anti-Music issue (via) #

Voting machine hacked to play Pac-Man on MAME — and without breaking the tamper-evident seals (via) #

Fortune on the secretive world of Trader Joe's — the well-loved chain is owned by Germany's Albrecht family #

Solipskier — addictive new iPhone game, along with The Incident and the free Piczle Lines #

The Slow-Motion Music Quiz — Josh Millard slows down 24 popular songs, Justin Bieber-style #

Imagesoak — Adam Mathes' new thing browses the web with images; I like the Infovis category #

E7, atmospheric Flash platformer — I also enjoyed Liferaft: Zero, though it's much more difficult #

Tila Tequila vs. the Juggalos — the A.V. Club has another good outsider first-person account (via) #

Watch Reformat the Planet for free — documentary about the NYC chiptune scene; at $34, the DVD/t-shirt combo is a steal (via) #

Polymaps — Stamen and SimpleGeo's JS library for gorgeous vector visualizations on map tiles (via) #