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) #

Auralization of sorting algorithms — the heap sort sounds like a 1960s sci-fi sound effect (via) #

Desperate Pandora employees struggle to find song area man likes — "At this point, I think he's just fucking with us." #

Kindergarten enrollment dates affect ADHD diagnosis rates — children born just after the cutoff date are 25% less likely to be diagnosed as those born just before (via) #

Hallowed Ground — photos of stuff the same distance from the WTC as the "Ground Zero Mosque" (via) #

Journalism Warning Labels (via) #

Paul Robertson's sprites for the Scott Pilgrim game — you really need to zoom in to appreciate the detail #

Unsuck It — translate obnoxious business jargon back to non-douchey English #

Paul Graham on the long decline of Yahoo — the Flickr acquisition had a halo effect too, but it was ultimately short-lived #

Project Springfield, 3D pixel art construction of Springfield — watch him build Springfield Elementary in the Kickstarter project video #

Everynone's "Words" — a collaboration with Radiolab (via) #

Documentary episode on the making of Future Crew's Second Reality — with home video and interviews with the team; from a new documentary about the demoscene (via) #

Five Philippines inmates escape while guard plays Plants vs. Zombies — I like to think they danced their way out (via) #

Numen Camera for the iPhone — incredibly useful application recreates any photo using tiny, naked pixel men (via) #

TechCrunch's postmortem on the Jenny "dry erase" quitting hoax — their publicist advised them to specifically target TechCrunch #

EFF's analysis of the Verizon/Google net neutrality proposal — a sound legal analysis without the handwringing #

Henry Jenkins on Inception — gamers are better equipped to understand the narrative structure than most #

The Ballad of Steven Slater — performed by Josh "Cortex" Millard, with lyrics from a Metafilter comment (via) #

Man Lives In Futuristic Sci-Fi World Where All His Interactions Take Place In Cyberspace — "until the day our world catches up with his, Royce will be out there on the virtual nexus, searching." #

Scott Pilgrim trailer recreated with scenes from the graphic novels — also for superfans only, the interactive trailer (via) #

Weeplaces, visualize your Foursquare checkins — though it makes your checkin history public by default, you can change it with the lock icon #

Trojan image reproduces itself on 4chan with user assistance — clever mix of social engineering and Windows exploit #

Yakuza 3 game fact-checked by actual Japanese yakuza — also, I love the design for these Boing Boing features (via) #

The Incident released for iPhone and iPad — I've been beta-testing it for months, pixel art by Neven Mrgan and chiptunes by Cabel Sasser (via) #

Chris Poole's testimony in the Sarah Palin hacking case — he was asked to explain rickrolling, newfags, and /b/tards to government prosecutors (via) #

OK Cupid on the impact of camera settings on attractiveness — more data porn, including evidence that iPhone users have more sex #

Blackstar Warrior, blaxploitation Star Wars trailer — found on Devour, Uncrate's iPad-friendly best-of-YouTube blog #

All Rubik's Cube positions can be solved in 20 moves — proven with the help of 35 CPU-years donated by Google #

Monotoning Music with Echonest Remix — related: The Swing Thing #

Chill Space — net art by Daniel Leyva (via) #

Kyle Pulver's Depict1 ported to Flash — like Portal, an unreliable narrator #

The Making of a 1k Javascript demo effect — more at the JS1k contest #

CaptchArt — 4chan makes art from found CAPTCHAs (via) #

Maslow's Hierarchy of Robot Needs (via) #