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) #

David Friedman finds a 1910 NYT article written about him — what will be of interest to future historians? you never know, so just keep everything #

How Jami Attenberg got her stolen bike back in Brooklyn — with help from Craigslist and the Brooklyn PD #

Chad Dickerson on scaling startups — specifically, how to scale an engineering-driven culture #

Massive censorship of Digg uncovered — a conservative group's been effectively manipulating Digg stories for over a year #

GearBox, robotic ball controlled with an iPhone — like Marble Madness in real-life #

NPR on Antoine Dodson and the Bed Intruder Meme — interviews with Kenyatta and Baratunde, and links to Antoine's new blog, Twitter, and YouTube channel #

Fata Morgana — Google maps without the map, by Damon Zucconi (via) #

Osmos released for iPhone — at $3, this is a steal; one of the best PC games released last year #

Google stops Wave development — worth re-reading: Anil Dash on the Web way vs. the Wave way #

Microsoft Street Slide — multi-perspective street panoramas from street view imagery (via) #

Racer, a physical racing arcade game — remote-control car in a cardboard track streaming to a sit-down arcade game (via) #

Achievement Unlocked 2 — like the original, but even more stupidly addictive #

Chris Hecker's "Achievements Considered Harmful?" talk at GDC — in short, he argues achievements only work well for motivating dull tasks #

Rdio opens to the public — like Spotify for the US, highly recommended #

Cyriak's Cycles — more insanity (via) #

Halo for the Atari 2600 — here's the creator's backstory and the ROM (via) #

The Birds and the Beedrills — geek rap uses all 151 original Pokemon names as sexual innuendo; the lyrics #

junkboy's collection of game demake mockups — modern games turned retro; look at the filenames if you need hints (via) #

Auto-Tune the News' Bed Intruder Song — here's the original newscast-turned-meme, in case you missed it #

Craig Mod's incredible postmortem of raising money with Kickstarter — gorgeously designed article with plenty of solid data #

GET LAMP, the text adventure documentary, is done — five years in the making with incredible attention to detail; you can order the DVDs here #

FC64 Commodore 64 emulator in Javascript — a bit CPU-intensive, but it works! #

10k Apart — build a web app in less than 10k, though you can use jQuery/Prototype and Typekit #

TorrentFreak on the BitTorrent releasers vs. the Scene — insidery article covering an interesting shift in online movie releasing #

Google Alarm Firefox add-on — audio alerts when your personal info's sent to Google servers #

Bradley and Bethany — Dan Wineman's App Store review fanfic #

Michael Jackson's estate demands Popcap change Dancing Zombie character — they're retroactively changing him in all versions of the game #

Paul Graham on the acceleration of addictiveness — the iPhone and iPad is the Internet's equivalent of a hip flask #

GameStop buys Kongregate — this seems like a bad fit; has a retail chain ever acquired an online community? (via) #

Ron Livingston does Keyboard Cat — previously: Keyboard Kato (via) #

Andrew Plotkin reviews The Ultimate Alphabet for the iPad — based on Mike Wilks' insane picture book from 1986; here's the gameplay #

EFF wins DMCA exemptions for bypassing DRM, phone jailbreaking/unlocking — Ars Technica breaks down the changes #

8-bit color cycling with HTML 5 — how it works #