Composer Jason Robert Brown's fight with a teen girl about copyright
— hard to argue it's lost income, since she almost certainly wouldn't have bought the sheet music (via) #
Giant Bomb's extensive first look at Limbo gameplay
— this game looks amazing, reminiscent of Heart of Darkness and Out of This World #
Rude Boy, compilation of reggae/dub/ska chiptunes
— fun, but it's hard to top Mr. Spastic's "Lo-Fi Version" #
Maciej Ceglowski on the great Legacy.com swindle
— the company that manages death notices for many U.S. newspapers #
Marc Hedlund announces Wesabe shutdown
— very sad; just found out Robot Co-op's shutting down 43 People, too #
Diaspora's first month progress report
— with screenshots and video; seems like the Facebook protests have passed, even if concerns remain #
Darryl Cunningham's 19-page comic about homeopathy
— following his earlier strip on the MMR vaccine controversy #
Luke W. on an elegant sliding alternative to CAPTCHA
— faster and simpler, though would still need an accessible option for the blind #
Roger Ebert follows up his controversial post on games as art
— though his use of Jericho screenshots is like writing about art films with images from Scream 2 #
Men's Health visits Portland's thriving food cart scene
— video interview with several of the best carts #
Conan the Barbarian: The Musical
— these guys are brilliant; they also did Total Recall, Fatal Attraction, 24, and Silence! The Musical #
Josh Millard's The Crane That Feeds
— his second attempt at using the Echonest API to remake NIN songs with audio from Frasier episodes (via) #
Appsaurus, iPhone app recommender
— after entering a few favorites, the recommendations were unusually great #
Fan-made King's Quest remake back from the dead
— eight years in the making, Vivendi rescinded their cease-and-desist (via) #
No Sleep 'Til Fusion
— Quinn Norton interviews Famulus, creator of the Kickstarter-funded fusion reactor in Brooklyn #
Laser death cat punishes Team Fortress grinders
— the creator added more background in the video description #
Roethlisberger & Jahic's hand-drawn Star Wars Kid animation
— the Swiss art duo made 605 framed drawings; see their other YouTube art or buy the shirt #
Joel Johnson visits John McAfee in Belize
— details on his quorum-sensing project, a more neutral take than the Fast Company profile #
Walt Disney World's closed Adventurer's Club recreated in Half-Life 2
— related: the Haunted Mansion and Tower of Terror recreations (via) #
David Thorne makes a poster to find Missy the Cat
— I'd like to see an interview with all his targets #
Studio Ghibli to make games with Professor Layton team
— two of my favorite studios team up on original IP for the DS and PS3; some scans #
FEED Magazine archives return after nine years offline
— love the tributes from the staff, including Steven Johnson, Stefanie Syman, Clay Shirky, and Julian Dibbell (via) #
ALT/1977, modern electronics redesigned for the '70s
— anachronistic product concepts from people who definitely aren't time travelers #
Wolfire's review of OnLive
— in short, it really works; even more frictionless than Steam, this feels like the future #
Recreating the RCA Photophone
— Russ DeMuth built a machine from scratch to play the obsolete audio format, recorded on 35mm film #
Making of Pixar's Day & Night, the short preceding Toy Story 3
— my new favorite Pixar short, the 3D was used to great effect #
The Daily Show on U.S. presidential promises of energy independence
— some great archival footage from the last eight presidents #
Tiny Inventions' Something Left, Something Taken
— adorable animated short about the Zodiac Killer, with a detailed look at how it was made (via) #
Stamen wins $400k Knight grant to visualize civic data
— they also gave a grant to Cartoonist, Ian Bogost's editorial cartoon game/authoring system #