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 #

Smirnoff shuts down Bros Icing Bros — "We had a good run Bros." #

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 #

I Dream In Retro — insane videogame mashup based on a real dream #

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 #

DotWar — Twitter avatars compete as two armies of tiny soldiers (via) #

Real-Life Portal Gun — from Guitar Hero champ Freddie Wong #

NYT Mag on Watson, IBM's Jeopardy-playing computer — Ken Jennings, you're our only hope #

Freedom Bridge — very short and serious "notgame" #

Nitrome's Faultline — Flash game with a clever game mechanic, folding the world #

Harmonix demos the new Fender Squire guitar controller — a real strat that lets you play Rock Band 3 and through an amp simultaneously #

First gameplay videos of Portal 2 — incredibly creative; love the fluid dynamics with the repulsion/propulsion gels #

Stage demo of Rock Band 3 at E3 — in Pro mode, you're effectively playing the real instruments; Pro guitar looks insane (via) #

Lifehacker's guide to silencing vuvuzela horns with an EQ filter — related: @the_vuvuzela on Twitter, Vuvuzela radio, or browse the web like you're at World Cup #

Alex Noriega's Stuff No One Told Me — single-panel illustrations from a Barcelona artist (via) #

Shawn Smith's pixelated sculptures — made with hand-painted plywood rods #

Hidden posters of the Notting Hill subway station — sealed off in the late 1950s and kept perfectly intact #

Flash Game Dojo — learning tools from the creators of Flixel and Flashpunk (via) #

OnLive cloud gaming service to launch Thursday with free year of service — limited offer, so sign up quick #

McSweeney's list of Great Literature Retitled to Boost Website Traffic — "The 11 Stupidest Things Phonies Do To Ruin The World" #

Openbook — search public wall posts using Facebook's API; lots of people seem unaware of their settings #

Monica Narula and Joshua Schachter's Guilt Market — part of the Seven on Seven event pairing artists with geeks #

Charles Schultz's Teen Comics — Charlie Brown grown up #

History of the NBC Pipes decorated by Jim Henson in 1964 — Henson explains them in 1980, Jack Parr shows them to Letterman in 1984, and Frank Oz visits them this week (via) #

Jason Scott on The Guy in the Get Lamp artwork — I found this very touching #

Support call from the Google Pac-Man doodle — this wasn't an isolated problem #

Glee and copyright — everything the actors do on the show would be illegal in real-life, like every cover on YouTube (via) #

Slate reveals the story behind the recycled newspaper prop — aside from newspapers, I love their fake product packaging and magazines #

Jordan Bower's portraits of modern Nepalese porters and their t-shirts — from Britney to Cobain #

Dr. Demento ends 40 years of radio — switching to online-only after this weekend's broadcast (via) #

U.S. Army intelligence analyst arrested for leaking Wikileaks helicopter video — he outed himself to "homeless hacker" Adrian Lamo, who called the Army #

Visualizing tourists vs. locals on Flickr — the full set of maps (via) #

gdgt's live coverage of the Apple keynote and the new iPhone and iOS 4 — major changes: huge battery upgrade, HD camera, iMovie app, new display, gyroscope, and big OS changes #

Bit and Run, "Mario's Ladder" — papercut Mario with a great and terrible secret (via) #

Every actor reads the same newspaper — must be a standard newspaper prop; more examples here (via) #

David McCandless visualizes musician revenues online — not surprising that streaming royalties are significantly less than direct sales (via) #

California college student suspended for Twitter messages — breaking news from the student newsroom where my mom teaches #

A letter from "Leroy Stick," the person behind @BPGlobalPR — "the best way to get the public to respect your brand? Have a respectable brand." (via) #

Motherboard.tv's short doc on ROFLCon — best coverage I've seen, includes interviews with several meme legends #

Robot Unicorn Attack released for the iPhone — complete with Erasure soundtrack; play the original #

Danny Sullivan on misattribution and lazy reporting in the mainstream press — interesting to see which outlets added the citation after being called out (via) #