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) #

AI::General — a general-purpose artificial intelligence by Maciej Ceglowski (via) #

moot's TED talk about 4chan culture and online anonymity — the Dusty story shows how even when anonymous, you can still be found #

Time Traveling Finger — help him make the last two episodes #

Ars Technica digs up the details of the P2P indie film lawsuits — at least 14.5k users so far this year, netting an easy $20M in a horrible new revenue model #

Jus' Checkin' (via) #

Destroy the Web — Firefox extension turns webpages into a playable shoot 'em up #

LOST reimagined as a Lucasarts adventure game — if this existed, it'd be 120 hours of gameplay where 95% of the puzzles had no solution (via) #

Portland Mercury goes inside the Achewood test kitchen — Chris Onstad ate your balls (via) #

Exit Path — addictive runner inspired by Portal and Canabalt, from the creator of Achievement Unlocked; try the multiplayer mode #

Kevin Kelly's 1997 list of quotes from the first five years of Wired — "predictions of the future are really just predictions of the present" #

Smokescreen, a Flash player in Javascript — don't miss the Strongbad demos; Simon breaks down how it works, with reformatted source #

Ken Jennings' anatomy of a Wikipedia hoax — in fact, the founder of Orange Julius never invented an inflatable shrimp trap or pigeon shower #

Super Mario Bros. Crossover creator commentary — he announced this week he's adding Ryu from Ninja Gaiden #

M.I.A. takes revenge on NYT Magazine writer for unflattering cover story — she tweeted the reporter's phone number; summary of the story (via) #

Nifflas releases FiNCK — devious free platform puzzles inspired by SMB 2, from the genius behind Knytt and Saira #

My Desk Is 8-Bit — simulated stop-motion inspired by Michel Gondry and R-Type #