GQ on the National Enquirer and their attempt to win the Pulitzer — reminds me of someone #

1983 Naked Eyes Song Was A Burt Bacharach Remake? — strangely disorienting and anachronistic, like hearing Biz Markie's "Just A Friend" as '60s soul #

Collection of bowling alley scoreboards — design that smells like old shoes and beer #

Jeff Rubin's Unanswered Lost Questions — all the answers are in the mystery box, and you can't have it (via) #

Phoenix Wright released for the iPhone — weird gem for the DS makes it to the App Store #

D-Pad Hero 2 released for NES — worth it just for the Queen cover #

Sean Bonner on the near-death of Metblogs — people are pledging to keep it alive, and they may be saved #

Short film on the making of 48HR Magazine — "The most powerful thing in the universe is a whole bunch of people paying attention to the same thing at the same time." (via) #

The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield — 15-page comic about the discredited link between autism and the MMR vaccine #

The Big Caption — reminds me of Wayne White's art #

Pixel: An Art Documentary — 11-minute short about modern pixel animation (via) #

The Swinger — EchoNest-powered hack makes any song swing #

spta's MonsterMaker — fun with face tracking #

The Discography of Greyson Chance — a safe prediction #

Hurt Locker producer calls downloaders morons who belong in jail — "I hope your family and your kids end up in jail" #

Google's Pac-Man homepage doodle — the first playable doodle, with audio! #

Superbien's video projection onto mapped blocks — when I first saw this, I thought it was CGI (via) #

Ask Metafilter saves two Russian students from NYC sex traffickers — Internet heroes save the day in real-life #

How Etsy does deploys — save the princess! #

First synthetic cell created — subject of an embargoed Science story and cover of the new Economist #

Google releases BigQuery and Prediction API — I feel bad for Directed Edge #

Typekit and Google announce open-source collaboration — see Google's free font directory and the new Font API and WebFont Loader #

HTML 5 Zombo.com — view source for an explanation on how it was made #

CBS threatens 48 Hr. Magazine over trademark — they claim confusion with 48 Hours, the news show #

Google open-sources VP8 video codec — Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and Flash will all support it #

Girl Talk's Feed the Animals sample visualizer — using my sample list, HTML5 audio, and iTunes web service #

Newzbin closes down — keep in mind, they only indexed metadata for Usenet binaries, not hosting files #

Alex Payne leaves Twitter for BankSimple — I love the idea, just signed up #

Ronnie James Dio, dead at 67 — watching this in his memory #

Why Peter Serafinowicz pirates movies, including his own — great essay from a tech-savvy artist #

Gink — not just another social networking site (via) #

SNL's Timecrowave, meals from the future — also: Great Day digital short #

4chan's moot raises $625k for stealth startup — "reimagine what an image board should be today using the current technologies available" #

50 Greatest Samples in Hip-Hop History — I could listen to these source cuts all day #

Drunk History of Frederick Douglass — with Will Ferrell, Don Cheadle and Zooey Deschanel #

Valve's Portal recruitment video — can't wait for Portal 2 this winter, with luck #

Shaun Inman's study of the Super Mario 3 camera behavior — and how he applied it to his new game #

Greyson Chance performs on the Ellen show — the star-maker machinery works fast these days #

NYT's chart of Facebook privacy settings — privacy policy's longer than the US Constitution; also, the evolution of Facebook privacy #

Panic loads Apple //e Grandaddy music video source using an iPad — feels like WALL-E connecting to EVE #

Ben Folds covers Elliot Smith's "Say Yes" — my favorite of the A.V. Undercover project so far #

Steam for Mac released — and Portal's free for Mac and PC until May 24th! #

Sixth-grader covers "Paparazzi" — move over, Bieber (via) #

Twitter follower hack discovered by Turkish heavy metal fan — "accept pwns" #

Samorost 2 added to the Humble Indie Bundle — pay what you like, get six amazing indie games for Mac, Windows and Linux, including Gish, Aquaria and World of Goo #

Conan O'Brien at Google — special appearance by Andy Richter #

Creepy Robots — "It's only a matter of time before one of these kills somebody." #

Tasman Richardson, "The Game" — more from the artist; I love his Atari series and I Stole the Soul of Rock n' Roll (via) #

View to Corrupt — related: temporary.cc and Nobodaddy (now offline) #

Get Out of There! — added to the Supercuts master list (via) #