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 #

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 #