Phil Gyford's "Infographic" — the new animated GIF #

Giant Bomb adds elaborate quests system — nicely done, though it's having some unintended side effects; I made a screencast of a simple subquest #

Katsu's virtual tagging of Picasso's Girl Before A Mirror at MoMA — related: F.A.T.'s iPhone app for virtual graffiti overlays #

Pixels by Patrick Jean — 8-Bit NYC is contagious (via) #

South Park takes on Facebook and Farmville — Chat Roulette makes a cameo #

Penny's Computer Book, Inspector Gadget wallpaper for the iPad — a close runner-up to Fingerspoo #

Gizmodo's iPad review as a personal journal — the best I've read so far, with a great video by Joel Johnson closing it out #

Particle You — like a digital pin art toy, requires Flash 10 (via) #

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Game — amazing 8-bit remake #

2D Boy's Ron Carmel makes a "Suck Goo" level for WarioWare D.I.Y. — the creation tools are powerful, but sharing is limited; friend codes and only two slots #

Hunch's Twitter predictor game — forgot to link this when it came out, it uses your Twitter network to guess your preferences #

The GET LAMP interactive fiction panel at PAX East — incredible lineup of text adventure history and modern IF #

Math teacher's April Fools day shadow prank — more live/recorded video interaction in his Halloween lecture (via) #

Wikileaks releases classified US military video — American air strike killed 12, including two Reuters reporters, leading to a military coverup #

"Hello, My Future Girlfriend" AMA on Reddit — all grown up, insight into what it feels like to become an unwilling meme #

pCubee — head-tracked, perspective-correct cubic display #

Gizmodo's list of essential iPad apps — I really had no idea the launch lineup was this strong #

Heather Champ leaves Flickr — end of an era, she's starting a community consulting company with Derek #

John Gruber on open vs. closed tech culture and the iPad — a response to some of Cory's concerns; Joel Johnson takes on the rest #

How a Fish Almost Destroyed My Childhood — from Hyperbole and a Half, one of my favorite new bloggers #

Play Adventure with voice recognition — works over phone or Skype (via) #

Quake 2 ported to HTML5 — compiled to JS with Google Webtoolkit, uses WebGL, Canvas, HTML 5 audio, local storage, and WebSockets #

Thinkgeek's iCade prank arcade for the iPad — particularly cruel, because it's an awesome idea that needs to exist #

Bieber or Die — Justin Bieber buys Funny or Die #

A real person, a lot like you — great writing from Derek Sivers #

MOON8 — 8-bit cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon #

Snopes debunks the Scarface school play — the YouTube user's profile and favorites were a nice touch #

I Can Hold My Breath Forever — from the Daniel Benmergui school of poetic art games with long names #

Tim O'Reilly on the state of the Internet operating system — like his first Web 2.0 essay, a loose collection of thoughts defining a movement #

Colorbind for the iPhone — my new iPhone game obsession; amazingly, the whole game is playable with red-green colorblindness #

Chat Roulette Piano Improv #2 — Merton returns #

Run, Jesus Run! — blasphemous 10-second game for the Experimental Game Project; I made a speedrun #

First images of Scott Pilgrim game, with music by Anamanaguchi and pixel art by Paul Robertson — insanely awesome; don't miss the teaser trailer #

Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt get coffee — Gizmodo asked a body language expert to analyze their poses #

SimpleGeo's visualization of SXSW checkin activity — related: Check.in, location-aware web app in private beta to check into multiple services at once (via) #

Auto Smiley — computer vision watches you smile, then pastes a smiley into the topmost application (via) #

I'm Here, A Love Story — short film by Spike Jonze about robots in love (via) #

Future Sounds shuts down WOXY one year after Lala sale — it's easy to blame management, but the root cause is obscene streaming royalties #

Specter Spelunker Shrinks — clever game mechanic, growing and shrinking with time dilation (via) #

Less Talk, More Rock — it's worth reading, though I'm mostly linking this for the gorgeous Superbrothers art #

Paris Smaragdis' demo video of user-assisted audio selection — mind-blowing demo; sing along with vocals or instruments to magically isolate them from the background music #

Preview of Photoshop's Content-Aware Fill feature — from SIGGRAPH to product in about a year #

Nintendo's mini-feature on Cave Story's elusive creator Pixel — his first public appearance; the game came out on WiiWare yesterday, go buy it! #

How a gaming community flamewar spawned a real game — titled "Dudebro, My Shit is Fucked Up So I Got to Shoot/Slice You II: It's Straight-Up Dawg Time" #

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story — Patton Oswalt as Dr. Demento is inspired casting #

Slate's experiments with running Google TV Ads — 54 airings, 1.4 million viewers for $1,300 #

Come On Paint Me White Again — a conversation between UK street artist mobstr and the Newcastle City Council #

Google stops censoring Chinese search results — they're now redirecting google.cn to the uncensored google.hk #

MC Frontalot released Zero Day for digital download — it has quite possibly the most insane secret track ever committed to disc, spoilers ahoy #

Ben Folds' live piano improv on Chat Roulette — a tribute to his doppelganger during last night's concert in Charlotte, NC #