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 #

Brandon Boyer plays with Jason Rohrer's Sleep Is Death — collaborative game, where one person manipulates the world for another #

Soren Johnson's "Fear and Loathing in Farmville," notes from GDC 2010 — best summary of the turmoil social gaming's causing in the gaming industry (via) #

Fredrik Larsson's TV Theme Song Medley — I'm a sucker for people accompanying themselves (via) #

Jane McGonigal's TED talk on using games to save the world — games can motivate you to do mundane tasks or something meaningful, choose wisely #

C-SPAN opens massive video archives — 160,000 hours of video dating to 1987 #

Joel Johnson, "Raiding Eternity" — more tech writing like this, please #

xkcd's Google phrase frequency charts — "I got $x problems" #

Newspaper Club designs, prints, distributes overnight newspaper at SXSW — I was lucky enough to grab one of the hand-numbered issues #

Crowdsourced demographic study of Chatroulette — the info was gathered by Hacker News users #

Progress Wars — countless hours of fun #

Piano Improvisation on Chat Roulette — amazing how much creativity the site's inspiring (via) #

8-Bit Austin — I think I'll use this map to get to Datapop 2010 #

Spritely, jQuery plugin for sprite and background animation — see also: gameQuery #

Trololololololo Shreds — some context (via) #

Preview of Sword & Sworcery EP for the iPhone — looks unlike anything I've ever seen #

Sitby.us — essential iPhone-optimized site for SXSWi session planning #

Danc on the release of Ribbon Hero — turning Microsoft Office into a game, with competition against your friends (via) #

"Play" by David Kaplan and Eric Zimmerman — avatars as Russian nested dolls (via) #

Chatroulette Map — I think I'd rather not know, thanks (via) #

Steamshovel Harry — not sure how I missed this one last year, metagaming with music by Brad Sucks #