Plants vs. Zombies released for iPhone — one of my favorite games from last year, a steal at $2.99 #

Esquire profiles Roger Ebert — I've said it before, his journal is one of the best things around right now #

Wired's magazine concept for tablet computers — reminds me of CD-ROM magazines of the mid-1990s #

David Crane's iPhone app on Atari 2600 programming — $1.99, cheap (via) #

Clive Thompson on obscurity and social scaling — "It's no longer a bantering process of thinking and living out loud. It becomes old-fashioned broadcasting." #

Mayor of the North Pole — Jim Bumgardner comes clean with his Foursquare API cheating #

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented reality maps at TED — in addition the recent Flickr integration, live geospatial video and space visualization #

Augmented hyper(Reality): Domestic Robocop — with an ad blocker, I'd be all over it (via) #

What makes Blip tick? — opening up a mechanical Pong-like toy (via) #

Chatroulette creator outs himself as Russian high school student — 19k people currently online #

"Who else loves ice cream?" — also, just noticed that anyone can comment on any public Buzz post #

Nathan Myhrvold's Death Star laser kills mosquitoes in flight — built from parts found on eBay to fight malaria and demonstrated at TED #

Google Chrome for Mac beta gets extensions — I switched primary browsers last month, my first change since Firebird in 2003 (via) #

YouTube's Video Speed History — not related at all: Google's fiber announcement (via) #

Ars Technica covers moot's TED talk — low-quality video of his talk; 4chan's raw nature is fueled by anonymity and no memory #

Bing Maps adds augmented Photosynth street views with Flickr photos — a detailed window into time using every CC-licensed geotagged Flickr photo from Seattle, Vancouver, and SF; requires Silverlight #

Confused Facebook users think ReadWriteWeb is the new Facebook login page — they're searching for "facebook login" on Google, using FB Connect, and posting hundreds of confused comments #

CNET's Daniel Terdiman digs into the evolution of Glitch's back story — including rejected concept ideas, inspired by paper cutouts, automatons, and daydreams #

Logorama — official full version of the Oscar-nominated animated short, using over 2,500 logos #

Adam Kempa helps spot the hidden image on New Yorker's 85th anniversary covers — covers by Brunetti, Tomine, Clowes, and Chris Ware, who also wrote an essay #

Google launches Buzz, social updates and sharing — Friendfeed makes its way into Gmail and mobile; now live, with Reader integration and APIs #

Mirror Scare Supercut — related: SNL's The Mirror (via) #

Tiny Speck announces Glitch, Flash MMO coming later this year — CNET has the exclusive behind-the-scenes and in-depth preview of the game #

ChatRoulette, videochat with a random person — like Omegle with a webcam, randomly NSFW; YouTube has some great video captures (via) #

Recursive webcast on Justin.tv — turn your radio down #

Penn & Teller's Invisible Thread — 1987 short film finally digitized by a fan; cameos by James Randi, Andy Warhol, and Whodini #

We love xkcd — geek all-star remake of the comic on the Discovery Channel ad #

Choire Sicha interviews Paul Ford, Harper's web editor — "YOU ARE THE STUPIDEST WEBSITE IN STUPIDTOWN BECAUSE I WANT EVERYTHING FREE RIGHT NOW!" #

Record Tripping — turntablist-inspired game samples Alice in Wonderland and music by Gorillaz, Beck, Death Cab for Cutie, and Spoon (via) #

Patrick Stewart on Twitter, the Internet, iPhone, and games — simplicity, not brevity #

Help Giant Robot — raising money for another year of publication #

Shutup, disable comments on popular websites — related: Engadget disables comments and the Macheist team adds them to Daring Fireball #

Where We Remain — you might also like Beulah & the Hundred Birds, also built on Flixel #

Loudon Wainwright III on the Sound of Young America — very personal interview and great performances inspired by Charlie Poole #

Google Chrome 4 adds support for native Greasemonkey scripts — yay! #

Greg Knauss time-travels to visit his 1990 self — everything is amazing, nobody's happy #

Gnilley, indie game where you kill enemies by screaming — see also: Racing Pitch #

Ze Frank's Pain Pack — songs built from samples of people in emotional distress #

HacKey, chart popular keys in your Last.fm favorites — 38% of my favorite songs are in C (via) #

Kate Beaton illustrates the Gorey book covers — so good #

Echo Nest previews new APIs — the search_tracks method sounds amazing #

Bram Cohen takes on Freenode — even if the policy's dumb, this isn't the way to handle it #

How to Report the News — from Charlie Brooker's News Wipe (via) #

The Virtual Piano — way more fun than it should be (via) #

Alaska Nanooks 2010 Hockey Intro — true to the spirit of the original, though more polished #

Comedian asks New Yorkers to carry him across Manhattan — 155 people carried him 9.4 miles in below freezing temperatures (via) #

Steven Frank on the iPad and a generational shift in computing — the single smartest essay I've read about the iPad yet #

xkcd's Spirit — NASA's own WALL-E #

Brandon Boyer asks indie game all-stars about the iPad — new music apps, cocktail-style gaming, and more complex game genres #

J. D. Salinger, dead at 91 — "Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody." #