Icycle, ride a tricycle naked through the next Ice Age — Flash game with gorgeous art direction #

Emoji Dick — using Kickstarter to hire Mechanical Turkers to translate Moby Dick to a CC-licensed book of emoji icons #

Fan replaces nearly every sound in Half-Life 2 with his own voice — reminds me of Petra Haden's acapella version of The Who Sell Out (via) #

SquarePixelz, collection of five vintage videogame films — hasn't been updated since April 2008, but these all look great #

Time Fcuk — very quirky lo-fi platformer by Edmund McMillen #

Deep Green, the pool-playing robot — don't miss the augmented reality pool at the 2 minute mark (via) #

List of all 22,802 spawnable objects in Scribblenauts — and the developer says it's not even a complete list #

Scientists cure colorblindness in monkeys with gene therapy — exciting news, since I'm red-green colorblind, along with 8% of all white males #

Monetizing the Hate — Dooce publishes her hate mail; for the full effect, read the backstory and turn off AdBlock (via) #

Incredible, awesome, amazing Apple keynote — supercut of every superlative (via) #

Christopher Niemann's Good Night and Tough Luck — very funny painted infographics from Abstract City, his illustrated blog #

Khoi Vinh's Craigslist redesign for Wired — also: Craigslist redesign from SXSW 2006 #

Nick Montfort's Interactive Fiction suggestions for Fall 2009 — updated list of ten games, a perfect primer to the genre #

Modern Pixel Art — hand-drawn subpixel renderings of favicons; see also: his teeny, tiny typeface #

Lukas Biewald demonstrates CrowdFlower — just launched today, amazing tool makes crowdsourcing tasks dead simple #

OK Cupid analyzes 500,000 intro emails to give online dating advice — self-effacing terms made men's messages more appealing, but didn't affect women's (via) #

Book Titles If They Were Written Today — many more in Kottke's comments (via) #

Infinite Mario AI contest winner releases source code — don't miss the slo-mo video of the mouse-controlled AI as it analyzes every possible path in real-time (via) #

Philadelphia shutting down all public libraries in October — discovered via the Internet Archive's new blog (via) #

Facebook pranks Techcrunch with a working "fax this photo" feature — I'm late on this, but it's still hilarious #

Stamen and Radian 6's MTV VMA visualization of Twitter activity — as I watched, the Kanye bubble exploded because of this debacle (via) #

Justin Hall on shutting down PMOG and starting Dictator Wars — "If someone can't figure out what to do in the first five minutes... you are hosed." (via) #

Everything Is Terrible's Advanced DOS Strategies — always format b: #

UK PM issues official apology for persecution of Alan Turing — the result of a petition from 31k British citizens, including Richard Dawkins and Stephen Fry #

Llamasoft's vintage footage from 1980s computer conventions — feels like E3 circa 1986 #

How one team tracked down missing Wired reporter Evan Ratliff — part of the contest published in last month's Wired; another perspective from the ground (via) #

Google's undocumented embeddable PDF viewer — death to Acrobat Reader! #

Birds on the Wires — transcribed from nature (via) #

Designing a Popularity Algorithm — with examples from Hacker News, Reddit, del.icio.us, and StumbleUpon (via) #

Adam Mathes compares "new entry" UIs on blogging services — only Wordpress and Twitter have inline posting tools on the homepage #

The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions — phone call trumps text message trumps Twitter #

O'Reilly ends Etech conference — very sad to see it go; I heard the last one was great though sparsely attended #

C64 emulator for the iPhone approved by Apple — as far as I know, the first official emulator in the App Store #

Piano instrumental version of Auto-Tune the News #2 — at 1:38, very thin ice; also: The Gregory Brothers on CNN #

Gawker crowdsources Russian translation of GQ's Putin article — Conde Nast's gone to great lengths to keep the article hidden (via) #

MC Frontalot releases "Diseases of Yore" single featuring Jonathan Coulton — how could I not link this? a song about medieval medicine (via) #

The Beach Boys' rehearsals from 1967 — related: isolated vocal tracks #

Extensive photo study of corridors in sci-fi movies — apparently via myself #

Japanese programmers' hidden gossip in 8-bit Famicom games — one message wasn't discovered until 2007 (via) #

What the Internet Knows About You — exploiting the old CSS :visited trick #

Ben Fry visualizes changes to Darwin's Origin of Species over time — changes across six editions and 13 years; more on the project #

Smule and T-Pain release auto-tune app for the iPhone — as seen in Auto-Tune the News #

Ben Lee, Lou Barlow release new Noise Addict album for free — using Bandcamp, their first new album in 13 years (via) #

Derek Yu's Spelunky hits 1.0 — free procedurally-generated platformer for Windows, highly recommended (via) #

Infomercial Hell — from Everything Is Terrible, who also recently released a DVD (via) #

Auto-Tune the News #8 — featuring T-Pain; yes, really #

AT&T dumps Kevin Mitnick as a customer — rather than fix their security issues, they asked him to leave #

GameCyte on the history and psychology of game achievements — a year old, but new to me #

Robin Sloan's Google Adwords experiment for naming fictional characters — testing to see which names are most compelling to random Google users #

Verizon the latest ISP to close free Usenet access — joining AT&T, Time Warner, and Sprint; only a handful of paid feeds will be left, which will be easy for the RIAA/MPAA to attack #