Crazy 4 Cult 3D, artwork inspired by cult movies — too many amazing ones to list, reminiscent of I Am 8-Bit #

Prove You're Human  #

Origins of videogame character names — staggering amount of research into name etymology #

David Rosen on meta-games and creating the illusion of accomplishment — "does our game make players happy when they play, or just make them sad when they stop?" #

ConfCon 2009 — phone phreaking conference held, appropriately, on a five-hour conference call (via) #

Spotify to expand to U.S. in late summer  #

Amazon ironically removes books from the Kindle — they should remove Fahrenheit 451 next; related: Amazon's Final Message to Its Creation #

Janey Thomson's Marathon — like Desert Bus meets Track & Field; send me a screenshot if you win (via) #

Image: Vague Scientist — "the magazine for people who try to have conversations about science news" (via) #

The Google Doodle Triforce Conspiracy — the artist has been hiding a triforce in the logo illustrations #

Global Gaming CEO confirms Pirate Bay switching to pay site — "If the new owners will screw around with the site, nobody will keep using it." #

Slate on Spotify — best streaming service ever, the celestial jukebox done right #

Citizen Media Project on the legality of Techcrunch publishing stolen Twitter docs — publishing trade secrets and receiving stolen property are both illegal under California law #

Augmented reality iPhone app finds the closest NYC subways — from the creators of Nearest Tube #

Star Wars Uncut — 473 fans remaking Star Wars in 15-second chunks (via) #

Matt Haughey on Metafilter's 10th Anniversary — happy birthday, blue; see you on Saturday! #

Kickstarter's $60,000 day — and the site's still invite-only for project creators; related: the five best updates so far #

System and method for creating exalted video games and virtual realities — insane patent application from Internet crackpot/Pepperdine professor Dr. Elliot McGucken #

Christopher Baker's Murmur Study — a live, physical visualization of Twitter on ticker-tape #

Dave Chappelle performs unannounced midnight Portland show to thousands — he was expecting 200 people for the rumored appearance, which spread quickly through Twitter #

Hid.im, convert torrents into PNG images — turn any photo sharing site into a torrent hub (via) #

Leonard Richardson's Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs — he posted a deleted scene and other notes on his weblog (via) #

YouTube phasing out support for IE6 — unfortunately, most IE6 users simply can't upgrade #

Yahoo Query Language lets you INSERT INTO the Internet — insert into {table} (status, username, password) values ("new tweet from YQL", "twitterusername", "twitterpassword") (via) #

Loyola professor griefs City of Heroes players, then surprised they hate him — on his blog, he seems impossibly tone-deaf to community norms #

Weird Al's "Skipper Dan" — familiar tale of lost dreams in Adventureland, animated by Divya Srinivasan #

Jay Smooth on Michael Jackson — the last word #

Drastic ANSI, online ANSI drawing tool — my Lazyweb request on Twitter turned up exactly what I wanted (via) #

Mark Frauenfelder's Miniature Bottle — $11, cheap (via) #

Google users wonder, "What is Twitter?" — it's the top search suggestion for "what" #

Paul Constant reviews Twitter for The Stranger — written in 140-character chunks, drafted on Twitter itself (via) #

The Sixty One — turning music listening into a MMO, with achievements and quests #

Enviro-Bear 2010, bear driving simulator for the iPhone — the very funny winner of TIGSource's cockpit competition #

Buzzfeed illustrates ReCaptcha phrases — looks like SomethingAwful started the game #

Metafilter user spots digital photo manipulation in the NYT — the photographer lied to the NYT and they pulled the photos immediately #

Auto-Tune the News #6 — someone explain why these guys don't have a TV deal (via) #

Into the Night with Chris Crawford and Jason Rohrer — German TV show follows two generations of game innovators around San Francisco #

The Onion: New Live Poll Allows Pundits To Pander To Viewers In Real Time — I'm waiting for a talk show to start a real-time Twitter sentiment tracker (via) #

Pew Internet's chart of U.S. Internet usage from 2000-2009 — over 50% finally go online daily, but only a fraction using IM, blogs, social networks, or watching videos (via) #

Elliot Malkin reconstructs his parents' 1974 home movies — related: Clarisse d'Arcimoles's meticulous remakes of childhood photos #

Experimental Gameplay Project relaunches — the prototyping collective that led to World of Goo and Crayon Physics #

Jeff Atwood on the evolution of Evony's online advertising — see also: they're electing a queen #

Digg's survey of IE6 users — 77% of IE6 users can't upgrade or change browsers because of work #

Sockington is missing; update: he's found — false alarm; he was just spooked #

Negativland's Car Bomb — may prove useful in certain situations #

John Gruber puts the Chrome OS announcement in context — also: Anil thinks this signals a major cultural shift at Google #

Know Your Meme on Keyboard Cat — they also interviewed Brad O'Farrell in May #

The World Series of 'Tubing — augmented reality game performed live; see it in action on Rocketboom #

Evan Roth's letterform studies of Paris graffiti — see the interactive site to see all 2,400 tags #

The Globe and Mail's Metafilter profile on the 10th anniversary — including an interview with mathowie; reminder, the global birthday party's in a week #