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 #

Google adds Creative Commons searching to Image Search — also supports public domain and GNU licenses (via) #

Tom Armitage's roundup of text rendered into real-world locations — reminds me of Wayne White #

Lost Garden's guide to revenue models for Flash game developers — an alternative to Free, very applicable to web startups beyond gaming (via) #

Best of Wikipedia — surfacing some interesting entries, including the color of water and the Feynman point #

Causes Facebook app raises $10M in two years — half of that was in the last six months alone #

Techcrunch on Tiny Speck, the new company from ex-Flickr folks — I'm hoping for Game Neverending 2.0 #

Code Rush documentary on Mozilla 1.0 officially released by director — as promised, David Winton's put it on Viddler, Blip.tv, and for download and he's digitizing unreleased footage soon #

Google announces Chrome OS — as predicted by Kottke in 2004 #

ASCIIpOrtal — just watching the video made my brain ache #

Mega Man 2600, five screen demo for I Am 8-Bit art show — now available for download #

Prowl, push Growl notifications to the iPhone — brilliant, opens up push notifications from virtually any Mac app (via) #

oMaps, offline OpenStreetMap for the iPhone — perfect for travel, when data roaming is insanely expensive (via) #

NYT infoviz of American economic boom-bust cycles — don't miss the the last part, animating consumer confidence indicators before production output (via) #

Benjamin Pollack on Stack Overflow's user experience and hacker arrogance — the Y Combinator thread is hilarious, the worst of the "that's easy" mentality (via) #

Brandon Boyer on Treasure World, DS game that turns wifi hotspots into collectible treasure — to play the game, you have to explore the real world #

TweetCraft, in-game Twitter client for World of Warcraft — supports uploading screenshots with TwitPic (via) #

Augmented reality iPhone London tube station finder — I really could've used this last week (via) #

Sour's "Hibi no Neiro," crowdsourced music video — choreographing 64 fans with webcams (via) #

Slate's Chris Wilson tracks 10,000 random YouTube URLs for 30 days — 3% hit 1,000 views, more than I would've expected (via) #

Pinboard, Maciej Ceglowski's lightweight del.icio.us clone — on the roadmap: "Get acquired by Yahoo and slowly grow useless" #

Donkey Kong easter egg discovered 25 years later — created by DadHacker and discovered by Don Hodges, two of my favorite gaming nerds #

Newspaper Club — building a customizable newspaper printing service in 60 days; they're using InDesign as the backend #

Kevin Kelly's Death Clock in Futurama — this might seem morbid to some, but I find it inspiring #

Paul Lamere's Coolness Index — are female singers uncool? #

Kickstarter's Big Day — 13 projects ended on July 1, raising an average 188% of their goals #

Anil Dash on Malcolm Gladwell's criticism of Chris Anderson's Free — I read through Gladwell's New Yorker piece twice, and the arguments seem petty and off base #

72-year-old retired boxer beats up knife-wielding knucklehead — the inane Facebook photos make this story even more delicious #

Pez sues Burlingame Museum of Pez for copyright infringement — so disappointing #

RIAA wins lawsuit against Usenet.com — judge rules Betamax case doesn't apply; every other Usenet provider is next #

EveryBlock releases source code — it was a requirement of their funding from the Knight Foundation #

Hype Machine detects cheating on charts, names names — one of the bands responds in the comments and gets schooled by Anthony (via) #