Sudden Impact — cliche supercut of TV/film characters suddenly hit by moving vehicles #

How to enable iPhone OS 3.0 tethering on AT&T's network — not as flawless as I thought; it disables Visual Voicemail, but you can check manually until the new hack's out tomorrow #

Ross Racine's incredible artwork of aerial views of fictional city maps — drawn freehand in Photoshop, they contain no photos or scanned material #

TED interviews Clay Shirky about Iran and Twitter — related: Clay's TED talk from last month at the State Department #

Shaun Inman releases Fever, an elegantly designed feedreader — PHP/MySQL app, it recommends stories in your feeds based on link popularity #

Ze Frank's Art Hour — he still makes me giggle #

Microsoft IE8 contest insults other browsers — tarnished Chrome, boring Safari, and old Firefox; "get rid of it, or get lost" #

Alice and Kev, the story of being homeless in Sims 3 — start from the beginning and keep reading; his writing is outstanding (via) #

SomethingAwful user's "urban exploration" of his neighbor's house — also known as "trespassing" #

Chris Messina's scathing critique of Opera Unite — sending all traffic through Opera's proxies creates more centralization instead of less #

Google asks 50 random New Yorkers, "What's a browser?" — only about 8% knew; Rocketboom got very different answers on the NYU campus in 2005 #

Play Mario Off, Keyboard Cat — Internet meme plus chiptunes equals Waxy love #

Sweet Juniper on Andrew WK's "Destroy Build Destroy" kid's show — "It's official: Andrew W.K., world's best babysitter." #

Autotune the News takes on JFK's inaugural speech — everything sounds better autotuned; see also: Winston Churchill and MLK #

Opera Unite — web server hosted in the browser using Opera's proxy servers for a simple URL; file sharing seems the most useful #

Shnabubula's alternate-reality versions of classic videogame music — Super Mario Bros. in a blender #

Alex Payne's Open Ideas — he's publishing his notebook of "someday" ideas, and they're all winners #

PS22 Chorus covers Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" — don't stop believin', kids #

Weird Al's "Craigslist" — Doors style parody featuring Ray Manzarek on keyboards, directed by Liam Lynch (via) #

BREADBOX64 — a Twitter client for the Commodore 64/128 (via) #

John Martz's IE6 denial message for Momentile.com — new candidate for best error ever #

Diorama, stereoscopic 3D game for the iPhone — I want to see this on the Wii with head tracking (via) #

Dina Goldstein's Fallen Princesses photo series — what happens after the fairy tale's over? #

List of most frequently looked-up words on nytimes.com — more accurate stats since they removed the irritating double-click behavior in October #

Backbars, Greasemonkey script adds ambient bar charts to social news sites — unobtrusively visualizes popularity on Metafilter, Delicious, Reddit, Hacker News, etc (via) #

Hunch.com, decision-making engine, opens to the public — Caterina's new project is weird and good; worth checking out: the stats methods in the API and their cred system #

Nelson Minar on building social capital in multiplayer games — using an avatar creates a barrier to real-life interaction #

E_B_A tells the story behind the "Suing for Hotlinked Images" screenshot — the 2005 conversation is making the rounds again on Digg, Reddit, and Fark, without the followups #

140+ versions of Edward Cullen/Robert Pattinson in The Sims 3 — also: Boxxy, Tay Zonday, and Rick Astley all living in one house (via) #

Simon Willison's thoughtful essay on Facebook usernames and OpenID — he also notes that they're not doing an HTTP redirect, instead relying on JS (via) #

ARhrrrr, augmented reality first-person shooter on a handheld — runs on a prototype Nvidia Tegra dev kit; "orange Skittles act like proximity bombs" (via) #

Ian Bogost on cascading failure from Google's malware detection — Twitter uses it for spam detection, which caused Ian's account to be suspended (via) #

Image: Facesquatting (fixed) — Mat Honan's collecting more examples #

Fleet Foxes singer on the beneficial effects of filesharing on music — he argues that free access to music history creates better musicians #

Mythbuster Adam Savage's Colossal Failures — great talk from Maker Faire on how his failures have changed him (via) #

The Simpsons Minus The Simpsons — hand-editing out the main characters, frame by frame #

Rob Matthews' printed hardbound edition of Wikipedia's featured articles — and it only represents less than 1/1000th of the total articles (via) #

Jim Rossignol on the Fermi paradox and why the aliens stayed home — our grandkids might find space exploration boring compared to next-gen virtual worlds and networks (via) #

Microsia, gorgeous sound game/tool for Windows — feels like an in-depth, HD version of Electroplankton (via) #

Windosill demo, now playable online — the first half of the game from the creator of Vector Park (via) #

Trending Topics, tracking Wikipedia zeitgeist — a completely open-source clone of Wikirank built on Hadoop and EC2 (via) #

Daily Show visits the New York Times — I don't think they deserved this treatment; the NYT preemptively responded (via) #

Mr. Penumbra's Twenty-Four-Hour Book Store — must-read short fiction on data visualization, Google book scanning, and immortality #

Microsoft's Project Natal demo on Jimmy Fallon — Gavin Purcell says the bright red suits weren't for edge detection, but just being silly #

Slate on orphaned tweets — people who post once to Twitter and never return (via) #

Chinese government to require all new computers to ship with "Green Dam" filtering software — ostensibly to remove porn, but it also monitors activity and allows full government control over Internet usage #

Evaluating Google vs. Bing with Mechanical Turk — same as my experience, Google has a slim lead for most queries #

Bygone Bureau's feature on the indie gaming scene — interviews with the creators of Gravity Bone, You Have to Burn the Rope, and The Graveyard #

Last.fm's three founders announce their departure — they're leaving at the end of the month, close to the two-year anniversary of their acquisition #

Anil Dash on the future of Facebook usernames — entirely plausible; until Simon writes his up, I'm linking to Chris Messina's thoughtful essay #