IGN/Gamespy shutting down ClassicGaming.com on August 31 — Jason Scott broke the news last week, this includes all hosted sites #

MTV's new original animated series, DJ & The Fro — like a modernized Beavis & Butthead, mocking YouTube instead of music videos #

Microsoft announces Project Natal, full-body motion capture for the Xbox 360 — control games without a controller, plus gestural media browsing, face recognition and object scanning (via) #

Boone Oakley — ad agency uses interactive YouTube videos as their homepage (via) #

Twitcaps, stream of images posted to Twitter — the most popular list is a glimpse into Twitter's evolving demographics (via) #

Lou Romano's incredible concept art for Pixar's UP — don't miss the color scripts and animated tests; also: NYT interviews Pete Docter (via) #

Telltale Games to release Tales of Monkey Island, five short episodic games — and Lucasarts is remaking the original game with new graphics and sound! #

Crush the Castle — addictive little Flash game, knocking down ragdolls on balancing structures #

xkcd inspires 4chan to turn /b/ into Twilight fan forum — in response to this excellent comic (via) #

David Lynch's Interview Project goes live — interviews with ordinary folks conducted on a 70-day road trip across America; directed by Lynch's son #

Know Your Meme tracks the origins of the "God Kills a Kitten" meme — appears to have originated from Portland's BarFly magazine in 1999 #

Windows Update quietly installs Firefox extension — which can't be easily uninstalled; karma, indeed #

Zoho CEO on Google Wave, Microsoft Silverlight, and technology karma — even though Google's their biggest competitor, they've aligned with them because of their history (via) #

PatchMatch, incredible video demo of interactive content-aware image editing — taking seam carving to the next level, I really could've used this last week #

Yahoo! 360 closing down in July — they're providing a migration option and export tools, though only six weeks to use them #

The Onion's report on tracking down an NYU dorm fire — the future of news (via) #

Normalware's Bebot, surprisingly deep synth for the iPhone — don't miss the demo song by Jordan Rudess, showing how it's a full instrument (via) #

Twitter, as viewed by everybody who's never used Twitter — finally, the cliche's going away (via) #

Invaders! Possibly From Space! — Futurama fan makes a game based on a sketch based on a game #

Google Wave's full hour-long demo at Google I/O — don't miss the stunning demo of Rosy, real-time character-by-character language translation #

EFF chairman Brad Templeton makes a Hitler Downfall parody — don't miss his explanation of how he finally made the clip without breaking any laws (via) #

Hulu launches Desktop client for Windows/Mac — also, they just released browsing by air date and recommendations #

How Google Wave's spellcheck uses natural language processing — context-sensitive, it can correct there/their/they're and its/it's errors; also: Arrington interviews the founders #

Tim O'Reilly on the newly-announced Google Wave — real-time collaboration tool with an open protocol, blurring the line between email, IM, and personal publishing #

Don Bluth's Space Ace ported to iPhone — cheaper than the laserdisc version, but apparently, just as frustrating (via) #

Jeff Veen announces Typekit, licensing and hosting for web font embedding — short on details, but glad someone clever's trying to bridge the gap between developers and foundries #

Kevin Fox on Nilla wafers — I found this strangely touching #

Cabel Sasser on Panic's 50% off sale — every software company needs a green screen #

The Legion of Rock Stars — band wears 30dB noise-canceling headphones and plays along to rock songs #

Phreakmonkey surfs the web with a 300 baud acoustic modem from 1964 — at 6:30, he loads Wikipedia in Lynx; amazing it works so well with modern hardware (via) #

Zero Punctuation reviews Duke Nuke Forever — "taht's targic" (via) #

Dennis Knopf's Bootyclipse series — booty-shaking videos on YouTube with the booty removed; the angry comments are funny #

Play Him Off, Green Day — Colbert gets in on the keyboard cat action #

Highlights from the truly horrible Star Wars first draft script — constraints led Lucas to make one great film; without them, he turned out films like this draft (via) #

Pick One — don't miss the top 10 (Sex, The Internet, Cats) and bottom 10 (AIDS, 9/11, Lil' Wayne) (via) #

nasty nets' YouTube Monster — culled from unrelated videos, like the visual version of In Bb 2.0 #

Néojaponisme on the culture of anonymity for Japanese Internet users — opinionated but interesting article, particularly Japan's public vs. private personas #

Text Adventure, typography in video games — remember to adjust your fart volume (via) #

J. Chris Anderson on Toast, his standalone CouchDB chat demo — in the process, he explains some of the overlooked benefits of CouchDB #

Apple changes its mind, allows Eucalyptus into App Store — until Apple sorts out their approval process, it helps to have noisy friends #

The Male Programmer Privilege Checklist — "Having your desk near the entrance to your office without visitors assuming you're the receptionist." (via) #

Techcrunch reports CBS secretly gave Last.fm data to RIAA — Arrington says CBS lied to Last.fm and gave it to the RIAA without their knowledge; Last.fm is vehemently denying it, implying a personal vendetta #

An Optical Illusion by Ze Frank — put on a finger cot first #

The Deck Readership Survey — best survey ever; an excellent example of why I love The Deck so much (via) #

Intel's nerd rockstar ad — the way it should be! sadly, Intel hired an actor to play Ajay Bhatt #

Davario's Draw Yourself As A Teen meme on Livejournal — over 500 submissions in a year, some highlights #

Scott Schiller's forensics on a nasty piece of JS malware — the most bizarre Javascript obfuscation I've ever seen #

Buzzfeed's top video reactions to American Idol's finale — some very upset Adam Lambert fans, #9 is my personal favorite #

John Gruber on the next-gen iPhone's specs — he has the best sources of anyone in the industry, I'll bet this is dead-on accurate #

Sorry I'm Late, a stop-motion short film — I loved seeing how it was made, from the first test animations to the final shoot (via) #