Blind Search, compare results from Google, Bing, and Yahoo — in my queries, Google has an edge over Bing with Yahoo far behind #

Flixel, a free Actionscript library for building complex games without Flash — used to create Gravity Hook and Fathom, and includes the full source for Mode #

Joystiq on Scribblenauts for the DS — its absurdly large vocabulary lets players summon anything from a Kraken to a jackelope #

Alabaster, an interactive fiction fairy tale edited by Emily Short — multiple authors, procedural illustrations, and a tremendous amount of dialogue #

NYT publishes a new photo of the Tiananmen Square "Tank Man" — fascinating to see an iconic moment from a completely new angle (via) #

Ron Gilbert plays Secret of Monkey Island, 20 years later — his random thoughts and memories about making the game as he played through #

Ask Metafilter on musical cliches from TV and film — also, Kick Ass Classical ranks the top 100 classical songs by pop culture exposure #

Pocket Retro Game Emulator — $100 handheld plays NES, SNES, GBA, Genesis, and Neo Geo ROMs natively (and most likely illegally) (via) #

Google Squared goes live, structured data search — the quality is spotty, but it's still fun to play with; badly missing sorting and data export #

Dave Eggers on the death of print — he's conflating literacy with print, but I'm very excited to see his newspaper prototype (via) #

God Texts the Ten Commandments — "no omg's" #

Han Solo, P.I. — don't miss the side-by-side; see also: Star Wars in the style of Macgyver, Dallas, and Airwolf #

The Beatles Rock Band animated intro, by Gorillaz animator Peter Candeland — incredible detail and hidden goodies in the newly-released HD version (via) #

Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions — "the more you ignore it, the cooler you look"; it's almost a supercut #

Ask Metafilter on books that people proselytize — Aaron Cohen compiled a list of books and authors, ordered by most mentions #

JD Salinger sues over unauthorized Catcher in the Rye sequel — a fictional version of Salinger appears as a character in the book (via) #

John Martz's hand-drawn versions of famous album covers — more here and here #

Valve releases plugin to import Sketchup 3D models into Source maps — bring any object from Google's 3D Warehouse into a first-person game #

China blocking Twitter, Flickr, others in preparation for Tiananmen 20th anniversary — I find it fascinating how Chinese citizens view the GFW as an inconvenience or necessary evil #

Johnny Chung Lee reveals he worked on Project Natal — all my doubts about the technology just flew out the window; it is very real #

Steve Wiebe's live E3 attempt to break Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong record — he just started (via) #

Dan & naD, a palindromic sketch — related: the What Song Is This? series (via) #

Chris Messina on Michael Moore's advice to Obama on GM — the actionable excerpt from Moore's original essay #

Kevin Kelly's Internet Mapping Project — hand-drawn maps of each person's view of the Internet (via) #

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 #