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) #

U.S. government launches Data.gov, national data repository — not much there yet, but centralized data is good #

Project Gutenberg iPhone app blocked by Apple because of the Kama Sutra — note that Stanza, eReader, and Amazon's Kindle app all allow the same book (via) #

Infinite Summer, read Infinite Jest this summer — only 75 pages a week, easy! #

Brian & Eileen's Wedding Music Video — someone found a business model for lip dubs #

Tiny Art Director, little kids are difficult clients — I'm finding this very, very late, but every entry made me laugh (via) #

Mozilla Jetpack, extend Firefox with HTML, CSS, and jQuery — don't bother trying to grok it from the text, just watch the screencast #

Yahoo! Placemaker, extract world locations from unstructed content — also, Yahoo released the huge GeoPlanet/WOE placename database under a CC license #

Axono.me, isometric pixel art grid library for jQuery — check out the demos, including these racing cubes #

LEGO announces Frank Lloyd Wright sets — the Guggenheim and Fallingwater are first, continuing the LEGO Architecture series of landmarks #

Evan Roth's Intellectual Property Asshole Competition — he painted the HOPE poster and the AP photo it was based on; whoever C&Ds him first wins (via) #

Braid for Mac released — now there's no excuse not to buy it #

Fast Company on Taipei's innovative "zero landfill, total recycling" program — here's a first-person account of the system and video of the garbage trucks playing Fur Elise (via) #

Leaked video from Trico, new game by ICO/Shadow of the Colossus creators — their games seem to be weaving a larger narrative arc in the same fictional world #

Katy Hargrove's real-life molded Gummi Venus de Milos — life imitating art #

Fathom — tweaking the genre's cliches, it quickly shifts from 8-bit platformer to art game (via) #

Gmail Labs adds automatic language translation — getting closer to the Babel fish #

Tweeting Too Hard — dedicated to finding the most self-important, egotistical tweets #

ghstbstrsbstrs — clever, a digital collage without Photoshop (via) #

Joel Johnson on the divide between Wired Magazine vs. Wired.com — great comments from Wired employees past and present, including Chris Anderson, Leander Kahney, Steve Silberman, and Brian Lam #

Auto Tune The News #3 — last month, the New York Observer interviewed Michael Gregory about the series (via) #

Last Day Dream — a 42-second short film (via) #

Which of our beliefs will our grandchildren be appalled by? — Phil Dhingra highlights the best from a massive Reddit thread #

NYT's Maureen Dowd steals paragraph from Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall — it would've been more fitting if she'd plagiarized from Twitter instead #

All Your Base dialogue, properly translated from Japanese to English — amazingly, I've never read the correct translation before #

Japanese trailer for "Muscle March" for WiiWare — defies description, the most intensely weird game I've ever seen #

Google's index of Wolfram|Alpha search results — they have no robots.txt at all; Google isn't parsing their Javascript, so Google can only see what's served statically from their results #