Nick Montfort on extremely minimalist games — you just lost The Game #

Making old Trek look like new Trek — everything's better with lens flare (via) #

Google launches Search Options, date ordering for everyone — a nice companion to Twitter Search, looking forward to seeing how it evolves #

Times Wire, like Digg Spy for the New York Times — built on the Newswire API, it could use some analytics to gauge importance, like word count or clickthroughs (via) #

Suzanne Ciani composes the electronic soundtrack for Xenon pinball in 1979 — also: Suzanne demonstrating sound synthesis on 3-2-1 Contact (via) #

Pogo's Wonderland, free album of Alice in Wonderland mashups — I never knew the creator of the famous Alice video made more Alice songs #

Clap Your Hands Say Mario — hilarious hack controls Super Mario Bros. with a guitar, singing, clapping, and drums #

Phil Gyford's list of Ask Metafilter's introductory books — painstakingly compiled from this massive, wonderful thread (via) #

Judging programming language contentment using Twitter and Mechanical Turk — using humans to gauge sentiment, something it's hard for computers to do correctly #

Twitter meme could reveal answers to security questions — new meme: #robotname is your mother's maiden name and last 4 digits of your SSN #

Current interviews Mark "Afro Ninja" Hicks — hard to believe it's been five years since I first identified him (via) #

MonaTweeta II, encoding the Mona Lisa in 140 characters — using Chinese characters to send 210 bytes in 140 UTF-8 characters (via) #

Bad Astronomy reviews the science of the new Star Trek film — overall, it did better than most sci-fi; the comments reminded me of The Onion's take on the film (via) #

Jer Thorp's animated 3D visualization of take-offs and landings from Twitter — he grabbed every "just landed in..." query, extracted locations, and mapped the results with Processing #

Nintendo's documentary-style ad for Punch-Out — featuring The Wire's Sen. Clay "Sheeeiiiit" Davis as Little Mac's trainer, Doc #

Today Is A… — algorithmic guess of good/bad days based on news, stocks, and UK weather #

Globe and Mail's interview with Canadian cartoonist Seth — the wonderful video offers a revealing glimpse into his home and collections (via) #

Steven Spielberg reunites the Goonies cast — Goonies never say die! #

Mud Tub, using a pile of mud as a user interface — skip to 2:20 of the video to see them play Tetris by squishing mud around (via) #

The Sound of Young America's unaired pilot for Current TV — interviews with Patton Oswalt and Daily Show/Colbert Report writer/producer Ben Karlin #

Ze Frank as Jonah Peretti on Ashton Kutcher on BuzzFeed on Ashton — falling down a rabbit hole of celebrity and sincerity (via) #

The Stranger's 2009 Sex Survey — entertaining and mildly-NSFW charts and graphs, including this purity test #

The Anonymous Hugging Wall — like a platonic glory hole (via) #

Mike Frumin's sparkline map of NYC subway activity from 1905 to 2006 — don't miss his interactive version using OpenStreetMap #

10 Zen Monkey's exclusive with the "John Doe" and lawyer who sued Jason Fortuny — I hate to say it, but I agree with Fortuny that it was stretching copyright law #

Tabulating original vs. repurposed content on major gaming blogs — surprisingly, 21% of all posts were original reporting; see also: churnalism in British papers #

Gawker's Ryan Tate on citizen journalism and civic reporting — some local bloggers are digging far deeper than newspaper journalists (via) #

The Lonely Island's "For Your Consideration" promos for the MTV Movie Awards — my money's on Slaughter Shack, starring Will Arnett as "Eagleheart" #

Daniel Benmergui's Today I Die — manipulate the words and characters to progress the story; from the creator of I Wish I Were the Moon #

Sean Tevis raising money for open government and his 2010 campaign — I just gave $40; he narrowly lost last year because of dirty tricks and a huge influx of GOP money #

Duke Nukem developer 3D Realms closes down — hopefully, marking the end of one of the longest vaporware projects of all-time #

The Dragnet Fugue aka "Fugue for Friday" — 1975 composition from the creator of the Music Animation Machine #

Alice on YooouuuTuuube — like YouCube, half the fun is making your own #

Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat — more on the meme's origins; make your own (via) #

In Bb 2.0, a collaborative music and spoken word project — each person submitted a video performing in B flat major, which can be mixed at whim #

New Amazon Kindle supports native PDF reading — uses Adobe Reader Mobile, so no more conversion by email or $0.15/MB delivery fees #

Spewer — fun with liquid physics, designed by the artist behind Gish and Coil #

Tracing the real-world history of Jughead's crown-like hat — the dot and dash were just a shorthand for suggesting badges and pins (via) #

Metafilter's global 10th Anniversary Party — it's a testament to the team that the community's still so active and vibrant #

Chris Ware's animated Quimby the Mouse for This American Life — new animation with music by Andrew Bird (via) #

Refresh Cannon, multiplayer game played with a single avatar image — insanely clever, refresh to change angle and distance; also check out Refresh Hero, Refresh War, and just Refresh #

Time interviews Louis CK about consumer cynicism — his anecdotes on Conan about complaining passengers were all about himself #

The Biology of B-Movie Monsters — exploring the physiology of shrinking men, giant bugs, and E.T.; from 2003, but new to me (via) #

Jim Munroe's GDC: The Game — the Game Developers Conference organizers commissioned a playable text adventure about the show #

AUTO-MEME — there's an API, too #

Nieman Journalism Lab on @NPRBackstory — automated Twitter bot searches NPR's news archives for context for current news stories #

"You're," a printed portrait mashing up identity on various social sites — each portrait pulls in data from Flickr, Delicious, Twitter, and Last.fm (via) #

LA Times tracks the origin of SMS's 160 character limit — "This is perfectly sufficient." #

Jack Schulze discusses his influences for the Here & There maps — he has some interesting ideas about shifting perspective in first-person and God games #

Jay Leno's new ad slogan for Facebook — maybe this is his way of keeping up with Fallon #