Rod Stewart joins Jeff Beck on stage for first time in 25 years — soundboard recordings of "People Get Ready" and "I Ain't Superstitious" #

Adventure 2600 Reboot — the classic Atari game remade in 16-bit graphics with new sounds; interview with the creator #

Motion Theory's Google Chrome ad — gorgeous animated evolution of browser UIs, plus greeked versions of popular Google sites #

Dan Gurewich's Real Life Twitter — he seems to be missing the self-consciousness gene #

Swine Flu amino acid sequence as ambient music — related: Has Madagascar Closed Its Port? (via) #

EveryBlock releases free iPhone app — look up health code violations at dinner and which street you're likely to get mugged on the way home #

Dreamhost's history of WebRing — sold for $3.5 million to Geocities, vested to $100M in Yahoo stock by 2000, and bought back for $10,000 #

The White House joins Flickr — incredible detail in the high-res versions, you can almost read his notes #

Google adds public data visualizations to search results — announced right before the Wolfram Alpha demo (via) #

Warner Music files DMCA request against Larry Lessig presentation — still unclear which one, but I'm not sure it matters; he's the king of fair use #

Farbs' resignation letter to 2K Australia — best resignation ever, from the creator of ROM CHECK FAIL, who's gone full indie #

Google's What's Popular — algorithm surfaces trending links culled from YouTube and Google Reader (via) #

Nizmlab, surfacing the best of YouTube and Vimeo — fed up with YouTube's most popular, they built an elegant community site (via) #

Type Nesting, photos of birds nesting in storefront signage — they seem to prefer capital Rs and As (via) #

How 4chan defeated reCAPTCHA to win the Time 100 Poll — Paul Lamere breaks down the brute force hack, optimized to crank out 200 votes per minute #

Jason Scott's progress update on mirroring Geocities — in 48 hours, Archive Team's already saved over 200,000 Geocities sites #

Jeff Jarvis on journalism's original reporting vs. redundancy — "Do what you do best and link to the rest." #

Face mining demo using vintage Star Trek episodes — white polygons in the videos represent faces that were detected but unmatched #

Infographic timeline of Evel Knievel's jumps — up until his last failed jump, which inspired Happy Days to jump the shark #

Windosill, Vectorpark's new exploration game for Mac/PC — holy cow, this is amazing; if you're a fan of Vectorpark, try and buy this immediately (via) #

NYT on Internet startups throttling or blocking global users — YouTube and Facebook may lower video quality for certain countries #

Shadow Physics gameplay demo — also: Miegakure, an experimental game in four dimensions (via) #

4chan creator handily wins the TIME 100 poll — interesting spin on their broken poll; "Doubting the results is kind of the point." (via) #

Scratching vinyl with augmented reality — also: spinning records on the iPhone #

Honda Insight's immersive ad on Vimeo — it caught me by surprise #

Newsmap 2.0 — back with a new design, including real-time search, permalinks, and news photos (via) #

RotatSpin — I vanquished the crab lord with a mere 238 deaths (via) #

Rhett Dashwood's Google Maps Typography — every location is in Victoria, Australia (via) #

Scientists find potential cure for honey bee colony collapse — another human-made disaster averted (via) #

Random Reruns, get a random show from your Hulu subscriptions — injecting some serendipity to Hulu, now it just needs channels and a TV Guide #

Yeti Knight Adventures — from the creator of Buffalo Bill's Lotion Challenge (via) #

Yahoo! to close GeoCities later this year — someone call the Archive Team #

Ian Bogost simulates the CRT display in an Atari 2600 emulator — he asked five computer science students to modify Stella, and the results are fuzzy gold (via) #

Game Developers and Porn Stars — though I suspect money's more of an incentive for porn than in game development (via) #

Typographica's Favorite Typefaces of 2008 — Stag Dot is a gorgeous alternative to pixel fonts (via) #

Kottke's In Defense of Twitter — inspired by Dowd's dumb interview; Geoff Manaugh and Rex argue the media's threatened by new writers, again #

Auto-Tune the News — don't miss Katie Couric at 1:20 (via) #

Alice Marwick on Foursquare and prescriptive social software — with its badges and other incentives, it encourages a particular style of social behavior #

241543903, photos of people putting their head in a freezer — inexplicable, until you read this note from David Horvitz (via) #

PhD Comics on the cure for cancer — related: The Bride Was Beautiful (via) #

Last Year's Model — "saving the planet through sheer laziness" or maybe not #

Maureen Dowd's ridiculous interview with Twitter's founders — they were funny and graceful under idiocy #

YouCube, make an interactive cube from YouTube videos — for example, try Oo De Lally, David After Dentist or Douche Cubed #

McSweeney's "Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era" — with slight modifications, I think this class would be a massive hit (via) #

Sarien's web-based multiplayer ports of classic Sierra games — Space Quest, Police Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry so far; here's how it all works (via) #

Jeff Veen's Designing for Big Data — great 20-minute talk covering the history and best practices of data visualization #

BirdFeeder, prototype client for an open decentralized Twitter — don't miss his presentation, explaining why Twitter is like CompuServe mail #

NYT's Saul Hansell researches the costs of broadband Internet providers — they want to add fees to cover increased usage, but their costs are actually going down #

Interface design concepts for Firefox as a URL library — an iTunes-like treatment for URLs, combining bookmarks, feeds, and history (via) #

NYT on Wired's J.J. Abrams-edited Mystery Box issue — the puzzle was solved by Steven Bevacqua; the whole issue is great (via) #