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) #

The Brain-Twitter Interface — focusing on flashing letters creates measurable brainwaves (via) #

History of Rainn Wilson's Twitter feud with Sockington — unfortunately, it's led to over 100 threats; Rainn's toned it down recently #

Casual Profanity's liquid sculpture made from plastic tubing — see also: the Superfluid Skirt (via) #

Kara Swisher announces changes to AllThingsD's Voices section — in response to my article, they removed the comments/Share links and changed the wording; compare then and now #

Adam Berg's Carousel, short film capturing a frozen moment in time — you can scrub through it on the official site #

Inspired Bicycles: Danny MacAskill — breathtaking in parts, it's like watching parkour on a bike #

Braid artist David Hellman releases game's art assets — the wallpapers are lovely (via) #

Bohemian Rhapsody played by vintage computer hardware — Atari 800XL, TI-99/4a, 8" floppy, 3.5" hard drive, and HP ScanJet 3C as Freddie Mercury (via) #

MailChimp used Mechanical Turk to rank 25,960 templates — interesting approach, combining algorithmic design with human filtering #

Jason Fortuny ordered to pay $74k for Craigslist sex baiting prank — he never showed up in court; I wonder if any of the hundreds of others affected will bother #

Little Big Cremaster 1 — Little Big Planet levels inspired by Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle; also: Little Big Cremaster 4 (via) #

Scene.org Awards 2009 winners announced — the best of the demoscene; you can view or download every entry on Pouet (via) #

Covered, a blog with modern artists covering classic comic books — I love the realistic Donald Duck, Richard Sala's Batman, and Gustavo Deveze's frenetic Action Comics 1 (via) #

The Pac-Man Dossier — an exhaustively researched and well-written guide, with gameplay details I've never seen before (via) #

CMU's ClueWeb09, 1 billion website crawl available for researchers — massive 25 terabyte dataset shipped on four 1.5 terabyte drives; get this up on AWS! (via) #

Swedish court finds The Pirate Bay guilty — a year in jail and $3.6M in damages #

Hacklab's laser engraver plays the Super Mario Bros. theme — here's the Ruby code and homegrown ASCII tablature that makes it work (via) #

Super Mario 3 "Rainbow Riding" LUA hack for FCEUX emulator — you only control Mario indirectly, skip to 1:00 to see how fundamentally it changes gameplay (via) #

Dash Shaw's Bodyworld — serialized in 12 chapters, surreal online comic from the creator of Bottomless Belly Button (via) #

Spreadtweet, Twitter disguised as an Excel spreadsheet — I love his other work, including a playable Snake on his homepage #

Amazon's Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game — five years later, these reviews still make me laugh #

Chino Otsuka's digitally adding her modern self to her childhood photos — time travel with Photoshop (via) #

Kottke digs up The Wire's original pitch, draft outline, and three scripts — a must-read for any fan of the show #

Vulture's history of bloggers depicted in film and TV — they forgot Mr. X #

Track 4chan's Twitter race to beat Ashton Kutcher and CNN to 1M followers — their @basementdad account, created yesterday, is gaining 700-900 followers per minute #

4chan users discover Twitter, mass-following a new account — the NSFW thread on /b/ (cache) is interesting, they've shared code for fake account creation #