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 #

Ken Jennings took H&R Block up on their offer — they did his taxes for free, because of the "unpleasantness" #

Paul Lamere interviews a 4chan hacker about the TIME poll manipulation — custom Windows apps, Perl scripts, and proxies to submit thousands of votes per minute #

Sweet Juniper's photos of an abandoned Detroit block — every entry on his site is magic, including his TIME tour, abandoned zoo, stealing books, and thoughts on scrappers (via) #

Digg drops the DiggBar for all non-Digg users — which, really, they should've done in the first place (via) #

American expat shows Saudi government's hand-censored version of Katy Perry CD cover — though the last photo looks Photoshopped; maybe they're printing new booklets instead? #

Canvas visualizations of sorting algorithms — absolutely beautiful, based on Aldo Cortesi's original visualizations #

Nancy Cartwright is your insufferable crazy aunt — except that my crazy aunt never donated $10 million to Scientology #

Clay Shirky on the failure of #amazonfail — outrage has its own momentum, even when circumstances change #

Rocketboom spins Know Your Meme off into new site, community — their meme database is like a safe for work alternative to Encyclopedia Dramatica (via) #

We Didn't Start the Flamewar — very potent Diggbait (via) #

Amazon employee blames French office for AmazonFail glitch — they say it's strictly internal, debunking Weev's claims #

Erik Kastner's Super Ear Man Bros. playthrough — he makes a suicidal game look easy #

4chan manipulates all 21 top results on the TIME 100 Poll — not content to just push Moot to the top, they rearranged the results to spell a message #

Birdhouse, a Twitter notepad for the iPhone — for people who take Twitter way too seriously; don't miss the intro video (via) #

Elevated, winning 4k PC intro at Breakpoint 2009 — mind-blowing real-time terrain generation in 4,096 bytes; download it (via) #

Dork Yearbook — Joel Johnson's Boing Boing Gadgets entry became its own site (via) #

Valleywag on Weev taking credit for #amazonfail controversy — remember him? this guy's skeptical, but it still seems plausible to me #

Blogger Training Gym — stick and move, kid #

Urlesque's top 100 most iconic Internet videos — and they interviewed me about their #1 video #

Michael Buffington asks Mechanical Turk to write his personal bio — the results weren't great, but inspired him to make it better #

Know Your Meme on the Yo Dawg/Sup Dawg image macro — including Xzibit's response to the meme on Twitter #

Boing Boing tracks "lololol" variations on Google — including the loolol, a lol with 100 o's (via) #

Adam Curtis on the modern rise of "Oh Dear"-ism in TV news — from Charlie Brooker's Newswipe, a BBC show about the news media; full episodes here (via) #

Comparing word frequency in TV/movie scripts to Craigslist's M4M personal ads — NSFW language; the jargon's interesting, from HWP to DDF #

Yelp to allow businesses to respond to negative reviews — accountability for reviewers and owners is good, but could lead to an all-out war #

Braid released on PC today — despite the false alarms, it's now up on Steam #

Kanye West responds to South Park parody — amazingly, it seems to have led to a minor revelation for him about his own ego #

Engadget's Screen Grabs — ongoing series of gadgets appearing in TV and film #

Chris Ainsworth's advice for Wizards of the Coast — they recently stopped D&D PDF sales to thwart piracy, always a bad plan #

Roo Reynolds visualizes his web browsing history — he analyzed data from MeeTimer, a lovely Firefox extension for self-tracking #

Super 耳男 Bros. — "z" to jump; insanely masochistic gameplay, watch the full walkthrough (via) #

Josh Poehlein's Modern History — collages made exclusively from YouTube screengrabs, artifacts and all (via) #

Techcrunch releases new photos of their prototype tablet — I'm simply amazed at the progress they've made #

John Gruber's guide to blocking the DiggBar — curious that it's not on the Digg homepage yet, even with 600 1,100 diggs #

McSweeney's guide to understanding Twitter — "Twitter founders Bob Timpei and El Segundo have begun working in earnest with Germans" #

LA Times talks to former Area 51 workers to debunk UFO myths — in 2007, the CIA declassified 50-year-old documents about the OXCART program #

Aaron Meyers' Spore Skeletons in augmented reality — here's a video of it in action; Aaron makes cool stuff (via) #

Shadow of the Colossus being developed for feature film — could be great or awful; the game's about love, sacrifice, and 16 big-ass boss battles (via) #

The Tools Artists Use — like The Setup for illustrators (via) #

Pong in Street Fighter IV and other consensual play modes — Cat and Mouse in Project Gotham Racing sounds like a blast, too #