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 #

Spike Jonze's "Everyone Poops" — he's transformed another children's classic (via) #

Dustin Glick's The Browsy — a cautionary tale heavily inspired by Dr. Seuss (via) #

NYT blog posts added to the Times Newswire API — also, they announced their new Real Estate API two days ago #

Everything Is Terrible's compilation of bad introductions — amazing videoblog of original VHS rips; the first post set the tone, recreating a VHS viral he'd seen in college #

Nate Silver's prediction model for gay marriage bans, state-by-state — bans are losing support at a rate of 2 points yearly; by 2012, almost half would vote against it #

MPA to challenge Newzbin in court — baffling since they only host metadata, but not the actual files #

Reddit interviews Mythbusters' Adam Savage — also: Digg interviews Trent Reznor #

Mad Scientist Labs builds Ironic Sans' concept Bulbdial Clock — an LED sundial with moving hour, minute, and second hands #

Hand-crafted miniature sets from classic TV shows — my favorites are Family Ties, Three's Company, Price Is Right and Pyramid (via) #

Hot New Video Game Consists Solely Of Shooting People Point-Blank In The Face — The Onion built a dedicated website for the game, with an online Flash demo #

Effing Hail — Flash game in the form of weather infographics in a textbook; awful music, though (via) #

Perry Russerts, Umbrella Theif — a wonderful yarn #

Andre Michelle's ToneMatrix — like Electroplankton meets the Tenori-on (via) #

The Beatles entire catalogue remastered, to be released alongside Rock Band — wait, what's this "CD" they speak of? (via) #

8-Bit Tarot Cards — the nearly complete deck is a thing of beauty, but sadly out of stock #

Flickr's Aaron Cope walks through building maps from scratch — using Stamen's EC2 image for an instant map stack; yet another reason to vote for them in Icon's poll #

Visualizing SF Trees, Crimes, and Cabs with subtractive blending — Stamen's Shawn Allen explains how it was made in the comments (via) #

Gizmodo's Pirate Code of Conduct for BitTorrent — in case media companies are wondering, these align to the ethical guidelines for most people I know #

highDEAS — like Halfbakery for the fully-baked #

NYT on Hearst's RealAge "test" marketing 27 million medical histories to drug companies — naturally, Hearst also owns Oprah Magazine; Gordon predicted this back in 2007 #

Amanda Palmer on how Twitter is changing her relationship with fans — she's been actively trying to get dropped from her label #

Paramount surprises hardcore fans by debuting new Trek film in Austin — they thought they were watching a new reprint of Wrath of Khan, until Nimoy himself broke the news #

Boxee officially releases new API — the latest release added a new Mozilla-based browser, fixed Hulu streaming, and Pandora support #

A Visit to id Software in 1993 — home video includes 20 minutes of Romero playing a pre-release version of Doom (via) #

BashReduce — Last.fm's MapReduce in an 160-line Bash script (via) #

DeepLeap, the word game — a John Resig experiment on the old Deepleap dev domain (via) #

Super Luigi Bros. — living in the shadow of a famous brother; also: a day in the life of a Goomba (via) #

Joshua Schachter on the dangers of URL shorteners — interesting that Archive Team is already working on crawling the TinyURL db #

How xkcd's Randall broke his laptop trying to turn off Google's SafeSearch — fortunately, there were no sharks nearby #

IF YOU'RE NOT INDIE, F**K YOU — inspired by Samberg, the unpunched guy is Dan Paladin (via) #

UK village mob blocks Google Street View car — "how dare anyone take a photograph of my home without my consent?" #

The Music Explaura, powerful music discovery engine — explains each recommendation and lets you steer suggestions by shifting tag weights or popularity (via) #

Things iPhoto Thinks Are Faces — finding faces in cookie dough, trees, watches, buttons, church, and pants #

Conficker Eye Chart — clever way to instantly diagnose PCs for the virus, unless they're on a proxy #