John Carmack releases open-source Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone — his detailed design notes explain his gameplay changes #

Google's Wonder Wheel Experiment — first example of dataviz in their results, plus the new option to restrict and sort by date #

Greasemonkey script adds Twitter Search results on Google — surprisingly useful; I'm surprised Google hasn't found a way to order the web by date #

Home of the Underdogs revived by fans — the best abandonware site is back; the original reviews are up, but without downloads for now (via) #

Double Fine's Host Master and the Conquest of Humor — an excellent one-room adventure game starring Tim Schafer himself; find all 22 jokes! #

Paul Lamere analyzes the Loudness War in modern music — Avril Lavigne and Soulja Boy are louder than Megadeth #

Legend of Zelda theme performed on two Tesla coils at SXSW — and it's a SexyBack mashup, too #

NPR's All Things Considered interviews Kutiman about Thru-You — he worked on it for two straight months, and only pitch-shifted three samples on the album #

NYT valiantly tries to explain a Chinese anti-censorship meme — the original video was removed, but this explains the lyrics with translated wordplay #

Rands on the building of the Brooklyn Bridge — a nice allegory for American innovation, which we need right about now #

419 scammer chats with security company CEO — the brutal honesty is refreshing and continued for another hour #

Snaggs' giant hand-made Atari 2600 cartridges — check out the detail, they're sewn onto vinyl (via) #

The Vimeo team gets auto-tuned — I suggest a College Humor spin-off (via) #

Jump on Mushrooms, Super Mario played in reverse — mind-bending experimental PC game, reminiscent of Braid (via) #

NewsAlarm, smoke alarm wired up to the New York Times NewsWire API — could be good for finance, severe weather, or even vanity alarms (via) #

Pew releases State of the News Media 2009 — comprehensive and bleak report, studying all sectors of journalism; key findings here #

Small Talk, real-time weather visualization using Twitter — part of the Google Chrome Experiments #

Quietube — like Readability for YouTube; here's a quick demo (via) #

James Bridle's Tweetbook, two years of tweets as a hardcover book — someone should make this a service, also incorporating your Flickr photos and blog posts (via) #

Village Voice digs up saucy clips from Bill O'Reilly's audiobook — the dangers of recording an audiobook (via) #

Protovis, visualization toolkit with Javascript and Canvas — nice alternative to Google Charts API (via) #

NPR broadcast of Decemberists' new album debut at SXSW — it's out on iTunes and streaming free on Imeem #

Justin Mason on "Quoz," the FAIL of the 1870s — the entire chapter on urban slang in 19th century London is fascinating #

Mega Man 9 Rock Medley — expertly done, from the guy who made the 32 Songs in 8 Minutes medley #

Douglas Bowman explains his decision to leave Google — "I won't miss a design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data" #

NYT's visualization of newspaper circulation declines — only six papers grew in the last three years (via) #

Microsoft's Remembering Stuff About the Internet — IE8 promo asks comedians about the early web #

Craft by Ift, graphic demo running on a 20mhz microcontroller — generating real-time video and sound signals with a $3 chip #

Dan Meth's Sitcom Map of the USA — he also did an NYC-specific map (via) #

The Ocarina of Rhyme — hip-hop mashed up with the N64 Zelda soundtrack (via) #

Study finds creditworthiness can be gauged by physical appearance — they claim the original paper is the first academic study to use Mechanical Turk #

Overly Judgemental IE6 Splash Pages — "What does IE6 have in common with a Fleshlight?" (via) #

Google Chrome Experiments — showcase of impressive Javascript effects (via) #

NYT on the rise of mistrials from jurors' Internet usage — related: Ars interviewed the juror who used Twitter in the courtroom #

Paul Ford's six-word reviews of all 1,302 SXSW MP3s — interspersed with charts and other interesting trivia about the bands #

Is The Big Picture A Bummer Today? — Alan Taylor gave my favorite talk at SXSW #

ABC News' Charlie Gibson blames students, Google, and social media for newspaper's demise — addressing a room full of college journalists, he said Clay Shirky was "full of crap" #

Toby Barlow on artists moving into Detroit's $100 homes — I can totally imagine Detroit turning into a massive artist and net nomad collective (via) #

Gizmodo's guide to iPhone OS 3.0's new features — the biggest announcement of SXSW was in Cupertino #

Trent Reznor on the state of ticket reselling and scalping — Ticketmaster could easily prevent reselling, but they're happy to take a cut #

Clay Shirky on the death of newspapers and reinvention of journalism — the single best essay on the topic I've read #

Aardvark, social search over instant message — pipes questions to friends-of-friends; works surprisingly well in my initial test #

Foursquare launches with iPhone app — the spiritual successor to Dodgeball, but with game-like elements #

SXSW 2009 Twitter Visualizer — five different visualizations, but the real-time map is particularly nice (via) #

Hark! A Vagrant — Kate Beaton's new site for her history-inspired comics #

Anamaguchi's Dawn Metropolis — NES rock band's full album with 8-bit music videos for each song #

Washington Post's horrific article about infant deaths in hot cars — Pulitzer-Prize winner journalist looks at a uniquely modern tragedy, when a slip of memory becomes fatal #

AP interview outtakes with Ricky Gervais and Elmo on Sesame Street — they have the same laugh #

Wired's untold story of the world's largest diamond heist — after six years in prison, the mastermind told Joshua Davis his story for the first time #

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon's Bryan Binkman Experiment — 23,000 followers in 12 hours; pretty geeky for network TV, featuring Engadget on Monday and Diggnation last night #