Dolphin emulator boots the Wii OS — I had no idea they'd gotten so far; as of last week, it also supports WADs #

Scene.org 2009 award nominees — the best of the demoscene, merging algorithmic art and music #

Thru You, Kutiman's album of YouTube video remixes — serious YouTube crate digging; the acapella track used on Just A Lady only has 198 views (via) #

A Japanese Life of Bento — a tale told in miniature #

Game Set Watch reports on the final moments of Tabula Rasa — bang, whimper #

Flickr launches new Panda API methods — three different pandas, each with their own taste in Flickr photos #

Greek To Me: Mapping Mutual Incomprehension — mapping the cultural shorthand for confusing languages (via) #

Origins of the Windows XP "Bliss" desktop wallpaper — old, but new to me; I love the more recent photo of the Napa Valley site #

Rebecca MacKinnon on how Chinese blog services censor bloggers — great research, finds that individual editors at blog portals make a huge difference #

arc90's Readability — bookmarklet converts any page to an Instapaper-like readable layout #

Bandcamp adds music download codes and Moo card integration — very slickly done #

Some Grey Bloke explains what Facebook is for — now, go friend him (via) #

Jake and Amir interview The Lonely Island — when Internet-to-TV memes collide #

Recording a trip around the sushi conveyor belt — the translated dialogue; videos by others here, here, and here (via) #

Detecting click tracks in popular music using the Echo Nest API — Britney, Green Day, and Nickelback cheated; Metallica, Weezer, and Led Zeppelin kept it real #

The Retr0brite Project — retro computing geeks open-source a cleaning formula to turn yellowing plastics white again (via) #

Volunteers Put the Economist Into Chinese — the NYT asked me to rewrite my entry for today's paper; my first byline in a national newspaper! #

Skittles changes product homepage to Twitter search — other links in their navigation go straight to Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook #

Newsweek's The District, the Obama presidency as an MTV reality show — the Barack impersonator is YouTube's own Alphacat #

Livejournal shuts down scans_daily after Marvel complaint — one complaint, and they've killed six years of work (via) #

Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom — Parry Gripp is a genius; take that, Monteiro #

"What were arcades like?" — in other news, I'm old (via) #

Animated HD promo for Art Spiegelman's Be A Nose! — the new book offers a glimpse of his sketchbooks (via) #

Rocky Mountain News' farewell video — only 55 days short of their 150th birthday #

Nightline's tongue-in-cheek piece on Twitter — also: TED posted Ev's TED talk and he was just interviewed by Charlie Rose #

Who Killed the Rocky Mountain News? — interactive blamestorm from a laid-off developer #

Highlight2Translate, Greasemonkey script for instant Google Translation — absolutely invaluable for my Economist research, for translating text in password-protected forums #

Sudo Make Me a Sandwich Robot — inspired by xkcd (via) #

Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues animated film released online — finally out of copyright hell after being quoted $220,000 for clearing the eleven 1920s songs she used (via) #

Exploring Logo Designs with Mathematica — $2,495, cheap #

The Economist on Dunbar's number in Facebook — featuring data extracted from Dr. Cameron Marlow #

Dr. Zilog's gorgeous chiptune remix of MGMT's "Kids" — from Laughing Squid's roundup of videogame-themed music videos (via) #

Paul Graham's lessons learned on community building from Hacker News — how he's tried to prevent bad links, bad comments, and bad people #

Andy Richter to rejoin Conan O'Brien on the Tonight Show — great news, he'll be the announcer and comic foil instead of Ed McMahon-like sidekick #

Zen Bound released for the iPhone — originally released as Zen Bondage in 2005 by the PC demoscene group Moppi #

xkcd on the Kindle 2 — Don't Panic! #

Quake Live goes public beta — the private beta was a blast, but their server's are exploding today and the plugin's still Windows-only #

Recipe community borrows Del.icio.us design/code for redesign — the creator's nice about it, but how could he think that this was okay? #

Winners of Stephen Fry's 50 "L"s Twitter contest — Jorn points out that several people created helper utilities #

Maximum Fun excerpts Adam Carolla's new podcast — his radio show was canceled so he's moved to the web, and he seems to get it #

Back to the Future, alternate ending — see also: the BTTF Temporal Experiments (via) #

BackGames, videogame plots in reverse — Tetris: "player must break apart a giant rectangle, sending the pieces into space" (via) #

Visualizing the number of links on 98 popular websites — 36,128 total links, with Techmeme on top (via) #

Pirate 2 Pirate Kopimi Station — insert USB thumb drive into kiosk, get Oscar nominated films; this has potential for legal uses, too #

GOOD Magazine's visualization of fuel use by mode of transportation — the comments on Flowing Data point out some of the flaws #

Billboard releases Chart API — that would've made The Whitburn Project much easier, but I wonder how their licensees feel about it? #

Cursor*10 2nd session — sequel to the best single-player cooperative game I've ever played; see also: Chronotron (via) #

Sched.org releases SXSW 2009 schedule — the best conference scheduling app ever returns; related: their API for all event and user info #

Kate Winslet's Holocaust Oscar — strategy revealed, from Ricky Gervais's Extras #

UserFriendly comic plagiarized multiple punchlines from Metafilter comments — the author's a long-time Metafilter user and apologizes here, while people keep finding more #