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 #

Radiohead vs. Dave Brubeck's "Five Step" — or download the MP3 #

Unofficial SXSW 2009 torrents — 5GB of all 1,053 free MP3s from this year's showcasing artists #

Last.fm blogs their response to the false Techcrunch rumor — I love these guys; the original article was updated with some weak backpedaling #

Nate Silver on why his Oscar predictions missed — it's difficult to know which factors to model, and the criteria can be very subjective #

Buzzfeed's Wikipedia Names Your Band album covers — some of these are lovely; here's mine #

Josh Freese's very unusual giveaways to promote his solo album — busy guy; he's the drummer for A Perfect Circle, The Vandals, and Devo #

Jandrew Edits — "a collection of humorously edited footage" #

Jumpman, reinventing the retro platformer — this is a must-play for Mac/PC, the game gets increasingly clever and complex #

The Big Picture highlights photos of people at work — the Bulgarian nuclear control panel is gorgeous #

Jesse Bearden's Twitter encounter with Shaq — the story behind this tweet making the rounds #

Quicken Online puts foot in mouth after accusing Mint of incredible growth — great advertising for Mint, and reveals that Quicken's growth must be pretty flat #

Aviary releases Raven, first full-featured online vector editor — very impressive; like their other tools, any public illustration can be forked at any revision #

Very Small Array charts Billboard vs. Pitchfork's Top 100 of 2008 — indie geeks love bands (especially duos), while the mainstream loves young solo artists #

Jason Grigsby on the history of Cup o' Noodle and embracing constraints — a very entertaining five-minute presentation from Ignite Portland #

Eurogamer's detailed review of Noby Noby Boy — the game was released on the PS3 today for $5; Panic is selling the official shirts #

Flickr interviews the Astrometry.net Flickr bot creator — it analyzes sky photos added to the Astrometry group, and tags them with celestial bodies #

Available Online for Free, the Sticker — Evan Roth's free PDF book is brilliant too, blending technology and art in clever ways #

East Bay Express' long hit piece on Yelp — Yelp's response, which I completely agree with; someone needs to record a sales call to settle this #

Marc Hedlund on Hulu, Boxee, and "content providers" — "someone else -- not you, someone smart -- will win instead, or you can change your mind" #

Home of the Underdogs goes offline for good — the essential abandonware site is abandoned; thanks for the memories, Sarinee (via) #

Hulu content providers demand Boxee remove Hulu support — here's Boxee's blog post; that's a great way to drive Boxee users back to BitTorrent #

Sanctuary Wood — an urban explorer finds an abandoned caravan in the woods (via) #

Dirk's Accident, very graphic images of a Neodymium magnet collision — crushed finger after two magnets with 700 lbs. of force came within 20 inches of one another (via) #

Rex Sorgatz interviews Moot — this is the best idea I've seen for making money off the site, with more here #

Matt Webb's retweeting Carl Steadman's 99 Secrets from 1996 — someone needs to do Two Solitudes for the Twitter era with @replies #

Wired reviews Retro Game Challenge for the DS — game about playing games, inspired by Japanese reality show about playing games #

Facebook reverts to previous Terms of Service after outcry — best quote: "like you were going to write Finnegans Wake on someone's wall or some shit?" #

Steal This Film, The Trial Edition — early cut of the anti-copyright documentary's third part; see part 1 and part 2 on Google Video (via) #

Facebook's TOS changes compared to MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, and more — while I'm sure Mark means well, Facebook's lawyers are still overreaching (via) #

Washington Post profile of 4chan's moot — they spend four pages in backstory, leaving the interesting personal stuff for the last page (via) #

The Trilogy Tomatometer — inspired by Dan Meth's charts, Darren Levy fulfilled my Lazyweb request #

The Trilogy Meter — I'd love to see a version redone using ratings from Rotten Tomatoes #

TorrentFreak summarizes the Pirate Bay's first day in court — their coverage is great; also, their writeup of the press conference #

Nate Silver predicts the Oscar winners — or: how to ruin an Oscar pool (via) #

The Simpsons' new HD title sequence — airing in HD for the first time tonight (via) #

NYT's Article Skimmer prototype — I find this much more usable than the homepage (via) #

Yo-Yo Ma Shreds — in the style of StSanders (via) #

Pirate Bay trial starts Monday in Stockholm — BitTorrent trackers don't host any infringing material, but clearly aid infringement; should be an interesting trial #

Twitter's "Don't Click" clickjacking, explained — the most coherent explanation and how Twitter resolved it #

Winners of Information Aesthetics' paper-based visualization competition — Charlene Lam's Petals and Britta's watercolor map are particularly nice (via) #