Entertainment Weekly on Letterman's airing of the censored Bill Hicks set — with video, in case you missed it #

Celebrity Tweets — not naming names, but they're stretching the definition of "celebrity" a bit #

Alexandria Neonakis's Left 4 Dead valentines — another in a long line of geek valentines #

Sleep Talking on the Mic — a sleep-talker records himself nightly and posts the nonsensical results (via) #

NYT visualizes Twitter activity during the Superbowl — the emoticon and commercial maps are particularly awesome (via) #

David After Dentist, a 7-year-old's first drug trip — "I feel funny. I can't see anything. I don't feel tired. Is this real life?" (via) #

Histogram of name length for all 1,200 SXSW bands — surprisingly, there aren't any one-letter band names #

Wonderfl, build Flash online — community for writing and sharing AS3 code, compiled immediately on the server #

Closure, a game experimenting with light and shadow — from the programmer/designer of Aether #

Please Stand By — test pattern entirely in CSS #

Crackulous developer wants people to stop pirating his App Store piracy app — "I need people to support my work... I deserve appreciation." #

World Superhero Registry — real-life public defenders fighting crime in costume #

Independently Speaking's best of Global Game Jam 2009 — six-part series sorting through the complete list of 300+ two-day games; Custody looks ambitious #

Greasemonkey script shows Twitter mentions and unread count — clever use of the Search API, Twitter should integrate this into the Replies tab #

Pup Contemplates the Heat Death of the Universe — new to me, it was mentioned in McCloud's TED talk #

Scott McCloud's TED talk on vision and understanding comics — a concise and understandable guide to comics theory (via) #

Twittering the daily Depression-era diary of a 13-year-old farm girl — one tweet per day, from 1937 to 1941 (via) #

D-Pad Hero, playable NES version of Guitar Hero — the Guns n' Roses and Daft Punk chiptune remixes stand on their own (via) #

Eric Bauman fired from Ebaumsworld, along with rest of staff — long despised for repurposing other's work without credit, the commenters are having a field day (via) #

Annika's Odyssey — adorable game from 2007 in which you save a bunny, make a mountain blush, and fetch a pail of water (via) #

DeweyMusic, alternate interface for browsing Archive.org's live music collection — 37,483 albums by 2,082 artists, with tags pulled from the Last.fm API #

Dom Sagolla's story of the birth of Twitter — a former employee, he recalls how Jack first discussed the idea on the slide in South Park #

Crummy.com's series on the naming of videogames — every new console followed similar trends, except for pinball; here's the second part of the series #

Conspiracy Rock, 1991 Schoolhouse Rock parody of the Kennedy assassination conspiracy — 4,320 frames painstakingly animated by Jason Scott, online for the first time (via) #

Ben Fry on turning charts into music with Microsoft Songsmith — don't miss the sonification of the Dow Jones compared to the growth of the porn industry #

Coca Cola's Avatar ad for the Superbowl — love the augmented reality HUDs #

Censored Bill Hicks performance airing tonight on Letterman — Hicks's retelling of the appearance; his mom's appearing on the show marking the 15th anniversary of his death #

Huffduffer, podcasting found audio around the web — I've been loving it lately; it's like Give Me Something to Read for audio #

Spreadsheet of artists, bands, and record labels on Twitter — Lazyweb: turn this into a Twitter aggregator with music and popularity info from Last.fm; update: Google Spreadsheets is having issues #

Ma.gnolia suffers severe data loss, no timeline for recovery — bookmarks may be permanently lost, updates here #

Big Fat Whale's list of Internet Anti-Memes and Non-Sensations — that STD-tracking Facebook app sounds like Lia's Sickr concept from Worst Website Ever #

Detroit News story of a frozen body found in an abandoned elevator shaft — nobody but the reporter called the police, and it took three 911 calls and 24 hours for them to arrive #

World of Goo's Kyle Gabler gives the Global Game Jam keynote — starting today, 2,000 people worldwide will be building free games in only 48 hours #

Cash4Gold tries to bribe Cockeyed.com not to talk about them — a former employee explains how the scam works in detail #

Pseudo-3D videoconferencing with a generic webcam — tying together head tracking with background subtraction #

Mattias Geniar on Academic Earth, online classes from top colleges — like iTunes U, but with complete transcripts, course materials, and web-based video (via) #

Henry Hey's musical accompaniment to Bush's last press conference — from the creator of Palin Song #

Velato, an esoteric programming language that uses music as source code — I think its Hello World program is more listenable than the one for Fugue (via) #

Telescopic Text — like Blueful, another playful experiment with storytelling on the web (via) #

iPhone app uses photo recognition to solve Rubik's Cube — quite possibly the only iPhone app that mentions Laplace transforms and blob detection (via) #

LÖVE, a lovely 2D game engine in Lua — as Why points out, the documentation and tutorials are fun #

Perfect Balance — note that you can rotate the blocks (via) #

Very Small Array's visual breakdown of Billboard's Hot 100 for 2008 — compare this to her chart of Pitchfork's Top 100 #

Last.fm starts auto-correcting typos in artist and song names — their audio fingerprinting project finally surfaces with elegantly-designed tools #

A Life Well Wasted, a new podcast about videogames inspired by This American Life — first episode explores the recent death of EGM; RSS feed is here (via) #

Metafilter's history of the Resolute Desk, the President's desk in the Oval Office — did you know the Dept. of Homeland Security meets in the old barber shop? #

Dogster's Ted Rheingold on the quiet death of Yahoo! Pets — it's sad, even a maligned site like Pets had a tremendous amount of potential if done right #

Bay Area TV news report about "electronic newspapers" in 1981 — it took two hours to download the whole paper at $5/hour for Compuserve service (via) #

NYT launches Best Sellers API — if you're near NYC, their hack day next month should be great #

The White House on Vimeo — nice alternative to the YouTube channel (via) #