Thought bubbles in Brooklyn — found on Urban Prankster, edited by Improv Anywhere's Charlie Todd (via) #

Measuring gravity in the Super Mario Bros. universe — as game hardware increases from the NES to Wii, Mario's gravity is getting closer to reality (via) #

Melt-in-the-Mouth Cookies, a brief history — Justin obsessively researches a family recipe back to the 1940s (via) #

Microsoft Songsmith takes on The Police's "Roxanne" — more classics here, including Wonderwall and What's Going On (via) #

Dopplr's visualization of Barack Obama's travels in 2008 — they're also generating these annual reports for every Dopplr user (via) #

Dennis Crowley on the death of Dodgeball — the site's original cofounder vows to build a replacement after it's closed for good (via) #

Superuseless Superpowers — though nothing really beats the powers of Section 8 #

Google closes Dodgeball, Google Video uploads, Google Notebook, Google Catalogs — and they're ending development on Jaiku and open-sourcing the code #

Melodie, the one-year-old videogame expert — hell, I didn't even know five of them (via) #

Legends of Zork — the Zork franchise is being revived as a browser-based MMO from the creator of Trukz #

DeWitt Clinton takes a Twitter sample — he estimates about 23% of the userbase is active and connected, about 1.2M people (via) #

Giant Bomb releases game database API — they're doing some interesting community stuff, mixing wikis with traditional game journalism (via) #

Ben Terrett on "Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet" — they printed 1,000 copies of a newspaper filled with tweets, blog posts, and miscellaneous writing from last year #

Weezer's Pork and Beans, alternate video — much more chaotic with nearly twice the memes, including Badger Badger and Leeroy Jenkins cameos #

Dan Bruno on the rhythm battle system in Mother 3 — one of the harder songs has a 29/16 time signature #

Interview with a former adware programmer — the lengths they went to avoid detection were pretty incredible #

The Hype Machine's Zeigeist 2008 — now that the whole thing's up, well worth checking out; all 50 top albums are streamable #

Pretty Loaded, an archive of Flash preloaders — "strange, this site never finishes loading" (via) #

New York Mag on the new programmer-journalist movement at the New York Times — the NYT seems like the only paper that's innovating like a high-tech startup #

The Evolution of Dance 2 — like the New Numa and Hamsterdance 2, you can't recapture the magic #

Commercials appear on YouTube's most viewed list — since the strangeness last year, they've started moving to a broader Most Popular algorithm #

Japanese live-action recreation of Super Mario Bros. — from the same show that brought us Matrix Ping Pong (via) #

Google responds to the "boiling water" energy usage report — they claim 1,000 Google searches produces as much CO2 as an average car driving 0.6 miles #

Globulous goes free — one of my favorite multiplayer distractions drops the restrictions for free players #

Color Blind Gamer — like 8% of all white males, I'm red-green colorblind and encounter these accessibility issues often #

Bastard Tetris in Flash — good luck getting even a single row #

The Remnants, post-apocalyptic web comedy featuring Ze Frank — unfortunately, they only made the pilot #

Desert Bus reborn as a 4k Java app — though it doesn't tow you back to the start if you veer off the road, like the original #

Google discusses their new favicon — I like the student-submitted one much better #

Lawrence Lessig on the Colbert Report — it was already remixed into a song (via) #

Rockman 2 Neta, hack to fight every Mega Man 2 boss at once — amazingly, it's beatable; inspired by The Last Days of Dr. Wily? #

Runnin' with the Songsmith — Microsoft, meet Diamond Dave #

11-year-old Steve Martin appeared in Disneyland Dream, 1956 home movie — the vintage video was the first home movie named to the National Film Registry #

Microsoft Songsmith — a great idea marred by a huge lapse of judgment by the dev team, who act in the promo video (via) #

Gravity Bone, surreal spy novella as a free indie FPS game — if you have a PC, you need to try this; it's only a ten-minute time commitment, but so worth it (via) #

Burger King asks users to delete 10 Facebook friends for a free Whopper — over 10,600 people have been unfriended so far (via) #

Amy Bennett's oil paintings inspired by scale models — more on her site, including the story behind the work #

Kottke's Best Links of 2008 — somehow, I missed several of these; every link is worth reading #

NYT launches Congress API — I really hope there's a contingency plan to keep this amazing work online in case things go bad #

Amazon customer uploads own photos to Customer Images — I wonder if Thinkgeek has this problem with Customer Action Shots #

The Dial-Up Kid — comedy at 9600 bps #

Autonomous Katamari — how long will it take the Prince to roll up a room with random paths and an Arduino? #

Tumbarumba, short-fiction anthology as a Firefox plugin — the screencast explains how the plugin subtly changes the pages you read (via) #

Google blocks other search engines from indexing LIFE photo archive — the images are free for personal, non-commercial use, so I'm confused why Google agreed to restrict them in this way #

Crayon Physics Deluxe finally released today! — the final trailer shows how far last year's IGF grand prize winner has come; related: the iPhone version #

Trailer for Objectified, a documentary about modern industrial design — Gary Hustwit's followup to Helvetica (via) #

Independent Games Festival 2009 finalists announced — looking forward to Blueberry Garden and Night Game #

Livejournal's engineering and support staff laid off? — looks like a job for the Archive Team #

NYT profiles R, a powerful language for stats computing and infoviz — Brendan says it's "both brilliant and insanely quirky," which sounds about right #

Twitter hacker explains how he compromised celebrity accounts — just like yesterday's MacRumorsLive hack, a weak dictionary password was to blame #