Doom ported to Flash 10 — built with Alchemy, which could bring a flood of PC emulators and ports (via) #

Feedback Army, cheap and quick usability testing built on Mechanical Turk — get 10 random people's feedback for $7 #

Esquire profile of Passage creator Jason Rohrer — touches on games-as-art and the lack of popular auteurs in gaming #

YouTube Live's archived highlights — some online were overthinking this, but I thought it was good fun; personal highlights: Julia Nunes, Bo Burnham, Mythbusters, Charlie the Unicorn, and DJ Mike Relm remixing memes #

Freddie Wong responds to the Bike Hero controversy — "What's up, viral marketing douchebags? I'm gonna show you punks how a real man plays Bike Hero on Expert!" #

Google's collaborative pixel art in Google Spreadsheets — they're even sharing the template and tips on making your own #

Perspectives, video interviews with all dialogue removed — um, uh, hmm #

Robbie Cooper's Immersion, heads-on video of kids playing video games — from the guy who made Alter Ego, the book of people with their online avatars #

Clive Thompson's long NYT feature on the the Netflix Prize and singular value decomposition — the same technique we used on Memeorandum Colors (via) #

Boston College to stop offering email accounts to new students — students come in with fully-formed online identities, so they'll just redirect to their existing email addresses (via) #

Pixel typography from the 16th century — from an Italian embroidery guide (via) #

19-year-old commits suicide live on Justin.tv — it should surprise nobody that he was egged on by 4chan, who always adore an hero #

"Bike Hero" video was Activision's viral marketing, as suspected — I still think it's great, but Derek disagrees; then again, I always assumed it was faked to some degree #

Kottke on Brian Battjer's I Keep A Diary — no joke, I just spent the last hour reading his photojournals of South Korea, Japan, Dubai, and NYC #

Star Trek theme played on a homebrew Wii theremin — here's how it works (via) #

Chicken Head Tracking — strangely hypnotic, other birds have the same ability (via) #

Torben Sko's experiments with camera-tracked head gestures in first-person games — he uses a simple webcam, FaceAPI, and the Half-Life 2 engine #

Cover Browser's collection of every TV Guide magazine cover — trivia: Macrovision sold TV Guide to an equity firm for $1.00 last month, less than the cost of a single issue #

Dr. Awesome game for iPhone lets you perform surgery on your friends — perfectly nailed as Qix meets Trauma Center, it imports names from your address book #

Metafilter on John Ziegler vs. Nate Silver (and David Foster Wallace) — great writeup of a perfectly terrible person's recent misadventures #

Google to shut down Lively next month — the most baffling of all Google products, this one is closing after less than six months #

Jack Handey's The Plan — it's foolproof (via) #

Snaptell, product lookup for the iPhone — like Shazam for product packaging, price comparison's coming soon #

Interactive augmented reality demo in Flash with Papervision — very quick with my iSight, I get much higher FPS than in the video (via) #

Very lucky kid on The Price is Right — still, nothing beats Daniel #

Space Invaders anime video produced for 30th anniversary — "All this time we've been... and all they wanted to do was... We're horrible people!" (via) #

Derek Powazek revives Kvetch! a decade later — appropriately backed by Twitter, a primary outlet for kvetching #

Bike Hero, biking a Guitar Hero level in the real world — most likely a commercial viral, and maybe even fake, but does it matter? beyond awesome #

Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy — mostly posting this just to beat Rex to it #

The A.V. Club's 27 popular websites that became books — though they missed Belle de Jour, The Washingtonienne, Fucked Company, Fark, and ZUG #

Speed Guitar goes to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art — every hour, on the hour, for one solid minute of metal complete with gothic arch and smoke machine #

MGMT's "Kids" on the iPhone Ocarina — "the iPhone Ocarina officially replaces the recorder as the nerdiest instrument I can play" #

Mena Trott responds to Valleywag article about their Disneyland vacation — my favorite was Space Mountain Snob #

LIFE Magazine photo archive hosted by Google — millions of high-res photos, most never published #

Amazon launches CloudFront, their pay-as-you-go CDN — very complementary with S3 #

John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, and the Long Winters perform "Tonight You Belong to Me" — "Thank you, normal-sized man." #

Jerry Yang stepping down from Yahoo's CEO post — it never really fit him well, though I'll miss his e.e. cummings memos #

Woman asks Apple community about an unusual iPhone glitch — no, raunchy photos don't accidentally attach themselves to outbound email #

Greasemonkey script to pull WikiDashboard visualization into Wikipedia — I made a LazyWeb plea for this last week, and Paul Irish came through #

Lee Byron's Fireflies, anaglyph 3D game for Mac — part of Kokoromi's Gamma 3D showcase of anaglyph games #

Flickr Boundaries, tool to explore Flickr's shapefiles — read Tom Taylor's entry for more information #

Cooking Mama, the Unauthorized PETA Edition — a strangely obscure target for their attention, with a petition to write to the game's publisher (via) #

Boing Boing launches gaming blog, Offworld — good writing in a nice design from Brandon Boyer, former news editor of Gamasutra #

"Violet" wins the Interactive Fiction Comp 2008 — play it online; glancing at the charts, it looks like Buried in Shoes was the most divisive #

Trailer for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek prequel — looks surprisingly good, but I'm a sucker for origin stories; I even liked Enterprise #

What would Depression 2009 look like? — Tim sums up the thought-provoking Boston Globe article #

The Pirate Bay hits 25 million simultaneous peers — that's not unique people, but concurrent connections; Napster peaked at 26M users #

Peter Hirschberg releases Adventure as a free iPhone app — related: Chasing Ghosts will finally be released on BitTorrent Showtime in December (via) #

The Big Picture on the California wildfires — also: first-person coverage on Twitter and YouTube, like this freeway on fire and aftermath #

Tim-Tams available at Target until March, first time available in the U.S. — best chocolate cookies ever, the Tim Tam Slam is a chocolaty revelation (via) #