Dragon's Lair walkthrough using YouTube annotations — impressive! now, will someone make it playable with clickable annotations? #

Boxer, Mac-friendly DOS emulation — built on DOSBox, perfect for playing classic DOS games (via) #

Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2008 — detailed demographic study and analysis from Technorati's index, five parts posted over the next five days #

Zen Bound, serene rope-twisting game, coming to the iPhone — based on Moppi's Zen Bondage for the PC, released in 2005 #

Versionista, track changes to any website — the author's writing a political column for Slate; sadly, his background is in nasty SEO software #

MixTube, Muxtape-like playlists built on public YouTube videos — who needs video? #

The NO!SPEC campaign vs. crowdSPRING — the same group of design pros that attacked the very promising Pixish #

Robot Chicken on Excitebike — anus shattering (via) #

Z-Rox, like Flatland as a Flash game — trains your mind to think in 2D #

Google Goatse t-shirt — classic, I bought one #

The Pirate Bay hits 15 million unique simultaneous peers — has any other illegal behavior been this mainstream in history? update: from my readers, alcohol (during Prohibition), speeding, marijuana, and sodomy #

Hoshi Saga 3 — don't miss the first two in the series #

Clay Shirky on information overload filter failure — speculative Web 2.0 keynote says fixing overload requires a shift in social norms #

Bill O'Reilly on Sarah Palin's hacked email and the First Amendment — related: someone hacked into the O'Reilly Factor's admin interface two days ago #

Daft Punk's "Something About Us" on Nintendo DS, vocoder, and theremin — the LED display was added in post-production #

Wine Library's Gary Vaynerchuk at Web 2.0 — I could care less about wine, but I absolutely adore this guy #

Stack Overflow on favorite programming-related cartoons — they're doing some interesting things with reputation, like gaining points to acquire new powers #

Star Simpson speaks out for the first time about her Boston Airport "hoax device" ordeal — her year-long battle's over, and chose Boing Boing to tell her story because they had the most responsible news coverage #

Dan Hanna's Daily Photo Aging Project — the mother of all photo-a-day projects, he shot himself front-to-back for 17 years #

Google adds pirate translation for Talk Like A Pirate Day — be ye feelin' lucky? #

TechCrunch posts the three new Microsoft "I'm A PC" ads — much better than the Seinfeld ads #

Sergey Brin starts blogging — his first entry's interesting, about his predisposition to Parkinson's he discovered using 23andme (via) #

Twitter launches redesign — small, subtle improvements all over; FriendFeed and Yahoo redesigned, too #

4chan member explains the Sarah Palin hacking — I hate to link to Malkin, but this is the definitive story, quoting deleted posts from the original 4chan member who did the hack #

Inside Obama's Gmail Account — nicely timed parody from The Onion (via) #

Ben Walker's "You're No One If You're Not On Twitter" — you might as well not have existed (via) #

Sarah Palin's Yahoo! Mail account hacked, password posted to 4chan — excellent summary of the events; screencaps on Wikileaks, discussion on Reddit #

Crazy rumor of the day: Google to buy Valve Software? — update: Valve's Doug Lombardi said it's false (via) #

Artemis Fowl author asked by Douglas Adams's widow to write new Hitchhiker's novel — a Slashdot user imagines the results #

Atari Modern Classics — related: TIGSource's bootleg demakes contest #

Summary of Pew Internet survey of teen gaming habits — a staggering 99% of boys and 94% of girls, and half of teens surveyed played a game yesterday; read the full report #

Fifty People, One Question — what do you wish would happen by the end of today? #

Soulja Boy reviews Braid — that's a sentence I never thought I'd write (via) #

Cabel Sasser tracks down Sonseed's full album — the 1980s Christian ska band is very real #

Portal: Prelude trailer, fan-made Portal prequel — coming soon; eight months in development with a new storyline, NPCs, and longer than the original (via) #

Google Audio Indexing — a dedicated site for their YouTube transcription experiments, hopefully soon expanding beyond political videos (via) #

Wild Beasts' music video using the Droste effect — extensive recursion; see more on Flickr #

Gruber debunks excuses for Apple's removal of the Podcaster app from App Store — idiotic policy that should make every iPhone developer question their participation #

Pakimono, bizarre Mac game about streaking — run the naked Japanese guy through Copenhagen and jump in front of tourist's photos (via) #

Ninja Cat — and the inevitable remix #

Meme Breaks 1.0, famous Internet memes in turntable-friendly format — Peanut Butter Jelly Time is the new Amen break #

Everymoment Now, charting election news coverage — from the developer of Buzztracker (via) #

Hip-hop songs that sampled video games — they mention ytcracker's N.E.S. from 2005, available as a free download #

David Foster Wallace, dead at 46 — sigh #

Every Filter — Dorothy applies every Photoshop filter, in order, to a photograph #

Joshua Schachter's Mechanical Turk experiment with behavioral economics — where else can you get 2,100 people to answer a question for a total $30 in three hours? #

Redrawing the Obama/McCain tax plan chart to scale — the original chart doesn't visualize the extent of the disparity #

The Big Picture on the 2008 Summer Paralympic Games — NBC's waiting until October to air the coverage, but they're posting highlights daily online #

Adam Kimmel's Claremont HD, downhill skateboard speedrun — absolutely insane, just watched it for the second time; Sippey has the route #

PleaseDressMe, the t-shirt search engine — been playing around with Gary Vaynerchuk's new startup and it's great; also, Gary's broadcasting live on UStream #