10 Zen Monkeys interviews Mat Honan on "Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle" — great interview with the backstory and repercussions of the site #

Approval Ratings: The Public vs. McCain — fan-made campaign ad, which is way more effective than Obama's new negative ads #

YouTube Comment Snob, Firefox extension hides idiotic comments — customizable filter based on spelling errors, punctuation, and capitalization; the result is stark #

Lenticular portraits of YouTube memes — meme artifacts left behind in real-life places #

Richard Nixon's Piano Concerto #1 — a story related to one of the best videos buried in that Metafilter post #

Metafilter's collection of US presidential campaign commercials from 1958-1998 — use the play icons to watch the videos inline #

BoomBot — addictive Flash game from the maker of Bloons #

MySQLGame, multiplayer database manipulation game — very odd use of SQL statements as a proof-of-concept game UI (via) #

Chromeo goes to Daryl Hall's house — occasionally awkward but mostly awesome, I really love this format #

Mycrocosm — very, very similar to Daytum, but supports OpenID and a mobile/email interface #

Foxkeh Dance, celebrating 10 years of Hampsterdance and Mozilla — could only be better if they used the original sound clip instead of the dance remix from 2000 (via) #

Bear Creek Apartments — a mini-comic written by Hope Larson and drawn by Bryan Lee O'Malley (via) #

Dear Lulu, sample book for testing digital printing on Lulu.com — pushing the edges of color, type, patterns, weights, and cuts; download the PDF (via) #

Daytum, collecting the minutiae of your daily life — private beta service from Nicholas Felton, author of the Feltron Annual Reports (via) #

Tom Armitage on what games can learn from social software — I love this talk, great reading for both game and web geeks (via) #

Fleshmap's infographic of body parts mentioned in song lyrics, by genre — mildly NSFW; I love the sharp distinction between hip-hop and everything else (via) #

Gamasutra's long oral history of Atari's golden years — 23,000 words! also, don't miss Steve Fulton's earlier feature on Atari's roots #

Steven Frank's torn feelings for the iPhone App Store — a Panic co-founder weighs in with a thoughtful criticism and defense (via) #

Joshua Callaghan's sculptures based on charts & graphs — very minimalist, stripped of labels and axes (via) #

Does The New Business Of Music Change The Way Music Sounds? — some heartfelt predictions from Ian Rogers #

The Chameleon, the many lives of Frédéric Bourdin — long New Yorker tale of the arrest of a serial imposter (via) #

Clive Thompson on Weight Watchers as an RPG — making the painful playful #

Review of the first three SSH clients for the iPhone — a fourth, simply called SSH, was added yesterday #

Ex-Daily Show staffer reveals details about their TiVo setup — also, how they research current and archival video (via) #

Chicago Tribune Magazine's cover story on EveryBlock's Adrian Holovaty — Adrian was still wearing makeup from his cover shoot when we ate deep-dish last month #

SIGGRAPH 2008 papers on the web — I could spend all day looking at these #

Data-Driven Enhancement of Facial Attractiveness — also presented at SIGGRAPH: Face Swapping #

University of Washington team uses static photos to enhance, edit, and modify videos — insanely cool video tech demo; don't miss the sign removal at the 6:00 mark (via) #

Cliffski's response to the game pirates — he solicited feedback from people who pirate games, with hundreds of replies (via) #

Illustrated book of cat stories created with Mechanical Turk — experiment idea: can random turkers create a compelling narrative? (via) #

Constant Setting — real-time photos added to Flickr of the sun setting around the world; more from the developer (via) #

Slate on China's CCTV coverage of the Olympics — along with HD quality, perhaps why the Chinese have been dominating torrent activity #

TechCrunch digs up prototype screenshots of Gmail and Google Groups — dating back to 2002, very fun to see how it evolved (via) #

Mygazines, community for sharing print magazine scans — publishers are trying to shut it down, but having trouble with jurisdiction #

Jason Scott on GIF News, graphical newsletter from 1988-1993 — the largest archive of the lovingly-crafted e-zine, now available on Flickr #

Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet, full-length chiptune documentary freely viewable for one week only — watch it before next Friday! #

Boss battle lasts over 18 hours, causing players to vomit and pass out from stress — people paying money to be abused #

Coign of Vantage — rotate playing field with your mouse to assemble icons (via) #

Antivirus software fails to detect fresh viruses — "the criminals are innovating faster than the antivirus vendors can keep up" (via) #

Jason Scott's collection of BBS-era graphics and advertisements — when an 8-bit VGA image was a show of graphical might; culled from cd.textfiles.com, back from the dead #

View from our room in Kauai — or: why updates are even more sporadic for the next 8 days than normal #

Google Insights shows state-by-state usage of popular websites — also: the spread Twitter and YouTube over time #

Extreme Toothbrushing — viewer warning: this is extreme #

Frotz interpreter added to iPhone App Store as free download — with downloadable games from interactive fiction repositories #

David Friedman's suggested design for cut & paste on the iPhone — not as elegant as Adam's, but a clever alternative #

Brett Erlich's Viral Video Film School — entertaining rambles about found footage on YouTube (via) #

Doveman's Footloose — Thomas Bartlett covers the entire album for a friend, with absolutely no irony (via) #

Blue Screen of Death during the Olympic torch-lighting — appeared for a split second in the broadcast, but attendees took photos (via) #

Google Translate optimized for iPhone — with one release, wiping out the need for pocket dictionaries #

Chatroom, short game simulates a post-apocalyptic IRC — Windows-only, great concept for the One Room One Week game design competition #