Barack Roll (via) #

Yahoo! Answers tackles a tough question — perfect example of an incentive system optimized for quantity, not quality #

Actionsprite's Switch — addictive, mindless Flash fun (via) #

AOL starts offering mcom.com email addresses — blast from the past #

The Art of Braid — how the painterly style evolved, with tons of early concept artwork #

New York Times says Girl Talk album "may be illegal" — you don't say! I think the labels are waiting for the physical CD to drop next month #

Temp Fortress 2 — clever machinima built on Team Fortress, spliced with live video #

Fuelly, track gas usage with friends — built by Matt Haughey and Paul Bausch in two weeks using bits of the Metafilter code base #

Adaptive Path posts second Aurora video — a futurific Upcoming is featured, and a G-Man sighting #

Jonathan Blow's Braid released to critical raves — like Portal, it forces you to rethink what you know about platformers; amazing to see how many people complain about the $15 price tag #

Calvin and Jobs — Gizmodo doesn't mention they're from Mad Magazine's July issue (via) #

Crazy Sprinkler Lady — way, way more paranoia on her YouTube page #

The Girl in the Window — horrific story of a little girl raised feral by neglectful parent; don't miss the video slideshow (via) #

Adaptive Path's Aurora, imagining the future web — part of Mozilla Labs' Concept Series #

Jason Fortuny gets sued for Craigslist trolling — I first broke the story two years ago; from his personal statement: "This was never a plan to embarrass people" #

Zinc Oxide and You — from the Kentucky Fried Movie (via) #

Audio Damage's Automaton, audio plugin controlled by cellular automata — Conway's Game of Life as a beatmaker #

Sneak peek at Google Translation Center — get text translated by volunteers and pros, likely designed to improve their automatic translations #

Microsoft researchers find an average 6.6 degrees of separation between MSN Messenger users — they looked at 30 billion conversations from 240 million people to validate Milgram's findings #

Merlin Mann on YouTube's "cash gifting" pyramid scheme subculture — learn more about Cash Duke's Cash Givanation System #

WSJ reporter's sources for "Obama's too skinny for president" article came from trolling Yahoo! Message Boards — I thought the quotes were suspicious this morning, but should've dug deeper (via) #

Pigeon plays Tap Tap Revenge on the iPhone — I'm surprised the beak's conductive enough to register clicks #

John Gruber on the NetShare tethering app for the iPhone — despite reports of being removed by Apple, it's still available and I just purchased it seconds ago; and, it's gone again #

The Last Guy, Japanese game turns any website into a battlefield — move around with the mouse to pick up people and return them to the safety zone (via) #

The Big Picture on CERN's Large Hadron Collider — The Economist explains the LHC's importance for the layman; see also: Large Hadron Rap #

Tube Adventures, Spanish interactive adventure game on YouTube — constructed using YouTube's annotations and 67 videos #

Get Your War On, the first animated episode — via Rex, who's been tearing it up lately (via) #

NYT Magazine on Internet trolls and lulz culture — journalist spends a few days getting to know Jason Fortuny, weev, ED, and the /b/tards; and yes, I'm part of the problem #

Michael Wesch's Anthropological Introduction to YouTube — highly recommended viewing from the creator of The Machine Is Us/ing Us (via) #

Del.icio.us 2.0 goes live as Delicious.com — tag combos still work perfectly, so I'm happy #

YouTube introduces text search for political videos — their speech-to-text transcription gets a public trial in limited fashion on their You Choose section (via) #

Librarian responds to complaint about "Uncle Bobby's Wedding" — incredibly thoughtful and well-reasoned defense of a mildly controversial children's book (via) #

Deerhoof releases new single as sheet music, asks people to record their versions — Matthew Walker's cover is fantastic; Lucas Gonze contributed a MIDI score and guitar tab to work with (via) #

Caterina Fake joins Hunch.com as CPO — stealthy startup I'd keep a close eye on #

Speed Racer Video Mosaic — every frame of the video is composed of hundreds of individual thumbnails #

Judge Judy taping interrupted by L.A. earthquake — also: the set of Big Brother, KNBC News, KABC, L.A. City Hall, and Judge Jenny #

Diesel Sweeties leaves unprofitable print syndication, back to web-only — Lore Sjoberg interviews R. Stevens about the switch (via) #

12 Glowing Men — also: the 1957 version of 12 Angry Men is on YouTube in its entirety (via) #

Don Hodges explains how to control the barrels in Donkey Kong — I've linked to his kill screen work before; someone get this guy an RSS feed! (via) #

Bowser's Minions — those College Humor guys are on a roll #

Candid Camera-style show sends "Ugly Americans" to Parisian cafes, records results — the locals were extremely tolerant and were only chastised by other Americans (via) #

Amazon redesigns Mechanical Turk with web-based creation tools — creating HITs now requires no programming; just pick a template and upload a CSV with the values #

OSCON in 37 minutes — 45 presenters summarize their talks in 30 seconds; I'd love to see this before every conference #

fl0wer gameplay from E3 2008 — my other E3 picks: Ibb and Obb, Mirror's Edge, Rhythm Heaven, Fat Princess, and LittleBigPlanet (via) #

Waiter Rant reveals his identity on eve of book tour — NY Mag identified the restaurant, saying he worked there for six years (via) #

So Open It Hurts — SF Mag's long profile piece on Tara Hunt and Chris Messina's public breakup; Tara's take #

Derek Powazek's 10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments — solid suggestions that would lead to a massive short-term decrease in comments, for the better #

Metafilter on the end of Wired Magazine's Found column — almost uniformly goofy, I'll still miss it #

Phillip Toledano's Days with My Father — a 98-year-old widower with no short-term memory, but a great sense of humor (via) #

LA Times on Sean Tevis' XKCD-inspired fundraising comic — he hit his goal in 24 hours and raised a staggering $95k in two weeks, 8 times his old-guard opponent #