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 #

Innocent People Should Never Talk to the Police — funny, even the cop agrees with this one #

Waverly Flams and the Magic Pants — "I'm a God! I have breathed life into my pants!" #

GOOD Magazine on "vampire energy," power consumed in standby mode — not surprisingly, plasma TVs, computers, and game consoles are the worst (via) #

Internal Apple video from 1987 predicts the year 1997, with tongue in cheek — cameos from Woz and Scully; don't miss the "Vista Mac" at 2:20 and the stock chart at 6:02 (via) #

Recursive Motivational Poster — update: bandwidth exceeded, so I'm mirroring it (via) #

Vimeo decides to ban and delete gaming videos — reminds me of Flickr's screenshot battle, but they never deleted photos #

NYT's roundup of home electricity monitoring tech — isn't it against the utilities' best interest to provide tools to monitor and reduce usage? #

StupidFilter goes beta, releases code — the classifier for identifying stupid comments; try the demo on random Digg comments (via) #

College Humor's montage of top 10 eye-gouging scenes — from King Lear to Blade Runner (via) #

It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future — selections from a vintage IBM sales presentation; I want a t-shirt of several of these slides (via) #

Charles & Ray Eames' "A Computer Glossary" from 1968 — charming animated primer on computers for IBM, music by Elmer Bernstein (via) #

Mondo 2000's RU Sirius banned from Facebook for using a pseudonym — shouldn't they make an exception for people known primarily by their aliases, like Frank Black or Jello Biafra? #

Journey's new album released on a pre-loaded, branded MP3 player — with 11 songs re-recorded with their new singer discovered on YouTube (via) #

Embracing the backchannel at the Start conference — they've hired Flickr's George Oates to act as an ombudsman #

Google hits one trillion URLs indexed — bigger than a breadbox #

Flowing Data redesigns a bar chart — I like Nathan and Tyler's the best #

Randy Pausch, R.I.P. — now would be a good time to watch the Last Lecture again #

New Yorker digs into California's medical marijuana industry — from growers to brokers to dispensaries to clients (via) #

Tarantino's Mind — short film explores a unified theory of Tarantino films (via) #

Rush plays "Tom Sawyer" on Rock Band — they failed the Expert level one-third through the song (via) #

The Onion interviews Mike Patton on videogames — he discusses Rock Band, Portal, Bionic Commando, and voicing the monsters in I Am Legend #

Amir's Super Mega Burn — anonymity can turn anyone, even superfans, into superjerks in no time flat (via) #

The Balcony Is Closed — Roger Ebert on Gene Siskel and the end of "At the Movies" #

The Onion's Random Roles with Teri Garr — like Random Rules, this format teases out insights and anecdotes from interview subjects #

Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over' — remarkably prescient article from January 2001 #

Jeffrey McManus runs the numbers on Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog — Joss Whedon himself confirmed the estimates were close (via) #

QA Deathmatch — bug reporting as a multiplayer game (via) #

Fox News affiliate tries product placement with fake McDonald's iced coffees — even if it's a morning show, this is a huge credibility hit and creates new conflicts of interest (via) #

GameBridge, Jabber/XMPP bot for Z-Machine, MUSH, and other text games — nice list of text adventures on the Jabber bot #

I-Fluid, PC game pilots a water droplet through a kitchen — with a nice be-bop soundtrack #

43 Folders on iPhone security — is the time saved for convenience worth the potential hassles of identity theft? #

Baby's First Internet — "It doesn't matter what you say, just publish it twelve times per day." (via) #

Something Awful tries the 5-minute microwave chocolate cake recipe — don't miss the handy microwaved huevos rancheros recipe (via) #

Multiplayer Minesweeper — brilliant collaborative game, but only takes one jackass to ruin everyone's fun (via) #

Cliche Watch: Pushing over the Leaning Tower of Pisa — many more in Pisa Pushers on Flickr #

The Quirkbook — Rands polls Twitter for everyone's odd quirks and mildly OCD mannerisms #

Jane McGonigal on Werewolf at Foo Camp 2008 — ideal strategies, a sneaky all-villager variation, and the impact of the werewolf metaphor #

Google interviews the creators of WarGames — great trivia about the making of the film and its impact on tech culture #