No Country for Raising Arizona — deliberately or not, the Coen Brothers quote from their early work (via) #

LA Times on YouTube's Fred — insanely popular with tweens, he has 242k subscribers and a sponsorship deal; here's an interview #

There's No Such Thing As New Wave — animated type (via) #

Sound Chaser — broken vinyl used as train tracks; don't miss the video (via) #

Tom Taylor's Delighting with Data — presentation about clever parsing hacks, several oriented around Twitter (via) #

Electronic Arts veteran starts iPhone-only gaming startup — some insights into what's attractive about the platform for game developers #

Last.fm launches new public API — a huge upgrade, with write support and many new methods #

One Post Wonder — collection of blogs who never got past their first post (via) #

Google releases data dump of US copyright renewal records — Jarkko Hietaniemi, you're my hero #

Nintendo DS homebrew music apps — I hope niche apps like these move over to App Store (via) #

Winners of the Procedural Generation Game competition — Rescue: The Beagles looks like fun, and some of the other entries are intriguing (via) #

Boing Boing removes over 100 70 posts linking to Violet Blue — whether this was a glitch or vendetta, some sort of response would be nice (via) #

Biotech firm Analtech creates viral video to attract the youngsters — they spent $60,000 and had 44 performers, including a congressman; sounds like a massive train wreck #

Anonymous Yahoo employee snarks on the re-org — pure sarcasm, but sums up the shuffling as viewed from the ground (via) #

Kevn Kelly on brute-forcing science — an excellent companion piece to Chris Anderson's Wired cover story #

Wall-E's easter eggs and inside jokes — with more unconfirmed ones listed in the comments #

Waxy on Vacation — or: why I'm awfully quiet this week #

The Paper Version of the Web — early paper prototypes for Flickr, Twitter, Vimeo, and others (via) #

Exaggeration with Maps — in one example, one pixel represents 114 miles (via) #

Metafilter's Guide to Indie Platformers — a brilliant primer with some familiar names to Waxy readers, and plenty of new ones #

The Simpsons map for Quake III Arena — incredible detail, including the Simpsons house, Moe's, and much of Springfield (via) #

Perfect game of Peggle, 18 million points — the amount of planning in the how-to is staggering #

Gamasutra on Nintendo DS piracy in South Korea — media piracy of all kinds is pervasive and not stigmatized (via) #

Jim Le Fevre's zoetrope built from a Technics turntable — like a real-life animated GIF (via) #

Kanye West on Ice-T vs. Soulja Boy — hip-hop rivalries in the YouTube age (via) #

"Where the Hell is Matt?", the 2008 sequel in HD quality — exactly two years from his first video, Matt returns from a 14-month journey around the world #

Study: Most Children Strongly Opposed To Children's Healthcare — "the majority of respondents shrieked 'NOOO!'" (via) #

Simple Truths, a quiet video of parkour training — more discipline than sport, this seems truer to parkour values than the over-the-top highlight videos #

Ian Rogers unveils Topspin, his digital music marketing startup — one of the smartest guys I know, I'm keeping a close eye on this #

History of the TiVo peanut remote control — story of the design process with several photos of prototypes (via) #

Chop Shop's The Internets meme t-shirt, annotated — all the memes are found, thanks to help from ChopShop #

Limbo Of The Lost – An Astonishing Tale — full list of plagiarized works; don't miss the Photoshop competition, including this one #

The Onion AV Club interviews Jonathan Coulton's iPod — this is a great format for interviewing musicians (via) #

Penny Arcade on Lego fruit snacks — unfortunately, the bottoms are flat so they don't stack nicely (via) #

Edith Macefield, Ballard woman who refused to sell her home, passes away at 86 — wonderful story; I'm not the only one who was reminded of The Little House #

Girl Talk's Feed the Animals, outstanding illegal mashup album — I gave $20 towards the inevitable legal costs; preview it on Hype Machine, partial sample list on Wikipedia #

First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival from 1979 — MP3s for the entire vinyl LP; I love hearing digital through an analog medium #

Earliest recordings of computer music revealed — on an Ferranti Mark I in 1951, before Bell Labs and Daisy but after the CSIRAC #

Firefox 3's robot easter egg — if you don't want to be spoiled, just type "about:robots" in the location bar #

Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno predict unthinkable futures from 1993 — "it costs half a day's pay to drive your car into the downtown area of a big city" #

Twittering Teddy, Teddy Ruxpin modded to speak real-time tweets — a fun hack, equal parts terrifying and irritating #

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The Abridged Script — brilliantly funny rewrite of the screenplay #

Researchers cure skin cancer with 5 billion of patient's cloned cells — the NYT has the best coverage, cautioning that the other eight patients in the trial weren't affected #

Puzzle Farter — great audio; I finished it #

A Beginner's Guide to Spore Porn — that Goatse monster is going to give me nightmares #

Brand New on McCain's logo redesign — from Optima to Eurostile (via) #

Stewart Butterfield's resignation letter — best resignation ever #

Tumblr, the Documentary — "a blog website for idiots and assholes" (via) #

George Dyson's The Birth of the Computer — TED talk from 2003 but just posted online; includes a very funny tour of engineer's logbooks #

Kevin Kelly on the extinction of edge-notched cards — there must be some modern application for this for the GTD crowd #