Showbiz Pizza's Robot Band in MGMT's Electric Feel video — this $1200 winning bid by the band was money well spent #

John McCain on user interface design — made me laugh (via) #

Oh No My Money — use the savings to pay off the credit card debt, Eric #

Trailer for The Rock-afire Explosion — documentary about animatronics nuts keeping Showbiz Pizza nostalgia alive #

Better Than the Van — open up your couches for bands on tour (via) #

Cabel's roundup of fireworks packaging design — I love the Web 2.0-ified "frwrx" #

TED releases the top 10 most-viewed talks — the usual suspects, but a great primer #

Features are a one-way street — once your userbase is big enough, you can't pull features without backlash (via) #

Amazon EC2 used to distribute spam, malware — inevitable, but it'll be very hard to stop (via) #

Rolando, Loco Roco clone for App Store — looks promising #

Fox News alters photos of NYT reporter in critical segment — watching the clip reminded me of high school (via) #

Flowing Data's infographic history of Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest — barring another breakthrough, my money's on Chestnut #

The Last Days of Dr. Wily — don't miss the screenshots at the end (via) #

Boing Boing responds to "that Violet Blue thing" — Xeni and David respond in the comments #

Netflix team decides to keep Profiles after community backlash — good move, the users are rejoicing #

Aza Raskin announces Algorithm Ink and ContextFree.js, making art with Javascript — Resig mentioned this a couple weeks ago, but Aza's video demo is a must-see #

Chuck Klosterman asks 100 German college students to name the most interesting 20th Century American — wide range, from George Gershwin to Jared Leto (via) #

Anil Dash on Bill Gates and The Greatest Tech Hack Ever — still catching up from vacation, this hit Digg but worth reading if you missed it #

Josh Harris tells Boing Boing that Pseudo.com was conceptual art — don't miss Douglas Rushkoff's comment about his Pseudo investment #

Habbo Hotel may soon overtake World of Warcraft's total subscribers — then again, it's free to register and there's no client (via) #

GlaGPS, GlaDOS voice for the Garmin Nuvi — how about a JOSHUA voice pack next? #

Visualizing 4.5 years of Flickr with code_swarm — see also: Federated Media and Django (via) #

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 #