Nielsen chart of American video game console usage — 360 users are most hardcore, playing an average 2.7 hours daily, but everyone else is close #

Video tour of Disney World 3D in Google Earth — the most elaborate models available so far #

Wired interviews You've Been Left Behind creator — he insists the post-Rapture email service is real, and their blog backs up the claim #

Washington Post profiles one superdelegate's experience in the Democratic primaries — for everyone wondering why many wait to commit, this is some great context #

Gal-Moji, l33t speak for Japanese teen girls — they use Roman, Arabic, Greek, or Cyrillic letters resembling the Japanese characters #

Kottke on TBS's annoying interstitial promo ads — smells like desperation #

Vanity Fair's nine-page oral history of the web — some great quotes from big names, but only scratches the surface; also, I hope they fix the broken MP3 links #

YouTube adds annotations — for creators only, not commenters; they also upped the video limit to 1024MB, but still only ten minutes #

[k]okogiak announces Boston.com's The Big Picture — a photo blog featuring huge imagery from the news wire #

"Pork and Beans" acoustic with Tay Zonday — they're getting quite a bit of mileage out of this shoot #

EveryBlock's "special report" on Operation Crooked Code — taking Chicago Crime to the next level #

NYT's ombudsman on their controversial op-ed stating Obama's Christianity was apostasy — also, wouldn't it be great if every major tech company had a blogging ombudsman? (via) #

Scaring people with Flash's fullScreen — distracting from the "hit escape" text is surprisingly effective #

Read at Work — classic novels in Powerpoint form, courtesy of the NZ Book Council (via) #

NYT interviews Jim Davis about Garfield Minus Garfield — great article, but no link to the site? #

UK police arrest six former OiNK users — they're accused of uploading pre-release albums #

Coco Wang's Earthquake Strips — true, heartbreaking stories from the China quake in comic form (via) #

Back to the Future courthouse square destroyed in Universal Studios fire — this is heavy #

The Letter in the Pond — passive aggressive note sent five years into the future (via) #

World Without Oil trailer from 2007 — only a year after the ARG launched, some of its peak-oil predictions already seem understated #

The Sound of Young America interviews comedy legend Jack Handey — dinosaurs, monsters, and cowboys #

Trailer for The Onion Movie, now on DVD — starring Steven Seagal as "The Cockpuncher" #

FiveThirtyEight, weighted electoral projections — from a guy who specializes in baseball stats; looks like a good dashboard (via) #

Dean Kamen's mind-controlled prosthetic arm — Dr. Octopus! #

Danah Boyd's "My Long Lost Handwriting" illustrated — the artist takes blog entries and turns them into great little comics (via) #

Trulia Snapshot — more lovely visualization work from Stamen Design #

Metagold, a research blog about Nico Nico Douga — every entry is great; read the intro and YouTube/Nico cultural divide to start #

QR-Code Bots, an army of little men convert your URL into QR — background; can you tell I've been surfing Japanese blogs today? #

Stitch 2, generate a pixel-art knit cap for purchase — from Factio, creators of a similar t-shirt widget creator (via) #

Roz Savage's blogging her world record solo trip across the Pacific Ocean — a compelling read, she'll be the first woman to row the 7,000 miles from the US to Australia #

Tegaki, hand-written blogging — social self-expression where all entries, comments, and tags are hand-drawn (via) #

Multiplayer Pong on the iPod touch — cute hack built in about an hour #

Hello Windows Hello World, Japanese fan song made from Windows system sounds — also, a good example of what Nico Nico Douga comments look like #

Wired's self-retrospective on its 15th anniversary — don't miss the video promos further down the page and photo gallery #

Robokill — one of the slickest Flash games I've played, like Smash TV with robots (via) #

Displacements — film installation projects a rotating video onto a whitewashed room (via) #

Trailer for Guitar Hero: World Tour on the Nintendo DS — a terrible use of the license, Activision should be embarrassed #

Add Art, Firefox plugin replaces ads with contemporary art — built on AdblockPlus, the images rotate every two weeks (via) #

Internet Love Song — "circumflex underscore circumflex, I love you so" (via) #

Paper Console, Pong as a choose your own adventure book — from the creator of Pac-Txt, a Python script that generates an 184-page book (via) #

Tom the Dancing Bug on Disney's eternal copyright — reminiscent of my own Mickey comic from 2003 (via) #

The Native Faith of Donald — Japanese insanity is leaking from Nico Nico Douga into YouTube; much more Japanese McDonald's madness #

The eleven-minute Automatic Mario masterpiece — Super Mario World used as an instrument to accompany anime songs #

Interview with the director of Weezer's "Pork and Beans" — interviews from the video shoot will be coming soon on their YouTube channel #

Grabb.it TV, the top 20 music videos for every week from MTV to Napster — brilliant mashup wiring up YouTube and Wikipedia with the Whitburn chart data #

Complete footage of Jason Scott's "Before the LOL" talk at ROFLCon — whirlwind tour of the evolution of memes from the telegraph and Xeroxlore to modern day (via) #

"Biggest drawing in the world" art project not real — as suspected, the artist now says it's a work of fiction at the bottom of his site #

The Homebrew Channel, elegant homebrew launcher for the Wii — new from the creators of the Twilight Hack; don't miss the video (via) #

Google offers permanent hosting for major Ajax libraries — cached, minified, gzipped and up-to-date versions of jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, and more #

Team Genius' Illegal Donkey Kong Remix — tribute to Donkey Kong Country 2 #