"We Are The World" performed by Japanese celebrity impersonators — the Cyndi Lauper was pretty impressive #

MuxFind, search for songs on Muxtape — this can't last long (via) #

New York Times developing an API — "Everything we produce should be organized data." (via) #

Philipp Lenssen on historical concepts of collective intelligence — from the noosphere to smart mobs #

Microsoft considering removing unpopular games from Xbox Live Arcade — don't sever the tail #

Parchment, a pure Javascript Z-machine interpreter — try some games from the IF Archive (via) #

Techdirt on Craigslist's ongoing battle with spammers — what a mess; that blackhat SEO forum is depressing me #

Biggest Drawing in the World — using a GPS-laden briefcase to draw a self-portrait 69,000 miles long; I'm skeptical, but it's a neat idea (via) #

Weezer's Pork and Beans video is Internet meme madness — riffs on nearly every major web meme; they even hired Afro-Ninja! #

National poll estimates 18 million Americans have been Rickrolled — probably higher, since the sample didn't include anyone under 18 #

Cactus. Cactus cactus. — organized prank calling to a radio show by the PLA, professional trolls (via) #

Guitar Hero hacker plays Smells Like Teen Spirit without game console — I've seen several mods turning the guitar into an instrument, but never seen a guitar solo on one (via) #

Philipp Lenssen on using hoax news to boost search rankings — recent story about a teen paying for prostitutes with dad's credit cards was a hoax to boost a finance site's pagerank #

The New York Times' TimesMachine — back after an aborted launch that I missed out on, this is great archival work #

Jamie Livingston's Photo of the Day — he shot a Polaroid every day until his death from cancer in 1997 (via) #

Sneak peek at the new Last.fm redesign — too early to judge, but a glimpse where they're headed; announcement and more screenshots (via) #

Slow-motion videos of people getting punched in the face — background on the clips, shot at 1000 frames per second (via) #

Offline Oracle Ouija Board — summon the Internet spirits with a QWERTY layout and cursor control (via) #

Huntington Hartford, kooky millionaire, dies at 97 — he blew $80 million of his inheritance on crazy schemes like a handwriting institute and automated parking garage #

Mike Sacks' Photos of TV — "funk master friendly" #

Funny Farm — old, but new to me; a dangerous time-waster, spoilers here #

Amateur footage of the China quake moments after it ended — terrifying beyond belief #

16% of US science teachers are young-Earth creationists — they believe humans were created in the last 10,000 years; won't someone think of the children!? (via) #

Chuck Klosterman's list of the most fanatical fanbases — Tori Amos is at #2, which sounds right to me; nice gallery of uber-fans (via) #

Errol Morris reveals the backstory behind one Abu Ghraib photograph — fake smiles, Weekend at Bernie's, and the coverup behind a prisoner's death during interrogation #

Rory Root, owner of Berkeley's Comic Relief, dead at 50 — nice tributes from comic greats; the best comic book store I've ever seen, his passion was clear on the shelves #

How to Use Nico Video — Japanese video site from 2chan's creator requires registration to view videos, so I'm slogging through it #

YouTomb's tracking who ordered YouTube takedowns — recent takedowns are on the homepage of the MIT project (via) #

Threadless Prints — limited-edition 18"x24" posters based on shirt designs (via) #

Web Trigrams, visualizing three-word phrases from Google's corpus — gorgeous infoviz; more of his work from the massive dataset (via) #

Homer Simpson says, "Beat it, Waxy!" — from the archives #

SNL's Japanese version of "The Office" — "It's funny because it's racist." #

Music Bounce — quirky game built on music patterns (via) #

Vice-Presidential Prognosticatin' — Obama/Prime 2008 #

Drew Burrows' virtual girlfriend in bed, a lonely art installation — reminds me of Daki Makura hug pillows and bedsheets (via) #

Webmonkey relaunches, again — this must be the third or fourth time the site's come back from the dead #

The London Tower Bridge on Twitter — I hope someone wires up a Coke machine to Twitter next #

Why We Twitter, academic paper from 2007 about microblogging — nice network analysis and node graphs towards the end; Scoble's tying disparate groups together #

Wired News on the new Soulseek client for jailbroken iPhones — decent speeds downloading music and it imports into your iPhone music library when done #

Bill O'Reilly's Producer — look at the other side of the camera #

"Things Younger Than McCain" creator on the subject of ageism — unlike sex and race, your age affects your ability to lead see my comments on this issue here #

V8 Engine built out of Lego Mindstorms — it can hit 1440 RPM without any lubrication #

Let's Write a Song with Rivers Cuomo — the Weezer frontman's been vlogging on YouTube; the moustache is unnerving #

Joel Johnson's exhaustive roundup of 25 years of "exergaming" — from the Atari Joyboard to the Wii Fit #

George Lucas wanted Indy IV to be "Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men From Mars" — the aborted draft by The Fugitive screenwriter made its way online in 2005 #

California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban — systemic discrimination of same-sex couples is unconstitutional, period #

NodeBox, OS X app to create 2D visualizations in Python — for a more practical example, see Tufte-style charts in 11 lines of Nodebox code #

Cubescape, fun tool for building isometric pixel landscapes — some nice 8-bit art in the popular section #

b3ta's Extending Album Art challenge — all the Pink Floyd ones made me laugh (via) #

Games With A Purpose — humans playing games to teach computers, from the creator of reCAPTCHA and the ESP Game (via) #