An animated meditation on Procrastination — "it's trying to avoid the inevitable" (via) #

Wordle — lovely word clouds generated from supplied text #

Insane News Man — remember to pause between sentences #

Algorithm Ink in Javascript — see also: the Bomomo drawing toy #

The Onion on "World of World of Warcraft" — play a character playing the game; related: The Sims Playing The Sims (via) #

Phillip Toledano's portraits of Phone Sex Operators — "things in society that are in plain sight, but still remain hidden" (via) #

Design Patterns for Reputation — nicely summarized research on feedback and incentives in online communities (via) #

xkcd's Fields Arranged by Purity  #

BMW's GINA concept car, with a flexible fabric skin — if you rip your car, just get it a change of clothes #

Scribbls, very funny drawing community game-thing — for example, Kitten Bacon, Peace Accord, and many more (via) #

Spammers using pump-and-dump stock spam to short Amazon — sending out mass emails about their downtime (via) #

2D Google Maps driving simulator — built with the Flash API (via) #

Is Google Making Us Stupid? — inflammatory headline aside, some thoughtful paranoia from Nicholas Carr #

Apple posted video of the WWDC keynote — don't miss Band at the 40 minute mark; also, Sippey hits the big time showing Six Apart's killer Typepad app (via) #

Live streaming audio of the WWDC keynote — holding up surprisingly well, better than refreshing MacRumors or Engadget #

Age of Conan griefing fun and games — some good comments about the ethics of griefing in the comments #

Case study of redesigning the new Wells Fargo ATM user experience — Pentagram did nice work, though the buttons seem a bit too low contrast (via) #

McDonald's Line Rider commercial — hard to believe it's real, but multiple confirmations that it's aired on TV (via) #

Every brand and company mentioned in the Sex and the City film — impossible to tell which were paid placement, but this is an impressive list #

What Newspapers Still Don't Understand About the Web — great post about the Washington Post being held back by their print editions and mindset (via) #

Radiohead's "Nude" performed by a ZX Spectrum, dot matrix printer, scanner, and hard disk array — starts at about 1:10; best remix ever #

RepRap prototyping machine achieves self-replication — it built a child, and the child built a grandchild; more on the project (via) #

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? #