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 #

"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) #