Gore Verbinski to direct Bioshock film — I loved Bioshock's story but not the gameplay, so this should be a fun ride (via) #

Anil Dash's Paste to Win — random sampling of 150 people's clipboards, categorized #

John Resig ported Processing to Javascript, using the Canvas element — one of the most amazing hacks I've ever seen; don't miss the demos further down the page #

Chronotron — time-bending Flash game, reminiscent of P.B. Winterbottom #

Rock Band hates me — a multi-instrumentalist's reality meets fiction (via) #

Piet, a graphical programming language, with source code resembling abstract art — named after Piet Mondrian, here's how it works; also, a Javascript IDE (via) #

The Sewer Goblet, The Wu-Tang Clan and the Wu-Tang Baby — new RPG madness from the developers of Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden #

Interview with indie game creator Cactus — he just released a mega-sampler of 17 of his games; highly recommended #

Dino Run — surprisingly deep multiplayer 8-bit Flash game #

Kottke on the Yahoo! stock "plunge" — on the contrary, Yahoo! gained $7B in value while Microsoft lost $33B #

Interview with astronaut Peggy Whitson about her return to Earth — members of the Soyuz capsule were greeted by confused locals in a Kazakhstan field (via) #

SynPet's Newton, 1989 promo video for a personal robot — like R2D2 with a floppy drive and 20MB hard drive #

Why the Lucky Stiff's Unholy attempt to convert Ruby into Python — not there yet, but a fun first pass at getting Ruby code running Google App Engine #

Google's chart of character encoding adoption on the web — last December, Unicode beat out ASCII and Western European encodings for the first time #

Ben Goldacre debunks the recent "regrown finger" story — glad I wasn't the only one skeptical of "pixie dust" made of pig bladders (via) #

San Diego GOP chairman co-founded warez group Fairlight — funny, guys like that usually end up in tech, not politics (via) #

Soundamus — generate a feed of upcoming releases from your favorite artists on Last.fm #

XSketch, multiplayer Pictionary game — from the creators of Kdice, even more fast-paced than iSketch #

Ze Frank, Textism, Chip Kidd, and Aviary join The Deck — Jim Coudal knows how to pick 'em #

Schulze & Webb show off the Olinda prototype — their social radio for the BBC, modular hardware that adjust to your habits and social network #

Twitter typewriter in Second Life — hop around on the giant keyboard and it'll post here (via) #

College Humor's All-Nighter — live feed with thousands of chatters, and they're posting new videos all night #

Winners of Boing Boing Gadget's 1k contest — if you like that, try these popular 1k intros from the demoscene #

Homer Simpson in CSS, animated — taking typewriter art to the next level; from the same creator, a portrait of Bush #

Jonathan Coulton performs "First of May" — take that, Bee Gees; NSFW lyrics, for the sensitive folks (via) #

AT&T wi-fi hotspots now free for iPhone users — including Starbucks and Barnes & Noble; spoof the iPhone user-agent and it's free from your laptop too #

Mena Trott's Wasted on the Young — what if first-gen bloggers were vlogging in 1994? this is amazing, I want to see Kottke next #

Leonard's roundup of the best Web 2.0 presentations — most are now online and it looks like Web 2.0 was much better this year #

Grand Theft Auto IV mocks Flickr and tagging — there's a parallel-world Internet in the game with hundreds of pages, including parodies like Craplist #

Damien Jay's Opolis — comic built from photos of a 3D miniature office building #

Tresling, Tetris controlled by arm wrestling — the battling dynamic reminds me of the rare Panic Park gameplay #

Paulville, gated communities for Ron Paul supporters — no, really, the first one's in West Texas (via) #

Rocketboom's coverage of Before the LOL at ROFLCon — the history of online memes, back to the late 1800s; and yes, I'm a huge Jason Scott fanboy (via) #

Jason Scott runs the stats on his Goatse hotlinking prank — he goatse'd 704,000 people last year, which must be some kind of record #

Things I Learned About My Dad (in therapy) — edited by Dooce, a book of essays with several good friends (and excellent writers) contributing #

Clustarack's impressive Rube Goldberg contraption — behind the scenes, 180 hours to build the contraption, 98 takes, 30 minutes to restore to initial state (via) #

Antique children's book uses bellows and cones to make sounds — beats a tinny speaker playing the Dora the Explorer theme for 30 seconds (via) #

Google Maps adds Street View for driving directions — some clever tips in the video, like checking for toll roads and parking signs #

Robot reassembles itself after being broken apart — it uses a camera to seek out its missing parts (via) #

Penny Arcade, PVP launch live shows — streaming their desktop in real-time (via) #

Big Fan — Cabel Sasser's great story of fan noise on older Mac dev hardware #

WSJ on Miller Brewing's Brew Blog — a former reporter is scooping other brewers and the trade publications, and both are angry #

Analysis of malware that creates Blogger spam blogs — using remote CAPTCHA solvers run by the spammers (via) #

Falindrome — fake palindromes, updated daily (via) #

Mister Bookseller — scanlation of a wistful Croation comic about a bookstore with every book in the world, except one (via) #

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus — transcript of Clay Shirky's excellent keynote from the Web 2.0 Expo; watch it instead (via) #

John Resig on Orto, running Java apps in Javascript — also, John wrote about another project porting the Ruby virtual machine to JS #

Marc Andreessen's guide to the Microsoft-Yahoo hostile takeover — the best explanation I've seen (via) #

Howard Rheingold's footage of a WELL meetup from 1989 — everyone's identified in the Boing Boing comments #

Don Hodges fixed the kill screen bug in Pac-Man — he did the same for Ms. Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, and Donkey Kong, too #