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 #

ROFLCon Live Stream — hear the stories behind popular memes from their creators; see the Tweetscan for more #

Interview with the brains behind 419 Eater — I had no idea Shiver Metimbers unmasked himself last year #

TypeRacer, multiplayer typing game — I average about 90 wpm, even with my crazy nontraditional typing style (via) #

The history of NYC in video games — coming in October, Sierra's Prototype will also attempt to model NYC in exacting detail (via) #

Mixwit, mixtape maker from Y Combinator — like Muxtape, totally illegal fun; the embeddable players are great #

Pixel Pour — saw this a couple days ago, but now it's been tagged and removed (via) #

How Dave Cassel made $900 writing 300 reviews for Helium's Reward-a-Thon — he churned out at least 120,000 words in 100 days, most likely their biggest earner #

Pirate Bay hits 12 million simultaneous peers — the percentage of seeders is rising, despite Comcast's efforts #

Kyle Bean's The Future of Books — lovely art piece fashions a laptop out of an old book (via) #

How Hillary Can Still Win — anything's possible! (via) #

Superfan blogger visits the set of The Office — with detailed photos of every character's desk, among other details (via) #

Color Wars Street View Scavenger Hunt — I'm so impressed with the games they've invented using existing web services #

Penny Arcade on Twitter — it seems to have spawned a catchphrase (via) #

The Dinosaur Soothsayer — the Nostrasaurus knows all #

Chirrp, 8-second voicemail for Twitter — a silly little mashup from Why built in haXe #

Wesabe Tips — shows aggregate spending info culled from their user data #

Mighty God King's Atari 2600 games you might have missed — Gay French Mario Bros. was a great game (via) #

Human Giant picks the next web-to-TV comedy stars — sounds about right, but will they need TV, or will TV need them? (via) #

Disturbing video of the Golden Eagle throwing goats off cliffs — hide your kids! at the five-minute mark, it carries a goat back to its nest #

Doeo — RPS nailed it as "whack-a-mole with Katamari Damacy's aesthetics" (via) #

A Message to Pennsylvanians from Bill Clinton — brilliant bit of found video courtesy of Josh Marshall #

Portishead's Third on Last.fm — nice exclusive, stream the full album for free (via) #

Unreleased Atari 2600, Coleco games found at Oakland flea market — a legendary haul (via) #

Project Gazelle open-source tracker debuts on What.cd — great tracker, but risks drawing too much attention to the site #

Kevin Kelly interviews musician Robert Rich on the economics of 1,000 True Fans — he shares his earnings and the implications of depending heavily on a small core base #

Charlie Rose interviews Charlie Rose on technology — Steve is not happy (via) #

Todd McHatton's Grass-Stained Twilight — my brother-in-law's been recording and posting a song a week since January; reminds me of Shel Silverstein meets XTC's Apple Venus #