NYT's interactive tribute to the Mad Magazine fold-in — the full article details Al Jaffee's illustration process #

home.mcom.com is back! — a perfect snapshot of the Mosaic homepage from October 1994, thanks to JWZ #

Lower back tattoos available at Toys R Us — look just like mommy, and grandma! #

YouTube adds metrics for video uploaders — one note: they're all relative instead of absolute numbers #

TED just posted Clifford Stoll's hypermanic 2006 talk — amazing that he can stand still long enough to blow glass #

FriendFeed releases their API — one of my favorite new sites just got better; looks robust #

Oliver Laric's ↓ ↑ — hypnotic video of immersion baptisms (via) #

Smoking Gun reveals LA Times duped by federal inmate's forged FBI documents — great journalism, completely debunks last week's Puffy/Tupac expose #

Google removes alleged Chicago drug deal photos from Google Maps — this Gawker article captured all the photos before they were pulled #

Tetroid 2012, electronic album of 21 musicians packaged as a Tetris clone — some clever twists on Tetris gameplay, too #

First demo of Jim Leonard's Monotone — from the creator of 8088 Corruption, the first tracker for the original IBM PC speaker (via) #

LA Times interviews Rick Astley about the rickroll phenomenon — finally! I tried for six weeks to get a quote, but I'm not the LA Times #

Jason Scott on the Tyranny of the Ratio — a programming solution to a human problem #

Muxtape — S3-hosted service for 12-song virtual mix tapes, like this one (via) #

La Pequeña Hillary Clinton — don't miss the followup; take that, Will.i.am #

Metafilter comments vs. YouTube comments — a random sampling (via) #

Mail Trends, IMAP-based email analysis and visualization — works great with Gmail; for a sample dataset, Mihai used the Enron email archive (via) #

Rom Check Fail — crazy mashup of retro gaming graphics and gameplay into a new game #

Search terms replacing URLs in Japanese advertising — I'd love to hear more about Japanese search spam #

Bat population dying from mysterious "White Nose Syndrome" — I'm surprised the writer doesn't mention Colony Collapse Disorder #

Paul Robertson releases new film, Kings of Power 4 Billion % — like Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight, an epic hand-drawn animation in the style of 16-bit brawlers (via) #

Pathetic Geek Stories — returning after a three-year hiatus (via) #

NYT Mag on PatientsLikeMe, community and research guide for the sick — the treatment and symptom charts are incredibly empowering #

Rock Band for Xbox 360 now selling new songs in-game — they've already sold 6 million songs in three months through the clunky Xbox Live Marketplace #

MyMiniCity, SimCity-ish game that grows with passive referral traffic — each unique referral is a new inhabitant; compare Barbelith to GoonTown (via) #

PownceFS — fakes a local directory for your friends with the files they've uploaded in each #

Kotaku's Brian Crescente reviews Super Smash Bros. Brawl — a little weekend dose of insane for you (via) #

This Is My Jam — uses the Echonest audio API for beat matching to blend mixes automatically (via) #

Simon Willison's Wikinear, Wikipedia pages near your current location — demonstrates Fire Eagle and OAuth, mixed with Wikipedia, GeoNames, and the new Google Maps Static API #

Clifford Stoll's "The Internet? Bah!" from 1995 — Andrew Keen is the new Stoll, getting press for contrarian, but short-sighted, views (via) #

Paul Graham says You Weren't Meant to Have A Boss — big companies and junk food both scale, but they're unhealthy in similar ways #

Experimental Gameplay Project shirts and games sold at Target!? — that's incredibly awesome; take that, Urban Outfitters (via) #

McCain aide fired for linking Obama video on Twitter — the first person to be fired because of tweets? #

A Bumper Sticker View into Somebody's Soul — Alf is my co-pilot; I love that Mena's back (via) #

Fake's You Are Not Dead, A Guide to Modern Living — free filmic album and book, both interesting and worth experiencing (via) #

Interview with Paul Ford on his 763 six-word SXSW reviews — organ is spackle for the music world (via) #

Saul Griffith's Wattzon, redefining climate change as an engineering challenge — the most powerful and important document I've read in a very long time (via) #

Miranda July demonstrates how buttons are made — more complicated than I thought (via) #

Ze Frank on Colorwar 2008 — as suspected, games are currently being worked on around it #

Video: I Guess You'll Do — now let's go camping! (via) #

Real-life Portal art in Toronto — and the other side #

Color Wars on Twitter — with Ze Frank leading, picking teams marked the start of Twitter's first potential MMO #

Charles Cumming's The 21 Steps — fiction written and designed for Google Maps, from the creators of Perplex City (via) #

RollTube Firefox extension turns every YouTube video into a RickRoll — the opposite of RickrollDB, great for pranks (via) #

Dave Eggers' 826 Project talk at TED — help with his wish at Once Upon a School #

Six botnets responsible for 85% of all spam — and 40% comes from a single source; good luck shutting it down, though (via) #

Ambient Skype — telenapping with your loved one #

Video of the BigDog quadruped robot — like a drunken goat-bot funded by DARPA (via) #

Urban exploration photos of Michael Jackson's Neverland ranch — impressive shots taken at night; full set on Flickr (via) #

Chart of random color names provided by Mechanical Turkers — from Dolores Labs, a Turk consultancy; also, their wonderful chart of race on Sports Illustrated covers (via) #