Jay Is Games' Casual Games 5 entries up for voting and play — a massive outpouring of creativity; AdBlock users will need to whitelist the page #

Kate Beaton's History Comics — even more here and here (via) #

HarmoNESica, convert an NES cartridge to a harmonica — finally, blowing in the cart will actually do something #

Google Docs' Clippy easter egg — not an April 1 joke, as suspected; any idea how to enable cliply? #

Streeter's Best Hate Mail Ever — don't miss the Victorian hate mail at the end #

Mr. Show, The Fairsley Difference — keep this in mind during the 2008 election (via) #

Chart of organic food companies and their corporate owners — consolidation's been happening for two years, but the result is impressive and sad (via) #

Jason Rohrer's Game Design Sketchbook — the author of Passage and Gravitation's new Escapist column, prototyping a new game monthly (via) #

Scientology critics leak emails endorsing Florida mayoral candidate — possible smoking gun, because IRS forbids tax-exempt organizations from campaigning #

Video: Spy Hunter meets Pontiac commercial — I never get tired of the 2D-to-3D trick #

Retro Sabotage — silly and strange parodies of retro games; I just finished Tetris meets 2001 (via) #

Scientology escalates the battle with Anonymous — they should've let it die, it's like responding to the world's biggest troll; account disabled, but mirrored by Gawker (via) #

"Lost Pig" cleans up at the XYZZY interactive fiction awards — I beat the game on my flight home from SXSW; here's a good review (via) #

Eurogamer's review of Barkley, Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden — best explanation of the oddball freeware RPG I've seen (via) #

Kottke.org turns ten — with a look back at every old design #

Waxweb, the first feature film online — ambitious and sprawling 15-year project used VRML, Digicash, MOOs, and 25,000 hyperlinks; watch the 1995 demo (via) #

Jill Sobule reached her goal of $75,000 to fund next album — in 53 days, 1,000 true fans in action #

Anil Dash on embeddable blog entries — as Nelson points out in the comments, this is Xanadu's transclusion in widget form #

Interview with a fansubber — nice little glimpse into the subculture and the scene #

Demo of Melodyne's incredible polyphonic editing tools — hard to explain, so just watch; if it works, this will become every mashup artist's new best friend (via) #

Frauenfelder's lovely eulogy for Eliza creator, Joseph Weizenbaum — he passed away on March 5 #

Google Sky, now on the web — coded by an intern in three months #

Nice roundup of Twitter visualizations — including some academic projects I hadn't seen (via) #

The Lost Features of Google — long list of forgotten or abandoned Google experiments; also, Philipp's roundup of their intranet #

Paul Ford's six-word reviews of all 763 SXSW MP3s — a fun read, but surprisingly great for finding new music #

Joystiq role-plays a text adventure with Double Fine's Tim Schafer — best interview ever, shows the creativity behind his games better than any Q&A would (via) #

Oil paintings inspired by Internet memes — my new desktop wallpaper (via) #

Bob Ostertag's w00t — experimental music composed entirely of fragments from video games (via) #

glTrail — real-time visualization of connections and activity from your log files (via) #

Beginner's guide to Find the Lost Ring, Jane McGonigal's new ARG — backed by the Olympics Committee and sponsored by McDonald's, this is a biggie #

Review of fictional games in Star Trek — with many screen captures; see also: Data plays poker with Einstein, Newton, and the real Stephen Hawking (via) #

Hyena, scripting language for audio-only one-button games — beyond accessibility issues, this genre's ideal for playing while driving or running #

Financial Post on Google's death blow to search arbitrage — focuses on the case study of the implosion of Geosign (via) #

Landon Dyer's story of working on Donkey Kong at Atari in the 1980s — don't miss the rest of his blog, too (via) #

Korg announces synth tools for Nintendo DS — full music creation package based on the Korg MS-10 #

Matt Webb's Tour of a Fictional Solar System — we should resist forming huge, boring planets #

Mat Honan pretending to twitter SXSW — doing a convincing job of it, too #

Typographica's Favorite Typefaces of 2007 — as always, some great picks; Restraint is interesting (via) #

Evil Gmail backup software charged $30 to steal your password — the SEO scumbag's app sent every user's credentials to his own hardcoded Gmail account #

Developing 3D games in Microsoft Excel — beats WordArt #

Apple announces iPhone SDK and App Store with Spore and Monkey Ball — SDK out now, iPhone 2.0 software due in June; I wonder how application approval will work #

Video: Blueberry Garden sneak peek — the blog of the game's developer (via) #

You're Not My Father — inexplicable recreations of a scene from Full House (via) #

Per-capita maps of Starbucks vs. Wal-Mart in the US — watch as Wal-Mart spreads like a virus infecting the eastern half of the US #

Cultural history of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" — incredible essay, with clips of how it's been rediscovered and used by TV, film, and other artists #

New gameplay videos for Braid released — don't miss the second clip of Jonathan Blow's lovely time-bending platformer #

I Am Legend alternate ending — much better #

Rickroll Database — thwart rickrolls using this blacklist for Adblock Plus (via) #

Tom Coates explains Fire Eagle — I played with it today and it's very cool; developers only for now, but someone missed that part #

Solving CAPTCHAs for cash — in the year since the entry was posted, the comments became a global marketplace for human captcha solvers (via) #