Gamasutra catches GamePro (and others) cribbing data without credit — entertaining, if only for the spot-the-fake games #

Official Charlton Heston Postmortem Joke — using Tweetscan as Clichewatch #

Improv Anywhere's Best Little League Game Ever — hopefully, they managed to avoid post-gig bitterness #

Google App Engine — Google dives into the cloud; Python-only and free for limited use #

How OK Go Benefited from Net Neutrality — NYT op-ed by their lead singer (via) #

Pitchfork.tv goes live — still beta and an awkward UI, but some great exclusive video including the full-length Pixies reunion documentary (via) #

Ten Thousand Cents — Mechanical Turkers reconstruct a $100 bill using custom drawing tools for 1 cent per drawing (via) #

Imageshack launches free BitTorrent downloading service — for people who can't run BT or limited by their ISP, this sounds great #

Magic Pen — complete clone of Crayon Physics, but still worth trying (via) #

You Have to Burn the Rope — walkthrough available, if you need it #

The Making of the Flagpole Sitta lip dub — Jakob made it look effortless, with quite a bit of planning #

fruit mystery, a flash game — from the fine people at BrettCorp #

Infochimps, insane collection of open datasets — subscribe to their blog, which tracks new data as its added #

Charles Manson's 2005 album released under Creative Commons license — how does a 73-year-old man who's never used a computer hear about CC? (via) #

Adrian Holovaty's jazz acoustic remix of Radiohead's "Nude" — current ranked #35 out of 423 remixes #

South Park meets the Internet Stars — takes on Tay Zonday, Tron guy, Chris Crocker, Afro-Ninja, SWK, Dramatic Chipmunk, Numa Numa, and more #

Akon Calls T-Pain — butternut reduction (via) #

Mike Gravel's cover of Helter Skelter — he should run for the President of YouTube #

Quest for the Crown — old but good, I still can't get past level 12 (via) #

Metafilter roundup of Paul Green's School of Rock videos — these videos of kids rocking out brings joy into my heart #

straightest freehand horizontal one pixel black line contest  #

Hoefler & Frere-Jones' Estupido Espezial, a joke version of OCR-A with swashes — even their joke typefaces get them paid (via) #

Guncho, a multiplayer IF system based on Inform 7 — upload Inform code to create realms browsable by multiple people at once #

Porn for the Blind — a free public service #

Dropclock, Mac/Windows screensaver — lovely slow-motion Helvetica dunking; also: animate movement based on wind activity in your town (via) #

Blogoscoped has my favorite April 1 joke, so far — understated and unexpected, it fooled me #

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 #