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) #

Questionaut — from the Czech studio that made Samorost, a lovely game for kids commissioned by the BBC; walkthrough #

Carrie Brownstein's impressions on leaving SXSW Music — don't miss the rest of NPR's coverage, too (via) #

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) #