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) #

Kevin Kelly on 1,000 true fans — this model for indie creators is a natural use of the Internet, but still rare #

1975 unboxing ceremony for an FR80 microfilm recorder — from a massive collection of historical computer photos; don't miss Tomorrow's World and Alien (via) #

MegaPhone, phone-controlled multiplayer gaming — tried an early version at Foo, had a blast (via) #

Gary Gygax, co-creator of D&D, dead at 69 — a good game can change the world #

Gordon Luk on IE8 and how people perceive big companies — decisions aren't made by a giant golem named Microsoft, but by the interactions of thousands of individuals #

Neil Gaiman on giving work away for free — he responds to an independent bookseller arguing that it cuts them out of the process (via) #

The Other Art of Courtroom Sketch Artists — David Friedman asked seven of the most popular artists about their other work #

Possessed, documentary short about obsessive hoarders — in streaming HD through Vimeo #

Video: Justice's DVNO, homage to 1980s CG bumpers — full-size Quicktimes, username/password: justice/dvno #

Nine Inch Nails' new album released under Creative Commons — the site's slammed right now, but it comes in a variety of options (via) #

Games imitating war imitating games — that game-like AC-130 gunship video from Afghanistan was turned into a Call of Duty level #

Scene.org 2008 Awards nominees announced — the best of the demoscene #

Haxed by Megahurtz — extremely strange Flash game; level 3 plays over a landscape of scrolling spam emails (via) #

Gravitation, an experimental game about balancing work and family — from the creator of Passage, the pixel game that made people cry (via) #

Daily WTF's very funny story about truly awful web security — they changed the username, but it's still in plaintext in the source! #

Sched.org, the SXSW 2008 scheduler — elegantly designed, with the simplest signup process I've ever seen #

Heaven's Database transcript from Saturday Night Live — no video online that I can find, but the audio sounds like the sketch fell flat (via) #

iPhone stopwatch hits 1,000 hours — 41.666 days later... (via) #

Editor fired for strangled-kitty joke slipping into production — regret the error, indeed #

FriendFeed publishes a blog of code check-ins — common for open-source projects, but I've never seen this done for a web startup #

One Page Magazine — I'd seen the Wired one, but not the rest (via) #

The Internet circa 1997 featured on Buffy the Vampire Slayer — the entire episode is viewable via Hulu on various sites (via) #

Project Riff, insane dataset compiled by MST3k fans — read more about the project (via) #

826 Valencia opens time travel mart in Los Angeles — like their other stores, it's a front for their non-profit writing center (via) #

Roy Gould presents Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope — lovely, it's like Photosynth for the universe (via) #

Video: Ernie and Bert go BRUTAL — a far-out, super-hep swinging drum solo (via) #