Details about a cancelled Naked Gun adventure game from 1997 — they hired and paid Leslie Neilsen to voice act, but political issues derailed the game #

Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo join the OpenID Foundation — holy cow, that's some mighty big guns #

The Evolution of Tech Company Logos — the designer of the first Apple logo gave up 10% of the company for an $800 payout (via) #

Trailer for Blip Festival, the chiptune documentary — debuting at SXSW Film with a huge chiptune concert? count me in #

Bully for the 360 adds achievement for kissing 20 boys — very surprising, considering the rampant homophobia on Xbox Live (via) #

Auto-Tune Abuse in Pop Music — what hath Antares wrought? (via) #

Akari's Coming Soon page — I guess that's better than an "Under Construction" icon (via) #

Ape Lad's Pappy and the Cryptids — this whole series is pretty great #

Matt Webb on Snap, the syndicated next action pattern — watch the screencast of Dentrassi, their to-do list that runs entirely in a feed reader #

YouTube removes St. Sanders' "Shreds" account — word on the street is Yngwie Malmsteen complained about being mocked; parody is protected speech! #

Twitter stats from Superbowl Sunday — I want a magic CNN-style "Breaking News" on Twitter determined by algorithm; related: Twitterverse #

Groundhog Day screenwriter on the "how long?" question — he mentions a deleted plot device that would've cleared it up; also: no mention of jwz's post #

7 Viral Videos You Didn't Know Were Staged — I'm impressed by the research; Cracked is dominated by Digg-bait, but it's adapted well to the current web #

Pravin Sathe's How You See It — overlapping multiple versions of the same TV news story (via) #

Kottke's great roundup of time merge media — I love this kind of thing #

Peter Hirschberg opens the doors to his insane new home arcade — over a year in the making, he moved it from his basement to a 2,400 square foot building #

Flash: Spin the Black Circle — I started tearing my hair out at level 12; enjoy yourself! (via) #

Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue — no shades of purple (via) #

Jason Scott's scathing critique of The King of Kong — a perspective I've never heard, from a well-respected documentary filmmaker on geek subculture #

Eels' 1-second ad for Super Bowl that didn't air — as E says on their site, the NFL doesn't sell ads in 1-second increments; nice try! (via) #

Hide an image in HTML with CSS3 — highlight the text with your mouse; good for propaganda! #

Why Leonard Lin's Voting for Barack Obama — see also: eloquent and heartfelt endorsements by Michael Chabon, xkcd, and Larry Lessig; do the right thing, America. #

Arcade Fire's "Black Mirror" DIY remixer — 6 tracks of vocals and instrumentation to tweak alongside the video (via) #

The Mountain Goats do Super Tuesday — "And we reach out for the lever in the dark, Get a sticker for our shirts as we head into the sun, Proudly bearing the mark" #

Dan & Kathryn's Apple //c unboxing — related: another vintage computer fan who bid for the same auction #

Dinosaurs & Robots Dispatch #1 — new digital magazine by Mark Frauenfelder and Mr. Jalopy, powered by Yahoo/Adobe PDF ads (via) #

Jason Scott on maximalized pandas — my drum kit came from Sweetwater, also wrapped with a handful of candies; I love stories of great service #

Cory and Alice's baby girl, Poesy, is born — congratulations, you two! beautiful and fitting name #

Video: Out of Context — "actors say the darndest things" (via) #

Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward on KCRW — hearing this, I'm even more excited about the She & Him debut #

Drawn Metafilter Comments — old, but new to me; I'd love to see this extended to other sites #

Twenty-Six Types of Animals — custom type personifying each animal; sketches of the process on Flickr (via) #

Tweet Scan — real-time Twitter search, very well done #

John Gruber's analysis of the Microsoft/Yahoo merger — best I've seen so far, and not just because he quotes me at the end #

Five subtle changes in the event that Microsoft acquires Yahoo! — "owing to unavoidable data corruption, all Upcoming.org events must be reinstalled monthly" #

Google's Social Graph API — they're culling FOAF/XFN links from the web; here's an example of passing my FriendFeed URL to their My Connections app (via) #

Microsoft bids $44.6B to buy Yahoo! — holy crap; the press release from Redmond #

Mass Games Human Computer — winning Half Baked idea suggests turning North Korean-style mass displays into human logic gates #

Twitter Down Art Collection — linking to this only because I love their style; I completely forgive their growing pains (via) #

Improv Everywhere's Frozen Grand Central — 207 people freeze at the same second and stay still for five full minutes (via) #

Video: Man on the street interviews in Beijing about the U.S. elections — they know more about us than average Americans know about Chinese politics, but not much more (via) #

Mr. Show's Bob Odenkirk created the "Bird Poops in Newscaster's Mouth" video — the YouTube video was viewed 1.2 million times, making this a very successful viral hoax #

Dopplr Raumzeitgeist 2007 — nice visualization of everywhere Dopplr users visited last year (via) #

Adrian Holovaty retires Chicago Crime — EveryBlock made it redundant, so he's shutting the influential site down #

Jason Kottke liveblogged the Mythbusters "plane on a conveyer belt" episode — big spoiler warning; literally, a very big spoiler #

Waxy.org: The Times (UK) spamming social media sites — including Metafilter, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, and many more; also: I'm blogging daily on the main site now! #

Tag cloud for the upcoming 2080 State of the Union — the 2008 tag cloud is slightly more predictable (via) #

Human Tetris — new video from the same group that made Human Space Invaders, Pole Position, and Pong #

Defective Yeti's dead simple Oscar Pool creator — no logins required, just simple Oscar goodness #

The story behind Woody Allen's signature typeface — with screengrabs from each film (via) #