2 Girls 1 Cup, The Sitcom — from Justin Roiland, the creator of House of Cosbys; warning: offensive language (via) #

Ellen Page and Michael Cera sing a song about Diablo Cody — if that whole acting thing doesn't work out, they should tour #

How a deadly BMW M5 crash affected an online community — 18-year-old posts thread about high-speed driving, dies in massive wreck later that night #

Edward Tufte sounds like Gene Simmons — and weirdly, both the Simmons and Tufte links are worth experiencing #

The real history of woot and w00t — great roundup from a lexicographer on the multiple theories of the word's origins #

Hype Machine's 2007 Music Blog Zeitgeist — in aggregate, those MP3 bloggers have pretty good taste #

Tweetmeme, tracking link popularity in Twitter — surprisingly effective, updates every five minutes #

WSJ on Passage, the provocative 5-minute indie game — I linked to this back on December 7, happy to see it's getting some attention; play it before reading! #

SmugMug's private photos are public — Philipp interviewed Don MacAskill, who doesn't believe the autoincremented IDs are a problem #

Make3D, convert any photo to a dynamic 3D model — grab a photo from Flickr and fly around the 3D scene; like Photosynth with a single source (via) #

Geek Entertainment TV covers 20 Goto 10's ANSI art show — overview of the show including a good 30-second primer on ANSI art #

Arcade at the Movies — screen caps of real and fictional arcade game cameos from the last four decades of film (via) #

Game Mod workshop asked non-programmers to mod a Breakout clone in Processing — don't miss the video of the results; the well-documented source is available, too (via) #

Full drum kit as Rock Band controller for Otronicon 2008 — this is karaoke that goes to 11; also: build your own! (via) #

The Heavenly Jukebox, excellent Atlantic Monthly article on digital music from 2000 — they lowered their paywall on Tuesday, making thousands of articles free #

Dean Wareham's candid account of his affair with Luna bassist Britta Phillips — it must be hard for his ex-wife to hear about the new band (via) #

Books That Make You Dumb — Virgil correlates favorite books to SAT scores per college to find smart/dumb books; don't miss the FAQ (via) #

Nathan Rabin finishes his Year of Flops — he reviewed 104 films that were critical and/or commercial failures (via) #

Cat On A Dolphin — one-button game that keeps sucking me back in, along with Filler #

Laugh-Out-Loud Cats book released tomorrow — $15 from Lulu or $30 hand-signed by Ape Lad #

Entries from the New Yorker's Eustace Tilley redesign contest — the deadline ended today and the entries are great; my faves are 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 #

Jill Sobule's fundraiser to make her next album — she hit $28k in a couple weeks; also: she just commented in the Metafilter thread about her #

TED Jesus Christ God 2008 — no, not that TED; Internet lunacy, NSFW if you scroll down far enough #

Maciej Ceglowski on bedbugs and modafinil — itchy story behind the creation of his Bedbug Registry #

Baby Instructions — I'm afraid I'm guilty of this one; here's the original book (via) #

Vampire Weekend on Blogotheque's Take Away Shows — unfiltered concerts with great bands on the Paris streets; my favorite music series #

Brazilian novelist pirates own books, sees huge increase in sales — distributes links to pirated copies through an unofficial blog #

PocketGuitar, virtual guitar for the iPhone — more info on the project homepage (via) #

MP3: David Lee Roth's isolated vocal track from "Runnin' with the Devil" — I found myself playing reverse karaoke, humming the guitar parts (via) #

576,000 private Myspace photos leaked to BitTorrent — an insane 17GB of photos grabbed before they plugged the security hole #

EveryBlock launches! — wonderful local data/news in a gorgeous design; if you live in SF, Chicago, or NYC, pop in your address and dig around (via) #

Ghostface Killah angry at fans for pirating album — 115,000 fans on Myspace, but only 35,000 first-week sales #

White Whine — first-world problems; e.g. "$20 to upgrade my iPod touch? screw you, Apple!" (via) #

Hardly Working: Office Fantasy — Jake and Amir make me laugh, and if that's wrong, I don't wanna be right #

Early Yahoo and Google (and Brian Lent) — the guy's like the Zelig of the web #

Jason Scott on the outset of editing GET LAMP — 100 hours of tape in 80 interviews; I've watched some early footage and it's thrilling #

Metafilter releases infodump of activity data — fun for stats crunching #

Coachella 2008 lineup announced — Portishead, Jack Johnson, and Roger Waters get top billing? strange mix #

Skitch goes into public beta — OSX screenshot app makes blogging images much, much faster; watch the demo (via) #

DJ Shadow says Happy MLK Day — remix of B-Down Brothers' tribute to MLK from 1986, with a Czech Hall & Oates cover tossed in #

JJ Abrams invited Professor Randy "Last Lecture" Pausch to appear in upcoming Star Trek film — if you haven't seen either of those talks, watch them immediately #

Joel Johnson talks about AT&T's filtering on AT&T show — the interview ends abruptly towards the end of the clip #

NYT on campaign reporting with Twitter — only 97 results for "microjournalism," but the domain's been taken since 1996 (via) #

GameSetWatch on Audiosurf, innovative cross-genre PC game — puzzle/racing/rhythm game generates 3D playfields from your own music; compare Space Oddity, Mr. Blue Sky, Feist's Inside and Out #

Shot-for-shot remake of Journey's "Separate Ways" — I recommend watching the two side-by-side (via) #

Flickr's new places.find API method — pretty rad, allows for free-text searching of their entire place name database #

8080 terminals playing Portal's "Still Alive" — coded in Assembler with audio from a C-64 SID chip; here's the source (via) #

Macbook Air's thin obsession — making other laptops feel bad about their physique (via) #

Crank Dat Soulja Boy, MIT-Style — featuring Richard Stallman, holding the laptop in the back (via) #

Design Police — downloadable sticker kits for self-righteous designers #