Interactive Fiction Comp '08 results announced — download them all; read Emily Short's review of Lost Pig, the winner #

Catching Up with an Aqua Teen Terrorist — R.U. Sirius interviews Peter Berdovsky about hairstyles from the 1970s #

GameSetWatch on the extremely meta Game Center CX — a Nintendo DS game about playing retro games, based on a Japanese TV show about playing retro games (via) #

plusplusbot, karma for anyone — bringing the IRC karma bot to Twitter (via) #

Ian Rogers' 1994 zine about Sly and the Family Stone — a loving tribute from a man who really loves his music #

Peter Rojas' RCRD LBL goes live — exclusive DRM-free music from their own new label and partnering with like-minded labels on a daily MP3 blog #

ASCII rave in Haskell — creating music by typing text into a "broken" speech synthesizer; another video (via) #

Prince sends DMCA notices to b3ta users for Photoshopping contest — this is just idiotic (sorry, Anil!) #

Prince of Persia butchered in "Life" TV show — laughably bad portrayal of technology, including Excel spreadsheets hidden in the 10th level of the game (via) #

Ze Frank's Strike #2 — if he keeps making them, I'll keep linking to them #

Peter Pan finds his Tinkerbell — there's someone out there for everyone #

Announcement: I'm leaving Upcoming to work on Waxy.org full-time! — a friend said I should cross-post this to Waxy Links since they didn't see the main blog post #

Orangina's new furry-friendly ad campaign — more head-shaking weirdness at the official site #

24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot — we're paying for the Internet by the hour (via) #

Smoking Gun uncovers David Bowie's 1976 mugshot — the only guy that could make a mugshot look like a high fashion photo shoot #

Elvis Costello reunites with Clover to perform "My Aim Is True" live, tonight — I'm insanely giddy about this; I'll be in line for the late show at 7:30pm if anyone wants to say hi (via) #

Jimmy Carter, cat murderer — lamentably #

Homebrew version of The Last Starfighter — they developed a working version of the nonexistent game from the film #

Video: Facebook News Network — "All the News Feed that's fit to print." #

Ze Frank's Strike Day — it's like The Show, but with blinking and better lighting #

Tim O'Reilly on Open Social and Facebook — he nicely articulates why both fall short, while reframing the problem with a solid prediction #

Matthew Somerville's BBC News diffs — thanks, Webb #

FoxDiff, tracking diffs in FoxNews.com headlines — biases aside, it's fun simply to watch a newsroom making slight changes over time #

Feed the Head, updated in late August — if you played it before, try it again #

Pac-Txt — Pac-Man meets Zork (via) #

Google's OpenSocial API docs go live — the Orkut sandbox is moderated, so Plaxo Pulse is the only live implementation so far #

Tumblr 3.0 launches with a zillion new features and improvements — including privacy, hosted MP3s, video through Vimeo, and investors #

Mythbusters to test "plane on conveyer belt" riddle on December 12 episode — using an Ultralight plane and a quarter-mile conveyor belt #

Trent Reznor comments on OiNK shutdown — he was an active member (via) #

Marc Andreessen on Open Social — the post-dated press release offers more info, with URLs that aren't live yet #

Jail finds — flotsam abandoned in books from a jail's lending library (via) #

Fan-made plush Portal Companion Cube — also: Cake! (via) #

Ben Brown on Consumating's ill-fated points system — aligning desired behaviors with point rewards is difficult to do and has unintended consequences (via) #

Anil Dash comments on Apple's jab at Windows users — he calls them out for arrogance and inaccuracy #

Jenn Frank on Arcade Attack — insane 1982 "documentary" about pinball versus videogames, with video #

The Tall Stump — first place and audience winner of the 4th Casual Gameplay Game Design competition #

Oink.cd, the #1 site in the world for waffle recipes — I love those guys #

Apple left the Blue Screen of Death easter egg in Leopard's final release — I'd seen this in the alphas, but I'm impressed they kept it in #

The Superest — two artists compete by drawing superheroes that cancel out the power of their opponent's previous hero (via) #

Shintaro Kago's brain-damaged manga, lovingly translated — NSFW for sex and violence, but don't let that stop you; it's a fascinating deconstruction of comic form (via) #

Vented Spleen's comic about living with Crohn's disease — one of the best 24 Hour Comic Day comics I've ever seen (via) #

Matt Haughey on classical as the future of music — related: Alex Ross in the New Yorker on the rise of classical music online #

Daily Telegraph interviews OiNK founder — also, he's been answering questions in IRC #

Little People art installation at the Nuart — when I first saw it, I thought they were tilt-shift photos; more on his Flickr page #

Interactive Fiction Database — newly launched, including community moderation tools, recommendations, and a browser plugin for launching games (via) #

How Dopplr generates colors for every city — it's lovely bits like this that make Dopplr so great (via) #

DJ Rupture defends OiNK in wake of its shutdown — he found his entire discography traded online, but found it reassuring #

Nelson Minar on Techcrunch's misuse of "off the record" sources — "you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" #

Video: BBC report on the OiNK raid — inaccurate, but interesting; nobody paid subscription fees, and voluntary donations covered costs #

MTV interviews Jonathan Coulton about Portal song — interesting trivia: Valve had the option of using Ben Folds, but went with Jon #