2 Guys 1 Cup with John Mayer — safe-for-work parody of the sickening original (via) #

iPhysics, physics game engine for the iPhone — inspired by Crayon Physics #

Rex starts the 2007 List of Lists — as always, keep checking back as we get closer to 2008 #

Video: Music Animation Machine plays Gradius, Dr. Mario, Donkey Kong, and more — images from classic video games play their own themes using MIDI visualization; more background (via) #

Food Pairing — tool to inspire creative cooking using the flavor components of 250 different ingredients (via) #

PickyPirate, a Metacritic-BitTorrent mashup — finding the best-rated media on popular torrent sites (via) #

Video: Grickle's Closet — I don't know why I find Graham Annable's animations so funny, but I do; see also: The Last Duet on Earth #

Flickr's second billion took three months — absolutely insane growth, though slightly skewed by the one-time Yahoo Photos user migration? (via) #

Flickr launches Places and redesigned map views — big congrats to Rev. Dan, Kellan, and the rest of the flickr crüe #

Mark Pilgrim's The Future of Reading — I wish they'd modeled the Kindle after their excellent MP3 store instead of bowing to paranoid publishers #

Google Reader team visits the set of Heroes — they should've given a bit part to Chris #

I Want to See That! — should be called "Go See A Movie With Ben and Katie" #

Google Maps adds collaborative map editing — fix address and Street View locations while retaining original locations (via) #

The Laptop Club — hand-drawn laptops created by 7- to 9-year-olds (via) #

Harry Potter and the Order of Typography — Jon Hicks highlights the typeface selection in a lovely slideshow (via) #

Katamari creator previews new game, Noby Noby Boy — the gameplay video shows off the stretching dynamic, combined with eating and expelling barnyard animals; whee! #

Jonathan Coulton performs "Portal" live — better than other shakycam versions, but the guy with the cake is scaring me #

Video: Twitter helps solve a murder on CSI — both usernames were registered shortly after it aired #

World of Datecraft — travel the world, meet interesting people, and steal their loot (via) #

Half-Life 2 Episode 2 statistics — this kind of communal feedback is fascinating for players, but invaluable for developers (via) #

Lost in the Static — strange freeware PC game builds a platformer out of noise (via) #

You gonna light that pipe? — Jim Treacher takes on a three-panel comic from a "write this comic" contest #

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 #