Playing from the Other Side: the Discomfort of Militainment Avatars — great stuff, including an Iraq vet who refuses to play for the insurgents and an insane FPS published by Hezbollah #

The 'I Heart Huckabees' Outtakes — David O. Russell and Lily Tomlin go completely unhinged; NSFW language #

Video: Indian Thriller — new to me! (via) #

Understanding Avatars in Games and Social Media — great reading with many visual examples; Gordon's been on a tear post-SXSW #

Techno Tuesday — very odd weekly comic about technology (via) #

Letterhead Fonts embrace DRM with disastrous results — the foundry that made the Upcoming.org logotype goes to the dark side #

Video: Chris Ware animation for Showtime's This American Life — wonderful story about how make-believe cameras changed an elementary school playground (via) #

A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined at the Kids' Table — "Pass the wine, please. I want to become crazy." (via) #

Handy list of TLD meanings, prices, and registrars — correction: Thailand charges 2505 Baht for .th domains, not USD (via) #

Khoi Vinh's "Grids are Good" presentation and slides — however you feel about his design, this is a must-read #

Twittervision — capturing the Twitter zeitgeist on a map (via) #

Last episode of Ze Frank's The Show — what a difference a year makes #

Delutube, the Deleted YouTube Video Viewer — deleted videos apparently remain on YouTube servers, for the moment (via) #

xkcd creator's laptop stolen — including the originals for the last three months of comics #

How Zug Hacked the Super Bowl — John Hargrave and Rob Cockerham are my idols; unfortunately, unreadable (via) #

Wired redesigned — with a Veen-like gallery into their past designs #

Accordion Hero II — needs more Yankovic (via) #

American Idol covers Modest Mouse in a Mustang ad — or: The Day The Music Died #

Homebrew text adventures on the DS — with game saving and handwriting recognition! (via) #

DMCA Abuser Apologizes for Takedown Campaign — the apology video is enjoyable; here's hoping he disappears for a while #

Girl Talk, DJ Drama, and mashups discussed on floor of Congress — Congressman Doyle rocks the House (via) #

Flickr launches collections — sets-of-sets has the community's biggest feature request for years #

Notes from Will Wright's SXSW keynote — one of the best talks I've ever seen #

Lily Allen's "Smile" recorded in Simlish — the nonsense language spoken in The Sims #

Yeeaahh! — Khoi Vinh redesigns Yahoo in his distinctive style #

Tom Wilson's Big Pop Fun — Biff from "Back to the Future" now does pop art paintings #

Searchable SXSW Interactive 2007 schedule — much, much better #

xkcd on a new Captcha approach — bots: no lying #

Waxy and Upcoming.org go to SXSW Interactive — if you're going, come to the Yahoo! BarTab party and say hi #

Top 100 most-viewed pages on Wikipedia — funny to see Heroes, Lost, and the Battle of Thermopylae appear; the latter because of 300 #

Khoi Vinh, Zeldman, and Greg Storey join the Deck — yay! three of my all-time favs join the little ad network that could #

This American Life's Ira Glass on storytelling — with tips specifically for vlogs, but applies to anyone who does presentations of any kind #

Yahoo! Answers adds friend network — seeing questions and answers from friends is wonderful, but there's no way to search for people #

Apple: America's best retailer — history of the Apple stores, and the fun factoid that Apple makes more per square foot than Tiffany's #

CrunchGear reviews Project Epoc — controlling games with your thoughts, for real #

Scribd, like YouTube for documents — Jason Scott, who runs a massive document archive himself, comments on the ethics of Scribd #

Video: Hands-on demo for Little Big Planet for the PS3 — don't miss this; deeply innovative and quirky toy/game, possibly worth buying a PS3 for (via) #

Details on PS3 Home, their MMO world with media sharing — watch the video; I'm looking forward to communal viewings of bootleg TV shows #

Zelda Music of Golden Proportions — what do the Legend of Zelda theme and the Fibonacci sequence have in common? #

Matt Haughey interviews Mythbusters' Adam Savage — an interesting glimpse into how Ask Metafilter influenced Mythbusters in their upcoming episode #

The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids — it's amazing how something can make so much sense, but feel so wrong (via) #

Ex-Google Answers researchers launch Q&A site — including 9 of the top 12 most prolific answerers #

Items on Amazon.com that you cannot (or at least should not) buy — dark, unswept corners of a giant store #

Fawlty Towers map in Counter-Strike — the lobby looks perfect, down to the moose head (via) #

Silent Air Guitar Challenge Deathmatch — if Micki Krimmel's Smells Like Vlog Spirit doesn't win, something's wrong with this world #

How the world really shapes up — cartogram maps with countries distorted to reflect certain statistics #

Cisco buys Tribe.net — I don't get it, and nobody else does either (via) #

Video: Here Come the Emos — North Dakota local news hilariously takes online emo parodies seriously #

Bizarre Virus Threatens to Kill File-Sharers — might be worth it just to hear a "song about fish-shaped pancakes stuffed with jam" #

Sprout — lovely entry in the Casual Gameplay competition #