Phoenix Wright fan t-shirts — obscure Nintendo DS references on t-shirts make me happy #

The Evolution of Speech Balloons — from scroll-like "labels" in 12th century paintings to modern comic strips; also: the Early Comics Archive (via) #

Visualizing Gamespot review scores by platform — reviewers avoid 7.7 and 7.8 scores #

Weird Al's "Don't Download This Song" — "We Are the World"-style commentary on music piracy; "even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong" #

Video: The Party Party's "God Made Me Do It" — video mashup of Bush singing "Imagine," with a nod to Lou Reed #

Parallels plans to offer full Windows gaming support by end of year — full speed OpenGL/DirectX running natively on the Mac would mean I'd never buy a PC again (via) #

Turner Broadcasting removing smoking scenes from Hanna-Barbara cartoons after UK complaint — removing positive portrayal of cigs in Tom and Jerry, Scooby Doo, and The Flintstones #

Video: MTV's Game Makers Roundtable — bad UI, but great conversation with Will Wright, David Jaffe, Cliffy B, and Harvey Smith #

GopherNow, late-night eats finder — which restaurants are open in your area, right now? #

Video: PES' "Game Over" — stop-motion animation of retro arcade games played out with household objects #

Interview with Mike Frumin from Eyebeam — people like Mike inspire me; Fundrace, OGLE, Pizza Party, VGMap, and reBlog are all wonderful #

Dappit — visual tool for screen scraping websites into XML and doing neat things with it #

Wired News on Jason Scott's text adventure documentary — even more than Arcade, I'm eagerly awaiting Get Lamp #

RU Sirius show on Gettingit.com reunion, part one — I'm interviewed along with the rest of the staff; follow along on the archives #

Video: Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown — hyperviolent fun with copyright violations circa 1986; cameos by Mickey Mouse, Blondie, Nazis, and Richard Simmons (via) #

Dreamhost gets some angry voicemails — I love that company; how many other businesses would write a public expose on payola review sites? #

Nethack for the DS — also: ColecoDS now has sound and saving #

Bruce Schneier Facts — "Bruce Schneier can straighten out an elliptic curve with nothing but his teeth" #

Microsoft to enable homebrew content on Xbox 360 — sharing the games will be challenging, but it's a great move that other consoles should try to top #

Real-time Flash visualization of songs on the radio across the U.S.  #

YouTube visualization of submission growth — using the Youtube API (via) #

Internet Soul Portraits — famous websites without identifying text or graphics; how many can you name? #

AOL's Weblogs, Inc. gaming Digg — AOL employees digging Weblogs, Inc. stories in a coordinated effort to get to the frontpage #

Barry Diller buys majority stake in Connected Ventures — College Humor, yes, but also Vimeo, Busted Tees, and others (via) #

Steely Dan vs. Wes Anderson — there's a fine line between eccentric and insane (via) #

Apple making huge social software push? — the Teams feature is the most interesting; social networks will eventually be built into the OS (via) #

First Nintendo DS emulator to play commercial games released — compatibility list with some screenshots; also, you'll need to dump your BIOS (via) #

Full-motion 3D posters — don't miss the soccer video; estimated to cost $200-500 per square foot #

MP3: Sprites, "I Started A Blog Nobody Read" — "I started a blog and nobody came; no issues were raised, no comments were made" #

Video: Coca-Cola's Grand Theft Auto inspired commercial — this could almost be Sims 2 machinima (via) #

Second Life closes forums — a truly awful move that will damage the community (via) #

coComment's Firefox extension — instantly makes the service seamless and invaluable #

My 12 favourite demos — reminding myself that I need to do this someday, too #

Interweb Medley — so obnoxious; I'd love to hear a version using only the original samples (via) #

Video: Telling It All, Part 1 — 78-year-old man vlogging on YouTube; watch his first video to see how quickly he's evolved in six days #

Beating two SNES games at the same time — wiring a single controller into two SNES emulators, and recording the results #

Top Web 2.0 Apps in Russia — continuing his great series of Web 2.0 apps around the world #

Video: Clell Tickle, Indie Marketing Guru — Aziz Ansari comedy with cameos by Tapes 'n Tapes, Pitchfork Media, and Ted Leo (via) #

Video: Ze Frank on terrorism — "leveraging our inability to understand risk" (via) #

Creating in-cell graphics with Excel — very neat use of old tech (via) #

Endgame, the Google Maps real-time strategy game — like the Goggles flight simulator, why aren't Flash developers making games with the Yahoo Maps Flash API? #

Video: YouTube founders on Charlie Rose — uploaded by Charlie Rose! I like picturing him sitting on YouTube moderating the spam comments #

upcalendar — Aaron releases his Python hack for syncing Upcoming events to Series 60 phones #

Tom Coates on World of Warcraft addiction — "are we as a culture starting to construct toys that are too effective and end up hurting people?" (via) #

Myspace asks for "Salute" for verifying identity — it's a good thing there's no way to fake photographs on a computer (via) #

Seth Godin created a series of Nintendo fiction books for kids? — the excerpts and reviews are hilarious (via) #

Spam Stock Tracker — updated yesterday; too bad it's nearly impossible to short penny stocks #

Tales of the telegraph — great bit on "hog-morse" and the origin of "hams" #

Search engine for released AOL logs — my God, the search logs of anonymous user 711391 is an unbelievable epic; Philipp has many more (via) #

AOL search data shows users planning murder? — I'm just catching up from a short vacation, and the AOL blunder is blowing my mind; I'd do some crunching if I had time #