The Room: The game (NewGrounds)

Why McDonald’s food doesn’t rot (Salon)

Behold the Rock Band 3 keyboard (Game Informer)

Do we relate to our computers like humans? (VentureBeat)

Stunning bowls made from recycled water bottles (If It’s Hip, It’s Here)

Every Pokémon egg. (TDW)

What happens when trolls troll trolls? (Urlesque)

(title pic via EPICponyz | Artist’s page. Algebraic!)

Google reveals Google TV (Wired)

How to update your insecure passwords and make them easy to use (Lifehacker)

Art inspired by the Traveling Salesman problem (MAKE)

The Guy Who Invented One of the First Artificial Hearts Was Also the Voice of Gargamel on the Smurfs, Winnie the Pooh, and Tigger Too (TodayIFoundOut)

This could be Kim Jong Il’s successor (Esquire)

Pinhole photos created with distressed color film (PetaPixel)

The dark drama behind stock photos (Bygone Bureau)

(title pic via Bleeding Cool.)

Key takeaways from the latest version of ACTA (Michael Geist)

Midichlorian Rhapsody (Geeks Are Sexy)

How Adam Penenberg Has Legitimised New, New, New Journalism. Again. (TechCrunch)

Need a microscope for your iPhone? There’s a hack for that. (GeekDad)

Bacteria plus concrete = self-repairing walls (Discover)

Reminder: Assange is innocent until proven guilty. (Cryptome)

Complete iOS 4.1 walkthrough (9to5Mac)

(title pic via Japanator)

GeekDad Review of Machete (Wired)

Botched Transformers 3 Stunt Sign of Negligence? (Spinoff)

Another Adorable Japanese Robot (TechnaBob)

Star Wars Smash Bros. You Know You Want It (Kotaku)

This Is A Spinning Black Hole (APotD)

PAX Cosplay Gallery (1Up)

Pokemon Fusion! (Alex Onsager)

(pic via Reddit.)

A Rundown of the Whole PAX Duke Nukem Experience (That Videogame Blog)

An Infographic About Infographics (Urlesque)

PAX Prime Photo Gallery (1Up)

Google Settles in Texas Privacy Suit (Reuters)

Kirby’s Epic Yarn is Still Adorable (Kotaku)

I Got Stabbed At Comic-Con And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt (Neatorama)

Steve Jobs: The New iTunes Icon Does Not Suck, Shut Up (Wired)

(image via Kotaku.)

The 10 most depressing NES game endings (Topless Robot)

Do modern gamers feel “entitled” to beat the game? (Sean Malstrom)

The unfinished tale of Harvey Pekar (NYT)

Duke Nukem Forever footage (Joystiq)

What is Ulysses Syndrome? (Soundwalk)

Time-lapse of Earth rotating under an astronaut(Neatorama)

Google Translate “Sigur Rós,” and … (TDW)

(title pic via Neatorama)

What are you even supposed to do with Ping? (TechCrunch)

Not Facebook, that’s for sure. (AllThingsD)

Michael Bay offers $50,000 bounty for puppy-throwing girl (Gawker)

Royal Navy replica made from matchsticks (Asylum)

Now that’s a witness statement(TDW)

“Bubbling pictures” (Bodybuilding Forum)

If historical events had Facebook statuses (Cool Material)

(title pic via Agent M Loves Tacos)

We didn’t bother to write about the new Apple TV, but Ars did. (Ars Technica)

Fantasy cast for the Iron Fist movie (AMC)

Reddit & Digg drama timeline (DVICE)

DIY Lightsaber (GammaSquad)

New Batman game to have multiplayer;looks pretty cool. (Arkhamcity/Joystiq)

Forget annoying songs by listening to equally annoying ones (Urlesque)

Many pictures of Batman being hit in the balls (ComicsAlliance)

(title pic via Geeks Are Sexy)

“According to my supervisor, there are no such things as portals.” (27bslash6)

The Internet wants Colbert to hold a rally of his own in DC (Mediaite)

Meet Digg’s new CEO (TechCrunch)

The rise of the anti-Facebooks (RWW)

One brave man’s survival shelter and shotgun robot (Asylum)

Nifty: Digitally printed glass (If It’s Hip, It’s Here)

A chinese villager who sells more software daily than you do (Max Klein)

(title image via Look at this Frakking Geekster via GWS)

Know Your Meme’s month in review (KYM)

Urlesque’s Cee-Lo interview (Urlesque)

Heavy drinkers outlive nondrinkers? (TIME)

Personal papers of notorious comic book opponent open to the public (Library of Congress)

New Chatroulette is live (TechCrunch)

Arcade Fire and Google team up for interactive HTML5 video (The Wilderness Downtown)

NASA joins Flickr, posts some amazing pictures (Flickr)

(title image via jenga_d )

No Half-Life Movie Unless Valve Makes It (1Up)

Fallout: New Vegas Has Robot Sex (GameInformer)

Yoda’s Head is a Cake, Your Argument is Invalid (instructables)

This is a $10,000 Game of Pinball (Tilt Warning)

Timelapse Photography of the Day (Geeks Are Sexy)

The 10 Greatest Fictional Inventors (Gizmodo)

Mission: Impossible IV Casting (Bleeding Cool)

(image via Toycutter.)

Final Fantasy XIV Beta Starts Tuesday (Joystiq)

StarCraft II Will Get Patched Next Month (Kotaku)

True Blood’s Stephen Moyer as Dr. Doom? (ScreenRant)

Gummy Bear Art (FlavorWire)

Questionable Predator Shirt (Fashionably Geek)

Walk Like The Batman (Neatorama)

Walk Like the Submariner (Bleeding Cool)

(image via Topless Robot.)

Diaspora is coming on September 15th (Diaspora)

Sci-fi eye test (Bite.ca)

Paul Allen sues everybody for everything. (Mashable)

Violent video game case gets its day in court (Joystiq)

This Espresso Bar Opened in 1985, 1955 and 2015 (Topless Robot)

How vinyl records are made (YouTube)

36 mysterious Google Earth sightings (HuffPo)

(Title SimCity 4 rageface via Reddit.)

Why the arcade experience is broken (Sean Malstrom)

Alternate universe movie posters (Sean Harter)

A guide to Internet memes (Online University)

Some guy says there’s a stigma to reading books alone, but not if you do it on an e-reader!? (The Grumbler)

Netflix finally comes to the iPhone (Wired)

How to harvest helium (io9)

5 ways the universe could wipe out mankind (Popular Mechanics)

(title image via Peter Drew via The High Definite)

How will the new Digg change the community? (MediaTrust)

“Down with social” (Spencer Fry)

How to make a comfy Companion Cube (Craftzine)

At 2.6 TB/month, Belgian user may hold download record (Geeks Are Sexy)

YouTube videos that no one’s seen (Zeroviews)

Benjamin Franklin vs. his editor (Hark, a vagrant)

“When people keep their brains busy with digital input, they are forfeiting downtime that could allow them to better learn and remember information, or come up with new ideas.” (NYTimes)

(title pic via Bits & Pieces)