Der Spiegel grills Tom Cruise about his Scientology beliefs — Steven Spielberg catches some heat, too (via) #

Flickr's Creative Commons photo browser — another great source for free and legal photos #

Designline, design timeline — animated GIF of every step of the contruction of a new CSS-based blog design (via) #

Flash: Smart Stick Adventure, maze of death — perfect Friday Flash fun (via) #

Goatse shirt, now for sale — safe for work #

Amazon redesigns, down to only two tabs — if you're not seeing it, here's a screenshot #

Bush signs law cracking down on prerelease file sharing — anyone sharing even one copy of an unreleased film, software program, or music file could be sentenced to up to three years in prison (via) #

No Internet Explorer bundled with new Apple OS — if you're so inclined, Ars Technica has a massive 20-page Tiger review #

Apple sued over "Tiger" name, injunction could prevent launch — questionable timing on Tiger Direct's part #

Fan remixes of NIN's Garage Band track — 274 remixes, but none of them as good as The Ghost That Feeds (via) #

Wal-Mart uses DMCA against parody website — they cited copyright infringement against the Carnegie Mellon student #

The Hype Machine — a well-executed MP3 blog aggregator (via) #

GBA homebrew game contest winners, pre-order the cartridge for only $12 — this is a steal; the list of 10 winning games is in the Jan 23 news update #

Rare mixes, bootlegs, and pirate radio from the mid-1980s — transferred from mix tapes into MP3 format for download (via) #

1970s concert photos on Flickr — some of these are outstanding (via) #

Marc Hedlund on "bud vase" features — creating passionate users with small personal touches (via) #

Mystery of the Mario Paint Song — a strange tune that appears in Nintendo games from 1992 on, with MP3s and a backstory (via) #

Art group installs viewing platforms at L.A. gated communities — hilarious; I bet they're removed by tomorrow (via) #

Infinity launching listener-produced commercial radio station — submit audio files online, they review and play them on AM radio (via) #

Matt's Recumbent Bike — silliest Flickr pool ever; the original image (via) #

IHT redesigns to 1024 pixels wide — following WaPo's 1024px redesign, but both only have ads in the right-hand area (via) #

Slashdot adds ads to their RSS feeds — blecch #

Kottke on "A Whole New Internet" — expanding on Andre's original thoughts #

Disney developing Pirates of the Carribean MMO — I'm still waiting for Disneyland in Half-Life 2 #

Rosie O'Donnell's Flickr photos — she also moved her Blogspot blog to her own domain #

Pixel mural from Masters of Magic for MS-DOS — creative, retro, and obscure; I love this kind of thing #

Make a ring out of a coin — technically illegal, or is it? (via) #

How big is Jesus? — JWZ runs the numbers (via) #

MP3: Audio from Jeff Tweedy and Lawrence Lessig's "Who Owns Culture?" presentation — 45 MB of goodness (via) #

Retro-style RPG based on Columbine massacre — extremely offensive; don't shoot the messenger (via) #

UC Berkeley professor exaggerated laptop scary story — shocking! (via) #

TVTorrents closed down — they make reference to a costly settlement (via) #

Chris Ware to self-publish future work — including new issues of Acme Novelty Library! (via) #

Photos from "I Am 8-bit" gallery exhibition — looks like photos of every artwork (via) #

Comparing blog links to major newspapers — as a percentage of their print circulation, Christian Science Monitor is the most blog-friendly (via) #

Edward Tufte closing "Ask E.T." forum — for someone so brilliant at information design, the design of the forums is lacking; whoops, this was from 2004 #

Dangerous Hacker! — too good to be true, but I'm hoping (via) #

Adrian's Greasemonkey compiler — turn any Greasemonkey script into a standalone Firefox extension #

Matt finds video of a TV networks' emergency drill — an entire terrorist black plague scenario, with experts, eyewitnesses, and reporters in the field #

Japanese Pepsi promotion with tape rolls of Super Mario Brothers levels — and a lovely collection of bottlecaps; or buy the tapes and caps on eBay (via) #

Bastard Tetris for Linux console — algorithmically chooses the worst possible bricks as you play #

Neat idea for combining Google Maps satellite view with A9's storefront view — someone please do this (via) #

Flash: Guess-the-Google — wonderful game based on Google Images collages (via) #

Congress confuses file sharing with manslaughter — explosive headline, but these draconian lawmakers are in the industry's pocket and they need to be stopped (via) #

The New Pope condemns rock music — he hates the Eagles, so he can't be all bad; original Times UK article from 1996 #

Katamari Damacy 2 co-op play — plus, a much better split-screen mode (via) #

RIAA's open extortion, assisted by Comcast — "we obtained your personal data without consent, now give us $4,500 or we'll sue you!" #

Greasemonkey: Amazon Free Music helper — convert Amazon's MP3 links to direct downloads (via) #

Adaptive Path on the New Internet — things are getting exciting again; also, I'm honored Upcoming.org made the short list of highlighted examples #

BBC interview with Steve Meretzky about Infocom's Hitchhikers Guide text adventure — one of the best, but hardest, games they ever made (via) #