ScummVM emulator ported to Nintendo DS — it plays all the classic Lucasarts adventures, like Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle #

Did Penn Jillette invent the Aristocrats joke? — fun conspiracy theory; the earliest I could find was in a Jackie Martling book from 1998 (via) #

Deviant Art co-founder Scott Jarkoff involuntarily forced out — some serious drama, leading to a pro-Jark backlash on the homepage (via) #

Video: Mega64 takes on Paperboy — hilarious riff on the classic arcade game (via) #

Great photos of the SF zombie flashmob — they hit the Apple Store up for "genius braaaains" #

Justice, Cole Valley Style — Derek Powazek's vigilante justice against a hit and run #

Jon Stewart and Tucker Carlson rematch on August 8 — this should be good; this article is deceptive, only saying the shows will be in competing time slots (via) #

Video: The Story — short film by Matt Groening's dad from 1969? (via) #

Gelf Magazine on Google News' treatment of satire — they spoke to several of the satire sites, as well (via) #

CmdrTaco says Slashdot going CSS in next two weeks — it's up and running on Slashcode (via) #

Wired News on hotel hacking at Defcon — using Linux and IR to expose billing systems, read other guest's e-mail, and open the minibar #

Business Week on the Google/Yahoo brain drain — everyone wants to work at the two big search firms, affecting the rest of high tech (via) #

Kevin Shay's BigPAPI for MovableType — extends the API to modify the UI; check the growing list of plugins (via) #

Tapwave closes its doors — their Zodiac gaming PDA was a wonderful platform for open emulation #

Daniel Burka on the Digg redesign — one of the best redesigns in recent memory (via) #

Flash: Stackopolis — addictive and cruel building game (via) #

Inside the PSP's new web browser — Javascript, podcasts, and an on-screen keyboard #

Kevin Kelly on the people powered future of the web — great article, but I spotted one small goof; there was no "www" when he met with ABC in 1989 #

David Bau teaches his 6-year-old game programming in Python — he'll be the most marketable 10-year-old ever (via) #

Ice lake found on Mars — here's a high-resolution photo (via) #

Flickr hits 1 million members — congrats! #

Michael Lynn's Cisco flaw presentation from Defcon — his talk lost him his job, launched an FBI investigation, and could cripple the Internet; more on Wired News #

Is LimeWire closing down? — one of the biggest of the old-school Windows P2P apps #

Testing P2P apps on Windows Vista beta 1 — not very detailed, but sounds like some serious network issues (via) #

New version of Sharpreader released!? — I gave up waiting months ago and switched to the fabulous Reblog, and I don't regret it one bit #

Lego Katamari — I wish they were doing a Katamari Brick Flick #

AOL partners with Feedster to launch "My AOL" feed reader — it's public, so give it a try #

Rosey Grier's Needlepoint for Men — NFL defensive lineman's crafting book from 1973 (via) #

Guide to migrating web apps from IE to Mozilla — great intro to cross-browser differences #

Steven Johnson on the Grand Theft Auto controversy in the LA Times — a letter to Hillary Clinton (via) #

Firefox extension to automatically update Adblock blacklist — like most blacklists, you end up placing a lot of trust in the maintainer (via) #

RIAA shuts down machinima site — stifling the world's creativity, one takedown at a time #

Black Diamond — possibly the best black Neil Diamond impersonator ever; don't miss the MP3s #

Editorial layoffs hit Wired News — no more staff writers (via) #

Yahoo 360 adds Flickr integration — though I'm still getting prompted to log in when reading any blog entry #

Kottke's having linky acid flashbacks — looks like he pushed the Neiman Marcus cookie recipe into Delicious' most popular #

Escapist's profile of Derby Owners Club addicts — more fringe sports, it's a cult of multiplayer videogaming (via) #

NYT on professional mini golfers — I love mini golf, but I didn't even know this existed #

Mark Pilgrim says Greasemonkey 0.4.1 alpha fixes all known security holes — and works with complex user scripts; here's Aaron's announcement #

Blinksale, lovely online invoicing — heavily inspired by the 37signals school of design #

Hacker unlocks all weapons for 5 million Battlefield 2 users — and announces it on EA's official support forums (via) #

Inside look at the Adobe headquarters — I love this kind of thing; reminds me of the recent Pixar photo tour #

Google adds RSS reader to personalized homepage — not as elegant as My Yahoo, but it's a start #

JSAN, CPAN for Javascript — great idea #

Blind teen can beat you at Soul Calibur 2 — I'd love to see video (via) #

Yahoo! Widgets — the announcement on Konfabulator's site is fun, see the full comic #

Cory Doctorow on Promise TV — new PVR records a month of TV on all channels at once #

Daily News sends five reporters to NYC subway system with stuffed bags — the Egyptian reporter was stopped, twice (via) #

Indie rock band Karate breaks up — depressing news; Unsolved is still my favorite mix of indie rock and jazz #

Video: Family Guy, Take on Me — made me laugh; hosted locally #