WiFi-blocking wallpaper (via) #

Vivendi Games closes Sierra offices — death of another classic game company #

NYT on Imagination Environment — art project that searches Google Images for text found in closed captioning (via) #

Sorting Algorithm Visualizations — if you think this is cool, you're a nerd #

Snopes on those obnoxious "Word of Mouth" spams — someone is researching your background! #

Folderblog, drop-dead simple PHP photo blog or gallery — the default template is clean and simple (via) #

Werkkzeug, tool to create amazing real-time 3D graphic demos — see also: Conspiracy's Addict software and Moppi's Demopaja #

Ask Metafilter asks, "Why have kids?"  #

Michael Chabon's "Amazing Adventures of the Escapist Vol. 1" — B&N has Chris Ware's gorgeous cover sans watermarks (via) #

SpaceShipOne test succesful — first manned private space flight #

FCKeditor, inline DHTML text editor — works in IE, Netscape and Moz (via) #

Torrentocracy, a BitTorrent RSS plugin for MythTV — download new torrents with your TV remote control #

Bizarre Rev. Moon coronation ceremony held in Senate office building — I'm hosting the video on my BitTorrent tracker #

Scans of Scottish broadsides — the tabloids of the 18th and 19th centuries (via) #

The Daily Show provides better coverage than most "real" news shows — Aaron breaks coverage of one recent story down #

Video: Graphics Then and Now panel — Will Wright, Jordan Mechner and Rand Miller talk about graphics history and future (via) #

Looking back at The Lawnmower Man — in these gyrospheres, we wear full cybersuits #

NYT on fact-checking Fahrenheit 9/11 — Moore wisely hired outside fact checkers (via) #

Dooce's Father's Day tribute — this makes me want to cry #

Baby Formula Taste Test — we're using Horizon, which also smells funny #

New York movie piracy raid ends in cop shooting  #

Stamen Design's Google News Visualization — I missed this because it launched the day my son was born (via) #

Freed Go, 3D version of Go — play it on a Moebius strip (via) #

LA Weekly profile of under-21 bands in L.A. — I saw The Like play last year and was impressed #

Cory Doctorow's Microsoft speech on DRM — it's the best thing I've read all month, try the HTML or MP3 versions #

Typographi.ca domain held hostage by Canadians — everyone's favorite font blog temporarily moved to a new domain #

Anti-skateboard deterrants for cruel city planners — turns rails and curbs into faceplants (via) #

Bush Public Domain Sample Archive — every phrase from every major speech, chopped up and searchable (via) #

Video: Soldiers Under Command — 57MB Quicktime documentary of 2nd Annual Stryper Expo (via) #

Flash: Robots Are Our Friends — but sometimes they slash human flesh (via) #

Boing Boing Lite — ditch the ads, guest sidebar, and filter out posts by author or keyword (via) #

Ebert on whether Fahrenheit 9/11 is a "documentary"  #

Inventory of crappy CDs sent to libraries for price-fixing settlement — bastards are sending garbage CDs sold in remainder bins (via) #

John Carmack's test liftoff a success — that explains the Doom 3 delays #

#1 Matt on the Internet — and he's following through with his promise (via) #

How to shut down a free website without hurting your users  #

Snopes update on the guy living in a Paris airport — The Terminal movie is loosely based on his story #

New Xbox Video Chat allows remote joypad vibration — Jane's going to have to pick one up #

Site Flavored Google Search — explicit categorization is not very useful, it should analyze my site content instead #

glambient, app that creates seamless tiles — exports to Flash (via) #

Yetisports 5 — yet another Yeti game #

Ben's research into a white supremacist ISP — scary stuff #

Chicago Trib's Top 50 Magazines — Wired, Real Simple, and Economist top the list (via) #

Om on Blinkx — I don't use IE, but I'll try the desktop search (via) #

Automatic wishlist purchases with Amazon's API — or "0-click shopping," as Erik calls it (via) #

Winer blog story hits the front page of Yahoo — I'm with Matt, this isn't front page news #

Wired on the TechTV/G4 merger — fans of both camps are annoyed #

Reality of Running Away from Stuff — top speeds of common Hollywood moving hazards (via) #

FDA History, The Case of the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich — with vintage photos and typography (via) #

Garfield Generator shut down by lawyers — it took three random Garfield panels for a Zen reading experience (via) #