Wonderful gallery of Japanese arcade games — highlights: the typing, instrument, and horse racing sims (via) #

Tapping on soda cans actually works? — shocking, I always thought it was an urban myth (via) #

Mystery reader censoring swear words in public library books — to be specific, the "Murder, She Wrote" series (via) #

GPS Coke can x-rays  #

Flash: Wordcount — English words, scaled to reflect popularity #

Fox News on Exxon gas pumps  #

Ballance, gorgeous marble game for Windows — try the demo, or at least watch the movies (via) #

Image: Ken Jennings' name variations — he writes his name differently on every Jeopardy episode #

Image: The Internet Has Spoken — nonsensical CNN quiz #

Bugmenot's mandatory registration form — don't worry, they're not serious #

Java: BitTorrent simulator visualization — add some seeds and peers to watch the bits fly #

Lot of 50 Plastic Fetuses (via) #

Profanities made from corporate logotypes (via) #

Microsoft selling Slate.com — will it go the way of Suck, Stim, and Spiv? #

Halo 2's subliminal trailer and web game — from the people who made the AI Game #

A great story of racial harmony in the DC subway (via) #

Total Asshole Compression — reverse compression, makes all your files much much bigger (via) #

Audio: William Shatner's "The Common People," Pulp cover (via) #

Brooklyn Superhero Supply — Dave Eggers' new East Coast counterpart to 826 Valencia (via) #

KoalaRainbow, visualization engine for MovableType 3.0 — lovely examples (via) #

Oxymoron dictionary (via) #

MovableType 3.0 Plugin Contest winners — congratulations, Jay! some of the others sound excellent (via) #

Snopes on the NOPLATE and MISSING license plate owners — they should just leave the field blank #

The KITT Dashboard Project — obsessive 20-year project to draw the Knight Rider dash (via) #

Dagwood on Detournement (1981) — also: Terry and the Situationists and more weirdness #

"Mortal Kombat: Deception" preview — it can't decide if it wants to be a fighting, adventure, chess or puzzle game (via) #

Guardian UK on Guerilla Gigs — flash mobs with a purpose (via) #

Industry group says pirate CD sales hit record 1.1 billion — as P2P usage increases in Taiwan, pirated CD sales have decreased (via) #

.htaccess Generator (via) #

You Have Bad Taste in Music — personally, I wouldn't lump in JT with the others (via) #

Dancing with Myself, profile of Kansas City's DDR subculture — read the community's reaction to the article (via) #

MP3: Of Montreal's "Know Your Onion" Shins cover — many more on their official site (via) #

Kottke's HTML version of the 9/11 Commission's report — or download the lovely PDF #

Vintage video game commercials  #

Video: Iron & Wine, "Naked As We Came" — whoops, I think I took Todd's server offline (via) #

Verizon to introduce Net-based phone service — competing with Vonage #

Small California newspaper gives control over content to local residents — this is a brilliant experiment #

eBay auction for an original KITT car from Knight Rider (via) #

GD graphics library supports GIF again — because the awful Unisys patent expired (via) #

List of sites with a Pagerank 10 — i.e. Google's highest-ranked websites (via) #

Retired carpenter rediscovers how the pyramids were built — with photos and video (via) #

Snopes on the five-year-old Peruvian mother — she gave birth in May 1939 #

MPAA and NFL team up against TiVo's TV-to-PC plans — PVRBlog has good comments on the story #

Official Doom 3 benchmarks — I'll shut up about this game on August 3 (via) #

Vintage 1960s TV clips about the hippie movement — highlights: discussions of the future and an unknown Joni Mitchell #

Monkey turns bipedal after near-death experience (via) #

Technorati teaming up with CNN for on-air coverage of the Democratic Convention — the CNN press release has more info #

UK High Court rules modchips illegal  #

Krisky Kreme announces glazed donut-flavored drink (via) #

Image: Waxy.org blocked by crappy SiteFilter proxy — Matt has a roundup of other blocked sites, including Blogger.com #