Indie band Dios forced to change name by Ronnie James Dio — will this affect Dio's presidential campaign? #

Jaws in 30 Seconds Re-Enacted by Bunnies (via) #

Japanese children's books from the 1920s — if only the images were larger (via) #

RealNetwork launches anti-Apple blog, inspiring wrath — they removed comments from the petition, and all the blog comments are from Apple fans (via) #

Weboggle, DHTML Boggle game — I'm really late to this one, but I'm still catching up from downtime last week (via) #

Ann Arbor Library's 16-player Mario Kart tournament — eight Gamecubes running on a LAN #

Stopdesign on Blogger's new navbar — Doug Bowman designed it #

Image: Rowing machine diagram — related: the FileMatrix GUI screenshot (via) #

ljArchive, intense LiveJournal archive utility for Windows — including psychological profiles, archive printing, and exporting to MIDI!? (via) #

Dropcash, easy fundraising with Typekey and Paypal — Torrez and Kottke create a kick-ass app; read more about it #

The Google Face Game (via) #

Flash: Pixelfield game — not for the impatient (via) #

Clueless security firm blocks BitTorrent usage — there are legitimate uses for BitTorrent too, asshat #

Children's Pimp & Ho costumes — you know, for kids! (via) #

Don't Copy That Floppy from 1992 — a classic, with a funny review and reliable video download (via) #

CSS Zen Garden Interface Tool — great way of browsing the designs on the site (via) #

TransGaming tagging downloads to prevent piracy — each download is watermarked with a unique ID #

Political debate in Second Life MMORPG — there are liberal and conservative areas of land in the virtual world #

Danah Boyd on I-Neighbors — social networking at the local neighborhood level (via) #

Bubblegum Alley in San Luis Obispo — 44 years of discarded bubble gum (via) #

Costco begins test marketing caskets — they're cheap, but you need to buy enough for your whole family #

Video: Ali G's "Throw the Jew Down the Well" — now read about the fallout of the performance #

History of Isometric Game Engines (via) #

Making tile-based games in Flash — one of the highest quality tutorials I've seen #

Slyck's roundup of illicit BitTorrent sites — most of these are account-based trackers #

Half-Life 2 dialogue accidentally leaked — including the game's surprise ending #

TimeTrax, convert XM Radio to MP3 (via) #

Adbar for Firefox — the evil cousin of Adblock (via) #

Video: Jim Woodring's Frank — Woodring art goes 3D, to great effect (via) #

Stormtrooper Fairyland Wedding (via) #

Piracy's Own Punishment — if mostly young people pirate, the industry will cater only to old people #

Netflix as social psychological experiment — people choose virtue over vice for simultaneous viewing (via) #

Washington Post profile on Washingtonienne — they're a little late to the story (via) #

Olympics shut down online streaming radio stations — distinguishing between online and offline radio licensing is dumb (via) #

Excel-based RSS reader — this is disturbing and wrong (via) #

Lord of the Rings My Little Pony — Dazzle Surprise of the Nazgul (via) #

Blogger adds search navigation bar to all unpaid Blogspot weblogs — and removed all of the ad banners (via) #

How to make a scale model of a city — next: how to make it into a Quake map? (via) #

Technorati cosmos spammers (via) #

MP3: WWE wrestler John Cena freestyling about the NES — he's surprisingly well-versed in the subject (via) #

Fijuu, real-time performance environment using 3D objects as instruments — it boots from a standalone Linux CD (via) #

Nature magazine on the urban maze — or read the "Networks and Cities" paper (via) #

Mom helped five-year-old son smoke crack — from a homemade bong made from a baby food jar #

Top 10 Black Metal Publicity Photos — rule #1: don't be evil #

Suprnova Light mirror scripts — also: this Suprnova search engine is nice (via) #

Novelty shaved head designs — lightning bolt! (via) #

Wired Style no longer capitalizing "net," "internet," or "web" (via) #

Food stamp recipients receive educational videogames instead of pamphlets (via) #

Playboy's open source mirrors — "I read it for the source code" #

NYT on Warner Brothers' marketing to MP3 bloggers (via) #