Usability and users as hungry mice, cheese, and electric shocks — or: people care less about usability as usefulness increases (via) #

NYT on San Jose PD's problems with user interface design — the Windows-based mobile dispatch was designed without officer feedback (via) #

Bright Eyes grabs the top two positions in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles!? — this is insane, especially for an indie artist #

Shaw Cable censoring Internet access — they're limiting the speeds of filesharing protocols and lying about it #

Alphabet of blog favicons (via) #

Dragon optical illusion — make sure to watch the video (via) #

Cream reunion in the works  #

Microsoft launches Search beta — the site should be live tomorrow #

l33tspeak on Jeopardy College Tournament — just when you thought it couldn't get geekier than a Blogs category #

Video: Leaked Fantastic Four trailer — this movie will suck, badly #

Two new Pee-Wee Herman films in the works — I'm hoping they're more Big Adventure than Big Top (via) #

New PCSX2 screenshots — the best PS2 emulator now plays several games, albeit very slowly #

Video: Japanese McDonald's ad, with models dressed as Ronald McDonald — there's one for the ladies, too (via) #

Image: Wired's VoteStation mockup for e-voter receipts — very clever (via) #

Downhill Battle's proposal for a secure filesharing plugin for GAIM — their Blog Torrent project is getting closer, too (via) #

ICANN to make domain hijackings much simpler — update: the Netcraft article is inaccurate (via) #

The only negative review of Halo 2 — out-of-context quotes from nine different glowing reviews (via) #

Paul's daily links visualized — I'd like to do some infoviz with my own link history and vias (via) #

CiteULike — a Del.icio.us-like bookmarking tool for academic papers (via) #

Video: Mark Osborne's "More" — astounding and moving Claymation short #

Nintendo DS hands-on review — tons of screenshots, and a quirky thumb stylus (via) #

How to play flipbook videos on the iPod Photo — it's like a $600 digital Mutoscope! #

Google hosting the new Firefox 1.0 start page — interesting move for Google #

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released — the best consumer product out of the open-source movement #

Koders, a search engine for source code — search the source of thousands of open-source projects (via) #

Microsoft's Bedlam DL3 mailing list ordeal — 15,000,000 internal "me too!" e-mails consumed 195GB in less than two days (via) #

Vintage snapshots from the '50s, '60s and early '70s — from the always-good Imaginary World #

Strongbad E-Mail DVD — the first 100 e-mails on three discs with lots of extras, buy it now (via) #

Imitating Flickr's annotations in DHTML — very impressive (via) #

Google Answers on the economics of coffeehouse wifi — plus, a good discussion of the free vs. fee debate #

DJ Riko's MP3 mashup mixes — the longer mixes, like "Latter Day Taints," are excellent #

Terrible "Six Feet Under" headlines — headline writers have a pun field day #

Celebrity candids on Flickr — nice recent shots of Peter Jackson #

Gmail snooping for illegal attachments? — rumor: one user's account cancelled for keygens and cracks in his inbox (via) #

IMSmarter, free IM enhancement proxy — I've been using the beta for months, very cool (via) #

Pricenoia, on-the-fly comparison of Amazon's global sites — with real-time currency conversion and estimated shipping (via) #

Adrian Tomine's New Yorker cover — Seth's cover was nice, too #

404 error in a textbook — common Microsoft Word error slips into print (via) #

Movie: Jon Udell demonstratesvoice dictation software — hypnotic demo of this software (via) #

Real-life landmarks in GTA San Andreas — I wonder if they modeled my office building (via) #

42 Entertainment — the company behind ILoveBees finally revealed (via) #

Reuters overview of BitTorrent — surprisingly, with links to legal torrent sites! yay! #

When web designers retaliate — the site was originally designed by this guy #

10×10, hourly snapshot of 100 words and pictures from the current news — well designed, by the Wordcount guy (via) #

Half-Life 2 SDK released — would someone please make a Disneyland mod for me? (via) #

Our Traditional Non-Traditional Wedding — Wired's Steve Silberman on being a married gay man (via) #

Tivo adds show permalinks — they coincidentally added it the same day George requested it #

Capture the Map — a strategic game using the Google API (via) #

Furdlog on the MPAA's new anti-piracy campaign — don't miss their delusional glossary #

Obesity raising airline fuel costs (via) #