Battelle on new Google Desktop Search — includes a floating search bar and an API for plugging Google search into any Windows app #

NYT Magazine profile of Beck — he discusses Scientology about half-way through (via) #

Livejournal of an anonymous Apple Store "Mac Genius" — insiders say Apple is furiously searching for the identity of this guy #

Coherent essay on the Google Autolink controversy — it's about a fear of Google (via) #

Dualis, a new Nintendo DS emulator — no commercial games yet, but plays the existing homebrew demos (via) #

CSS Zen Garden screenshots — visually browse the garden (via) #

Trumba — new event calendar startup from the creators of Visio; they're still in private beta, but here's a sample calendar (via) #

Dr. Demento Show fan site — 95.3% of all shows online for free download (via) #

Paramount/MTV Films making biopic about Napster creator Shawn Fanning — with the screenplay written by Bill & Ted's Alex Winter (via) #

McSweeney's "Who's on First?" (via) #

Bumptunes — tilt your Powerbook to control music playback (via) #

Rex's roundup of online viral marketing campaigns — plus, congrats on the NPR appearance #

Batman's Greatest Boner — from Batman #66 in 1951 (via) #

Fred Durst sues Gawker over stolen sex video — worst celeb sex video ever (via) #

Twinoo, left and right brain game — though I can't play it because I'm colorblind (via) #

Google adds weather search — here's my local weather (via) #

Wired on Clear Channel's Indie 103.1 — I covered this back in December 2003 (via) #

Cameron Marlow's MT-Keystrokes — comment spam MT plugin that uses keystroke counting with Javascript #

Apple wins Think Secret case?! — judge will force blogs to reveal confidential sources #

MSNBC interviews Jason Kottke — FYI, the headline refers to a complimentary Mefi comment #

Flirting via iTunes — a great story of courtship in the digital age (via) #

MP3: No One Takes Your Freedom — cohesive mashup of Beatles, Scissor Sisters, George Michael, and Aretha Franklin; more here (via) #

Flash: Michal Levy's "Giant Steps" — my mind is blown; from 2001, but still great #

NY Public Library's Digital Gallery — 275,000 digital images for download (via) #

MP3: Kidz Bop's cover of Modest Mouse's "Float On" — they couldn't find a kid to sing lead vocals? (via) #

Ten great examples of New Games Journalism — some outstanding articles that set the bar for writing about games (via) #

Firefox-based Netscape 8 beta released — toolbar bevel hell and mystery meat navigation (via) #

MyBlogLog — add one line of Javascript to track your outgoing link stats over time; I'm using this for Waxy Links and loving it #

NYT may kill Circuits section — replace it with a fashion and shopping section #

PDF: Waxy.org mentioned in Free Software Foundation's amicus brief on Grokster case! — footnote on page 17; the whole brief is an inspiring read (via) #

Phosphor Alpha 4 — impressive Shockwave first-person shooter (via) #

Friendster rebrands Typepad as Friendster Blogs — but with no social network value; where are friends-only posts and group blogs? (via) #

The Powerbook Sudden Motion Sensor — now, someone needs to write a Super Monkeyball or Marble Madness clone for these laptops #

Malaysian bootleg DVD runs negative blurb on package — "SuperBabies has no redeeming qualities" (via) #

SAJAX, Simple Ajax Toolkit — convenient way to do remote scripting in PHP (via) #

Copyright clearance on American Idol — I noticed this too; she was voted off, partially because they couldn't clear her song choices #

Anonymous investors pledge $3 million to save Star Trek Enterprise — oddly, they cite the reviled theme song as a primary inspiration (via) #

MSN Found "game" created by I Love Bees masterminds — no matter how good the game is, it's still a promotion for a crappy product (via) #

Wists, visual bookmarks — like Flickr meets Delicious; David Galbraith explains (via) #

Evolution of Batman logos — the late '80s were an ugly serif typeface (via) #

Lawrence Lessig on C-SPAN — I've watched several of the very good Digital Future series (via) #

Wired's excellent profile of Wikipedia — touches on the dynamics of the site, along with its founder, critics, and contributors (via) #

Collection of "Happy Slap" videos — requires Quicktime to view; I want to choke these punk kids #

blo.gs for sale — their massive blog database would be dangerous in the wrong hands (via) #

Yahoo turns 10, gives away free Baskin-Robbins cones — the 10 year "netrospective" is nice, too (via) #

syncOtunes — sync iTunes libraries between two PCs or Macs (via) #

Video: Pete Miser's "Scent of a Robot" — reminds me of Deltron 3030's "Virus" #

Weblogs, Inc. enables commenting on Engadget ads — neat idea, and great feedback for any advertiser (via) #

Der Spiegel's contest to become the next web meme — it's very difficult to force a meme #

Spider-Man's Greatest Bible Stories — don't do drugs (via) #