Jason Scott's Last Straw collection — a small collection of "last post" messages written by fed-up project maintainers (via) #

Video: Katie Couric interviews Rogers Cadenhead, Popesquatter — brilliant and funny, especially the ending #

Emulate a Texas Instruments calculator on your Nintendo DS — brilliant early hack, with an innovative use of the touchscreen (via) #

Podscope, full-text search engine for podcast audio — works surprisingly well, though only for words in its dictionary; plastic returns results, but not blog (via) #

Image: Meanwhile, Back at UCB — pixel comic about the Berkeley laptop thief (via) #

Evan Williams to blame for Google's recent problems — if you don't know why this is hilarious, read the comments (via) #

Google Maps on TiVo — nice HME hack by the founder/CTO of Strangeberry #

Processing 1.0 beta released — very neat programming language for designers and artists (via) #

Yahoo Images search for "O'Reilly Radar" — are the O'Reilly folks big M*A*S*H fans? (via) #

Wired's Why Google Is Like Wal-Mart — for some perspective, try Fast Company's article on Wal-Mart's business practices (via) #

LiveJournal usage statistics by state — 4.5% of Massachusetts has a LiveJournal account (via) #

Firms paid Today show tech editor to promote products on-air — $15,000 each from Apple, Sony, HP, Epson, and Creative (via) #

Prison terms on tap for 'prerelease' pirates — Congress approved bill allowing three years of prison for sharing one prerelease movie, program, or song #

Aaron Swartz accepted into Paul Graham's Summer Founders Program — Y Combinator is funding startups over a summer period #

Pointment — online meeting scheduler, but some screenshots would be nice (via) #

Surplus project names — silly, but a surprisingly good way to think of API remix ideas (via) #

Video: Psychos — overlay of Hitchcock's shower scene with Gus van Sant's remake (via) #

O'Reilly Radar, new O'Reilly blog on tech trends — here's a great transcript from last year discussing some of the trends they observe (via) #

Tom DeLay criticizes Supreme Court Justice for doing Internet research — a very strange comment, considering most lawyers and judges do the same #

Google Labs' My Search History — I'm sure this will raise the paranoia flag with the usual suspects #

Peter Hirschberg's home arcade gameroom — the best home arcade I've ever seen #

MP3: Louis Armstrong's "Oops! I Did It Again" (via) #

Google mMaim — open-source Google code for monitoring and analyzing MySQL servers (via) #

Station Exchange, Sony's marketplace for Everquest goods — Wired has more details #

Rogers Cadenhead bought BenedictXVI.com weeks ago — he hedged his bets by buying six domains, and guessed correctly #

Goonies' 20th Anniversary Celebration — they should do the tour on kids' BMX bikes #

Trackerbt, a distributed BitTorrent tracker — redundant trackers all aware of peers participating in the download (via) #

Snap search engine statistics — they're extremely transparent, listing their revenue, advertisers, and more (via) #

Tag clouds are the new mullets — I'm convinced there are better ways of displaying top tags than this #

Taiwanglish phrases on scooters — scroll down to view them all (via) #

Cake, PHP framework based on Rails — sounds promising (via) #

Blogger adds Captcha for new blog creation — hopefully, this will slow the mass creation of spam blogs (via) #

Tetris shelves — $7,000, cheap! (via) #

McDonald's employee hassles McCafe photographer — there are even more McCafe photos on Flickr; here's a review of the first store in 2003 (via) #

Flickr upgrades free accounts, drops price of Pro accounts — and they gave me another year of Pro service and two extra Pro invites for free #

Kottke rounds up blog responses to the Adobe-Macromedia deal — some great thoughts from Om Malik, Dave Shea, and others #

Chicago transit map overlay on Google Maps — a brilliant hack; I'd love to see this for all major metros #

Jokes with Realistic Endings — "What's worse than finding a worm in your apple? The Holocaust." #

MovableType 3.16 released — a big point release with hundreds of bug fixes and tweaks, including removing the nav-commenters.gif #

Upcoming.org libraries for Perl, PHP, and Drupal — also: 43 Things' neat Upcoming integration, and some groups switching from Meetup #

More details on Will Wright's Spore game — very drool-worthy playspace for gamers with a God complex (via) #

Classic arcade pegboard kits — I had this idea years ago, glad it's finally baked (via) #

TiVo in talks with Yahoo, Google — maybe for recording web-based video searches, but also some buyout rumors (via) #

Gamestop buys Electronics Boutique — another huge merger, for $1.4 billion in cash and stock (via) #

Adobe buys Macromedia! — all-stock buyout for $3.4 billion #

1up's roundup of nextgen console details — what we know, so far, about each upcoming console (via) #

Flickr network analysis, March 2005 — continuing his amazing work; I'm curious about the United Arab Emirates' insular adoption of the site (via) #

Knowspam shutting down in June? — anyone know the backstory here? I thought they were doing well #

Pretty in Pink sequel was an April 1 hoax — this one fooled the blog world, including me (via) #

PlaceSite — location-specific social network websites, only viewable by people within range of a single wifi access point #