Google orders gMerge offline — first takedown request for a Google Maps hack (via) #

NES characters with Pixelblocks — very fun; someone should make pixel diagrams to reproduce them #

Harry and the Potters — Potter-themed tribute band, a bit Jonathan Richman-esque (via) #

Tom Cruise's Medical Forum — Dr. Cruise cures the ill with anything but psychiatry (via) #

Logo trends for 2005 — trendy today, cliche tomorrow (via) #

Vader on Wheel of Fortune — warning: audio; the collection keeps growing at YTMND (via) #

Steven Johnson comments on his Daily Show appearance — download the whole episode, courtesy of Matt Haughey; get yer hot brains! #

Wired News on the BBS Documentary — mine's on its way; have you bought yours yet? #

Crappy bootleg DVD covers on Flickr — I love this kind of thing (via) #

Naked and Angry launches — new from skinnyCorp; like Threadless for neckties, but way too expensive (via) #

Press release announcing Slashdot DayPass — view an ad to get access to the Slashdot queue; um, that should be a big hit with their audience (via) #

Justin Frankel developing music software for real-time online jams — Winamp creator using actual instrument audio instead of MIDI; could be very fun (via) #

Black holes on Google Maps — quirky satellite imagery (via) #

1and1 ISP changes its mind about BitTorrent — Dreamhost did, too; that's the power of Boing Boing #

Classic Nintendo games not free on new Revolution console — contrary to rumors; here's the list of Nintendo's back catalog (via) #

iTunes more popular than almost every P2P services — they compete with free on ease of use, reliability, and legality; cost isn't everything (via) #

Magnetic Ajax Poetry — reminds me of Just Letters, but with Ajax instead of Flash #

59 Bloggers documentary withdrawn by ranting lunatic — for some context, see Chuck's original entry #

Bait Car Videos — Canadian police trap thieves and tape the results; I love the irony of the music in this video (via) #

The Woolworth Card — how the number on a sample Social Security card came to be used by thousands of people #

Free Flickr Schwag — just send a self-addressed stamped envelope #

Dance Dance Immolation hack — when you mess up, it shoots you in the face with a flamethrower (via) #

High-res scans of an Episode III bootleg bought in L.A. — also: Fantastic Four and another Episode III bootleg (via) #

"Vote for Lunch" market roundup — we use Eatlunch.at every day at work #

Secret locations of MPAA cameras revealed — Xeni Jardin and Sean Bonner head to downtown L.A. to report on the bootleg DVD spy cams #

Slyck interviews The Pirate Bay — probably the biggest torrent site that hasn't been shut down (yet); their Top 100 is a great snapshot of piracy zeitgeist #

Bzzzpeek — how do you say "meow" in Chinese? audio clips of onomatopoeia around the world; old, but good (via) #

China orders bloggers to register with government — sad and hopeless attempt to control online dissent (via) #

UK considers doubling copyright term for pop music — more copyright idiocy (via) #

Wal-Mart and other photo labs won't develop professional looking photos — the whole world is going copyright insane (via) #

Google vs. Yahoo! Interface Design — less a review, and more of a handy list for your own judgment (via) #

Jason Scott responds to a school district's Media Resource Specialist — depressing state of affairs #

Judgeing the Webby Awards judges — Steve Baldwin reviews the websites of the Webby's 500 judges #

Spelling Bee contestant does a Napoleon Dynamite impression — with audio! we'll make an exception to this for nationally-broadcast media pranks (via) #

Video: Murderball trailer — I love documentaries about fringe competitions, like Scrabble, spelling bees, and krumping (via) #

Blentwell — niche social bookmarking for DJ mixes only (via) #

Gizmondo acquires modeling agency — to help find booth babes for launch? this baffles me (via) #

Shipment of 12,000 iPods heisted in Los Angeles — a guy convinced a clerk to let him walk out with a $2.6 million delivery (via) #

Goonies sequel stuck in development — also: Chunk did the Truffle Shuffle for the fans at the Goonies festival #

Gutenbomb, harvesting out-of-copyright text for pagerank and profit — I think running Wikipedia mirrors with ads falls under the same shady realm (via) #

TagCloud — automated weighted tag lists using Yahoo's Content Analysis web service (via) #

Intel's press release on the Apple deal — by the end of 2007 #

Mac Observer's live WWDC updates — yes, the Intel rumors are true; MacNN is also posting updates #

Five Movies I Wish People Would Stop Quoting — sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays! (via) #

Google Maps wallpaper maker — generate images up to 2048x1536 (via) #

The rise and fall of Krispy Kreme — the donuts are only good within two minutes of leaving the conveyor; anything else is mediocre, at best (via) #

GBAX 2005 contest entries released — homebrew games and software for GBA, DS, PSP, and GP32; some amazing stuff here (via) #

NYT profile of Music for Robots — this bookmarklet is handy for MP3 blogs #

The Case Against Coldplay — ouch (via) #

The Monster Engine — what would children's art look like if painted realistically? #