Rapid color afterimage optical illusion — this broke my brain, but not as much as the Best Optical Illusion Ever #

Cockeyed's oversized "Support our Troops" ribbon — "4.8 times more patriotic" (via) #

Episode III: The Pirate DVDs — Tama reports on the bootleg DVD found in Bali, with timecodes removed and laughably bad menus #

John Gruber on the Intel/Apple reports — in the last paragraph, an interesting lead points to PowerPC emulation #

Rails Day is over — contest to write a Rails app in 24 hours; my favorite entries include Clockwork, Tackboard, Friendr, Space Tag, and Nutrient #

Penn Jillette names daughter Moxie CrimeFighter — Teller had no comment (via) #

New version of Microsoft's Start.com web feedreader released — looks like Scoble is the only individual blogger in their default feeds #

Laptops outsell desktops for first time — also, 95 percent of laptops now support wireless (via) #

X-Rom GBA flash cart reduced to only $69 — the X-Rom isn't as good as the EZ-Flash II, but it's well worth the money (via) #

Ghosts of the Webby Awards — which sites are dead from the 2000 Webbies? (via) #

1and1 ISP thinks BitTorrent is for piracy only — they sent a C&D to a guy hosting a movie that he made (via) #

Meetro — proximity-aware IM client for Windows laptops with wifi (via) #

Apple to switch from PowerPC to Intel x86 chips?! — might threaten hardware sales once someone gets OS X running on cheap PCs (via) #

Human-flavored tofu pressures Museum of Hoaxes to remove blog entry — Halfbakery came up with the idea in 2001, with a better product name #

Burglers using virtual real estate tours to find targets — they can use the photos to see all furnishings and alarm systems (via) #

Cloudalicious, tracking Del.icio.us tags over time — see also: Pietro's excellent tag cloud analysis using the tool (via) #

Video: Working for the Weekend — everybody's goin' off the deep end; I'm mirroring the video. (via) #

Paramount considers dropping Mission Impossible 3 because of cuckoo Tom Cruise — they report Cruise is an Operating Thetan 6, meaning he can leave his own body and read people's minds (via) #

Phone phreaking with your iPod — useful if you can travel back in time to when blue boxes worked (via) #

Video: Fast Film — short film created from 65,000 photocopied screenshots from 300 feature films; from the creator of Copy Shop (via) #

b3ta stories of mistakenly sent IMs and text messages — offensive, but funny #

Video: Insane daredevil stunt — tries to launch a flare, lights parachute on fire instead; more here (via) #

CNET thinks next-gen consoles will kill PC gaming — eh, PCs will always be better for certain game genres (via) #

Coudal's Filmstrip Poker video contest — the original 1953 film strip is great, too #

Rilo Kiley sign to Warner Bros. — one of my favorite indies goes super mainstream #

Subway ends coupon cards because of Internet counterfeiters — there are still books of 1000 stamps on sale at eBay #

Why the BBS Documentary is Creative Commons licensed — read this immediately #

Google Sitemaps — like a reverse robots.txt, tells Google what to index and what's been updated recently; also, note the Creative Commons license #

phpMMORPG, roll your own massively multiplayer game — very early, but a great idea; could be used for community building (via) #

Cell phone for 3-year-olds ships — it could couble as a baby monitor for parents on vacation without their kids #

Customizing MovableType's interface — good for hiding advanced functions from clients (via) #

80 years of the New Yorker to be offered on DVD — $100, cheap (via) #

Webolodeon — Greasemonkey script to help you stop mindlessly web surfing (via) #

Flash: Poom — frustrating, but addictive bouncing game (via) #

Google's secret lab — a look at Google's internal tools for evaluating their search results quality; Flash movie (via) #

Video: Celine Dion is bad — um, err #

Anil Goatse'd the New York Times — photo of the article and the article online #

ICANN set to approve .xxx top-level domain — might as well add it to your e-mail and comment blacklists now (via) #

The Freaky Universe of McDonald's Advertising — history of bizarre vintage McD's ads, with video (via) #

Ten interesting ideas in videogame construction — themes bubbling under in indie gaming projects (via) #

pbWiki — instant, free wiki spaces for groups or individuals #

Is Trixie written by Microsoft? — other interesting information about the Greasemonkey clone for IE (via) #

Conversations with Anna, IKEA's helper bot — don't miss Pulp Anna #

SBC to drop DSL prices to $14.95 — perfect for low end, while the high end moves to fiber #

Who Owns Culture? — video and audio of the Jeff Tweedy/Larry Lessig talk (via) #

NeoGeo CD and Sega Genesis emulators released for PSP — sadly, still only works on the Japanese 1.0 firmware #