Video: Daily Show on Bush's Hayden/Goss deja vu
— he used the same phrase to describe his new CIA director nominee as he did two years ago with Goss #
E3 2006 Hidden Gems to Watch Out For
— I'm attending Friday, and I'll post my yearly roundup of great underdogs #
EV1 merges with The Planet
— my current host and the old host for Upcoming, now one happy family (via) #
Video: Stairway To Heaven Sung Backwards, The Forwards Version
— yes! I was hoping someone would reverse the reversed video (via) #
Scoble on Croquet, multiuser P2P 3D space
— looks strikingly like the VRML cybermalls of the 1990s, but P2P and cross-platform are both good (via) #
How to cure asthma or hayfever by infecting yourself with hookworm
— simply go to Cameroon and walk barefoot in the toilets of the local residents, and pray you don't catch dengue (via) #
Time's five-page exclusive preview of the Nintendo Wii
— the controller is aware of position, velocity, and tilt (via) #
Dogs trained to sniff out counterfeit DVDs
— sure, but can they smell the difference between letterbox and pan-and-scan? (via) #
Video: Journalist rides with the Blue Angels
— he passes out three times, making this very entertaining (via) #
Kottke on IndieKarma micropayment gifting
— penny per visit, but only works well if everyone's using (and not reading feeds) (via) #
Jim Woodring started a blog
— one of my favorite illustrators posting unreleased art regularly (via) #
Annalee Newitz on the RFID Hacking Underground
— also: RFDump reveal the data stored on RFID tags (via) #
Breakout, Donkey Kong, and Frogger polo shirts
— still waiting for a product line of 8-bit neckties (via) #
Jason Scott announces Arcade documentary
— along with Get Lamp, these are the two movies I'm most looking forward to in the next couple years #
"Piece of My Heart" cover songs with MP3
— great version by Dusty Springfield and the less famous original by Aretha's sister, Erma Franklin (via) #
Original Star Wars to be released on DVD
— finally, I can replace my bootleg Laserdisc rips with bootleg DVDs (via) #
John Gruber digs up the real story on the Apple Aperture firings
— the only people fired were the terrible managers #
The Day The Lawn Wasn't Mowed
— it looks like the local paper for this large Chicago suburb changed their headline #
Soda distributors to end most school sales
— I fully expect high school students to riot to get their Coke machines back (via) #
Apple cease and desists Something Awful
— for a service manual they're not even hosting; the thermal grease thread is great, too #
Six Apart's downtime and Blue Security, the idiots that spam spammers
— a great post sums up how these two stories from yesterday are related #
Quitting YouTube
— they're cracking down on copyrighted videos, their biggest attraction by far (via) #
Wired profile of chef Grant Achatz and Alinea restaurant
— scientific foodies pioneering molecular gastronomy (via) #
An analysis of 8,468 Pitchfork Media reviews
— the followup pokes into individual author biases (via) #