Adam Mathes compares "new entry" UIs on blogging services — only Wordpress and Twitter have inline posting tools on the homepage #

The Hierarchy of Digital Distractions — phone call trumps text message trumps Twitter #

O'Reilly ends Etech conference — very sad to see it go; I heard the last one was great though sparsely attended #

C64 emulator for the iPhone approved by Apple — as far as I know, the first official emulator in the App Store #

Piano instrumental version of Auto-Tune the News #2 — at 1:38, very thin ice; also: The Gregory Brothers on CNN #

Gawker crowdsources Russian translation of GQ's Putin article — Conde Nast's gone to great lengths to keep the article hidden (via) #

MC Frontalot releases "Diseases of Yore" single featuring Jonathan Coulton — how could I not link this? a song about medieval medicine (via) #

The Beach Boys' rehearsals from 1967 — related: isolated vocal tracks #

Extensive photo study of corridors in sci-fi movies — apparently via myself #

Japanese programmers' hidden gossip in 8-bit Famicom games — one message wasn't discovered until 2007 (via) #

What the Internet Knows About You — exploiting the old CSS :visited trick #

Ben Fry visualizes changes to Darwin's Origin of Species over time — changes across six editions and 13 years; more on the project #

Smule and T-Pain release auto-tune app for the iPhone — as seen in Auto-Tune the News #

Ben Lee, Lou Barlow release new Noise Addict album for free — using Bandcamp, their first new album in 13 years (via) #

Derek Yu's Spelunky hits 1.0 — free procedurally-generated platformer for Windows, highly recommended (via) #

Infomercial Hell — from Everything Is Terrible, who also recently released a DVD (via) #

Auto-Tune the News #8 — featuring T-Pain; yes, really #

AT&T dumps Kevin Mitnick as a customer — rather than fix their security issues, they asked him to leave #

GameCyte on the history and psychology of game achievements — a year old, but new to me #

Robin Sloan's Google Adwords experiment for naming fictional characters — testing to see which names are most compelling to random Google users #

Verizon the latest ISP to close free Usenet access — joining AT&T, Time Warner, and Sprint; only a handful of paid feeds will be left, which will be easy for the RIAA/MPAA to attack #

Media outlets paying sources in Dugard — one source claimed her Facebook page was hacked by reporters (via) #

Sunlight Labs — opening government through code and design; check out the projects and vote for ideas (via) #

Canabalt — atmospheric, one-button platformer; just needs checkpoints and more story #

David McCandless visualizes recent swine flu activity — using data from the Guardian Datastore #