Mena Trott responds to Valleywag article about their Disneyland vacation — my favorite was Space Mountain Snob #

LIFE Magazine photo archive hosted by Google — millions of high-res photos, most never published #

Amazon launches CloudFront, their pay-as-you-go CDN — very complementary with S3 #

John Hodgman, Jonathan Coulton, and the Long Winters perform "Tonight You Belong to Me" — "Thank you, normal-sized man." #

Jerry Yang stepping down from Yahoo's CEO post — it never really fit him well, though I'll miss his e.e. cummings memos #

Woman asks Apple community about an unusual iPhone glitch — no, raunchy photos don't accidentally attach themselves to outbound email #

Greasemonkey script to pull WikiDashboard visualization into Wikipedia — I made a LazyWeb plea for this last week, and Paul Irish came through #

Lee Byron's Fireflies, anaglyph 3D game for Mac — part of Kokoromi's Gamma 3D showcase of anaglyph games #

Flickr Boundaries, tool to explore Flickr's shapefiles — read Tom Taylor's entry for more information #

Cooking Mama, the Unauthorized PETA Edition — a strangely obscure target for their attention, with a petition to write to the game's publisher (via) #

Boing Boing launches gaming blog, Offworld — good writing in a nice design from Brandon Boyer, former news editor of Gamasutra #

"Violet" wins the Interactive Fiction Comp 2008 — play it online; glancing at the charts, it looks like Buried in Shoes was the most divisive #

Trailer for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek prequel — looks surprisingly good, but I'm a sucker for origin stories; I even liked Enterprise #

What would Depression 2009 look like? — Tim sums up the thought-provoking Boston Globe article #

The Pirate Bay hits 25 million simultaneous peers — that's not unique people, but concurrent connections; Napster peaked at 26M users #

Peter Hirschberg releases Adventure as a free iPhone app — related: Chasing Ghosts will finally be released on BitTorrent Showtime in December (via) #

The Big Picture on the California wildfires — also: first-person coverage on Twitter and YouTube, like this freeway on fire and aftermath #

Tim-Tams available at Target until March, first time available in the U.S. — best chocolate cookies ever, the Tim Tam Slam is a chocolaty revelation (via) #

JS-909, a Javascript drum machine without Flash — through a hack, it even works in IE 6 #

Esquire's hosting Between, the new two-player networked game by Jason Rohrer — from the creator of Passage #

"What's that buzzing noise from my BBQ?" — he thought he was killing a few bees, but ends up annihilating an entire colony (via) #

Kottke explains how to embed high-quality YouTube videos — I knew how to save, link, and change the default, but the embedding hack was new to me #

Web 2.0 Origami — lazyweb, please build a converter that creates folding patterns from an uploaded image #

Pixar's Burn-E short on YouTube — here's an interview with the director #

Valleywag folded into Gawker, all but Owen Thomas laid off — I won't miss it; they hurt a lot of good people and interesting projects in the quest for pageviews (via) #

YouTube engineer adds "Actually Good" tab when viewing Onion video — here's a screenshot in case it goes away #

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow wears pajamas on-air in solidarity with bloggers — maybe Palin was too busy reading every newspaper to actually read a blog #

Jimi Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell, dead at 61 — I wish more newspapers would link to YouTube videos #

Brandon Hardesty reenacts Alec Baldwin's Glengarry Glen Ross monologue — I first linked to Brandon way back in March 2006 #

Videos of CNN's election-night countdown globally — the collective response was spontaneous and virtually identical around the world (via) #

Washington Post blogger shuts down company sending out two-thirds of all spam — in his investigative report, he turned over four months of data-gathering to the colo, who sut them down #

Michael Lewis revisits "Liar's Poker" and writes about the current Wall Street meltdown — a gripping look at who foresaw and acted on the mess (via) #

Japanese isometric PSA about the future of food — lovely design, this could easily be adapted to the US (via) #

QWOP Olympics, ragdoll physics running game — hard to believe, but with practice, it's possible to sprint (via) #

Sluggo ponders the fundamental question of existence  #

LittleBigPlanet's TV commercials, built entirely with the in-game tools — the first one seems inspired by You Suck at Photoshop, no? (via) #

What We Own and Where It's Made — Dorothy's slowly been categorizing all her possessions #

Slate on aXXo, the most popular movie distributor on BitTorrent — this comment explains the drama between aXXo and other competing groups #

The Yes Men pranksters distribute fake New York Times issue across NYC — 100,000 copies with the headline "Iraq War Ends" post-dated July 4, 2009 #

where the things in Cloverfield happen — "this is where things in Cloverfield happen okay" (via) #

Google.org tracking flu spread using search queries — brilliant use of search data; get a flu shot before it gets to your state! (via) #

Google Groups expands to search web-based message boards — if "Sort by Date" appears to be missing, check your ad blocker #

"Dark Days" director explains how the Pentagon cancelled his followup film on the Iraq war — after two years of filming, he sold all his equipment on the same forum #

Dark Days, 2000 documentary about NYC homeless living in abandoned train tunnels — classic documentary with music by DJ Shadow #

Interview with the NASA writer behind the MarsPhoenix Twitter account — written in the first person, more than 38,000 people have followed its adventure (via) #

Touching story of Eugene Allen, a butler who served 34 years in the White House — a must-read with a sad ending (via) #

Super Mario for Busy People — You Have to Find the Princess (via) #

Google Reader adds automatic feed translation — I'm testing it out by throwing some Japanese blogs into a special non-English group #

Worst. Bug. Ever. — the Android phone executes all typed text, so don't text "rm -rf /" to a friend #

CaptionX, multiplayer photo captioning game — built on App Engine with CC-licensed photos on Flickr, with clever YouTube interstitials (via) #