Innocent People Should Never Talk to the Police — funny, even the cop agrees with this one #

Waverly Flams and the Magic Pants — "I'm a God! I have breathed life into my pants!" #

GOOD Magazine on "vampire energy," power consumed in standby mode — not surprisingly, plasma TVs, computers, and game consoles are the worst (via) #

Internal Apple video from 1987 predicts the year 1997, with tongue in cheek — cameos from Woz and Scully; don't miss the "Vista Mac" at 2:20 and the stock chart at 6:02 (via) #

Recursive Motivational Poster — update: bandwidth exceeded, so I'm mirroring it (via) #

Vimeo decides to ban and delete gaming videos — reminds me of Flickr's screenshot battle, but they never deleted photos #

NYT's roundup of home electricity monitoring tech — isn't it against the utilities' best interest to provide tools to monitor and reduce usage? #

StupidFilter goes beta, releases code — the classifier for identifying stupid comments; try the demo on random Digg comments (via) #

College Humor's montage of top 10 eye-gouging scenes — from King Lear to Blade Runner (via) #

It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The Future — selections from a vintage IBM sales presentation; I want a t-shirt of several of these slides (via) #

Charles & Ray Eames' "A Computer Glossary" from 1968 — charming animated primer on computers for IBM, music by Elmer Bernstein (via) #

Mondo 2000's RU Sirius banned from Facebook for using a pseudonym — shouldn't they make an exception for people known primarily by their aliases, like Frank Black or Jello Biafra? #

Journey's new album released on a pre-loaded, branded MP3 player — with 11 songs re-recorded with their new singer discovered on YouTube (via) #

Embracing the backchannel at the Start conference — they've hired Flickr's George Oates to act as an ombudsman #

Google hits one trillion URLs indexed — bigger than a breadbox #

Flowing Data redesigns a bar chart — I like Nathan and Tyler's the best #

Randy Pausch, R.I.P. — now would be a good time to watch the Last Lecture again #

New Yorker digs into California's medical marijuana industry — from growers to brokers to dispensaries to clients (via) #

Tarantino's Mind — short film explores a unified theory of Tarantino films (via) #

Rush plays "Tom Sawyer" on Rock Band — they failed the Expert level one-third through the song (via) #

The Onion interviews Mike Patton on videogames — he discusses Rock Band, Portal, Bionic Commando, and voicing the monsters in I Am Legend #

Amir's Super Mega Burn — anonymity can turn anyone, even superfans, into superjerks in no time flat (via) #

The Balcony Is Closed — Roger Ebert on Gene Siskel and the end of "At the Movies" #

The Onion's Random Roles with Teri Garr — like Random Rules, this format teases out insights and anecdotes from interview subjects #

Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over' — remarkably prescient article from January 2001 #

Jeffrey McManus runs the numbers on Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog — Joss Whedon himself confirmed the estimates were close (via) #

QA Deathmatch — bug reporting as a multiplayer game (via) #

Fox News affiliate tries product placement with fake McDonald's iced coffees — even if it's a morning show, this is a huge credibility hit and creates new conflicts of interest (via) #

GameBridge, Jabber/XMPP bot for Z-Machine, MUSH, and other text games — nice list of text adventures on the Jabber bot #

I-Fluid, PC game pilots a water droplet through a kitchen — with a nice be-bop soundtrack #

43 Folders on iPhone security — is the time saved for convenience worth the potential hassles of identity theft? #

Baby's First Internet — "It doesn't matter what you say, just publish it twelve times per day." (via) #

Something Awful tries the 5-minute microwave chocolate cake recipe — don't miss the handy microwaved huevos rancheros recipe (via) #

Multiplayer Minesweeper — brilliant collaborative game, but only takes one jackass to ruin everyone's fun (via) #

Cliche Watch: Pushing over the Leaning Tower of Pisa — many more in Pisa Pushers on Flickr #

The Quirkbook — Rands polls Twitter for everyone's odd quirks and mildly OCD mannerisms #

Jane McGonigal on Werewolf at Foo Camp 2008 — ideal strategies, a sneaky all-villager variation, and the impact of the werewolf metaphor #

Google interviews the creators of WarGames — great trivia about the making of the film and its impact on tech culture #

Logan Aube's Hockey Night theme — Something Awful goons tweak an online contest with funny results (via) #

Sean Tevis is running for Kansas State Representative, XKCD-style — help a computer geek defeat the incumbent, a hard-right, anti-privacy Creationist; he's trying to get 3,000 to donate $9 each #

How to Fake Being a Wine Snob — there might be supertasters out there, but most people are just faking it #

The Economist responds to Freakonomics co-author's pasty/pastry mixup — tasty response to this original post (via) #

Mike Arrington interviews Evan Williams at Foo Camp — great interview; thoughtful questions and brimming with information, without the sensationalism #

Rick Trooper — The Empire rolls you. #

Mocha VNC Lite, free VNC client for the iPhone — link opens in iTunes; like others, I'm hoping an SSH client is next #

Annalee Newitz on Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog — exceeds the hype; the site's been down all day, so I just bought the season in iTunes for $3.99 #

The Sound of Young America Live interviews Ze Frank — strange interview, but talks about the end of The Show and current projects; see also: Jay Smooth from Ill Doctrine (via) #

Defender of the favicon — staggering hack puts a playable Defender clone in your browser's 16x16 favicon; Firefox and Opera only #

Twitter officially acquires Summize — search.twitter.com is now live #

Deep Note, the Guitar Hero bot — it got 820k points and 98% playing Through the Fire and Flames; amazingly, some humans can still beat it, for now (via) #