Stewart and Caterina leave Flickr — hug club 4eva #

The Industry Standard's Where Are They Now? — following up on big dot-com busts like Kozmo, Boo, and Webvan #

Alex Wright on Paul Otlet and his Mundaneum proto-web — I adored Alex's talk at SXSW; the video is great #

Spore Creature Creator trial now available for PC/Mac — there's also an awkward, half-broken Flash site to vote on celebrity Spore creations #

Teach the Controversy t-shirts — their Science! shirts are all great, too #

Quirks, the 1980 board-game equivalent of Spore — see also: Evo, Animality, and other games not to play with Creationists #

Assassin's Creed in real-life — the lead character's very touchy-feely with strangers (via) #

MagCloud, magazines printed on demand from PDFs — Derek Powazek's new venture with HP Labs; upload a PDF and you pick the markup #

Pentadact highlights some Spore Creature Creator creations — the app was leaked and SomethingAwful's been having fun with it; official trial's out tomorrow #

FlowingData on using RescueTime to stop procrastinating — the app works perfectly, if you can get past the potential privacy issues #

Montage of girls giving the "Myspace salute" to verify their identity — Myspace's official policy requires girls to submit visual proof to remove impostors (via) #

IMDB Film-Length Project — charting length of the top 50 films for each decade #

Tron Guy on his disappointing nomination for Bravo's A-List Awards — his category was cut from the broadcast and he lost to Perez Hilton, who didn't even show #

code_swarm, animated visualizations of major open-source projects — see contributions to Python, Apache, Postgres, and Eclipse over time (via) #

Verizon offers details of Usenet deletion — not only are they removing alt.* entirely, but they're only keeping seven hierarchies #

Afro Ninja: The Movie — starring Mark Hicks himself; the first meme to become a full-length film? #

Jonathan Coulton's Washy Ad Jeffy — clever mnemonic for remembering the US presidents with syllables for the number of terms #

Garkov, Garfield plus Markov chains — reload for more; related: complete dialogue of over 10,000 Garfield strips (via) #

Neave Analglyph, doodle with 3D glasses — one of seven new Flash hacks on Paul Neave's redesigned site (via) #

The Right Hand Didn't Know — J.J.B. Buckmaster's enormous left hand (via) #

Smashing Magazine's free fonts of the month — abnormally high-quality typefaces this month (via) #

NYC architect turns apartment remodel into an elaborate 18-clue puzzle — this guy is the best architect ever #

Another Dang Garfield Cartoon — from the always excellent Katie Beaton (via) #

Yahoo! testing a redesigned logo — truly hideous, I hope this doesn't stick #

Office worker freakout was a viral video fake — as suspected, it was promoting a Russian film #

Stabilized video collages on Flickr — more "long photos" and a brief how-to in the full set (via) #

Gummi Lighthouses — when candy design goes horribly wrong #

How many sequels were there? — spoiler: don't forget about Lep n' tha Hood #

An animated meditation on Procrastination — "it's trying to avoid the inevitable" (via) #

Wordle — lovely word clouds generated from supplied text #

Insane News Man — remember to pause between sentences #

Algorithm Ink in Javascript — see also: the Bomomo drawing toy #

The Onion on "World of World of Warcraft" — play a character playing the game; related: The Sims Playing The Sims (via) #

Phillip Toledano's portraits of Phone Sex Operators — "things in society that are in plain sight, but still remain hidden" (via) #

Design Patterns for Reputation — nicely summarized research on feedback and incentives in online communities (via) #

xkcd's Fields Arranged by Purity  #

BMW's GINA concept car, with a flexible fabric skin — if you rip your car, just get it a change of clothes #

Scribbls, very funny drawing community game-thing — for example, Kitten Bacon, Peace Accord, and many more (via) #

Spammers using pump-and-dump stock spam to short Amazon — sending out mass emails about their downtime (via) #

2D Google Maps driving simulator — built with the Flash API (via) #

Is Google Making Us Stupid? — inflammatory headline aside, some thoughtful paranoia from Nicholas Carr #

Apple posted video of the WWDC keynote — don't miss Band at the 40 minute mark; also, Sippey hits the big time showing Six Apart's killer Typepad app (via) #

Live streaming audio of the WWDC keynote — holding up surprisingly well, better than refreshing MacRumors or Engadget #

Age of Conan griefing fun and games — some good comments about the ethics of griefing in the comments #

Case study of redesigning the new Wells Fargo ATM user experience — Pentagram did nice work, though the buttons seem a bit too low contrast (via) #

McDonald's Line Rider commercial — hard to believe it's real, but multiple confirmations that it's aired on TV (via) #

Every brand and company mentioned in the Sex and the City film — impossible to tell which were paid placement, but this is an impressive list #

What Newspapers Still Don't Understand About the Web — great post about the Washington Post being held back by their print editions and mindset (via) #

Radiohead's "Nude" performed by a ZX Spectrum, dot matrix printer, scanner, and hard disk array — starts at about 1:10; best remix ever #

RepRap prototyping machine achieves self-replication — it built a child, and the child built a grandchild; more on the project (via) #