Ian Rogers unveils Topspin, his digital music marketing startup — one of the smartest guys I know, I'm keeping a close eye on this #

History of the TiVo peanut remote control — story of the design process with several photos of prototypes (via) #

Chop Shop's The Internets meme t-shirt, annotated — all the memes are found, thanks to help from ChopShop #

Limbo Of The Lost – An Astonishing Tale — full list of plagiarized works; don't miss the Photoshop competition, including this one #

The Onion AV Club interviews Jonathan Coulton's iPod — this is a great format for interviewing musicians (via) #

Penny Arcade on Lego fruit snacks — unfortunately, the bottoms are flat so they don't stack nicely (via) #

Edith Macefield, Ballard woman who refused to sell her home, passes away at 86 — wonderful story; I'm not the only one who was reminded of The Little House #

Girl Talk's Feed the Animals, outstanding illegal mashup album — I gave $20 towards the inevitable legal costs; preview it on Hype Machine, partial sample list on Wikipedia #

First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival from 1979 — MP3s for the entire vinyl LP; I love hearing digital through an analog medium #

Earliest recordings of computer music revealed — on an Ferranti Mark I in 1951, before Bell Labs and Daisy but after the CSIRAC #

Firefox 3's robot easter egg — if you don't want to be spoiled, just type "about:robots" in the location bar #

Kevin Kelly and Brian Eno predict unthinkable futures from 1993 — "it costs half a day's pay to drive your car into the downtown area of a big city" #

Twittering Teddy, Teddy Ruxpin modded to speak real-time tweets — a fun hack, equal parts terrifying and irritating #

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: The Abridged Script — brilliantly funny rewrite of the screenplay #

Researchers cure skin cancer with 5 billion of patient's cloned cells — the NYT has the best coverage, cautioning that the other eight patients in the trial weren't affected #

Puzzle Farter — great audio; I finished it #

A Beginner's Guide to Spore Porn — that Goatse monster is going to give me nightmares #

Brand New on McCain's logo redesign — from Optima to Eurostile (via) #

Stewart Butterfield's resignation letter — best resignation ever #

Tumblr, the Documentary — "a blog website for idiots and assholes" (via) #

George Dyson's The Birth of the Computer — TED talk from 2003 but just posted online; includes a very funny tour of engineer's logbooks #

Kevin Kelly on the extinction of edge-notched cards — there must be some modern application for this for the GTD crowd #

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 #