Chuck Klosterman's list of the most fanatical fanbases — Tori Amos is at #2, which sounds right to me; nice gallery of uber-fans (via) #

Errol Morris reveals the backstory behind one Abu Ghraib photograph — fake smiles, Weekend at Bernie's, and the coverup behind a prisoner's death during interrogation #

Rory Root, owner of Berkeley's Comic Relief, dead at 50 — nice tributes from comic greats; the best comic book store I've ever seen, his passion was clear on the shelves #

How to Use Nico Video — Japanese video site from 2chan's creator requires registration to view videos, so I'm slogging through it #

YouTomb's tracking who ordered YouTube takedowns — recent takedowns are on the homepage of the MIT project (via) #

Threadless Prints — limited-edition 18"x24" posters based on shirt designs (via) #

Web Trigrams, visualizing three-word phrases from Google's corpus — gorgeous infoviz; more of his work from the massive dataset (via) #

Homer Simpson says, "Beat it, Waxy!" — from the archives #

SNL's Japanese version of "The Office" — "It's funny because it's racist." #

Music Bounce — quirky game built on music patterns (via) #

Vice-Presidential Prognosticatin' — Obama/Prime 2008 #

Drew Burrows' virtual girlfriend in bed, a lonely art installation — reminds me of Daki Makura hug pillows and bedsheets (via) #

Webmonkey relaunches, again — this must be the third or fourth time the site's come back from the dead #

The London Tower Bridge on Twitter — I hope someone wires up a Coke machine to Twitter next #

Why We Twitter, academic paper from 2007 about microblogging — nice network analysis and node graphs towards the end; Scoble's tying disparate groups together #

Wired News on the new Soulseek client for jailbroken iPhones — decent speeds downloading music and it imports into your iPhone music library when done #

Bill O'Reilly's Producer — look at the other side of the camera #

"Things Younger Than McCain" creator on the subject of ageism — unlike sex and race, your age affects your ability to lead see my comments on this issue here #

V8 Engine built out of Lego Mindstorms — it can hit 1440 RPM without any lubrication #

Let's Write a Song with Rivers Cuomo — the Weezer frontman's been vlogging on YouTube; the moustache is unnerving #

Joel Johnson's exhaustive roundup of 25 years of "exergaming" — from the Atari Joyboard to the Wii Fit #

George Lucas wanted Indy IV to be "Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men From Mars" — the aborted draft by The Fugitive screenwriter made its way online in 2005 #

California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban — systemic discrimination of same-sex couples is unconstitutional, period #

NodeBox, OS X app to create 2D visualizations in Python — for a more practical example, see Tufte-style charts in 11 lines of Nodebox code #

Cubescape, fun tool for building isometric pixel landscapes — some nice 8-bit art in the popular section #

b3ta's Extending Album Art challenge — all the Pink Floyd ones made me laugh (via) #

Games With A Purpose — humans playing games to teach computers, from the creator of reCAPTCHA and the ESP Game (via) #

MacJesusX — the very blasphemous Mac app from 1992 was ported to OS X with new features #

goodbye, foom — John Campbell's been trying to live off patronage from custom comics and shirts #

TwitBuzz — I've tried several Twitter meme-trackers, and this is the best #

Simon Stabs — Bishop's knife trick turned into a harmless game #

McSweeney's on good dating advice from a Grand Theft Auto FAQ — the original is on GameFAQs (via) #

Android Scan, mobile barcode scanner and search utility — a winner in Google's Android developer challenge, this looks very useful (via) #

Trailer for Mr. Bounce, an innovative riff on Breakout — from the creators of the wonderful Understanding Games series (via) #

Last.fm Playground — read more about the announcement, with some fun examples (via) #

New Einstein letter elaborates on his views of religion — he rejects it as "childish superstition," but also disliked the hubris of atheism (via) #

Sightseeing in Liberty City — Flickr photoset compared NYC locations to their GTA counterparts (via) #

WalletCards, clever idea to store membership cards on your iPhone — I'd love a slim wallet too, but your mileage may vary (via) #

Christian Mac/PC parody on GodTube — 394 comments debating the differences between "Christians" and "Christ-followers"; more here #

Sad Trombone — goes nicely with Instant Rimshot (via) #

New Google Reader for the iPhone — huge improvement #

MUTO, an animation on public walls — I love watching it replace graffiti as it walks through (via) #

Current.tv on Tron Guy at ROFLCon — some of the user-contributed video on Current is great, as is the original programming #

BloggerBoard tracks top authors on Techmeme — amazing, Arrington wrote 67 posts in the last 30 days that ended up on Techmeme #

Obsessing, a web-based editor for playing with Processing.js — could Processing.js be the beginning of the end for the closed-source culture of rich media tech? #

Yahoo! opens its geo location database to the world — I'm stunned and thrilled they finally opened it up; this powers Flickr and Upcoming's geo features #

Things Younger Than John McCain — I didn't realize he'd be the oldest US President ever (via) #

PMOG comes out of beta — Justin Hall and Merci Hammon's game built on passive web surfing (via) #

Matt Haughey on how PR people should pitch bloggers — most won't do this because it takes too much time, even though it's far more effective #

Italians flee Google Street View cameras on streets of Rome — they assumed the far-right government was trying to film them #