Portishead's Third on Last.fm — nice exclusive, stream the full album for free (via) #

Unreleased Atari 2600, Coleco games found at Oakland flea market — a legendary haul (via) #

Project Gazelle open-source tracker debuts on What.cd — great tracker, but risks drawing too much attention to the site #

Kevin Kelly interviews musician Robert Rich on the economics of 1,000 True Fans — he shares his earnings and the implications of depending heavily on a small core base #

Charlie Rose interviews Charlie Rose on technology — Steve is not happy (via) #

Todd McHatton's Grass-Stained Twilight — my brother-in-law's been recording and posting a song a week since January; reminds me of Shel Silverstein meets XTC's Apple Venus #

1977 video explains how the computer graphics in Star Wars were created — reminds me of the the Star Wars arcade game from 1983 (via) #

CNN started selling t-shirts with their headlines on it — look for the shirt icon on the homepage; also, it's fun to manipulate (via) #

David Heinemeier Hansson's Startup School talk on sustainable web startups — completely sane message, but it's not being told enough #

Ohshiit — great single-serving site listing search result counts for each permutation (via) #

Michael Pollan on climate change and carbon footprints — thoughtful piece addresses the seeming insignificance of lifestyle changes #

Google News adds quotation search — nicely extracting quotes from articles with proper attribution, similar to Daylife (via) #

Automating Firefox for Web App Integration — insane, you can telnet to Firefox and control it with any scripting language #

Talking Picture (The Road to Ruin) — removes all dialogue from a 1938 film; also, I just updated the list of supercuts #

South Park's new episode parodies our Internet dependence — the Internet is a giant Linksys router in the desert (via) #

Kevin Kelly lists his worst predictions — in 1995, I thought VR would be huge and Apple was in a death spiral (via) #

Let's Tell a Story Together: A History of Interactive Fiction — expertly-written history of the subject, from Eliza to Inform 7 #

Brad Bird's tribute to Ollie Johnston — after Ollie retired, Brad took his desk the following Monday #

LOLGRUES — it is pitch black (via) #

Metafilter comment relays a conversation about the origins of man with a 5-year-old — some more great stories in this thread, like this story about a 5am walk in Vancouver #

Ben Heck's custom-made Apple IIgs laptop — it's like technology from a parallel world (via) #

Alpha Twitter — dead-simple meme tracker for popular links on Twitter (via) #

Oregon state sends cease-and-desists for republishing statutes — they claim copyright on the typesetting and numbering of the documents, not the text of the statutes themselves #

Defamer investigates the Marilyn Monroe sex tape, claims hoax — no real evidence supporting hoax theory, but undermines credibility of the seller (via) #

Michael Arrington loves the Twitter "block" button — though I'm pretty sure the New York Times doesn't killfile people who correct them (via) #

Youngme/Nowme — people reproduce their childhood photos and tagging each photo on Flickr #

Twilight of the Area Code Master — add it to the list of obsolete skills #

Heroes & Villains — portraits of artists in the graffiti, alt-comic, and underground art worlds (via) #

Photorealistic 3D buildings in the new Google Earth — very impressive, includes sunlight and shading #

Django-MMO, open-source clone of Game Neverending — is this the first open-source web-based MMO? (via) #

Winners of the Color Wars rap battle — judged by Jonathan Coulton and Doc Popular (via) #

Ollie Johnston, the last of Disney's Nine Old Men, passes away at 95 — loving tributes in the updates and comments (via) #

Fring, a simple Skype/IM/Twitter client for the iPhone — Skype support appears to be wifi-only (via) #

Time-lapse security cam of Nick White, a man trapped 41 hours in a NYC elevator — from brilliant New Yorker article about the lives of elevators; the ordeal changed him forever (via) #

RC car plays Super Mario theme on long line of filled bottles — a thing of beauty #

I Hate Drake — animated rendition of an 11-year-old's diary; see also: 500 Miles to Hollywood (via) #

Jason Scott analyzes how an Atari Age thread devolves — for anyone interested in online group dynamics and/or the current Atari 2600 scene #

Excelsior 1968 — John Martz drew cartoon versions of every student from his mom's 1968 yearbook; see also: The Liner (via) #

Amazon adds persistent storage to EC2 — a massive upgrade, allowing snapshots with a single API call #

Disney shutting down its Virtual Magic Kingdom MMO — read the comments to see players and parents absolutely devastated by its closure (via) #

Numbers Station Bingo — clever idea, builds a game using the mysterious shortwave radio broadcasts #

Download YouTube videos as MP4 files — higher quality and better sound than the FLV versions (via) #

Hands Free 3D — Mitch Kapor shows how to navigate Second Life with your full body (via) #

Cartoon Brew on the aborted Yoshifumi Kondo pilot for Little Nemo — Brad Bird responds in the comments! see also: longer version of the pilot and the 1992 feature film for comparison (via) #

Eric Schwartz' animated Amiga tribute — created on an Amiga 4000T to the tune of "Still Alive," it's very faithful to Amiga history #

The Droste Effect in Packaging — self-referential products (via) #

Martijn Hendriks' "Give Us Today Our Daily Terror" — Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" with every bird digitally removed (via) #

Ironic Sans' idea for tactile feedback while driving — Rumble Pak on the steering wheel to sense cars in your blind spot #

Celebrity Heights — determined by taking a photograph next to a person of known height (via) #

Chuck Jones' Isolation Studies — brilliant supercuts created by a Chicago artist; the Loveline montages are amazing #