Marc Andreessen's guide to the Microsoft-Yahoo hostile takeover — the best explanation I've seen (via) #

Howard Rheingold's footage of a WELL meetup from 1989 — everyone's identified in the Boing Boing comments #

Don Hodges fixed the kill screen bug in Pac-Man — he did the same for Ms. Pac-Man, Dig-Dug, and Donkey Kong, too #

ROFLCon Live Stream — hear the stories behind popular memes from their creators; see the Tweetscan for more #

Interview with the brains behind 419 Eater — I had no idea Shiver Metimbers unmasked himself last year #

TypeRacer, multiplayer typing game — I average about 90 wpm, even with my crazy nontraditional typing style (via) #

The history of NYC in video games — coming in October, Sierra's Prototype will also attempt to model NYC in exacting detail (via) #

Mixwit, mixtape maker from Y Combinator — like Muxtape, totally illegal fun; the embeddable players are great #

Pixel Pour — saw this a couple days ago, but now it's been tagged and removed (via) #

How Dave Cassel made $900 writing 300 reviews for Helium's Reward-a-Thon — he churned out at least 120,000 words in 100 days, most likely their biggest earner #

Pirate Bay hits 12 million simultaneous peers — the percentage of seeders is rising, despite Comcast's efforts #

Kyle Bean's The Future of Books — lovely art piece fashions a laptop out of an old book (via) #

How Hillary Can Still Win — anything's possible! (via) #

Superfan blogger visits the set of The Office — with detailed photos of every character's desk, among other details (via) #

Color Wars Street View Scavenger Hunt — I'm so impressed with the games they've invented using existing web services #

Penny Arcade on Twitter — it seems to have spawned a catchphrase (via) #

The Dinosaur Soothsayer — the Nostrasaurus knows all #

Chirrp, 8-second voicemail for Twitter — a silly little mashup from Why built in haXe #

Wesabe Tips — shows aggregate spending info culled from their user data #

Mighty God King's Atari 2600 games you might have missed — Gay French Mario Bros. was a great game (via) #

Human Giant picks the next web-to-TV comedy stars — sounds about right, but will they need TV, or will TV need them? (via) #

Disturbing video of the Golden Eagle throwing goats off cliffs — hide your kids! at the five-minute mark, it carries a goat back to its nest #

Doeo — RPS nailed it as "whack-a-mole with Katamari Damacy's aesthetics" (via) #

A Message to Pennsylvanians from Bill Clinton — brilliant bit of found video courtesy of Josh Marshall #

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 #