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 #

TDD Rickroll — total abuse of the TRS, but still very funny #

Jerry Yang and David Filo play Faceball — spoiler: Filo wins! #

Sourcing the 1980s TV bumpers from Justice's DVNO video — the original video, if you missed it #

Yahoo! Pipes feed of YouTube channel subscriptions for a user — YouTube doesn't provide any subscription feeds, but this works perfectly (via) #

Freakonomics guys on the Metafilter vs. YouTube commenters — it's worth noting that the NYT is cultivating a high level of discourse in their own blog comments (via) #

Winners of Jay Is Games' Casual Gameplay Comp 5 — like always, incredible quality from the vibrant community (via) #

Defective Yeti researches the LOST screenplay profanity — I thought this was a joke, but I verified it; JJ Abrams has a potty mouth #

Flickr's buying donuts next Friday for every member in SF who shows up — mroth, you're a crazy bastard #

IFC/Nerve's Top 50 Comedy Sketches — there goes my afternoon; strange how it switches between IFC and Nerve on every page (via) #

RSS 2.0 guid is broken by default — or: why my links were still pointing to Waxy.org until this morning; sorry! #

Hulu posts all three seasons of Arrested Development — I've really been enjoying Hulu lately; popular episodes today and newly-added feature films (via) #

No Photos on Flickr! — perfect response to the crybabies, with confused comments from some of them #

Can singing death metal ruin your voice? — bizarre endoscope footage of people singing, screaming, grunting, and talking like Barry White #

Black & Blue, Quicktime 1.0 sample video from 1992 — the Quicktime development team gets silly, in a decision that still haunts them 15 years later #

Seeing some weirdness in the Waxy.org RSS feed? — I fixed the bug causing links to point to Waxy.org, but your feedreader needs to refresh the feed first #

Lies I've told my 3 year old recently — Sadness can be eaten. (via) #

Huddle Chat taken offline after cries of plagiarism — people complained the UI ripped off 37 Signals' Campfire; here's an official response #