How Cool Impacts Technology Adoption  #

Jason Scott's final words on The King of Kong — very long, absolutely essential reading; gives tremendous insight into the repercussions of documentary filmmaking #

Spongebob cast dubs classic movies — Nickelodeon meets The Godfather (via) #

Wired founder Louis Rossetto responds to Rex's Wired 1.1 tribute — some fascinating history; I totally agree with him about the innovative design #

EnerJar — DIY power meter measures output of your electrical devices (via) #

john.he.is — parody of the will.i.am "Yes We Can" video #

Derek Powazek launches Pixish — instead of commissioning art or buying stock photos, allows anyone to run a Threadless-like design contest for cash #

Rewind Kindly, contest to create 5-minute-long no-budget film remakes — in the spirit of Be Kind Rewind's sweding method #

Political contributions from tech companies — Google loves Obama, Microsoft loves Hillary, and Yahoo! employees hang on to their money (via) #

The Aimee Mann Christmas Trilogy — "you should do that one song you have about being really depressed" (via) #

Wired's mirroring all the St. Sanders videos — take that, Yngwie #

Previously on Lost — band recaps each episode in song (via) #

TorrentFreedom to offer completely anonymous and unrestricted BitTorrent — built on top of OpenVPN, the pay service bypasses any firewall and keeps no identifying logs, including billing #

Randy Newman, San Francisco 1972 bootleg MP3s — what an odd site; Singapore e-zine posts rare bootlegs weekly #

Niall's technique for sniffing browser history to customize pages — I'd only seen this used for evil before #

Mike Dailly's concept art from the design of Lemmings — including the original animation that inspired the game; there's much more FROM DMA, too (via) #

Smugmug addresses some privacy issues — all new galleries get keys appended to the incremented URLs #

The RICHH Archive — Usenet legend's brilliantly funny writings #

Wired 1.1: An Archaeology — Rex looks back on the first issue of Wired 15 years later #

Yahoo! Live, multi-user video chat — server's getting slammed right now, but I'm surprised to say, it's pretty fun to use with friends #

Yngwie Malmsteen shreds with the New Japan Philharmonic — the video that got Yngwie so pissed, he had Santori's YouTube account shut down #

Video: The making of Brent Spiner's second album, Dreamland — I just found out the followup to his 1991 debut was announced right before my entry; nice timing! #

Details about a cancelled Naked Gun adventure game from 1997 — they hired and paid Leslie Neilsen to voice act, but political issues derailed the game #

Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo join the OpenID Foundation — holy cow, that's some mighty big guns #

The Evolution of Tech Company Logos — the designer of the first Apple logo gave up 10% of the company for an $800 payout (via) #

Trailer for Blip Festival, the chiptune documentary — debuting at SXSW Film with a huge chiptune concert? count me in #

Bully for the 360 adds achievement for kissing 20 boys — very surprising, considering the rampant homophobia on Xbox Live (via) #

Auto-Tune Abuse in Pop Music — what hath Antares wrought? (via) #

Akari's Coming Soon page — I guess that's better than an "Under Construction" icon (via) #

Ape Lad's Pappy and the Cryptids — this whole series is pretty great #

Matt Webb on Snap, the syndicated next action pattern — watch the screencast of Dentrassi, their to-do list that runs entirely in a feed reader #

YouTube removes St. Sanders' "Shreds" account — word on the street is Yngwie Malmsteen complained about being mocked; parody is protected speech! #

Twitter stats from Superbowl Sunday — I want a magic CNN-style "Breaking News" on Twitter determined by algorithm; related: Twitterverse #

Groundhog Day screenwriter on the "how long?" question — he mentions a deleted plot device that would've cleared it up; also: no mention of jwz's post #

7 Viral Videos You Didn't Know Were Staged — I'm impressed by the research; Cracked is dominated by Digg-bait, but it's adapted well to the current web #

Pravin Sathe's How You See It — overlapping multiple versions of the same TV news story (via) #

Kottke's great roundup of time merge media — I love this kind of thing #

Peter Hirschberg opens the doors to his insane new home arcade — over a year in the making, he moved it from his basement to a 2,400 square foot building #

Flash: Spin the Black Circle — I started tearing my hair out at level 12; enjoy yourself! (via) #

Sometimes Red, Sometimes Blue — no shades of purple (via) #

Jason Scott's scathing critique of The King of Kong — a perspective I've never heard, from a well-respected documentary filmmaker on geek subculture #

Eels' 1-second ad for Super Bowl that didn't air — as E says on their site, the NFL doesn't sell ads in 1-second increments; nice try! (via) #

Hide an image in HTML with CSS3 — highlight the text with your mouse; good for propaganda! #

Why Leonard Lin's Voting for Barack Obama — see also: eloquent and heartfelt endorsements by Michael Chabon, xkcd, and Larry Lessig; do the right thing, America. #

Arcade Fire's "Black Mirror" DIY remixer — 6 tracks of vocals and instrumentation to tweak alongside the video (via) #

The Mountain Goats do Super Tuesday — "And we reach out for the lever in the dark, Get a sticker for our shirts as we head into the sun, Proudly bearing the mark" #

Dan & Kathryn's Apple //c unboxing — related: another vintage computer fan who bid for the same auction #

Dinosaurs & Robots Dispatch #1 — new digital magazine by Mark Frauenfelder and Mr. Jalopy, powered by Yahoo/Adobe PDF ads (via) #

Jason Scott on maximalized pandas — my drum kit came from Sweetwater, also wrapped with a handful of candies; I love stories of great service #

Cory and Alice's baby girl, Poesy, is born — congratulations, you two! beautiful and fitting name #