Brazilian novelist pirates own books, sees huge increase in sales — distributes links to pirated copies through an unofficial blog #

PocketGuitar, virtual guitar for the iPhone — more info on the project homepage (via) #

MP3: David Lee Roth's isolated vocal track from "Runnin' with the Devil" — I found myself playing reverse karaoke, humming the guitar parts (via) #

576,000 private Myspace photos leaked to BitTorrent — an insane 17GB of photos grabbed before they plugged the security hole #

EveryBlock launches! — wonderful local data/news in a gorgeous design; if you live in SF, Chicago, or NYC, pop in your address and dig around (via) #

Ghostface Killah angry at fans for pirating album — 115,000 fans on Myspace, but only 35,000 first-week sales #

White Whine — first-world problems; e.g. "$20 to upgrade my iPod touch? screw you, Apple!" (via) #

Hardly Working: Office Fantasy — Jake and Amir make me laugh, and if that's wrong, I don't wanna be right #

Early Yahoo and Google (and Brian Lent) — the guy's like the Zelig of the web #

Jason Scott on the outset of editing GET LAMP — 100 hours of tape in 80 interviews; I've watched some early footage and it's thrilling #

Metafilter releases infodump of activity data — fun for stats crunching #

Coachella 2008 lineup announced — Portishead, Jack Johnson, and Roger Waters get top billing? strange mix #

Skitch goes into public beta — OSX screenshot app makes blogging images much, much faster; watch the demo (via) #

DJ Shadow says Happy MLK Day — remix of B-Down Brothers' tribute to MLK from 1986, with a Czech Hall & Oates cover tossed in #

JJ Abrams invited Professor Randy "Last Lecture" Pausch to appear in upcoming Star Trek film — if you haven't seen either of those talks, watch them immediately #

Joel Johnson talks about AT&T's filtering on AT&T show — the interview ends abruptly towards the end of the clip #

NYT on campaign reporting with Twitter — only 97 results for "microjournalism," but the domain's been taken since 1996 (via) #

GameSetWatch on Audiosurf, innovative cross-genre PC game — puzzle/racing/rhythm game generates 3D playfields from your own music; compare Space Oddity, Mr. Blue Sky, Feist's Inside and Out #

Shot-for-shot remake of Journey's "Separate Ways" — I recommend watching the two side-by-side (via) #

Flickr's new places.find API method — pretty rad, allows for free-text searching of their entire place name database #

8080 terminals playing Portal's "Still Alive" — coded in Assembler with audio from a C-64 SID chip; here's the source (via) #

Macbook Air's thin obsession — making other laptops feel bad about their physique (via) #

Crank Dat Soulja Boy, MIT-Style — featuring Richard Stallman, holding the laptop in the back (via) #

Design Police — downloadable sticker kits for self-righteous designers #

Casual vs. hardcore games on Facebook — interesting thoughts from a Vampires player in the comments (via) #

Gawker responds to Scientology C&D — Nick Denton has balls, and so does his attorney (via) #

Randy Newman's performance at the Apple keynote — here's the lyrics to A Few Words in Defense of Our Country (via) #

Philipp Lenssen interviews Ruth Kedar, designer of the Google logo — some older versions in the comments #

Potrzebie System on Google Calculator — Jeff Atwood has scans of the original article from MAD #33 in 1957 #

Ze Frank on the closing of the ORG community site — the creator of Zefrank.org shut the invite-only community down on January 1, exactly one year after it opened #

Feltron Annual Report 2007 — like previous years, designer Nicholas Felton presents his life as a corporate report (via) #

Theinfo.org — community for people who love to process and visualize large data sets (via) #

Sad, Sweet One-Act Play, Told Entirely By a Burger King Receipt I Found  #

Lasagna Cat — extremely odd real-life reenactments of Garfield comics, from the creator of Ducktales and Infinite Solutions #

Ron the Music Maker, the all-star Scientology album — let's hope Tom lays down a track along with Chick Corea, John Travolta, Leif Garrett, and Sylvester Stallone's dad #

Nick Denton digs up Tom Cruise's Scientology video — wisely hosted on Gawker's servers instead of Youtube, so won't be easily taken offline #

xkcd's Robot9000 attacks noise in real-time chat — a parallel IRC channel only displays lines of conversation that've never been spoken before (via) #

Urban Mapping opens up neighborhood database — hallelujah, this kind of geo data is so valuable and hard to build on your own; update: Zillow followed suit #

Erica Sadun's song recognition software for the iPhone — let it listen to music and it'll try to identify the song #

Superelectronic — like a seizure-inducing Flash version of Superbad or Jodi.org (via) #

Stupidfilter's random stupid comments — from a project to programmatically identify stupid web comments using Bayesian filtering (via) #

Music Thing on the "Compendium of Physical Activities" — playing the accordion is better exercise than "vigorous sexual activity"? #

How Techmeme Changes Over Time — 50 hours of Techmeme screengrabs in 50 seconds (via) #

Elyse Sewell blogs her violent fight with Shins' keyboardist Martin Crandall — former America's Top Model heads to jail after battle with ex-boyfriend; update: switched to Google cache after she locked the entry #

Army Major Andrew Olmsted's final post — blogging from the front lines of the war, he was the first casualty of 2008 (via) #

Adam "Everyware" Greenfield self-publishing his new book — three cheers for cutting out middlemen; pre-orders are now available via Paypal #

How to Read Wired Magazine, Revisited — Derek Powazek returns to Suck.com's original guide #

Video: Excuse Me, Princess — see also: (almost) every Knight Rider turbo boost (via) #

Game Innovation Database — like Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music, a tremendous resource in an awkward Flash interface (via) #

Video: Kirby Ferguson on shrinking attention spans — tl;dw #