John Gruber on the Ringtones Racket — "the distinction between ringtones and songs is an artificial marketing construct" #

Satisfaction launches — lovely people-powered customer service, like Ask Mefi for every community #

Amir escalates the Prank War by forging a marriage proposal in Yankee Stadium — the latest in an increasingly uncomfortable high-stakes prank war between two College Humor employees #

Leaked Google video discusses Google Reader, social efforts — I feel guilty reading this, but the info about activity streams is very interesting #

Tobi's Timemachine — Firefox extension makes the web look like the amateur web of 1996 (via) #

Video: Internet People — I'd seen all but two, the Kid from Brooklyn and psycho bride; don't judge me! #

CoScripter — Firefox extension for automating repetitive tasks, and sharing the most useful #

The Onion: "Missing Girl Probably Raped" — disturbingly accurate satire of big media's coverage of small-town tragedies (via) #

Zero Punctuation's review of Bioshock — his reviews are extremely entertaining, while still insightful; it's like Ze Frank on games #

Google Reader adds search — by far, the most requested feature #

Secrets of the Perry Bible Fellowship — 10 Zen Monkeys interviews the oddball comic creator #

Flight simulator easter egg in Google Earth — with joystick support and two types of planes (via) #

Twitter Blocks — Stamen's new visualization of network activity #

Michael Arrington's CrunchFood — biting parody of Techcrunch style; "Fondue Joins the DeadPool" (via) #

Fun with the iPhone accelerometer — now with source code! #

Boing Boing redesigns with comments — and a new gadget blog by Joel Johnson #

dyeSight, $2 Multi-Touch Pad — building a tabletop multitouch display with a plastic bag, some blue dye, and an iSight #

CBS 5 on the Faceball "Craze" — local news visits the Flickr office, complete with goofy news anchors and weatherman (via) #

Video: Extra TV profile of The Spot from 1995 — dig that mid-'90s web design and postage stamp video clips #

Should Do This — Robot Co-op's new baby, a very lightweight suggestion board for the world #

The journalism that bloggers actually do — NYU professor responds to idiotic anti-blogger op-ed citing strong examples of blogger journalism (via) #

Video: Content-Aware Image Resizing — incredible technique to identifying seams in images and modify only the boring parts (via) #

Schulze and Webb on Olinda, their digital radio for the BBC — not a concept piece, but a "standalone, fully operational, social, digital radio" #

iPhoneFrotz — Z-Machine interpreter for the iPhone; also: MAME! #

Brad Fitzpatrick's Thoughts on the Social Graph — this nicely articulates the problem and leaves me hopeful #

Google Maps Streetview, circa 1907 — see also: MIT's Aspen Moviemap from 1979 #

MIT's Scratch project — not sure how I missed this lovely programming learning environment and community #

MovableType 4.0 released — out of beta with native OpenID and memcached support, among other changes #

Why Did Google Answers Shut Down? — appropriately answered by a former GA researcher, now answering on UClue #

Jason Scott releases arcade manual archive — 1,700 vintage game manuals as watermark-free PDFs #

Wired News on Wikiscanner, tracking anonymous edits by sneaky organizations — several outstanding spin jobs were found and submitted by readers (via) #

Massive warez NFO database released publicly — MySQL dump covering 2.6 million releases back to the '80s; mixed quality, but could be fun for data mining (via) #

Thoughts on Facebook's new Data Store API — they may be the new AOL, but their tech is undeniably cool #

iPhoneNES, first NES emulator for the iPhone — next stop, Doom! (via) #

Comic: iPhone Trauma — also: iPhone oversight (via) #

NYT unmasks Fake Steve Jobs (spoiler warning) — FSJ isn't happy; here's how they found him (via) #

Yelp launches API — looks great, but no XML response? (via) #

Image: Digg circa 1995  #

Anymails — visualization of email as microbes; don't miss the movies (via) #

Polyvore — fascinating community built around collage of random images strewn around the web #

Casual Gameplay Design Competition 3 winners announced — some incredible entries cleverly using the "replay" theme #

Video: Airplane! vs. Zero Hour — looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue (via) #

Faceball — the national sport of Flickr, now with video tutorials and documentation #

Tether your iPhone: EDGE Internet on your laptop — neat and simple hack #

Human Brain Cloud — massively multiplayer word game, with one of the nicest graphs ever #

Furminator — pinball machine hacked into a first-person shooter; try the videos (via) #

Video: Guys and Dolls — documentary about men living with Real Dolls (via) #

Making the web into a banking platform (whether they like it or not) — Wesabe's Firefox uploader and REST API quietly release your bank's stranglehold on your data #

The Hello Experiment — if this doesn't make sense, watch this first (via) #

Weekly World News shutting down after 28 years — Ed Anger is gonna be pissed (via) #