Myspace blocks the letter "i" — maybe a typo in a case-insensitive regex? #

Ask A Music Scene Micro-Celebrity — legendary record engineer Steve Albini answers questions in a poker message board #

David Weinberger debates Andrew "The Cult of the Amateur" Keen — Weinberger smacks down Keen's inane argument that the social web is making us illiterate #

Video: Echochrome gameplay footage — looks like a playable version of Escher's Relativity; see also: Portal #

Using your Apple IIe as a Linux terminal — detailed instructions and fun photos; or, if you prefer, hook it up to your Mac #

DEC's Glimpse of the Future from 1994 — marketing video pitching the very early Web to businesses; tons of vintage screen capture goodness #

Eyes Wide Shut in 1947 Life Magazine — Life Magazine asked comics artists to draw their iconic characters blindfolded (via) #

Vanity Fair's long oral history of The Simpsons — they interviewed Rupert Murdoch, Art Spiegelman, Barry Diller, Brad Bird, Ricky Gervais, and others (via) #

Terrorist organization logos, grouped by design motifs — see also: terror groups gone corporate #

Happy Birthday, Ollie Kottke — you've got baby! #

Telekinesis, an open-source iPhone remote — remote desktop, streaming video, and application server, all running in iPhone's Safari #

YouTube Doubler — play two videos at once; more entertaining than you'd think (via) #

iPhone Dev Wiki crew releases iPhoneInterface tool — they've figured out a way to start arbitrary services and move files around #

When They Started Hating You — Jason Scott on the history of user-aggressive software, from BBS crippleware to P2P adware #

Adrian Holovaty releases templatemaker, a Python library for smart screen scraping — given a large set of HTML documents, intelligently extracts the strings that change between them #

Fake Steve Jobs on the music industry — fake or not, this is great commentary on the Universal Music pullout from iTunes (via) #

Gnome corpses used to spam World of Warcraft players — "corpse graffiti" sounds like a made-up Jargon Watch entry #

A Sketch Towards a Taxonomy of Meta-Desserts — don't miss the full chart (via) #

First in-game footage of Rock Band — rocks hard, but those drums won't come cheap #

White Glove Tracking project is done — as promised, the data and visualizations have been released (via) #

DVD Jon breaks iPhone activation — I love that guy; also, the iPhone dev crew just released their own tool #

Appaholic Viral Dashboard — shows the fastest growing Facebook apps in the last day #

Poetry written in Inform 7 — the interactive fiction language is particularly well-suited to poetry and prose; more here #

NYT on the attention to culinary detail in "Ratatouille" — including Thomas Keller's ratatouille recipe for the film's final meal (via) #

iPhone Dev Wiki's Latest Summary — daily updates of progress in unlocking and modding the iPhone #

Google criticizing Michael Moore's Sicko — hey, medical industry! counter the bad press with some Google ads! #

Facebook is the new AOL — while Marc points out it's just getting started; they're both right #

Scott Beale's video of Larry Page's helicopter landing from Foo Camp — the Google founder/icon landed on the O'Reilly campus backyard on Saturday #

Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace — Danah Boyd breaks down the migration of preppy white kids to Facebook #

Mocking Surface — "Your next computer will be a big ass table." #

Spore delayed until 2009 mid-2008 — depressing (via) #

Growing Up — conversation between Eric Meyer and his three-year-old daughter #

How to solve a maze with Photoshop — creative hack #

O.J. Simpson book allegedly leaked online — download it here #

Good Copy Bad Copy — freely-available film about the role of copyright in global culture; watch now or read a review by Jason Scott #

Jerry Yang is Yahoo's new CEO — needless to say, this is massive news around here #

Michael Moore's Sicko on Google Video — the Nixon and Reagan audio footage is brilliant; updated again: try here (via) #

Zork 1 forum on Idle Thumbs — collectively playing text adventures with Ziggy, a Z-Machine interpreter hooked into a message board #

Cult of the Bound Variable — insanely brilliant and deep programming contest in the form of an adventure game; read the solution to understand just how deep it goes #

lmnopuz — elegantly-designed multiplayer crossword puzzles #

Tim Knowles' Tree Drawings — the photos of the trees drawing are as inspired as the artwork itself #

Mr. Wizard, dead at 89 — for old time's sake #

Video: Mr. T on Hitachi storage virtualization — he puts the T in I.T. (via) #

Engadget's live coverage of Steve Jobs WWDC keynote — by far the best coverage, with tons of pictures and readable updates #

Flickr images blocked in China — more on the official Flickr forum #

Video: Sin City Breakfast Tacos — Robert Rodriguez is a very talented man; see also: Cooking with Rockstars #

LastGraph — beautiful infoviz graphs of Last.fm listening habits; examples here (via) #

Wikigroaning — comparing "useful" Wikipedia articles to their fanboy counterparts #

I CAN HAS VAR? — Machine Project offering a beginner's programming workshop using LOLCODE; and yes, I lied #

GHATS fixes Google Street View privacy by adding hats and moustaches to every face — just a joke, but here's some serious Street View hacking from WhereCamp #