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) #

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 #