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 #

iPhone commercials released — it's official: June 29 (via) #

Human Giant using Twitter at the MTV Movie Awards — Twitter is getting prominent mentions throughout the pre-show broadcast #

Stewart Copeland pans Police reunion show — it's refreshing to see this kind of blunt humility from an established rock star #

LOLFeeds — the first, and last, Lolcats-related link I'm ever posting #

Parallels 3.0 RC supports 3D games at full speed — my last remaining reason to own a dedicated Windows box is about to go away #

David Sacks on the New Portals — insightful article explaining why the Facebook Platform represents a fundamental shift #

Philipp Lenssen on Google Maps Street View and Mapplets — still on vacation, catching up on big news #

Last.fm co-founder on their acquisition by CBS — the $280M price seems low and the idea of CBS eventually running Last.fm scares me #

Inkling Magazine on Nerd Nite, science presentations at hipster bars — also, while on vacation, I saw Dorkbot get front page coverage in a local newspaper (via) #

TweetVolume — see also: Twitter is all about love and belong (via) #

New York Times publishes Water Cooler's newsgames — very interesting and a surprisingly nice fit #

Om interviews Desktop Tower Defense creator — he's making six figures of ad revenue with only $130 in monthly expenses #

Facebook Platform guide and documentation — been playing with this, and am floored how well-done it is; also: the growing list of apps #

Cringely on The Final Days of Google — "the founders of that Google-beating start-up ... are working right now at Google." #

Electric Slide Lawsuit: Jason Schultz Responds — cool, two of my favorite Jasons go head-to-head #

reCaptcha — using the effort answering captchas to help digitize scanned books #

Iminlikewithyou and Game Design in the Web — one of my favorite new interests is the natural overlap between gaming and the social web #

How does Bill Gates feel about about the John Hodgman character in those Mac ads? — read the last few awkward lines of this otherwise uneventful interview (via) #

Hackety Hack, the Coder's Starter Kit — amazingly brilliant programming guide for kids and newbie adults; Windows-only, for now #

Video: Battle at Kruger — herd of buffalo vs. lions vs. crocodiles; the baby buffalo survives #

Visualizing the ‘Power Struggle’ in Wikipedia — sexy infovis with hotspots for hotly revised articles #

How the EFF Dropped the Ball on the Electric Slide Lawsuit — by settling and allowing a CC license for the dance, they wrongly concede a simple dance move can be copyrighted #

Webjay closing in June — possibly because of the changes in net radio royalties? #

Adrian Holovaty leaves Washington Post to build local news startup — with a $1.1m grant; I hope it's like Chicago Crime writ large #

Video: Jim Henson's The Cube — surreal teleplay from 1969, reminiscent of Cube and House of Stairs (via) #

Google Hot Trends — people love their American Idol and World of Warcraft #