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 #

passive-aggressive notes from roommates, neighbors, coworkers and strangers — you know the kind (via) #

A Different Fluttershine — thoughtful little comic #

Crowd Porn at Coachella — music fans writhing in the desert heat (via) #

If the Beatles Were Born Today — also: Zen Parable or Just Someone Being Cruel? #

The Only Time You Will See A Picture Of One Of My Patients — EMT's tale of a cat found in a London building fire (via) #

Street Installations — clever outdoor art, soon to be appropriated by ad agencies (via) #

Video: Jeremy Boyle's self-playing pneumatic band — one of the more interesting Maker Faire hacks, read more on his site #

Onslaught — like Desktop Tower Defense, but with insane combos #

Zooomr using Ustream video chatroom for live updates during downtime — Thomas Hawk has been doing real-time Q&A for the last 14 hours while Zooomr's been offline #

Army cuts off soldier access to YouTube, Myspace, Photobucket, and more — more than simple bandwidth, they're restricting major communication tools #

Ottoman humping gigolos ruin troop morale — Daily Show's meme-laden take on the Army's new restrictions #

Frank Miller to write and direct film adaptation of Will Eisner's "The Spirit" — the film rights were sold in the early '90s, but Eisner himself preferred the comics medium to film #

Paul Cloutier's wife Alana responds to JPG Magazine critics — Derek responds in the comments; Paul's own response was brief #

Mark Pilgrim on the US patent system — "an institutionalized form of madness, outrageous, all-consuming, and incurable" #

I Deleted My JPG Account — people leaving in droves after community betrayal; also: Derek and Heather quietly added back to the About page as a footnote #

Gmail quietly adds Powerpoint viewer — the first step in Google Presentations #

Derek and Heather leave JPG Magazine — erased out of existence by the company they started (via) #

Video: Kosbees, episode 1 — "is that legal?" "it's satire." #

The Onion interviews Acceptable.tv — American Idol for YouTube shows is a pretty decent summary of the concept #

Kottke on the growth of Twitter vs. Blogger — great analysis, but faulty data; the Twitter IDs weren't sequential since November, making my post invalid too #

VH-1 to air "Kosbees," a House of Cosbys spinoff — created by the original creators and airing on Acceptable.tv, VH-1's user-driven show by the Channel 101 guys #

White Glove Tracking — using crowdsourcing to spot Michael Jackson's white glove for a video visualization (via) #

game, game, game and again game — very odd hybrid of poetry, art, and platform gaming (via) #

Rage fans didn't like Crowded House's reunion at Coachella — unfortunate lineup placement leads to disastrous results, foreshadowed here #

2007 Scene.org Awards winners announced — the best of the still-thriving demoscene #

Fortuito.us — Matt Haughey's great new blog on becoming self-sufficient online #

Uncensor the Internet — Greasemonkey script uncensors f**k, a**, and other bulls**t #

Acme Novelty Toy Gallery — Niem's putting together Chris Ware papercraft, so you don't have to (via) #

Sumitori Dreams — hilarious PC physics fighting game built in 96k! (via) #

Feed the Head — this and Acrobots appear to be two new-to-me toys by the creator of Vector Park #

Tim O'Reilly's thoughtful article on the Alexaholic lawsuit — don't miss Ron Hornbaker's comment in the thread #

Upcoming drops the ".org" with new redesign — biggest changes ever; full geo database, visual redesign, switch to Yahoo IDs, and more #

Ben Brown leaves CNET and Consumating — couple weeks old, but news to me; who's next? three makes a trend (via) #

Virginia Killer's Violent Writings — terrifying #

Forbes Magazine's mesothelioma search engine spam — amazingly bad; stumbled on this from a comment on Matt Cutts' blog #

The Shins busk in Montmartre, Paris — impromptu live performances by great bands, recorded in one long shot (via) #

PeaceMaker, game simulating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — here's a detailed review from Gamasutra (via) #

Dodgeball founders quit Google in frustration — wow, I wasn't expecting that #

Super Mario Masochism — easily the cruelest and funniest Super Mario mod ever #

Happy Friday the 13th! — all 160 on-screen deaths from the Jason series #

The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel — a Maciej Ceglowski epic (via) #