Virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell poses as D.C. subway busker — Washington Post poses and records an experiment in art out of context (via) #

MySQL interface to Amazon S3 — freaky cool hack (via) #

No One Belongs Here More Than You — Miranda July's extremely creative website for her new book (via) #

Most hated things on the web — Google hates cilantro more than emo kids #

First! (via) #

TMNT co-creator sells original art for issue #1 on eBay for $250k — Eastman sold IP rights to TMNT in 2000; I stumbled on the auction while browsing the most expensive completed comic auctions #

The Mile High Collection — amazing (and long) story of the "greatest comic book collection ever found" #

Google launches My Maps — far more than simple annotations #

Video: The Most Hated Family in America — Louis Theroux's BBC documentary on the Fred Phelps family, warning: hateful language (via) #

Internet Access CAPTCHAs — that Matthew Baldwin guy is versatile #

Consumating releases source code — from the readme: "HACK TIL IT WORKS" #

Video: Alanis Morissette covers "My Humps" — classy, but I think I still prefer Dogwelder's version (via) #

Internet Jackass Day 2007 is in full effect — I'm sitting this one out #

Disney's Tower of Terror modeled in Half-Life 2 — paging Cory Doctorow! #

Techcrunch acquires FuckedCompany — hedging bets by covering both the rise and fall of startups; if it's an April 1 joke, it really shouldn't be #

I Saw You — comics based on Craigslist Missed Connections postings #

Software Development as a Collaborative Game — great links in that entry #

Justin.tv hits the front page of the SF Chronicle — watching the cam right now is very meta, as he walks around SF with people recognizing him #

All (known) Bodies in the Solar System Larger than 200 Miles in Diameter — like the MegaPenny Project for celestial bodies #

Cory Doctorow's xkcd cosplay at ETech — in case you missed the reference #

Lonelygirl15 hawks gum — "Whoa, it's sour."; David Lynch responds #

Six Freakiest Children's TV Rock Bands — related: Wikipedia's List of fictional music groups #

Desktop Tower Defense — as addictive as everyone says, much more arcade than RTS; impressive run #

This American Life's first TV episode in its entirety — yay! plus, the newly redesigned TAL website (via) #

Playing from the Other Side: the Discomfort of Militainment Avatars — great stuff, including an Iraq vet who refuses to play for the insurgents and an insane FPS published by Hezbollah #

The 'I Heart Huckabees' Outtakes — David O. Russell and Lily Tomlin go completely unhinged; NSFW language #

Video: Indian Thriller — new to me! (via) #

Understanding Avatars in Games and Social Media — great reading with many visual examples; Gordon's been on a tear post-SXSW #

Techno Tuesday — very odd weekly comic about technology (via) #

Letterhead Fonts embrace DRM with disastrous results — the foundry that made the Upcoming.org logotype goes to the dark side #

Video: Chris Ware animation for Showtime's This American Life — wonderful story about how make-believe cameras changed an elementary school playground (via) #

A Conversation at the Grownup Table, as Imagined at the Kids' Table — "Pass the wine, please. I want to become crazy." (via) #

Handy list of TLD meanings, prices, and registrars — correction: Thailand charges 2505 Baht for .th domains, not USD (via) #

Khoi Vinh's "Grids are Good" presentation and slides — however you feel about his design, this is a must-read #

Twittervision — capturing the Twitter zeitgeist on a map (via) #

Last episode of Ze Frank's The Show — what a difference a year makes #

Delutube, the Deleted YouTube Video Viewer — deleted videos apparently remain on YouTube servers, for the moment (via) #

xkcd creator's laptop stolen — including the originals for the last three months of comics #

How Zug Hacked the Super Bowl — John Hargrave and Rob Cockerham are my idols; unfortunately, unreadable (via) #

Wired redesigned — with a Veen-like gallery into their past designs #

Accordion Hero II — needs more Yankovic (via) #

American Idol covers Modest Mouse in a Mustang ad — or: The Day The Music Died #

Homebrew text adventures on the DS — with game saving and handwriting recognition! (via) #

DMCA Abuser Apologizes for Takedown Campaign — the apology video is enjoyable; here's hoping he disappears for a while #

Girl Talk, DJ Drama, and mashups discussed on floor of Congress — Congressman Doyle rocks the House (via) #

Flickr launches collections — sets-of-sets has the community's biggest feature request for years #

Notes from Will Wright's SXSW keynote — one of the best talks I've ever seen #

Lily Allen's "Smile" recorded in Simlish — the nonsense language spoken in The Sims #

Yeeaahh! — Khoi Vinh redesigns Yahoo in his distinctive style #

Tom Wilson's Big Pop Fun — Biff from "Back to the Future" now does pop art paintings #