Video: College Saga — funny real-life recreation of a classic 8-bit RPG #

Clive Thompson's A Head for Detail — good article on Gordon Bell and MyLifeBits; recording every piece of his life (via) #

Gen Kanai on the High Cost of Monoculture — Korean Internet are stuck using IE 6 because of ancient encryption standards #

Mates of State's Kori Gardner on touring with kids — she's been writing a regular column for Babble on being a parent in a band #

Yahoo's most popular BitTorrent searches — I swear I had nothing to do with this #

Quag7's State of the BBS — he called 50 dialup BBSes and wrote up the results; the parts about where web communities fail is essential reading #

Flickr quietly launches machine tag support — the possibilities here are kinda mind-bending #

Coca-Cola settles with Joel Veitch and his ninja kitten video — more from Joel (via) #

Jason Scott on A Sysop, Forever — story of one tiny BBS, the death of its 15-year-old sysop, and how his brother and father kept it alive #

Paul Ford's Followup/Distraction — "There are two kinds of distraction, at least." (via) #

IBM's Many Eyes — like Swivel, a site for creating and sharing data visualizations; O'Reilly has more #

Waxy.org: Pirating the 2007 Oscars — I just posted my research into Oscar screener piracy, also showing that restricting screeners may hurt film's Oscar chances #

Food Network running subliminal McDonald's ads — too bad subliminal ads don't work (via) #

Video: Flea Market Montgomery, the mini-mall rap — "You heard me! Come shop!" #

Coachella 2007 lineup leaked — three days of heat and music #

Video: Children Are A Gift — a star performance by Ben, the son of my oldest childhood friend #

Foo campers' Space Invaders and Cylon Raider artwork on Google Maps — Google arranged a flyover of the campus during last year's camp #

Social Whitelisting with OpenID — something big is brewing here; just wait until someone builds exactly what Scott proposes #

My Name Is Meta — "My Name Is Earl" writers plant references on Television Without Pity forums six months before they mention it on-air (via) #

Every Ad in Times Square — it's posts like these that make Ironic Sans one of my favorite new blogs #

Piano Hero — play along with any MIDI file, Guitar Hero-style #

Get A First Life — backstory on the joke from Darren, along with an incredibly clueful official response from Linden #

First image of Wall-E revealed — Pixar's next film after Ratatouille (via) #

How big is Azeroth? — measuring the size of a virtual world in real-world terms #

Bitpass shuts down — despite this, the iTunes music store proves micropayments can work well with a single service #

New York bakery prints error message on cake — here's the backstory #

American Idol Myspace Hunt: Round #1 — researching each contestant so you can heckle them directly #

The Astoria Notes — David documents the complaints of an unhappy neighbor #

Make your own custom songs for Guitar Hero 2 — see the growing list of songs with accompanying YouTube videos of gameplay; for example, JerryC's Canon Rock #

First pirated HD DVD movie hits BitTorrent — at 20GB each, this could spell the eventual end of the Usenet binaries #

Timbaland samples Demoscene musician without attribution for Nelly Furtado song — first time I've seen a chiptune from the MOD scene end up in mainstream pop #

Windows Mobile Users Get Hacked iPhone UI — like OS X themes for XP, it's not quite the same #

MPAA Caught Uploading Fake Torrents — public trackers aren't safe and will only get worse (via) #

Unsigned band's digital single to enter UK top 40 charts — first unsigned band and first download-only song to make the cut after new rule changes #

Top 100 Duplicate Digg Comments from 2006 — I'd love to see the same on other social sites to see the zeitgeist of Fark vs. Metafilter vs. Slashdot #

Kottke gets crafty with a cardboard iPhone — round those corners, mister! #

Apple's official iPhone site — inspiring industrial and UI design #

Effect of Apple's iPhone on RIM and Palm stock — the market has spoken #

Engadget has photos of new Apple iPhone — details rolling in on MacRumors and Engadget #

Yahoo buys MyBlogLog, for reals — I played a part in this deal but had to keep quiet; congrats, Eric! #

Homebrew DS motion sensor card — with some homebrew games already written for it, including DS Saber (via) #

Kasou Taishou Grand Prix 2007 — worth it for the human version of Breakout with marshmallows and blackface #

Wired's 101 Ways to Save Apple cover story from 1997 — ten years later, on the eve of an exciting Macworld, still a great read for its good and bad advice #

Digg Scares Me — refusing requests from Digg.com because of rampant asshats (via) #

xkcd on YouTube commenters  #

The Simpsonzu, anime version of the Simpsons — using this drawing for reference #

Zug.com's John Hargrave releases prank book — one of the oldest e-zines, Zug has been active since 1995 and still very funny (via) #

Suck.com's Joey Anuff launches recommendations site — sounds like Metacritic for music singles, gears, autos, and so on #

Merlin Mann's Phone Guy series — "my nails are salon-perfect" (via) #

A Kinda Patton Christmas — including custom Carvel cake and fake Photoshopped magazine #