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 #

Amazon launches Now Now answer service — send a question by email, get three responses from Mechanical Turk workers #

LA Weekly profile on Mark Allen and the Machine Project — an old friend and former coworker, Mark never fails to inspire me #

Jason Scott goatse's Myspace — a long read on a simple prank, but worth it for the conclusion #

How to play Windows XP alerts on the piano — don't miss the Tiny Music Makers links, the creators of famous computer sounds #

Google Reader adds personalized charts — the best feedreader around keeps getting better #

Celebrity Patents — Eddie Van Halen has the best patent illustration ever created #

Chip & PIN terminal playing Tetris — the video is mirrored on YouTube (via) #

Video: Joel Veitch vs. Coca-Cola Argentina — they ripped off his song and dancing kitten video for their ad #

Wired Science, the Wired/PBS collaboration, debuts tonight — it took ten years, but they finally launched Wired TV #

Video: Fionn Regan's "Be Good or Be Gone" — using ambient audio from diverse locations, creativity on zero budget #

Danah Boyd on ephemeral profiles — it always amazed me that my little sister created a new IM screenname every couple months #

Top 12 Appearances by Bands in Films — also: '60s garage band cameos in TV & film #

The Edge annual question, "What are you optimistic about?" — funny, everyone from Boing Boing was a contributor except Mark (via) #

Kongregate — nicely designed community for sharing Flash games (via) #

Sci-Fi Channel's "The Lost Room" as adventure game — sounds intriguing; the Wikipedia entry has more spoilers (via) #

The Flying Saucer, early mashup from 1956 — the artists ended up in court for sampling popular songs in their novelty break-in record #

Steve Wozniak interviewed by Compuserve members in 1983 — shortly before the introduction of Macintosh, lovingly scanned by Jason Scott #

What's Noka worth? — incredible 10-part expose of an insanely overpriced chocolate seller (via) #

This year's best selling album sold less than 4 million copies — tastes are splintering as music discovery and distribution gets easier #

Henry Jenkins interviews Gamelab's Eric Zimmerman — Gamelab is among the best of the small independent studios; every game is great (via) #