Bush uses "The Google" — not the most tech-savvy guy, it seems (via) #

Qooqle Video Clippers alpha — Digg-style site promoting the best Japanese videos on YouTube, like this Pocky commercial (via) #

Sorry Blockbuster, But I love P2P — graffiti on the window of a closed video store #

Computer Game World archives — Ziff-Davis opens up the vault, offering free PDFs of every issue from December 1981 to November 1992! (via) #

ndsvisuals — using the Nintendo DS as an interface for mixing live video performances; watch the video for a demo (via) #

Video: Bjork's "Bachelorette" — directed by Michel Gondry, this is my favorite music video of all time #

Coyle and Sharpe prank MP3s — insane pranksters accost strangers on the streets of San Francisco in the 1960s; also: official homepage and some video #

Rapid Adjustment — Metafilter user blogs during a 90 day sentence in jail (via) #

Russell Weller finally convicted in Santa Monica Farmer's Market crash — 89 year old man gets 18 years in prison; I wrote about the fatal accident from the scene #

Violet Blue on Japanese nose-holding fetishists — wonderfully weird find; this gallery is safe for work, if you're curious #

iFilm launches super-sekrit beta site — infinitely better, with Flash video, better navigation, and licensed content from MTV #

Transcript of Clinton's Georgetown speech, with video clip — once upon a time, we had a coherent, thoughtful President #

Lady Sovereign Hits Number One on "TRL" — Def Jam's really throwing their weight behind her; love the Tetris video, though (via) #

Polyorama, combinatorial artwork viewer — an updated version of vintage illustrated card toys, made by Metafilter and Flickr members (via) #

Universal Music files lawsuits against Grouper, Bolt.com — this could set the precedent for a wave of lawsuits against web video sites #

Amazon launches Askville answers community — private beta, but interesting extension of their community #

My printer, my social letterbox — remote social printing for friends and family; absolutely brilliant idea, but especially for photos #

Small Number of Video iPods Shipped With Windows Virus — "we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses" #

The View from the Top — hardcore World of Warcraft junkie breaks his addiction and writes about it (via) #

A Year Full of Kick-Ass Movie Pitches — #1. "What if the Internet turned into a Were-wolf?" #

Spy Magazine's How to Be Famous — rare clips from the early '90s; the Seinfeld-hosted science experiments are great #

FoleyBot — pretend to be a 16-year-old congressional page boy (via) #

New Bravia paint commercial — this observer video makes more sense now #

Backstory of the questionably diverse resume of Yale senior Aleksey Vayner — you might want to watch the video in question first (via) #

Paul Graham on the mistakes that startups make — I usually avoid lists like this, but this is a thoughtful one #

Best Dreamcast games for today's gamers — I would love to see thoughtful lists like this for other platforms; I've found many underrated gems for the SNES, for example #

Coleco Toys & Games catalog from 1980 — "we're the one." #

Two Gallants frontman tazered by police at Texas show — the SF-based folky indie band is an unlikely target for violence (via) #

Wired News reviews the new Sam & Max game — positive review on the first episode of the new series #

Online Confessions of a Childhood Murderer — origins and fallout of a hoax on Kuro5hin; here's the Mefi thread #

Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker piece on predicting box office hits with algorithms — the problem with their technique is coming up with every possible meaningful variable #

Conflict of interest leads two to resign at Seattle's The Stranger — someone from ad sales was writing record reviews, which is a dangerous mix (via) #

Wallflower at the Web Party — in-depth NYT profile on Jonathan Abrams and the demise of Friendster (via) #

Scarlett Johansson releasing album of Tom Waits covers? — she has a Marilyn Monroe quality to her voice (via) #

E3 reborn into summer show in Santa Monica — PAX is the new E3 (via) #

Virtual economies attract real-world tax attention — note that the end of the article mentions Reuters' new virtual news bureau in Second Life (via) #

Patti Smith plays CBGB's last night before closure — as always, the Flickr and YouTube coverage is great, including Blondie on Thursday night #

Real Beauty vs Photoshop — the Dove film shows a vivid example of the Photoshop whitewashing of models #

Giant Bubble Helmet Gives 360-Degree View — I like to think that it's Jaron Lanier hiding in there #

Wired News' editor catches MySpace pedophile with Perl script — note that the author is Kevin Poulsen; also, I saw a very relevant banner ad below the Boing Boing post #

Bubble Bobble game for Nintendo DS ships with empty level — nice play testing! every cartridge shipped with this fatal bug, blocking gameplay beyond level 30 #

Top 10 ad-tricks in Tokyo's train stations — Ikea realized the only way to attract attention is by sponsoring whitespace (via) #

Comic Book Cover Browser — over 5,500 covers available, extracted using a number of available web APIs (via) #

Bill Murray attends late-night college party, washes dishes — also, note that CNN is soliciting for photos adn video from people who attended #

The Filter, Windows iTunes recommender plugin powered by All Music Guide — for OS X users, try Soundflavor or beaTunes (via) #

Elite Beat Agents track listing announced — I'm a sucker for rhythm games with interesting UI (via) #

Honda GPS to include social networking features — reviews make sense, but seeing the location of your friends en route can't be far behind (via) #

Children as text adventure game parsers — an anecdote that made me laugh #

NYT on YouTube's quiet third co-founder — Jawed Karim left the company to continue his education at Stanford, but maintained a large stake (via) #

Illegitimate — Caterina encounters some technical difficulties because of her surname, with similar stories in the comments #