Blogs and God's Youth — hilariously backwards religious rant about the moral dangers of blogging; "no one should have a blog or personal website" (via) #

Guy Kawasaki interviews panel of young adults on technology — I've seen panels like this before, and they're always insightful and interesting (via) #

Jobless man robs bank to get into jail — he asked for three years behind bars so he could get food and shelter (via) #

This American Life to offer free podcast — consider me subscribed #

Blip Festival — incredible chiptune music festival in NYC #

Counter-Strike Weapons Market — multiplayer shooter adds variable weapons pricing based on global weekly demand #

B. Kliban cartoon gallery — occasionally inexplicable, Kliban is one my favorite cartoonists ever; don't miss some of the analysis #

Future versions of Eudora will be built on Thunderbird — I've been using Eudora for a decade; guess it's time to switch #

Comparing Microsoft Flight Simulator X to reality — the detail level possible in the new game is staggering #

Video: Mick Bianchi's Youtubers — while the media focuses on copyrighted content, an entire blogging ecosystem is thriving #

Video: YouTube founders on the Google buyout — they seem giddy... I wonder why? #

YouTube users respond to Google buyout — nearly three times the Myspace deal, this is just madness; more video responses here #

Google Book Search increased book sales — hugely obvious, but most publishers are short-sighted, paranoid luddites (via) #

Video: Sensational news report on World of Warcraft addiction — complete with crying moms and scary voiceovers, WoW is the new D&D #

Video: Make Love, Not Warcraft — South Park's wonderful Warcraft machinima episode #

51 Birch Street — new film by Doug Block, director of Home Page (via) #

Video: Battle of the Bands — classic album covers fight to the death; brilliant work (via) #

More than half of MySpace now 35 or older — Slashdot says, "The truth: More predators, less victims." #

Video: For Your Consideration trailer — the new Christopher Guest film, a la Best in Show and A Mighty Wind (via) #

David Hasselhoff Says "Knight Rider" Car Was Gay — headline of the year #

RU Sirius interviews Neil Gaiman — a great coherent interview, available in MP3 or text #

Google Code Search — extremely useful search for open source code; for fun, search for profanities #

Line Rider Jumps the Shark — inspiring run from the addictive Flash toy #

Google Groups redesigns — first change since their last design in December 2004; this one is a big improvement #

Ask Metafilter on Steve Wozniak, and Woz responds! — he signed up for Mefi just to respond, which makes me love him all the more #

Google Gadgets For Your Webpage — add Google Desktop widgets to any site with a Javascript embed #

WFMU's The Reel Night John Lennon Died — nice followup with the unedited NYC FM radio dial scans from the night of December 8, 1980 #

What Is This Creepy Site Advertising? — Ask Metafilter investigates a viral marketing campaign; great read #

Who Killed TivoToGo in the TiVo Series 3 HD? — the EFF explains how CableLabs and Hollywood are deciding for us (via) #

Pitchfork reviews Jet's "Shine On" — I don't think they liked it #

More details on the unnecessary WarGames sequel — in which WOPR gets defeated by an iPod #

Tasty Drive, using Del.icio.us as a filesystem — brilliantly evil hack uses data: URLs and blind redirectors to store raw data as bookmarks #

MP3: Leonard's excellent (unused) Open Hack Day mix — 153 megabytes of good stuff #

World of Warcraft hits South Park — in one swoop, the most mainstream use of machinima ever (via) #

Video: Saved by Patrick Stewart at Yahoo's Open Hack Day — sometimes, delivery is everything #

Colliding With Death at 37,000 Feet, and Living — harrowing first-person tale of surviving a mid-air collision #

Texas dad wants Fahrenheit 451 banned — he demands a book about book burning be banned during Banned Books week #

Jonathan Keller's 8 Years of Daily Photos — the most extensive I've seen in this recent trend of self documentation #

The A:F6 fad on YouTube — Dane Cook lazywebs YouTube in an SNL joke, and hundreds of people respond #

US bill to ban online gambling — offshore gambling companies were hit hard, as the bill is expected to be signed into law in two weeks #

Digg Black Market — awful "service" pays users to promote advertiser links on Digg #

vNES, web-based NES emulator in Java — this is excellent lawsuit bait, especially since the Wii will be reissuing NES games #

Video: Beck's puppets visit Yahoo! — today was Open Hack Day, and they played this video at the amazingly awesome Beck concert; #

Dreamhost bans BitTorrent, regardless of file legality — they're a clueful company, I expect them to figure out this is a bad idea #

Google Reader redesigns — light years better than the last design #

Video: Mr. Rogers plays Donkey Kong — this is great for so many reasons #

Video: Katamari-inspired insurance commercial — reminds me of the older HIV PSA (via) #

Nelson Sings Nilsson — Harvey Danger's Sean Nelson covers great selections from Harry Nilsson's catalog (via) #

Atari Music — vintage records inspired by Atari games, with MP3s #

Video: David Bowie on Extras — like Patrick Stewart, Gervais gets incredible performances out of his cameos #