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 #

Flash: Phoenix Wrong — all of these are great, but the third is my favorite (via) #

Hack director Uwe Boll defeats five Internet critics in an amateur boxing match — he just crushed Lowtax from Something Awful in a single round #

Flash: Line Rider — oddly addictive; don't miss this incredible helicopter escape (via) #

Apple hits PodcastReady with nastygram — claiming infringement for all things "pod" is ridiculous #

Super Mario Bros underground theme stolen from 1970s funk band? — extremely unlikely; despite the similarities, coincidences do happen in music #

Video: Ben Folds covers "Such Great Heights" — accompanied by found objects (via) #

MTV buys Guitar Hero — this does not bode well for the Guitar Hero franchise #

Gran Turismo for PS3 may use micropayments for new tracks and cars — total retail cost could be between $430 to $975 #

Amazon adds comments to reviews  #

Japanese company had Sotheby's and Christie's play Rock, Scissors, Paper to decide art auction — old, but great; they turned to 11-year-olds for advice (via) #

First penis transplant reversed after two weeks — rejected by another organ: the brain (via) #

Defaker — was Defamer involved in this parody for NBC's Studio 60? they don't seem to even know about it (via) #

Video: Yahoo Current interviews Gary Brolsma — as terrible as New Numa is, it's weirdly compelling to see this guy from another angle #

Moo MiniCards, lovely business cards from your Flickr photos — first 10 free for Flickr Pro users #

Upcoming.org is hiring — come work with us #

JPG Magazine relaunches — great new design, and you can vote for what goes into each issue #

The Shire — Hobbit-themed housing development in Bend, Oregon (via) #

Video: Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" — watch for the O'Reilly book reference and Star Wars Kid parody #

Photos from Banksy's Los Angeles art show — here's first-hand video of the live painted elephant that everyone's fussing about (via) #

TRYNT free APIs — excellent set of unique web services, like the image nudity detector and bootleg IMDB API #

MySpace MP3 Gopher — Windows app to bypass Myspace music player security; or try the online version (via) #

ReFrederator — daily video podcast of great vintage cartoons (via) #

Video: Mike Patton mentioned on All My Children — extremely surreal cultural references slipped into soap opera (via) #

Universal Music planning lawsuit against YouTube and Myspace — idiotic, but obvious #

Viral Video Chart — tracking the most popular on Youtube, Google Video, and Myspace (via) #

Video: Xiu Xiu, "Boy Soprano" — indie bands go 16-bit, moving on from the C64 and NES eras (via) #

Highlights from this year's Independent Games Festival entries — or see the complete list #

News Corp exec implies Myspace can destroy any Web 2.0 company — says that Flickr, YouTube, and most next-gen apps "are really driven off the back of Myspace"; note that all three companies have typos (via) #

The Secret Life of Jason Fortuny — constructing a psychological profile of the man behind the Craigslist sex baiting based on his online writings #