Surviving Sudoku — article about sudoku backlash from the crossword community (via) #

Youtube Trends Report #2 — I love this kind of thing; 86 out of the top 100 are user created (via) #

Urban Counterfeiters — major chains are plagiarizing designs from indie artists #

Coudal's response to the Agency.com video — made me laugh #

Video: Leaked pilot of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip — Aaron Sorkin's new show starts with an amazing Network-style rant by Judd Hirsch (via) #

Send a "Snakes on a Plane" prank call to your friends — for example, I had Samuel L. Jackson call Matt Haughey earlier today #

Nintendo DS MIDI Port — I'd love to see Elektroplankton controlling other devices #

WorkFriendly — safe-for-work proxy formats websites to look like Microsoft Word (via) #

Stephen Colbert gets banned from Wikipedia — he made edits and encouraged others in this episode; they locked the article #

Bill to ban social networking sites in schools and libraries moves to Senate — overly broad and completely unnecessary, it affects commercial sites with profiles and private messaging #

Analysis of Digg's top users and the impact of Netscape's attempt to poach them — top 10 users responsible for 30% of front page stories, while top 100 goes up to 55% (via) #

Agency.com posts Subway pitch video online — if we roll, we roll big #

Homeowner tracks down toilet-paper prank suspects — mom finds the jerk kids with grocery store receipts, surveillance tapes, yearbooks and online databases; with video (via) #

Sweater Girl, Peter Pan, and Tron Guy sing for net neutrality — where's Mahir, Star Wars Kid, and Numa Numa? #

Assembly 2006 game competition entries released — "Racing Pitch" controls cars by mimicking engine noise into your mic, "TattooFrenzy" draws tattoos with the PocketPC touch screen, and a free Guitar Hero clone #

Wired typo leads to Insta-pundit parody blog — the typo domain in this Wired article now leads to a bizarro world mashup of Daily Kos in the Instapundit design #

Aaron releases Filtr, the Flickr image preprocessor — it turns cameraphone photos into a thing of beauty #

The Plight of the Colorblind Gamer — some surprisingly good comments in the Digg thread; good to know I'm not alone here (via) #

Video: Microsoft Vista speech recognition demo gone bad — Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all #

Dicewars — highly addictive simple strategy game, but needs multiplayer badly; instructions (via) #

Video: 787 Cliparts (via) #

Video: Solla Solla Enna Perumai — other good stuff in the same vein #

Video: Nike McFly commercial — with new power lacing technology! #

Owen Wilson responds to Steely Dan letter — very funny #

Anthony Bourdain writes about watching Beirut die — he was there to record a TV show when everything started falling apart #

Smoking Gun finds angry letter to Lindsay Lohan from Hollywood brass — studio head blasts her for disrupting movie shoots with no-shows from heavy partying #

Secret Google services uncovered — all sorts of speculation fodder, "Google Guess" sounds interesting #

On Piracy, a 2-hour documentary on file sharing — Julien McArdle's made his prerelease version free for viewing #

Cyworld launches in US — insanely popular Korean MMO comes to the states #

Google announces hosting for open source projects — some badly needed competition for Sourceforge; an example project (via) #

Amy Hoy's Javascript Boot Camp — her three hour OSCON tutorial for "everyone who feels their Javascript skills just aren't up to snuff" (via) #

Hotwired demo site from 1995 — a wonderful snapshot from November 1995 (via) #

Video: Enchantment Under the Sea Revisited — synchronized split-screen of both dance scenes from "Back to the Future" I and II (via) #

Life2Life, Amazon store within Second Life — build on Amazon's web services, including spatial positioning based on sales and relevance (via) #

Billy Bragg prompts Myspace to change musician's rights — Myspace safe for musicians again (via) #

Sneak preview footage of the Simpsons movie — animated storyboards, but still cool (via) #

Next-gen Microsoft Flight Sim uses Navteq data for mapping the real world — seamless intercontinental flights that look like the real thing #

Unofficial Digg API — deconstructed from the Digg Labs Flash files (via) #

Video: Justin Hall on Passively Multiplayer Online Games — a concise description of his earlier experiments, now with an official site #

Wikipedia Celebrates 750 Years Of American Independence — Founding Fathers, Patriots, Mr. T. Honored #

Video: Sims 2 "Sk8ter Boi" machinima music video — bleh music, but I'm impressed how good Sims 2 machinima can be; more from the same author #

Lost Experience reality game character confronts Lost cast at Comic-Con — they seem genuinely surprised; more background here #

Python on the Nintendo DS — also: HelloDS voice over IP #

PBS Kids Sprout host fired for abstinence spoof videos — see both fake commercials here (via) #

Digg Labs — the Stamen Design visualizations go live #

Famous logos redone Web 2.0 style — hilarious; Digg's hitting the original YayHooray thread hard (via) #

Details on Tenori-On, Electroplankton creator's new musical instrument — the official site has samples and details on two-way collaboration; don't miss the demo video (via) #

Doom 1 ported to Doom 3 — very meta hack lets you play Doom on a virtual screen inside of Doom 3 (via) #

Pointer Kite — wonderful kite imitating a GUI cursor #

Learning from Atari — Jason's scans of the Atari Game Catalog, 1981 #