Queen's Brian May slams Myspace for "pirated identity" — he doesn't want to do the Myspace salute; won't somebody think of the children #

The Dial-Up BBS Revisited — amazing story of calling ghost BBSes, and a great tip for using Vonage for dialup (via) #

Business Week on the LonelyGirl15 conspiracy — here's a good overview;s is YouTube's biggest star a viral marketing effort or just kids havnig fun? (via) #

Jeremy Bogan irritates telemarketers with random recorded responses — this is brilliant and cruel; what else can you tell me about this offer? (via) #

Evhead on why pageviews are an obsolete metric — part of Myspace's big numbers are attributable to terrible site design (via) #

Flickr adds extensive geotagging and maps support — and, surprise! two-way integration with Upcoming #

Upcoming.org adds Flickr and Yahoo! Local integration — increasing the number of events by 3000% overnight, plus pretty pictures and nicer event pages #

NYT tracks down "Canon Rock" YouTube star — the original video, and its many, many imitators (via) #

Video: Ricky Gervais at Microsoft UK — shut down by Microsoft on Youtube, now living on Google Video for the moment #

Review of Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud — create and destroy a virtual server farm in seconds with an API call; Amazon is doing the most innovative work in the entire industry #

L.A. Weekly on the gentrification of Los Angeles — also, five warning signs; most interesting are gelato and the flight patterns of visual artists (via) #

Nintendo Wii to limit wifi for third party titles — no non-Nintendo launch titles will have online play? #

Video of self-parking Lexus — I'd be terrified of crushing someone's legs #

Stephen Colbert rips off Ze Frank joke? — hard to believe it's a coincidence; maybe a staff writer watches The Show (via) #

Dev-Scene Nintendo DS homebrew portal — outstanding index of available homebrew apps and games for the NDS (via) #

Myspace considers print magazine — a possible partnership with Nylon (via) #

Fluid dynamics physics toy — not unlike Sand (via) #

Long New Yorker article on the recent Poincare Conjecture battle — a fascinating story of two very different mathematic personalities; more from Kottke (via) #

37 Signals on the Long Road to Simple — this basically summed up my day #

Phoenix Wright fan t-shirts — obscure Nintendo DS references on t-shirts make me happy #

The Evolution of Speech Balloons — from scroll-like "labels" in 12th century paintings to modern comic strips; also: the Early Comics Archive (via) #

Visualizing Gamespot review scores by platform — reviewers avoid 7.7 and 7.8 scores #

Weird Al's "Don't Download This Song" — "We Are the World"-style commentary on music piracy; "even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong" #

Video: The Party Party's "God Made Me Do It" — video mashup of Bush singing "Imagine," with a nod to Lou Reed #

Parallels plans to offer full Windows gaming support by end of year — full speed OpenGL/DirectX running natively on the Mac would mean I'd never buy a PC again (via) #

Turner Broadcasting removing smoking scenes from Hanna-Barbara cartoons after UK complaint — removing positive portrayal of cigs in Tom and Jerry, Scooby Doo, and The Flintstones #

Video: MTV's Game Makers Roundtable — bad UI, but great conversation with Will Wright, David Jaffe, Cliffy B, and Harvey Smith #

GopherNow, late-night eats finder — which restaurants are open in your area, right now? #

Video: PES' "Game Over" — stop-motion animation of retro arcade games played out with household objects #

Interview with Mike Frumin from Eyebeam — people like Mike inspire me; Fundrace, OGLE, Pizza Party, VGMap, and reBlog are all wonderful #

Dappit — visual tool for screen scraping websites into XML and doing neat things with it #

Wired News on Jason Scott's text adventure documentary — even more than Arcade, I'm eagerly awaiting Get Lamp #

RU Sirius show on Gettingit.com reunion, part one — I'm interviewed along with the rest of the staff; follow along on the archives #

Video: Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown — hyperviolent fun with copyright violations circa 1986; cameos by Mickey Mouse, Blondie, Nazis, and Richard Simmons (via) #

Dreamhost gets some angry voicemails — I love that company; how many other businesses would write a public expose on payola review sites? #

Nethack for the DS — also: ColecoDS now has sound and saving #

Bruce Schneier Facts — "Bruce Schneier can straighten out an elliptic curve with nothing but his teeth" #

Microsoft to enable homebrew content on Xbox 360 — sharing the games will be challenging, but it's a great move that other consoles should try to top #

Real-time Flash visualization of songs on the radio across the U.S.  #

YouTube visualization of submission growth — using the Youtube API (via) #

Internet Soul Portraits — famous websites without identifying text or graphics; how many can you name? #

AOL's Weblogs, Inc. gaming Digg — AOL employees digging Weblogs, Inc. stories in a coordinated effort to get to the frontpage #

Barry Diller buys majority stake in Connected Ventures — College Humor, yes, but also Vimeo, Busted Tees, and others (via) #

Steely Dan vs. Wes Anderson — there's a fine line between eccentric and insane (via) #

Apple making huge social software push? — the Teams feature is the most interesting; social networks will eventually be built into the OS (via) #

First Nintendo DS emulator to play commercial games released — compatibility list with some screenshots; also, you'll need to dump your BIOS (via) #

Full-motion 3D posters — don't miss the soccer video; estimated to cost $200-500 per square foot #

MP3: Sprites, "I Started A Blog Nobody Read" — "I started a blog and nobody came; no issues were raised, no comments were made" #

Video: Coca-Cola's Grand Theft Auto inspired commercial — this could almost be Sims 2 machinima (via) #

Second Life closes forums — a truly awful move that will damage the community (via) #