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 #

Video: Trailer for Valve's Portal game — holy cow; like the gravity gun, it's amazing how one weapon can revolutionize gameplay #

Video: The Big Lebowski – F_cking Short Version — incredible editing work (via) #

AOL's customer retention manual revealed — "You gotta love it!" ...or else (via) #

Boing Boing Analysis — don't miss the acronym use by author; related: my BB stats (via) #

Wal-Mart Tries to be Myspace, Seriously — sorry, not nearly ugly enough #

Comcast censors critical Nightline story — stupidity by obscurity #

Video: The Hotwired Archive from 1998 — internally produced video of Hotwired's design and redesign; a must see #

Happy iCal Day! — celebrating the default day on the static iCal icon (via) #

Five TV pilots "leaked" to torrent sites from new fall season — is it piracy or pseudo grassroots promotion? #

Video: Stop-Motion Human Space Invaders — so very awesome (via) #

Video: Bike Thief — NYC bicyclist steals own bike four times on video in broad daylight, and nobody flinches (via) #

CouchSurfing, back from the dead — an incredible story of community participation #

Wired cover story on Myspace — the article certainly makes it sound like they don't have a clue what to do with it #

Video: Stanford Prison Experiment — "What happens when you put good people in an evil place?" #

Video: Mac OS 7.5 running on Sony PSP — also: System 6 running on the Nintendo DS (via) #

QSL Card Museum — ham radios exchanged QSL Cards to confirm two-way contacts; I love the antique and interesting cards #

Gamespot interviews Klosterman about his Esquire article on game journalism — if you missed it, The Lester Bangs of Video Games (via) #

Ugly Myspace Contest Winners — democracy isn't pretty #

Janek Simon's Carpet Invaders — playable art inspired by Space Invaders and woven Oriental rugs (via) #

Last.fm redesigns — the design is nice, but they're forcing bidirectional friend connections; the new Last.fm client handles all the plugins automagically #

Google Visualizations — chess boards, keyboards and Go #

Video: Zefrank on Myspace and the democratization of design — wonderfully coherent, prescient, and distinctly Ze (via) #

A Slice of the Blogosphere — pb breaks down blog tool usage for ORblogs #

Lycos to shutter Webmonkey — combined with the Hotwired closure, this is too much to take; I hate you, Lycos #

Caleb's How-To Hottub an Email List — harsh, but there's a certain beauty and elegance to this #

Apple Switch ad's Ellen Feiss starring in French film — star de la campagne publicitaire Switch de Macintosh #

Veen discovers Hotwired is now a junk search portal — when was it sold? this is a sad end to one of the first great websites #

Dandelife, social biography network — create your own personal timeline of stories, photos and video, like this one (via) #

Video: Super Galdelic Hour for the PS2 — absolutely insane Japanese game; gameplay footage starts at the 2:05 mark #