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 #

Video: 8 1/2 Mile — Fellini meets Eminem; Youtube Mirror #

What's the best time and day to submit Digg stories? — short answer is Friday and Saturday, but the rest of the stats are just as interesting #

Video: Unflinching Triumph — documentary of the National Staredown Competition #

Hot Captcha, a Hot or Not mashup — pick the three hot people to prove you're human #

Weather Bonk — winner of this year's Mashup Pit best mashup contest #

Bakuten Domino — more insane domino object stacking from the Japanese show devoted to it #

Quantum Link Reloaded — unbelievable; a Commodore online service from the '80s, reverse engineered and put online for use with C64 emulators! (via) #

Video: House of Dominoes — random household objects and media stacked into one long line of dominoes #

Jeff Veen's history of the Hotwired homepage — maybe he's getting nostalgic because Wired magazine and Wired News are in love again #

SMS shorthand using server response codes — except that "200" is longer than "ok" #

Population One — I feel insignificant; a good companion piece to this #

Multiplayer Asteroids — even without the asteroids, it's addictive (via) #

Solve sudoku without thinking — killjoy (via) #

Zidane World Cup Headbutt Animation Festival — Anil collects every Zidane remixed animated GIF into a single video; funny! #

Daniel Raeburn's harrowing story of the stillbirth of his first daughter, Irene — after reading that, don't miss the happier ending; thanks for making me cry at work, Jason (via) #

Hitwise claims Myspace now #1 most popular website — though Stewart's case study for Flickr shows that Hitwise has some accuracy issues #

Syd Barrett, dead at 60 — shine on, you crazy diamond (via) #

Bradlands SXSW 2000 recollections — stumbled on this from the comments on Matt Haughey's classic photo #

Video: Weird Al interviews Eminem — I missed this ballsy cut-up interview from 2003, y'know what I'm saying? #

Pixhell — Waferbaby's oddball animated series, now CC licensed #

Cody's Books in Berkeley closes today after 50 years — so sad, but almost inevitable; will Amoeba and Rasputin's be around by the end of this decade? #

Zidane simulator — 8 of the top 20 YouTube videos right now are versions of the Zidane headbutt (via) #

Insider's response to "Who Killed the Electric Car" — I love a conspiracy theory as much as anyone, but the film's premise smells iffy (via) #

Jason Scott's awesome deathbed dream — hmm, I should get some of those kidney stones just to have dreams like this #

Real-life version of George Seurat's "Sunday Afternoon" painting — it feels natural; even the dog cooperated (via) #

Video: Mr. Yuk poison control commercial from 1971 — terrifying young kids on Saturday mornings #

Profanity Adventures — profanity recognition in Spectrum 48k adventure games; worth it just for vintage screen grabs (via) #

Red Paper Clip guy gets his house — does this mean the mayor of Kipling, Saskatchewan appear in a movie with Corbin Bernsen? (via) #

Kevin Tiell's pinball-eye-view photography — he'll be speaking at the California Extreme pinball and arcade game show in San Jose tomorrow #

BBC homepage redesign winners announced — and the runner-ups are good, too (via) #

Vox adds cross-posting to Typepad, and more — those crazy 6A kids have been doing nice work lately; [this is good] #

Livejournal integrates Jabber messaging — built on the high-performance DJabberd framework #

Matt Haughey goatse's the new Mastercard logo — if this makes no sense, consider yourself lucky #

Okkervill River's Will Sheff on file-sharing, bootlegs, and digital music — he worked at Audiogalaxy and has seen this from multiple sides; you can hear the internal conflict (via) #

Indie rock and the Garden State effect — "nobody thinks long and hard about music and what it means to them and then ultimately decides to listen to Toby Keith" #

Ren and Stimpy's John K. angry at Warner Bros. on Youtube takedowns — not sure I buy the "high-res" angle; at what resolution does promotion stop and piracy begin? #

Web 2.0 in Japan — I wish translation tools were good enough to make Japanese web surfing realistic for me (via) #

LA Weekly on the Laurel Canyon music scene of the '60s-'70s — juicy gossip, 40 years late #

Amazon.com conspiracy theorist — someone get this guy a Usenet newsreader (via) #

Making Something Meaningful — hear, hear #

Origin of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" — the sample that inspired the entire tone of the song and underlying melody (via) #

Amanda Congdon and Rocketboom part ways — she implies she was fired, while Andrew says she quit, Amanda shoots back; vlog drama! #

Red Swoosh relaunches with free ad-supported client — their best feature is that they act as a mirror for all your files; unlike BitTorrent, no need to run a local server #

Lyric changes in Disney's Devo 2.0 — plus, links to every video and one of the first new Devo songs in 20 years #

Video: Harry Nilsson on the Poet's Corner with Tommy Smothers — syncing problem, but gorgeous versions of "Poli High," "One," and "I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City" #

NBC rumored to be acquiring Tribe? — yes, two consecutive Valleywag links; it's a weirdly believable rumor #

Anatomy of the Google Product Cycle  #