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  #

Crate Tetris  #

Sunday Mix Tape: Volume 22 — a little sullen, but any mix with both late-era Monkees and Songs: Ohia is okay with me #

Maritime records a Daytrotter session — Daytrotter offers exclusive in-studio performances every week from great bands #

FreeDB shuts down because of developer in-fighting — more like a band breaking up than the end of a great service #

Lullabyes records Tilly & the Wall's show on Thursday night — Lullabyes serves up some of the highest quality soundboard recordings I've ever heard #

Washington State declares June 30-July 1 to be official "RSS Days" — only slightly more meaningful than a Universal Life Church ordainment (via) #

Video: Secret of Monkey Island high school play! — extremely faithful adaptation to the stage, with the entire thing hosted on Google Video #

Secret of Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert interviewed on Gamespot's Designer Threads — he's still holding onto Monkey Island's secret, just in case he ever gets the chance to do a sequel (via) #

Free tech school in basement: GO RIGHT IN — an older gentleman in the Bronx teaches electrical engineering for free to whoever wants to learn (via) #

Advanced Computerized Metering — digital e-meter software for "upper level auditing," for when those cheap Scientology E-meters won't cut it #

Children's drawings of Winnie the Pooh, redrawn by talented artists — nightmarish and wonderful; I like the Mark Bodnar painting (via) #

Twenty mp3s of Great Songs from 1901-1920 — one great thing about early 20th century MP3s: everyone that would sue you is dead #

Macros2000 — way funnier than the concept suggests; from the genius of Cardhouse #

No more cavities? — how genetically modified organisms could wipe out cavities, and every species on Earth! #

John Brownlow's portraits of burn victims — stunning work #

Image: Tunnel of Love — I love how Perry Bible Fellowship explores new drawing styles #

MeFi Music — Matt and pb hack up a sexy section for Metafilter's musicians in 24 hours #

Ajax timeline of the Kennedy assassination — interesting choice of a sample dataset; all the timeline code is open source #

For the love of Florrie — the woman that Jerri Blank from "Strangers with Candy" is based on; don't miss the insane LSD video (via) #

Couchsurfing down for good — hard disk failure and bad backups led to the permanent loss of the great service #

Canadian scientists regrow teeth with low intensity ultrasound — what a relief! I'll be able to go back to my all-gummi diet #

Nigerian scammer baited into making actual-size wood carving of Commodore 64 keyboard — Shiver Metimbers is the God of scam-baiting; he convinced one scammer to get a "Baited by Shiver" tattoo #

Disney's list of trademark registrations for Pirates' Jack Sparrow — related: Alan's great roundup of Cars merchandise #

Bible quote database built with Amazon Mechanical Turk for $75 — 2 cents a quote, with a 98.3% success rate (via) #