Daily Show on Congressional hearing on video game ratings — with Samantha Bee reporting live from San Andreas (via) #

Listr 2.0, 55 websites with a Flickr-ish name — I read about it on Valleywaggr (via) #

Mike Monteiro looks for backstory to the "Sucker Punched Teacher" video — after getting called out, I did some research; not a PTA meeting, but a courtroom #

Sleater-Kinney to break up after summer tour — their last album was adored by critics (via) #

Jeopardy all-time champion Ken Jennings is blogging — he's a good writer, and funny! for example, his writeup on a trivia court decision, movies to sitcoms, and his giant head (via) #

Ice Cream Truck Music, Revisited — MP3s of the defining summertime music (via) #

overplot — incredibly great mashup of Overheard in New York and Google Maps #

Stewart Butterfield on Photobucket — an interesting comparison of photo sharing numbers, but also insight into the accuracy of web tracking services #

Neat dataviz of coordinates mined from 10% of the web — any guesses on why the lightning bolt pattern emerges? #

Kevin Smith recording a Clerks 2 commentary track for in-theater use — free iTunes download to encourage second viewings for viewers with iPods #

Rails Day 2006 list of live projects — all built in a day; D20, Roomind, and Hugtracker are my favorite ideas #

Digg users a bit obsessed with Scientology? — eight front-page stories in the last seven days! #

Down From the Top of Its Game: The Story of Infocom, Inc. — 52-page PDF of the definitive history of Infocom's rise and fall #

Gutenkarte — browse Project Gutenberg classic texts on a map; uses the GeoParser API #

Details on Johnny Depp added to Disneyland's Pirates of the Carribean — the LA Times had some fan response; most of the Disney fans who've actually seen it like it #

Ning introduces the Ningbar — expanded social network browsing and one-click app cloning #

Travian reaches the end of the world on Server 1 — one alliance in the web-based game triggered the game's end and server reset, despite an all-out war from other players #

DiggTrends — stories pulled from the homepage, charts of story activity, and other good stuff #

David Lynch's 52-second Lumiere film — in other Lynch news, he's selling his own ringtones; "my teeth are bleeding!" (via) #

Howard Rheingold's "Virtual Community" e-book from 1993 — pre-web and still good #

Chowhound launches huge redesign — some love it, some hate change; it's a huge improvement #

Ask.com blocks search queries related to illegal sex acts — nobody's rooting for sex offenders here, but I don't think I've ever seen it handled this awkwardly before #

Silk Icons — 1,000 icons for web apps, free and very high quality work #

Washington Post reporters get digital video cameras for online reporting — useful in field reporting, but I could see where it could distract from interviewing and writing #

Digg v3.0 to launch Monday — I just left the Digg party; TechCrunch doesn't mention the amazing Stamen visualizations or open API #

Video: BumpTop 3D desktop prototype — toss files into piles with a pen-driven GUI with physics; also, I think every demo needs a rap version (via) #

Pitchfork's 100 Awesome Music Videos — all with embedded YouTube links; I just killed a full hour on this #

TextAmerica to switch to paid model, and delete all non-paying moblogs — holy cow, that's terrible form #

Y! Local now supports microformats — or: why I haven't been blogging for the past few days #

Files Are Not for Sharing — a children's primer by Matthew Baldwin and Goopymart #

Video: Reanimating Marlon Brando for Superman Returns — great clip breaking down the effects process (via) #

The War on Fluff — Cambridge politicians try to ban the Fluffernutter from public schools #

Extortr — free and easy video blackmail; I'm disappointed this is just a joke #

Video: 3-year-old picks "NewsHour" as birthday party theme — the video is classic (via) #

NYT's profile of Ze Frank's "The Show" — transcends the concept of a "video blog" daily #

Microsoft C&Ds Vista Torrent for trying to help them — LawyerBots suck; is there some law that companies can't send human e-mails anymore? (via) #

Company buying Myspace profiles with over 20,000 friends — be prepared for your "friends" to start dropping references to Cialis retailers #

The Duke Nukem Forever List — since DNF was announced, 19 wars were started and 5 have ended #

Singlestat.us shut down by Myspace ten days after launch — don't miss David Weekly's excellent response, and the entertaining Valleywag interview #

Tim O'Reilly on Internet usage in South Korea — really interesting discussion of Cyworld, broadband usage, and spam #

Summary of the LiveCoda real-time programming competition — write an app in ten minutes; I'd love to see this as a regular vlog show #

Valleywag scoops the new Digg redesign — finally expanding beyond tech, even though the community's been forcing the issue #

Which products, used by few today, will be essential in five years? — Leonard has some great thoughts, but he left out holographic nachos and 3D chocolate printers #

Russian submarine base — very Half-Life 2 (via) #

Livejournal animated GIF scraper — potentially NSFW (via) #

Aaron sees a market for liveblogging delivery of big events — getting pushed IM updates from E3, the Macworld keynote, or sporting events would be neat #

ASCII World Cup 2006 — streaming ASCII video over telnet, begins ten minutes before every game (via) #

Peanut Gallery — multiplayer video player for OS X with built-in heckling support! (via) #

Walt Disney's time capsuled 1956 letter to people of the year 2006 — nice find! we can all read it, thanks to atomic energy and the extension of radar #

New Yorker on Bazooka Joe's makeover — the punchline is in the final paragraph; meet the new gang (via) #