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) #

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) #