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) #

iTunes Signature Maker — listen to the gallery for examples; pure chaos #

Diet Coke experiment gives Mentos a surge in publicity — Coke and FedEx seem desperate to kill grassroots love of their product because it "doesn't fit with the brand personality" #

Paul Kedrosky finds an unusual profanity in an SEC filing — I'd love to see a followup on this (via) #

NSA to datamine social networking websites — is it any wonder that Tom is their only friend? (via) #

Hamptons garage sale unearths rare Nintento motherload — with screenshots of the ultra-rare championship cartridges #

DSQuake — not available yet, but Quake on a DS would be a dream #

Video: Young FrankenSteve — dance, monkeyboy (via) #

Video: MC Lars, "Download This Song" — old, but new to me #

Flickr and Del.icio.us founders invest in Etsy — one of my favorite sites gets backed by some of my favorite people! (via) #

OJR interviews "journalist programmer" Adrian Holovaty — I suspect there's more of us than people realize; my background and education is in journalism, not computer science #

Facebook C&D's Gawker for posting profile photos — the Facebook profiles aren't public; only viewable by friends and people affiliated with the same school #

Time and Again — photographer returns to small Iowa town 20 years after taking photos of every citizen (via) #

Slate on athletes using LASIK as performance enhancer — is surgical eye enhancement a form of cheating? #

AllofMP3 breaks silence — they claim they're going to work out deals with all music rightholders by September 1 #

Google Spreadsheet coming tomorrow — their web office suite is coming along nicely #

Cory Doctorow visits a Radio Shack — Google maps 37Signals with Flickr iPod (via) #

Zasterisk, Zork on Asterisk — voice recognition and speech synthesis for playing Infocom games over the phone #

Singlestat.us, Myspace single status monitor — David Weekly's brilliant entry for the Super Happy Dev House money printing competition #

Notes on the Pirate Bay Downtime — I love these guys; more humor #

Pilot finds snake stowaway inside cockpit — "one hand full of snake and the other hand full of plane" #

Fonts on LOST — good to know I'm not the only one who thinks Verdana in the closing titles is hideous #

MP3: Nelly Furtado covers Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" — almost makes me forgive her for her new album #

Video: Bjork Street Fighter — oh, this kills me #

Yahoo Korea's Webzari — they should add a shmup mode #

eBay to Launch Blogs, Wikis and Tags — signs point to Typepad as the blog provider, which would be a big win #

Super Mario Bros remake in 3D — not too far off from the voxel 3D Metroid #