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 #

Eurogamer reviews Half Life 2: Episode 1 — it was released today, and I can't wait to play it tonight #

Six Apart launches Vox public preview — invite-only, and incredibly sexy; if you think it's just another social network, you're missing the point #

Techcrunch on the new Yahoo Video — YouTube competitor with no time limits; will they be as laid-back about infringing content? #

Technorati's Microformats Search — there's a bunch of Upcoming.org event listings in there, too #

X-Men III pays tribute to viral YouTube video? — the video was released online in February; is that enough time for the line to appear in a summer blockbuster? #

Six Apart to launch Vox on June 1 — the social blogging platform formerly known as Comet (via) #

Second Life adding embedded web browser — invoking a browser window will be first; later, mapping onto a surface #

Adobe phasing out GoLive — Freehand remains a standalone product, but won't be part of the suite #

The Pirate Bay taken offline by Swedish police — the MPAA put out their own press release; also, a short interview with the Pirate Party leader #

Google announces Adsense API — they're heavily moderating the sites allowed to use it, for good reason #

New Google Adsense API to allow ad revenue sharing — potentially huge news; I want to see Ning implement this #

Google Adsense sparklines — put your daily earnings on your blog #

MP3s: Conquer the Video Craze — strange LP of arcade game tips from 1982 (via) #

MMO Charts updated to current data — World of Warcraft is destroying the competition, but the growth curves for some others are amazing #

Slashdot CSS redesign contest winner — here's a writeup from the creator, with a Greasemonkey script using the new stylesheet (via) #

Video: Steely Dan on the making of "Peg" — a complete breakdown of the underlying track with the studio master and original players (via) #

Tim O'Reilly's thoughtful response to the Web 2.0 trademark debacle — sometimes the blog world likes nothing more than a good old-fashioned pile-on (via) #

Flickr widgets in Second Life — next, there needs to be a way to upload Second Life screenshots to Flickr while in-game (via) #

Rebecca Mead's followup to "You've Got Blog" from 2000 — quite a bit can happen in six years #

Wired on Tringo, the most popular mini-game in Second Life — the game has a life of its own, with a retail GBA release (via) #

Google Gapminder — Flash infoviz of World Development Indicators from The World Bank (via) #

Pitchfork's long profile of current and future music recommenders (via) #

NYT profile of IMDB's founder — I'm grateful that Amazon hasn't tried to change it (via) #

Katamari creator not impressed by Nintendo Wii — also, some very vague comments on his new project (via) #