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) #

WEP key as living room artwork (via) #

Doug Bowman hired by Google — big congrats to both #

Cory Doctorow on O'Reilly's "Web 2.0" trademark — by encouraging ubiquity of the "Web 2.0" meme, O'Reilly diluted the proprietary meaning of the mark #

Video: Gnarls Barkley on Conan O'Brien — electric performance; could they have been honoring Towel Day a day early? #

Websites as Graphs — or try the visualization yourself with any site #

Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth — fan-made Scumm game in the style of the old Lucasarts games; start the countdown to C&D (via) #

the broken laptop i sold on ebay — disgruntled buyer gets elaborate revenge by posting photos from seller's laptop hard drive (via) #

30 Boxes adds event and feed mapper — nice implementation built on top of Upcoming and Dodgeball #

Nine-minute Waxy widget — Mat uses Dashcode to built a complete Dashboard widget pulling my remote feed in nine minutes #

Watercooler Games on the good, bad, and awful media coverage of the Super Columbine Massacre RPG — don't miss Kotaku's coverage, including interviews with a Columbine survivor and the game's creator #

Video: Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers — found audio goodness via Robot Wisdom, who I've really enjoyed lately (via) #

ExtremeTech's roundup of 8 free music recommendation services — Last.fm destroys the competition, with Pandora next in line (via) #

Roomba hacked into MIDI instrument — I won't be satisfied until all my appliances can play the Super Mario theme songs #

O'Reilly responds to Web 2.0 trademark debacle — they were called out by Arrington and others for cease and desisting an Irish Web 2.0-branded conference #

WWW 2006 – Retroactive Answering of Search Queries — Google's paper suggests ways to recommend interesting new pages based on a user's search history #

Flash: TagLines, visualization of interesting Flickr tags over time — the WWW 2006 paper is interesting stuff, though a bit over my head (via) #

WWW 2006 – Random Sampling from a Search Engine's Index — new method to benchmark relative sizes of search engines; only about 45% of Yahoo's index is in Google, and vice-versa #

"Dead in Iraq" virtual protest in America's Army game — instead of playing the Army-sponsored shooter, he's typing the name of every American killed in the war #

FC64, Commodore 64 emulator in Flash — incredible (via) #

Game-based errors in "The Wizard" — you can almost feel the disgust emanating from the page; the DVD will finally be released in August #

The Morning News' 2006 Editors' Awards for Online Excellence — long name for a good list of links (via) #

Torrentspy lawsuit accuses MPAA of hiring hacker — they claim he was asked to steal internal Torrentspy documents by any means necessary #

Half Life 2: Episode 1 goes gold — the first in the episodic gaming series will be released on June 1 (via) #

Del.icio.us Hotlist — redesigned homepage highlighs fresh popular links, and a minimum threshold for the recent page #

Nicholas Carr on Wikipedia's gradual shift toward moderation — Nick and Jimbo Wales wage battle in the comments (via) #

Teens using high-frequency ringtone out of adult hearing range — here's an MP3 of the Mosquito sound and a clip of just the tone (via) #

Tim O'Reilly on Virtual Magic Kingdom — some screenshots of user-created rooms #

Google pushing borderless AdSense by default — since launch, they've resisted blending ads with content; an interesting switch #

Smackbook Pro — switch virtual desktops by smacking the side of the laptop (via) #

The Sheep Market — 10,000 sheep drawings created by Amazon Mturk workers for $0.69/hour (via) #

Oblivion dominoes — like the Half-Life 2 mousetrap, but using the Oblivion engine #

Crushing Competition — tax preparers lobby to make California taxes more difficult to prepare (via) #

I Liked It Better Live — MP3 bloggers collect songs with better live performances than the recorded original #

Ultrastar, open-source port of karaoke game SingStar — the original judged your vocal performance by analyzing pitch and duration #

Graphic Novels for People Who Hate Comics — I'd also toss in Seth's It's A Good Life #

Video: Mr. Rogers addresses the U.S. Senate in 1969 — essential watching, this guy was a hero; plus, he could breakdance (via) #

Bay to Breakers Katamari — my, Earth really is full of things! #

Berkeley's "Naked Guy" commits suicide at 33 — I always heard about him, but never saw him in my four years on campus (via) #

Random Pokey the Penguin generator — funny, doesn't affect the readability of the original (via) #

Leonard's primer on Nintendo DS Lite homebrew — worth it for ScummVM alone #