Freetar editor preview — Guitar Hero clone for the PC, still in development #

Nielson/NetRatings study on growth of top social networks — note that Typepad and Classmates are the only ones charging #

Video: World Trade Center, the movie — I predict two years before there's a scifi time travel movie with 9/11 as the backdrop #

Last chromosome in human genome sequenced — yay! I want my next child to have a prehensile tail and wings (via) #

Visceral song moments — MP3 bloggers isolate parts of songs that made them feel #

Beating Traffic — OCD commuter collects a year's worth of traffic data during his daily commute #

History of Videogame Console Prices — absolute and adjusted for inflation; is it any surprise the Neo-Geo and 3DO flopped? #

Flickr goes gamma! — wow, the new Scrumjax Organizr is neat; no more Flash! #

Yahoo launches new homepage — also, it looks like they're changing the size of the left-hand navigation links based on your own personal activity #

Dilbert on Google  #

Google Notebook launches — like a personal wiki space, but with options to share publicly (search coming soon) (via) #

AOL launches UnCut Video — a YouTube clone with a focus on local video (via) #

Paying for camouflage — the new black MacBooks cost $150 more than identical white ones with an upgraded hard drive #

PS3 could be homebrew friendly? — I'll believe it when I see it #

Video: E3 morning stampede — everyone bolted for the Wii, including me #

Siskel and Ebert behind the scenes — when Gene gets liquored up, things get interesting #

Video: President Al Gore on SNL — missed this while I was out of town (via) #

GameSetWatch's nostalgic look back at the first E3 — with memories and maps of the convention floor circa 1995 #

Guitar Hero Trainer for Windows — scrolling tablature and speed control using the Guitar Hero disc (via) #

No dancing at the Parthenon! — good to know #

Video: Duck Hunt on the Nintendo Wii — nuts, they should've added the gloating dog #

Jason Scott on the Best and the Interesting — I predict Jason Scott will be crowned a saint of the Internet era #

Plasma Pong — pong with fluid dynamic (via) #

Emily Short's observations on using Inform 7 — writing interactive fiction with natural language #

New Sam & Max game back from the dead — stop toying with my emotions, people (via) #

Google Trends — compare frequency of particular search terms over time, but without exposing actual numbers (via) #

Flickr releasing big UI changes next week — new nav, new search, and a redesigned Organizr #

Love Lines — tracking the daily loves and hates of the blogosphere #

Video: Daily Show on Bush's Hayden/Goss deja vu — he used the same phrase to describe his new CIA director nominee as he did two years ago with Goss #

Video: Uwe Boll's Pac-Man, the Movie — "he appears to be some sort of man..." (via) #

Nintendo E3 press conference live video stream — just started; liveblogged on Kotaku #

MP3s: Feist, Live at the Park West in Chicago — great sound quality, great set #

E3 2006 Hidden Gems to Watch Out For — I'm attending Friday, and I'll post my yearly roundup of great underdogs #

Warner Bros. to distribute movies and TV over BitTorrent — no word on the DRM scheme yet (via) #

EV1 merges with The Planet — my current host and the old host for Upcoming, now one happy family (via) #

Video: Stairway To Heaven Sung Backwards, The Forwards Version — yes! I was hoping someone would reverse the reversed video (via) #

Scoble on Croquet, multiuser P2P 3D space — looks strikingly like the VRML cybermalls of the 1990s, but P2P and cross-platform are both good (via) #

E3 Buzz — E3-specific niche news aggregator (via) #

How to cure asthma or hayfever by infecting yourself with hookworm — simply go to Cameroon and walk barefoot in the toilets of the local residents, and pray you don't catch dengue (via) #

Time's five-page exclusive preview of the Nintendo Wii — the controller is aware of position, velocity, and tilt (via) #

Dogs trained to sniff out counterfeit DVDs — sure, but can they smell the difference between letterbox and pan-and-scan? (via) #

Beatles lose Apple court battle — now, kiss and make up #

GameLife's E3 predictions — if you can spare an E3 pass or two for Friday only, GET IN TOUCH #

Video: Journalist rides with the Blue Angels — he passes out three times, making this very entertaining (via) #

Bearshare shut down by $30m RIAA settlement — whack a mole #

Kottke on IndieKarma micropayment gifting — penny per visit, but only works well if everyone's using (and not reading feeds) (via) #

Jim Woodring started a blog — one of my favorite illustrators posting unreleased art regularly (via) #

Annalee Newitz on the RFID Hacking Underground — also: RFDump reveal the data stored on RFID tags (via) #

Breakout, Donkey Kong, and Frogger polo shirts — still waiting for a product line of 8-bit neckties (via) #

Zen Bondage — also, this Something Awful review highlights some other good indie games (via) #