Waxxi offers moderated group podcasts at scheduled times — neat idea, but the name's gotta go #

Jason Scott announces Arcade documentary — along with Get Lamp, these are the two movies I'm most looking forward to in the next couple years #

Pre-E3 MMO roundup — orcs, Hello Kitty, and cartoon sex; sadly, no orc sex MMOs yet (via) #

"Piece of My Heart" cover songs with MP3 — great version by Dusty Springfield and the less famous original by Aretha's sister, Erma Franklin (via) #

Original Star Wars to be released on DVD — finally, I can replace my bootleg Laserdisc rips with bootleg DVDs (via) #

John Gruber digs up the real story on the Apple Aperture firings — the only people fired were the terrible managers #

Myspace blocks Buzznet — you think they would've learned from the YouTube PR disaster #

The Day The Lawn Wasn't Mowed — it looks like the local paper for this large Chicago suburb changed their headline #

On Bots — analysis and great visualizations of Yahoo, Google, and MSN crawler activity for a year #

Soda distributors to end most school sales — I fully expect high school students to riot to get their Coke machines back (via) #

IRC on the Nintendo DS — l33t (via) #

Apple cease and desists Something Awful — for a service manual they're not even hosting; the thermal grease thread is great, too #

Six Apart's downtime and Blue Security, the idiots that spam spammers — a great post sums up how these two stories from yesterday are related #

Quitting YouTube — they're cracking down on copyrighted videos, their biggest attraction by far (via) #

The A.V. Club's 2006 Summer Movie Preview — the headline sums it up as "Why Bother?" #

Wired profile of chef Grant Achatz and Alinea restaurant — scientific foodies pioneering molecular gastronomy (via) #

Guitar Hero tablature — also, this video of the hidden track is insane #

Skypecasts — like free party lines, but without the phreaking (via) #

Can I use velcro on the Shabbat? — also: Shabbat elevators, glow in the dark toys, and no origami! (via) #

Flashmob recreates banned Xbox 360 commercial — bang! (via) #

Daedalus, N64 emulator for the PSP — not enough buttons on the PSP, but badass anyway (via) #

ASCII Maps — silly ASCII art proxy for Google Maps, with map and satellite options (via) #

WSJ on Hollywood's goofy portrayal of the Internet — with a great gallery of movie clips (via) #

Vectorama — old, but good; multiplayer vector illustration playground #

The Saddest Thing I Own — epic and destroying; see My Firstborn, Daddy, and Mom's Ring (via) #

The Web Design Trend Obituary and Death Clock — what, no drop shadows or rounded corners? (via) #

The Whole Night Sky — great 365 Tomorrows entry on the future of music (via) #

An analysis of 8,468 Pitchfork Media reviews — the followup pokes into individual author biases (via) #

ABC adds full streaming episodes of Lost, Alias, and others — good quality Flash video with commercial breaks (via) #

Xbox Voice auto-blogs your Xbox 360 gaming activity — completely bizarre, but entertaining, form of historical activity in natural language (via) #

Sphere blog search engine launches — a good alternative to Technorati and Icerocket, but has the same spam problems #

Introducing Inform 7 — good introduction to the interactive fiction natural language (via) #

Apple's Get A Mac campaign — their new "Switch" campaign is funny and biting, but playing up the youth angle might be too limiting #

OS X to get BitTorrent client for iTunes Music Store? — great rumor has users getting download credit for sharing video and audio #

Greg Knauss' An Entirely Other Day is back! — the original blogger returns after a five year break! I was reading Greg's writing in 1994 #

I Dream of Cake — amazing couture cakes, like the Jamba Juice cups made entirely of cake #

Inform 7: Interactive Fiction from Natural Language — jaw-dropping approach to both programming and IF; check out the examples and download it (via) #

Video: Powerpuff Girls Z trailer — bizarre Japanese-only anime version of Powerpuff Girls (via) #

Hi, Racists! — Ryland tweaks his Church Sign Generator to thwart white supremacists (via) #

VideoDownloader extension for Firefox — download embedded media, including Myspace, Youtube, and Google Video; see the screencast (via) #

Stephen Colbert kicks ass at White House press corps dinner — don't bother with the torrent, use these YouTube videos instead (via) #

YouTube spending $1 million per month on bandwidth — 200 terabytes per day of mostly illegal goodness #

MP3: Bell Labs' Synthesized Speech 33 1/3 record — bicycle built for two #

Database War Stories #3: Flickr — also: Second Life, Bloglines and Memeorandum #

Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006 — making the rounds, and well worth watching; lower-res streaming version (via) #

The Endless Forest — multiplayer game (?) where you control a deer in a forest of other players, but with only non-verbal communication (via) #

Google releases Sketchup Free — the most intuitive 3D modeling app now free, and with a shared repository of models (via) #

Visual Scratch — visualization of turntable scratching with Max/MSP and Processing #

Last.fm isn't just for humans — BBC radio station quietly tracking nearly every song played for the last year (via) #

Typography for Headlines — I'd love to see a site like GUIdebook for web UI elements (via) #