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) #

Facebook expands to corporate users — expanding the scope makes sense as their base starts graduating #

Video: Super Mario, live on stage — nice rendition (via) #

Make magazine launches Craft — a geekier Readymade? (via) #

Ze Frank's The Show — highly concentrated daily video goodness, like Rocketboom but awesome-r #

1968-1974 Alcoholics Anonymous comic strips — tons more great comic propaganda on Ethan Persoff's site #

Second Life on cover of Business Week — with four feature stories about the virtual world #

IE 7 beta 2 ships — "put safety first" #

Google Cartography — visual representation of the interconnectivity of streets using the Google Maps API (via) #

SFGate tribute to the 25th anniversary of Journey's "ESC4P3" — don't stop believin' #

Feedburner now tracks more podcasts than sum total of all radio stations — and it's just beginning #

Video: IFC's SXSW Behind the Badge, starring Consumating's Ben Brown — I'm offscreen in the taxi, calling Ben a corporate sellout whore #

Bush administration proposes mandatory website ratings — or risk imprisonment for up to five years #

More details on AOL's Myspace killer — building on the back of the AIM network; the I Am Alpha screencast is neat, too #

Microsoft Live Drive may launch before GDrive — in the meantime, a handful of startups are vying for the space #

Most Popular Words 2006 — according to Google rankings #

Slashdot on the Digg censorship conspiracy — don't miss the comments on Slashdot's own policing (via) #

Sabifoo — IM bot that turns all incoming messages into an RSS feed and web page #

Bush impersonator reads speeches written by little kids — he should fire his speech writers and hire these kids (via) #

Kevin Rose on the Digg conspiracy — people were scripting bots to mass-digg stories; Thomas Hawk has more #

LiveJournal adds ads — LazyWeb request: an Internet Archive visual diff tool #

Rolling Stone cover story on the Worst President in History — he's the decider, he does the deciding around here #

Daring Fireball goes full-time — John left Joyent to try blogging as a career #

Web 2.1 server-side blink tag — replacing the blink tag with a standards-compliant Ajax alternative (via) #

Digg Corrupted — strangeness involving identical Diggs on two posts, silent user bans, and a popular story conspicuously missing from the front page #

Famous Sounds — aka cliched samples; see also: Julien's originals (via) #

Onion AV Club interviews Wonder Showzen creators — I've been a fan since the bootleg pilot (via) #