Wired on the Pirate Bay — their political party could very likely get seats in Swedish parliament #

LiveJournal punches the monkey — adding a third member option with premium features, but free and ad-supported (via) #

Digitize Textfiles, vintage computer ephemera — also: see the flaming conversation that inspired the scanning project #

The Earth Is Not Moving — finally, someone who isn't afraid to speak the truth #

EvokeTV, sharing your TV habits with the world — why doesn't TiVo do this? (via) #

Judith got her lost camera back — the authorities retrieved it from the selfish Canadian family (via) #

The Torn-Up Credit Card Experiment — Chase issues a Mastercard to taped-up card applications for another address (via) #

Techcrunch reviews DabbleDB — replacing Microsoft Access with simple builder tools #

NBC launches "web favorites" viral video — insulting the people who made them popular #

Trixie Tracker launches — a long time coming for the insanely detailed baby log (via) #

Sean Bonner finds censorware director's infantilism past — dating back to 1996, Usenet never forgets #

iPodMAME, arcade games on the iPod — I'll bet Asteroids would play well with the wheel (via) #

The Logos of Web 2.0 — I used Ballpark Script for the Upcoming.org logo (via) #

Techcrunch gets exclusive screenshots of Google Calendar — not as nice as 30 Boxes, but good enough to kill off most every Ajaxy calendar startup #

Stamen's Backchannel — real-time infovis of the #etech IRC channel #

Negativland interviews U2's The Edge in 1992 — great prank right after U2's label sued them for copyright infringement; he's very gracious under pressure #

The Aural Times, singing the news — sounds like a good job for failed American Idol candidates #

Oscar winners popular on BitTorrent — I skipped my Oscar bootleg roundup this year, but run it yourself on VCD Quality #

AIM releases developer SDK — they're also releasing an Open Bots program soon #

NYT on the House of Cosbys fight — any article that mentions "Data Analysis Cosby" is a good one #

Video: Natalie Portman rap on SNL — they've found a niche; update: NBC gets them all removed from YouTube, but posted an official version #

Wizard of Oz-themed Annie Leibovitz photoshoot for Vogue — Keira Knightley as Dorothy, posing with artists like Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, and Chuck Close #

Kleptones release new EP from upcoming album — from the Night at the Hip-Hopera creator #

Video: Real-Life Simpsons Intro — amazing attention to detail #

Peanut kiss did not kill Quebec teen — followup from sad November 2005 story (via) #

StationRipper for Windows — rips music from Shoutcast streams into individual MP3 files; yikes! #

Bill Cosby's lawyers threaten Waxy.org — I'm going to fight it; House of Cosbys deserves to be seen, far and wide #

Lilly's yearly roundup of the Oscar gift bags — spoiled brats (I'm just jealous) #

Newsweek asks "Is YouTube the Napster of Video?" — Fred von Lohmann nails it; when they get profitable, there will be big problems #

Video: Chris Bliss juggles Golden Slumbers — let it never be said that juggling can't rock (via) #

Slashdot added tags for subscribers? — I love their criteria for forcing standardized tagging #

Newsvine launches publicly — don't miss the article-specific chat rooms (via) #

Wikipedia User Edit Counter — for example, Jimbo's been busy editing lately #

Penn Jillette responds to Smoke and Mirrors bootleg — he talked about the game in today's podcast; I posted the MP3 clip #

Danah Boyd on Myspace and the disappearance of two girls — Myspace was blamed, but now that they're back home, nobody's correcting the story #

37 Signals on the original iPod announcement thread at MacRumors — the Slashdot thread is classic, too; "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." #

Wikipedia reaches one million articles — Squidoo came very close to getting a ton of free publicity (via) #

What if Microsoft designed the iPod? — created by Microsoft marketing for an internal meeting, as confirmed by Scoble #

iPod Encyclopedia — 800MB snapshot of Wikipedia for the iPod (via) #

Video: A Meditation on the Speed Limit — moral: speed limits should be a guideline, not a ticketable offense (via) #

CBS demands YouTube remove autistic basketball player video, and 11 others — I'm expecting a Napster-like battle as these sites grow in popularity #

Flash: Domino Pressure — squish the tomato without missing any dominoes #

Massively Multiplayer Pong — brilliant online version of this classic hive mind experiment #

Jenny Lewis' "Rabbit Fur Coat" album for free download — full albums from her label; more albums here (via) #

Myspace launches video sharing service — undoubtedly why they blocked YouTube until Myspace users rebelled #

Video: Battlefield 2 machinima remakes Bravia commercial — parody of the bouncy balls ad #

Windows Live Local adds street-side views — the maps arms race escalates with this crazy driving mode #

iPod Hi-Fi — I just found my new stereo #

Zonetag, upload cameraphone pics to Flickr with real-time location tagging — neat hack for Series 60 phones, uses cell tower IDs to infer location #

NetJaxer — treat web apps like Windows programs, with desktop, tray, and quickstart icons and startup launching #