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 #

Yahoo Music exec says labels should sell DRM-free music — a breath of fresh air to hear this; Ian Rogers agrees #

MPAA targeting Usenet binaries services — looks like NZB indexes and forums instead of Usenet feeds #

I'm Your Biggest Fan — blogger flunks job interview because of daily fan letters to Star Jones (via) #

World of Warcraft teaches the wrong things — grinding and the time commitment are two big reasons why I can't get into current MMOs (via) #

Google To Become Portal — silly 2002 April Fool's article predicts the future #

Kottke.org switches from micropatrons to skyscraper ads — the parallel universe Kottke #

Google Pages — Google's Geocities 2.0 offers a simple CMS, free hosting, and 100 MB storage #

Kottke reviews first year as a pro blogger — 1,450 people donated a total of $39,900, but almost entirely in the first three weeks #

All Google's Roads Lead to Kansas — with ground photos of the farm at the default center of Google Maps #

30 Boxes releases their API — they have serious momentum #

Neil Young's Perfect Echo Volume 1 '67-'71 — full album of heart-breaking rarities (via) #

MP3: Postal Service remixes Feist's "Mushaboom" — with new vocals by Ben Gibbard; also, the cover of Nina Simone's "See-Line Woman" (local copy) is worth hearing (via) #

Technorati launches Favorites — an RSS reader that never mentions RSS #

Democracy Player — making it drop-dead easy to subscribe, watch, and share video channels online; like a BitTorrent PVR community (via) #

Woman loses custody of son for participating in Subgenius holiday — anyone familiar with the Church knows it's religious parody and performance art #

Lego'd Video Games — the Excitebike scene is lovely (via) #

Techcrunch previews Flyspy, historical airline ticket search — like Zillow, blows up industries by making hard-to-find information widely available #

"Lost Camera" unlost, but not quite found — a Canadian couple found the Flickr fan's camera, but won't give it back (via) #

The Perils of Metadata — Washington Post accidentially exposes their anonymous botnet hacker with photo metadata (via) #

Gelf interviews the Smoking Gun on the aftermath of their Million Little Pieces expose — excellent interview on the history, media coverage, and a potential followup (via) #

Hell is Chrome — a screenshot of a new message in Outlook 12 beta (via) #

Bizarre "Contract of Wifely Expectations" emerges in Iowa kidnapping case — the text may be offensive #

Video: Sonic the Hedgehog soundtrack on piano — jaunty! (via) #

NBC demands YouTube remove "Lazy Sunday" video — biting the hand that feeds you; they should have paid for that kind of amazing promotion #