Bradley Horowitz on Creators, Synthesizers, and Consumers — only a fraction of a community needs to be active for everyone to benefit (via) #

OSX86 Project served with DMCA takedown — did it come from Apple? (via) #

Ning launches redesign — the popular apps page is useful, and they're doing a much better job of explaining what Ning is #

Anti-piracy poem hidden in Mac OS X source code — the AP got a quote from Apple about it #

John "Spumco" Kricfalusi's new blog is fun — there's a character named "Waxy" in the kid's show collage (via) #

Googler Matt Cutts photographs Jeeves, and vice versa — don't miss the followup (via) #

Video: Daily Show on Myspace — oof, Friendster gets dissed (via) #

SF Gate on Pillow Fight Club — also: the Upcoming event and photos (via) #

RIAA attacking AllofMP3.com — the Russian grey-market MP3 site is great, but not long for this world #

Podbop — podcasting MP3s from bands on tour using the Eventful API; very clever mashup (via) #

Little Food People — and a second set; originally from a French site with a bad UI (via) #

First Mac OS X trojan in the wild? — every Mac is a powerful Unix box, so it's inevitable that it gets targeted (via) #

Video: Oprah grills Tom Cruise — great mashup of two famous Oprah moments #

Fisheye — neat visualizations for CVS/SVN source code repositories (via) #

Amazon's most edited wikis — appropriately, A Million Little Pieces has nearly twice the edits of the next runner up (via) #

Daily Candy may be sold for $100 million — not bad for a daily newsletter that found its niche #

Chuck Norris Facts, Web 2.0 version — also: Chuck's selling his own shirts now (via) #

Flowcharts in art and comics — not mentioned is Jason Shiga's Meanwhile (via) #

37signals launches Campfire — group chat for distributed teams and projects (via) #

CNNi redesigns with clean onscreen titles — more details at Kemistry #

Google buys Measure Map — congrats, Jeff and the Adaptive Path crew! #

The Dumpster — a visualization of romantic breakups collected from blogs in 2005 (via) #

New York magazine's cover story on blogging — the issue includes a Ben Fry infographic PDF and some other fluff (via) #

WSJ on web parodies and copyright enforcement — with a very high-profile mention of House of Cosbys! #

Video: She Hit Me — motorcyclist records video of Honda Civic losing control and hitting her, posts video online #

Half-Life 2 to become episodic series — exactly the way it should be (via) #

Review of Firewall movie, a big-budget computer thriller — Harrison Ford just hacked your bank account with an iPod; the trailer (via) #

Can MTV stay cool? — I wouldn't be shocked to see YouTube bought by Viacom (via) #

Alexadex — like Blogshares for the entire web, using Alexa traffic data (via) #

SiteAdvisor Preview — Firefox/IE plugin detects unsafe websites and warns you in search results; Waxy is safe, but try looking for divx #

Dave Winer responds to Steve Kirks, former Userland evangelist and developer — I knew Dave could be difficult, but this is ridiculous #

The Beastles — Beatles to Beastie Boys mashup album; illegalicious! (via) #

LA Times on creationism being taught to young children — most depressing are the two curious kids crushed by their parents' dogma (via) #

The Song Tapper — overloaded the last time I tried to visit, it's working now and found "Since U Been Gone" on the first try (via) #

Oh No Robot — web comic search engine and transcription (via) #

How to Make Garfield Funny — a growing meme, this thread collects some of the best examples #

Video: Top Gear trashes a Toyota Hilux — increasingly insane tests of strength; also: Top Gear Turismo and more #

Star Wars Valentines — "my love for you will stay on target" (via) #

The Hall of Best Knowledge — weekly comic on Flickr combining hand-drawn typography and prose (via) #

Image: You Complete Me — originally from 4 Color Rebellion, but their account was suspended #

PowerGlove Mouse — brilliant hack to control your mouse with a Nintendo PowerGlove; it's so bad (via) #

EFF issues Google Desktop warning — I'd prefer a Hamachi-like virtual network instead of sending everything to Google, but it's a tradeoff of privacy and convenience #

Who Is Harry Nilsson? — new documentary about one of the most underrated songwriters of all time; also: production notes (via) #

Video: Half-Life 2 mousetrap — ridiculous Rube Goldberg device built with Garry's HL2 mod (via) #

Brokeback Mountain mod for the Sims  #

Current style in web design — a good explanation of current trends in good web style (via) #

18×18 pixel clones of classic arcade games — they're surprisingly playable #

Alone together in World of Warcraft — the MMO players favor loose, indirect forms of social contact (via) #

Video: Dave Chappelle's Block Party — Michel Gondry directs the story of an epic party (via) #

The Mohammed Dance — yes, it's exactly what you think it is #