Video: My Successful Friends — many more videos on Tales of Mere Existence (via) #

Brian Wilson's drunk dad on the Help Me Rhonda session — the edited version is enough to hear what an ass Murray was #

Tom Coates leaves BBC for Yahoo! — Yahoo continues the trend of hiring people I genuinely admire #

NYT on life hackers — an essential read on the most important emerging technology trend: beating interruption overload #

1UP's Shadow of the Colossus review — with a 9.5 score, this sounds like an essential new PS2 game #

MTV buys iFilm for $49 million — will this affect their viral video section and its grey area copyright violations? #

David Cross, Subpop sued by Nashville nightclub owner for prank video — the guy put the very funny video clips on his site #

Subscribe to Del.icio.us video in iTunes — very neat #

How to Make 1 Million Friends on MySpace — outstanding story of the creation and spread of a MySpace exploit #

McSweeney's lists the Presidential cabinet by the etymology of their first and last names — The Fierce Warrior With Sweetness (via) #

My Outsourced Life — Esquire writer hires two Indian firms to manage his personal and professional life (via) #

Pez MP3 player — finally available for ordering (via) #

3D Duck Hunt model in real-life — like playing with giant Pixelblocks (via) #

MC Hammer visits Google — please Hammer, don't hurt him (via) #

ABC TV shows for sale in iTunes Music Stores — $1.99 for an episode of Lost or Desperate Housewives #

Engadget reports on new video iPod — the rumors were right; 2.5" screen with TV-out for $399 #

Jeff Veen on Measure Map — they're letting people into the beta slowly, so sign up now #

This Is How I Roll — designed to appeal to people like me, and it's working #

Remember the Milk — nicely-designed, feature-rich to-do lists (via) #

Hackaday severs ties with Weblogs Inc — because it could be another Justin Frankel situation #

Microsoft, Yahoo to link IM networks — to compete against AIM, Google, and Skype (via) #

Video: Hard 'n Phirm' s"Pi" — with digits of pi sung in harmony to the 190th decimal place #

News.com.au on the Snakes on a Plane meme — the Delicious community has been covering this one closely (via) #

Commodore Music Store — very bizarre; too bad, I was hoping for something like this (via) #

Verisign buys Moreover for $30m — Kottke points to thoughts by co-founders Denton and Galbraith (via) #

Google adds tagging to search history — no social aspect yet, but I bet it's coming #

Heatmapping Google Earth — dynamic data viz using Django and Google Earth layers #

Video: Charade, full-length film from 1963 — Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn thriller slipped into public domain because of a clerical error (via) #

Oracle's purchase of InnoDB affects MySQL users — catching up on news I missed while at Web 2.0 last week #

VGMaps, Vector Overlays for Google Maps — fusing Flash and GMaps; try the subway maps example #

Video: Rhythm of Life — excellent Guiness ad (via) #

Doctor Doom's Top Ten Euphemisms for Sex — Mike should be writing for McSweeney's #

Stanford wins $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge — more importantly, five teams' robot cars crossed the 135-mile finish line (via) #

Yahoo! Podcasts — thus marks the point where nobody trusts what I link to #

Kotaku's rant on Arnold Schwarzenegger — blocks the sale of violent video games to minors, in contrast to his history of movie violence #

International coalition of government poised to take control of Internet from U.S. — dissolving ICANN and handing the root servers over to the UN #

Cool musicians who blog — an excellent roundup (via) #

Marios 64 — 64 pixel Marios in famous costumes #

MySpace user found dead — final blog posts on LJ and MySpace usually get thousands of comments by mourners and onlookers #

Adam Kalsey's Tagyu — utility to auto-discover tags from content or websites; click a tag to view suggested tags for Delicious pages #

Google Reader — Google launches their web-based feed reader #

Tristan runs the numbers on the Weblogs Inc sale — breaking down value by blog and sector #

Mark Pilgrim writing Greasemonkey scripts for every microformat — I love that guy (via) #

LiveMarks — viewing Del.icio.us popular in real time; Joshua must hate this, though #

Salon redesigns — it reminds me of Slate (via) #

Kottke says Verisign bought Weblogs.com for $5M — a match made in hell (via) #

How many blogs did AOL buy? — 85 total, but only 31 are active (via) #

HBO poisoning BitTorrent downloads with bad seeds — their time would be better spent working on a distribution model instead of fighting it (via) #

First PSP trojan found in the wild — not a virus, just malicious software (via) #

AOL buys Weblogs Inc., including Engadget — I heard $40 million, but take it with salt; seems like an unusually expensive content play #