Video: Review of the POPStation Portable — a PSP clone that plays very differently from the real thing (via) #

Slashdot's CSS redesign goes live — still ugly, but much cleaner source #

Jet Blue disabled showed DirecTV during problem flight — CNN corrects the earlier incorrect report #

Kevin Burton announces TailRank, his new startup — ranking system for weblogs, posts, and people #

Ziff-Davis buys Gametab — congrats to my favorite gaming meta-news site (via) #

High school band plays DJ Shadow's Endtroducing — now mirrored at Archive.org; direct download #

Andrew Raaff's roundup of legal reactions to the Google Print lawsuit — amazing set of analysis on both sides; I'm strongly in Google's camp here #

Indie Rock Fantasy League — I'd love to see which bands scored the best/worst for this year #

Steve Jobs says OS X pirates will burn in hell — the road to hell is paved with bootleg software #

The Music of New Orleans — a brief aural history sampler with MP3s #

Video: Adult Swim on Frogger — short and funny; 1.8 MB #

Mini-Microsoft — anonymous blogger dishes dirt from within Microsoft as they try to reinvent themselves #

Video: Grandaddy's "Jed's Other Poem" — don't miss this one; fan-made video programmed on an Apple ][+ #

Loomia, podcast and videocast search engine — another Odeo competitor #

Populicious is back — yay! #

Google Secure Access beta — Windows client for secure wifi through a Google VPN; privacy issues ahoy (via) #

Plague strikes World of Warcraft — contagious disease infects players, leading to quarantines and panic #

Flash: JCB Song — from the brilliant animator of Low Morale's Creep video (via) #

Adam Kempa obsesses on comic artist Jason Shiga — great collection of links, with original video #

Lost Garden on the Nintendo Revolution — long and fascinating read about genre specificity and casual gaming #

Video: Nintendo Revolution controller teaser — huge gameplay possibilities #

How We Got Engaged — Dave and Raina's adorable collaborative comic (via) #

Onlife for OS X — fascinating tool to visualize and search all your computer activity #

Video: Fabulous Secret Powers — nice retro homepage, too #

NetVibes — well-designed all-Ajax personalized launch page, with a nice built-in feed reader #

Computer programmer uses Google Maps to discover Roman ruins — next, finding Jimmy Hoffa's body (via) #

Indie bands move closer to mainstream — AP news takes on Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes, and Arcade Fire #

Nintendo Revolution controller revealed — a motion-sensitive remote control device, instead of a gamepad!? (via) #

Tech Memeorandum — it's grown on me since the redesign launched earlier this week #

Meebo.com — very neat multi-service Ajax instant messaging (via) #

Video clips of The Simpsons for the blind — the sight gags are still funny, but in a very different way #

Flickr Framer — instantly add a frame for your Flickr photos #

Populicious closes up shop — one of my favorite link sources! fortunately, the Delicious New Popular is pretty good #

Japanese magazine scan of Katamari Damacy for PSP — wifi battle mode! #

Video: Bill Gates goes to college — shakycam footage of the Napoleon Dynamite skit at Microsoft's PDC conference; local mirror #

Wells Fargo buys island in Second Life — cheesy edutainment, but innovative and weird use of the game world #

Gillette unveils 5-bladed razor — notable only for this Onion parody article from 2004 #

Image: George Bush asks Condi Rice for permission to pee — best Reuters photo ever; zoomed out view of the same moment #

Audioscrobbler web services — tons of fun potential uses for this data (via) #

X-Wing papercraft from a Paris Metro ticket — step-by-step photo tutorial #

Weblogs Inc reviews Google Blog Search — partial text for many blogs, and blogs without feeds aren't represented at all #

llor.nu — oddball social Monopoly-ish game with Ajax goodness #

Tommy Westphall and the Multiverse of TV — or: why Jack Tripper and Maxwell Smart live in the same universe (via) #

Google Blog Search — here's the FAQ, and Technorati CEO Dave Sifry's thoughts #

Documentary about deaf musicians released without closed captioning — movies about the deaf, not for the deaf (via) #

The Work Blind curtain — "wow, he's barely moved since February!" #

TiVo adds copyright protection, blocks transfers, and auto-deletes some shows — a glitch, but a foreboding one; I'm upset this functionality even exists in the OS #

Building a Smarter To-Do List — an essential two-part article #

Wired News on the Summer Founders Program — Y Combinator's Summer Camp for young geek entrepreneurs; no mention of Kiko, though #

Video: Fifth graders perform Devo's "Whip It" — including homebrew energy domes (via) #