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) #

Leo Burnett — abnormally clever corporate Flash site #

Liberal Comedian Sues Blogger — Garrison Keiller vs. my friend Rex in a clear-cut case of parody #

Pocketmod — great UI for creating a disposable one-page organizer (via) #

eBay to buy Skype for $2.6 billion — holy cow #

The Ten Stupidest Utopias — a great read, from Plato's Republic to the Internet (via) #

NYT on Gap.com's Ajax redesign — I don't care how much the backend changed, that's no excuse for shuttering a site for two weeks #

Video: Yahoo! goes hard gay — oddball Japanese variety show visits Yahoo's Tokyo offices #

Ben Goldacre on bad science in the media — coverage of authority figures, instead of tangible evidence (via) #

Firefox 1.5 developer highlights — not just making the best browser around, but setting the tech agenda #

Java: Cyboman 2 — classic PC demo from 1999 ported to Java; all effects are real-time 3D, not pre-rendered #

Neja — insane Javascript graphic demo from Assembly '05; runs in Firefox! #

NeighborNode uses wifi to build local community — redirects free wifi users to neighborhood homepage on first connection (via) #

Digital camera turns 30 — how Kodak buried their prototype camera in 1975 (via) #

Google Maps with 2000 Census data — very well done; the average income in Malibu is over $200k/year! #

Five days with Katrina — amazing slideshow and story from a survivor #

Ado's ultimate weblog API primer — long, but surprisingly readable #

Second Life membership now free — brilliant move on their part #

Microsoft tries to recruit Eric S. Raymond — hilarity ensues (via) #

Huffington Post has a 15,000 comment backlog — the downside of comment moderation (via) #

Super Mario Bros. clone in Javascript — insane Japanese hack, fully playable or with a speed run demo (via) #

Official U.S. site for We Love Katamari — including some nice new wallpaper; release on Sept. 20! (via) #

Wolfram Tones — fun with generative music, but actually listenable #

Gametap full launch game listing — subscription retro gaming service for $10/month (via) #