Common Bits video roundup of Daily Show's Katrina coverage — tons of essential commentary #

Upcoming.org adds badges — post your events on your own site; here's an example #

Rolling Stone publishes Hunter S. Thompson's suicide note — along with a strange eulogy #

NYT on News Corp's buyout of IGN and MySpace — $1.5 billion on three Internet companies in the last two months #

Katrina conspiracy theories — plenty of great stuff on Snopes news page recently, too #

Evil Interiors — Unreal 2003 recontructions of classic movie sets; don't miss the screenshots (via) #

Sploid redesigns — like The Onion's redesign, very busy but somehow fitting; more info (via) #

Vinton Cerf joins Google — though I'm sure people will balk at him remaining ICANN chairman (via) #

Kanye West remix, "George Bush Don't Like Black People" — very professionally done #

Wired on the Paypal vs. Something Awful fundraiser controversy — Paypal locked SA's account, but I can't really blame them for vetting suspicious fundraisers #

Astrodome radio station blocked by local officials — meanwhile, FEMA is blocking pancakes, milk, and jailbreaks #

ROKR iTunes phone limiting song uploads with bad DRM — limited to 100 songs, whether they fill up the storage or not (via) #

National Geographic article predicts Louisiana disaster in October 2004 — yet another example of extremely accurate predictions in the mainstream media #

Apple announces iPod nano, iPod Phone — pencil thin, color display and 80% smaller than the 5GB iPod #

Alex Chilton found and other music-related Katrina news  #

Robert Cringely's NerdTV — weekly one-hour geek interviews licensed under CC #

Paypal offers micropayments pricing — five cents plus five percent for transactions under $2; not completely micro, but a nice effort (via) #

Conspiracy theory that Hurricane Katrina was a guided weapon — many more related crank links in this Metafilter thread #

Flickr photos from the Houston Astrodome — photos from a volunteer wiring the Dome with computers and wireless (via) #

Ajax IM — browser-based instant messenger app with PHP backend; doesn't work in IE yet (via) #

Greasemonkey M3U Generator — nice! #

Dan Kaminsky's Best of Siggraph 2005 roundup — tons of nifty tech #

Steve Ballmer threatened to "fucking kill Google" in 2004 — amazing piece of gossip leaked in a legal brief #

What if Hurricane Ivan Had Not Missed New Orleans? — unbelievably accurate predictions from October 1994 #

Tale of dead soldier and his little girl was elaborate hoax — the Iraq war's own Kaycee Nicole (via) #

Video: Mr. Bill and Hurricane Sluggo — disturbing wetlands preservation ad from last year; mirrored locally #

DIY GTD Planner Hipster PDA templates — very professional collection of PDF planner templates, ready for printing #

Fake screenshots of a Google OS — amusing predictions from Future Feeds, but the UI is ugly enough to be real #

The Interdictor — liveblogging, photos, and interviews from an ISP in New Orleans #

Big Star's Alex Chilton missing in New Orleans — Fats Domino was reported missing, but found today #

Trapped in the Superdome — extremely difficult to read #

Bandnews.org — a nicely-designed niche news aggregator for musician news; crawls tons of band sites #

8 million UMD movies sold for the PSP — this is surprising to me; pretty great for a DRMed format that can only be watched on a PSP #

Cash donations relicense Eyes on the Prize — this actually just makes the copyright problem worse, as Stay Free points out #

CBGB's lease won't be renewed — legendary club to close despite rallies (via) #

Video: Cubic Tragedy — outstanding CG animation available as a very high-res download #

Flickr photobook printing with Qoop — here are some example pages of the book design (via) #

Kiko — nicely designed web calendaring with very low barrier to entry #

NYC subway flasher caught — Flickr cameraphone photo that made NY Post front page leads to his capture #

Racism in AP's Katrina photo coverage — everyone's talking about this one; you decide #

Image: Bush Extended Family Photo — geek political satire; reminds me of one ring #

Pandora Music Engine comes out of private beta — streaming music recommendation service #

The Onion redesigns, opens complete archives to all — Khoi Vinh comments on his top-notch work on the redesign; the new archives go back to 1996 #

Lego Factory — create and share digital Lego models, then buy custom-made kits of your designs (via) #

NYT on Flying Spaghetti Monster — classic net-style satire makes a comeback #

A judicial answer to the RIAA — RIAA sues mom for file sharing; judge kicks their asses #

Credible rumors on the IM war — Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL may be conspiring against Google Talk in the IM space (via) #

The Final Blow in the Doppler Wars — I'm waiting for Doppler Infinity+1 (via) #

Upcoming.org adds Groups — we just launched this; for example, SoCal Indie Rock and Flickr events #

TechCrunch's short review of Flock — the social web browser sounds interesting (via) #