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) #

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 #