Ask Mefi on porn in the woods — growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I'd never encountered this phenomenon #

Vox Delici — Stamen's neat visualization of Delicious Popular (via) #

TiVo banner ads released — show me ads or charge subscription fees, but not both #

Assembly 2005 awards and releases — the PC demoscene continues to amaze; don't miss the Che Guevara and Fiat Homo 64k demos #

Wired News interviews Mike Lynn on Cisco security flaw — bizarre story; ISS asked him to do it and wanted to release it to hurt Cisco? #

Mozilla announces the Mozilla Corporation — for-profit subsidiary headed by Mitchell Baker #

Yahoo Publisher Network private beta — they're gearing up to take on Google's Adsense #

WFMU's answer songs roundup with MP3s — also: don't miss their MP3 Download Dinner Bell for August #

Apple's Mighty Mouse — oddball mouse design, with "scroll ball" and built-in speaker #

Follow-up on the Aristocrats conspiracy theory — that settles it; definitely not a Penn Jillette hoax #

Greasemonkey 0.5 beta released — closes those nasty security holes, and adds some new features too #

LA Times on Defamer's Mark Lisanti — more interesting is what he's decided not to post #

MegaManEffect for the Mac — OS X app launcher emulates the Megaman 2 level starting screen (via) #

Mirror Me — DIY file mirroring, with stats and bandwidth throttling #

Flickr Explore! — holy crap, this is cool; also, interesting photos in the last 24 hours and clustering for all tags #

Technorati's State of the Blogosphere, August 2005 — 80,000 blogs created daily, blogosphere still doubling every five months #

Mercury News on Bram Cohen and the future of BitTorrent — evolving from a protocol to a company, they recently met with the MPAA in Burbank #

Flash: Leave It to Bush #3 — the supremely weird Flash series is always good #

How many punch cards would it take to fit a 3-minute MP3? — answer: without error checking, 36,864 cards reading 206 cards per second (via) #

Cory Doctorow on Apple's apparent switch to "Trusted Computing" CPU DRM — for everything Apple does right, a huge step in the wrong direction #

ScummVM emulator ported to Nintendo DS — it plays all the classic Lucasarts adventures, like Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle #

Did Penn Jillette invent the Aristocrats joke? — fun conspiracy theory; the earliest I could find was in a Jackie Martling book from 1998 (via) #

Deviant Art co-founder Scott Jarkoff involuntarily forced out — some serious drama, leading to a pro-Jark backlash on the homepage (via) #

Video: Mega64 takes on Paperboy — hilarious riff on the classic arcade game (via) #

Great photos of the SF zombie flashmob — they hit the Apple Store up for "genius braaaains" #

Justice, Cole Valley Style — Derek Powazek's vigilante justice against a hit and run #

Jon Stewart and Tucker Carlson rematch on August 8 — this should be good; this article is deceptive, only saying the shows will be in competing time slots (via) #

Video: The Story — short film by Matt Groening's dad from 1969? (via) #

Gelf Magazine on Google News' treatment of satire — they spoke to several of the satire sites, as well (via) #

CmdrTaco says Slashdot going CSS in next two weeks — it's up and running on Slashcode (via) #

Wired News on hotel hacking at Defcon — using Linux and IR to expose billing systems, read other guest's e-mail, and open the minibar #

Business Week on the Google/Yahoo brain drain — everyone wants to work at the two big search firms, affecting the rest of high tech (via) #

Kevin Shay's BigPAPI for MovableType — extends the API to modify the UI; check the growing list of plugins (via) #

Tapwave closes its doors — their Zodiac gaming PDA was a wonderful platform for open emulation #

Daniel Burka on the Digg redesign — one of the best redesigns in recent memory (via) #

Flash: Stackopolis — addictive and cruel building game (via) #

Inside the PSP's new web browser — Javascript, podcasts, and an on-screen keyboard #

Kevin Kelly on the people powered future of the web — great article, but I spotted one small goof; there was no "www" when he met with ABC in 1989 #

David Bau teaches his 6-year-old game programming in Python — he'll be the most marketable 10-year-old ever (via) #

Ice lake found on Mars — here's a high-resolution photo (via) #

Flickr hits 1 million members — congrats! #

Michael Lynn's Cisco flaw presentation from Defcon — his talk lost him his job, launched an FBI investigation, and could cripple the Internet; more on Wired News #

Is LimeWire closing down? — one of the biggest of the old-school Windows P2P apps #

Testing P2P apps on Windows Vista beta 1 — not very detailed, but sounds like some serious network issues (via) #

New version of Sharpreader released!? — I gave up waiting months ago and switched to the fabulous Reblog, and I don't regret it one bit #

Lego Katamari — I wish they were doing a Katamari Brick Flick #

AOL partners with Feedster to launch "My AOL" feed reader — it's public, so give it a try #

Rosey Grier's Needlepoint for Men — NFL defensive lineman's crafting book from 1973 (via) #

Guide to migrating web apps from IE to Mozilla — great intro to cross-browser differences #

Steven Johnson on the Grand Theft Auto controversy in the LA Times — a letter to Hillary Clinton (via) #