Firefox extension to automatically update Adblock blacklist — like most blacklists, you end up placing a lot of trust in the maintainer (via) #

RIAA shuts down machinima site — stifling the world's creativity, one takedown at a time #

Black Diamond — possibly the best black Neil Diamond impersonator ever; don't miss the MP3s #

Editorial layoffs hit Wired News — no more staff writers (via) #

Yahoo 360 adds Flickr integration — though I'm still getting prompted to log in when reading any blog entry #

Kottke's having linky acid flashbacks — looks like he pushed the Neiman Marcus cookie recipe into Delicious' most popular #

Escapist's profile of Derby Owners Club addicts — more fringe sports, it's a cult of multiplayer videogaming (via) #

NYT on professional mini golfers — I love mini golf, but I didn't even know this existed #

Mark Pilgrim says Greasemonkey 0.4.1 alpha fixes all known security holes — and works with complex user scripts; here's Aaron's announcement #

Blinksale, lovely online invoicing — heavily inspired by the 37signals school of design #

Hacker unlocks all weapons for 5 million Battlefield 2 users — and announces it on EA's official support forums (via) #

Inside look at the Adobe headquarters — I love this kind of thing; reminds me of the recent Pixar photo tour #

Google adds RSS reader to personalized homepage — not as elegant as My Yahoo, but it's a start #

JSAN, CPAN for Javascript — great idea #

Blind teen can beat you at Soul Calibur 2 — I'd love to see video (via) #

Yahoo! Widgets — the announcement on Konfabulator's site is fun, see the full comic #

Cory Doctorow on Promise TV — new PVR records a month of TV on all channels at once #

Daily News sends five reporters to NYC subway system with stuffed bags — the Egyptian reporter was stopped, twice (via) #

Indie rock band Karate breaks up — depressing news; Unsolved is still my favorite mix of indie rock and jazz #

Video: Family Guy, Take on Me — made me laugh; hosted locally #

Flying Omelette's Top 50 Videogame Ending Songs — mostly NES and early PC, with MP3s for each! #

Yahoo buys Konfabulator — they're releasing it for free (via) #

Family Guy movie leaked two months before official release — it's DVD quality, too (via) #

WikyBlog Maps — interesting wiki-style annotation for Google Maps (via) #

Glamestris, AI algorithm for Tetris for Windows — I have this running at 370 rows per second right now #

Lussumo Vanilla — gorgeously designed forum software, open-source PHP/MySQL (via) #

Video: Max Fleischer's "Now You're Talking" from 1927 — education film about the telephone mixes live action and classic Fleischer Brothers animation (via) #

Mario Battle No. 1 — homebrew NES ROM with all enemies and goals removed (via) #

MSN Virtual Earth — Microsoft's answer to Google Maps; also: Google adds a hybrid map view (via) #

Flash: Avoider — don't let the little guy grab your cursor (via) #

Orkut used as Brazilian drug network — an innovative new use of social software! (via) #

Types of Stories My Mother Tells — funniest thing I've read in ages #

c|net's Top 10 web fads — many more documented on Wikipedia #

WFMU's American Song Poem MP3s — two outstanding albums worth of vintage songs-for-hire, ready for download with cover art #

Japanese bank adds slots game to ATMs — if you win, you get cash or your withdrawal fee waived (via) #

Sony updates PSP to surf web, download TV shows — and, incidentally, lock out all homebrew code again (via) #

Rob Dobi cartoon on MySpace's sale to Fox — oh, man #

Greasemonkeyed — newly-launched repository of Greasemonkey user scripts #

Help test the new Greasemonkey security release — I can't imagine browsing the web without Greasemonkey again #

Weblogs Inc. close to $1M/year in Adsense revenue — that's a whole mess of ads #

AIM Fight — I defy anyone to beat my "infocombot"; may the most connected buddy win! (via) #

Blurb Racket — weekly column of movie review blurbs quoted out of context (via) #

Can a spam filter play chess? — insane hack with the dbacl Bayesian text classifier #

New Bloglines statistics — 1,121,655 feeds have at least one subscriber (via) #

New Yorker profile of Roald Dahl — excellent read #

How to make a 13-pound gummi bear — disgusting, but strangely compelling (via) #

Anecdotal Leads for News Stories Reporting the End of the World — closed for good (via) #

300GB Seagate hard drives for $99 — from Circuit City after a $90 mail-in rebate (via) #

Design the winning UI for Internet TV, get $1000 — help the next-gen video player powered by BitTorrent #

Google Groups Alerts — keeping tabs on Usenet, now much easier #