Finding Nemo swimming pool mosaic — built custom for Pixar president Ed Catmull (via) #

Video: Potter Crash — drive-by spoiler at a midnight Harry Potter line (via) #

Domains by Proxy reveals whistleblower's personal information — Jason Levine found the clause that lets them revoke anonymity if you're trying to embarrass someone #

News Corp buys MySpace for $580 million — holy cow #

Fold n' Drop — innovative UI technique; don't miss the video (via) #

Naked Mr. Burns on Flickr — unblurred animation cel from the Simpsons (via) #

Bootleg Harry Potter NES game review — it's as bad as they say, but I'm mirroring the ROM anyway (via) #

Find the Landmark — another Google Maps game #

New Harry Potter scanned and OCRed by e-book pirates — a distributed effort ended up in a text and audiobook release within 12 hours (via) #

Daddy Types on parents reading their nanny's blog in the NYT — with a link to a long response by the nanny in question #

Review of Japanese PSP porn title — the game mode is very Mystique (via) #

Video: 7 Words You Can't Say in Kindergarden — man, Nat's kids are adorable #

Video: Something Awful interview on G4 TV — read the backstory and watch the video; a must see #

Django, like Rails for Python — outstanding new web framework by Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison; read the overview #

Tripods, a multiplayer Google Maps game — not too fun to play, but a great concept #

Vintage arcade photos on Flickr — rescued from the trash bin; also, see the same photographer's arcade tokens and electronic games #

Secure RSS syndication with Greasemonkey and Bloglines — very neat hack for encrypting your feeds (via) #

TorrentFlux — server-side BitTorrent download manager in PHP (via) #

Optimus keyboard — jaw-dropping keyboard concept with each key as an LCD display (via) #

Flash: le Pate a Son — ethereal interactive music maker (via) #

MovableType 3.2 beta released — tons of good stuff in this release #

Forbes' 10th anniversary profile of Netscape — also: MP3 turns 10 years old today (via) #

Justin Frankel releases Ninjam — real-time music jamming over the Internet (via) #

JD Lasica asks movie studios for permission to use movie clips for personal, non-commercial home video projects — out of seven requests, only one agreed, kinda (via) #

Google Video adds "playable video" filter — using it, I found these guys plugging Waxy Links at the 7 minute mark (via) #

Google Answers on the history of the laugh track — shows still use laughter taped from the Red Skelton Show in the late 1950s #

Video: A Few Good G-Men — machinima remake of "A Few Good Men" courtroom scene with Half-Life 2 engine #

Defective Yeti's excellent primer of the Valerie Plame scandal — I hereby demand that Matthew summarize all major news stories for me #

Replacement Docs — over 2,700 game manuals, scanned and archived for posterity (via) #

Hyperlinks in Print, part 3 — ongoing look at visual representation of hypertext in print; parts one and two (via) #

tag(1), Del.icio.us-style file tagging in Unix — this is weird, but could be a useful view (via) #

This Spartan Life — live talk show using the Halo engine (via) #

Internet Archive sued for archiving copyrighted content — raises all sorts of depressing intellectual property issues; nice debunking (via) #

"Real-life" VR inside Second Life — very meta; visiting a busy SF city street from within Second Life #

Audio: Teller reviews a magic biography on NPR — the smaller, quieter half of Penn and Teller speaks! (via) #

Classical labels attacking BBC for free Beethoven downloads — they're in the public domain, so it's fair game (via) #

XHTML quick start templates — brilliant set of bare-bones templates to get a design off the ground (via) #

Image: Love Your Job — just one of those days; more by the same author #

Glitch exposes Netflix Player — glimpse into downloadable movies through Netflix? (via) #

Paul's Personalized Google News — Google News circa 2031 (via) #

VNC for the PSP — control your desktop remotely from your PSP (via) #

Wikipedia list of Price Is Right minigame — includes a link to this collection of game screenshots (via) #

Flash: Planarity game — for people who detangle Christmas tree lights for fun; I got to level 9 (via) #

Nat rounds up new map hacks — the legal geocoding extension to Google News is interesting #

Flash: Chaos Theory — addictive and simply chain reaction game (via) #

2005 Web Cartoonist's Awards winners announced — lots of good work here (via) #

Newsweek reveals Karl Rove was Matt Cooper's source — is it selfish to be excited that Upcoming.org is mentioned in the same issue? #

Battlefield 2 player statistics — the average player has 30 deaths/hour; download the Python code #

Flickr plugin for Xbox Media Center — you'll need to chip your Xbox, but it's worth it (via) #

Namco kills Pac-Man dashboard widget — it's available here, so get it quick #