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 #

Tim O'Reilly on Perl's relevancy — his trend analysis of the programming book market from last month is a great read (via) #

ESPN reporter tracks down infamous Cubs fan Steve Bartman — I tracked the the Cubs Fan meme back in 2003, but most of the links are dead #

Does A Duck Have A Soul? — the controversy over delicious, but extremely cruel, foie gras (via) #

First-hand account of the London train bombing — don't miss the followup #

London Tube logo reworked as protest image — striking design #

Yahoo testing blog/RSS searching — ideally, I want to filter on blog-only posts with a date sorting option #

Research shows lab-grown meat possible on an industrial scale — Stem Cell Steak, here we come (via) #

Yahoo Video Search out of beta — unlike Google Video, crawling the web and Archive.org for video #

Psychedelic Christian Radio MP3s from 1967 — these are ridiculously good; a genre I never knew existed #

David Lee Roth to replace Howard Stern? — only right here on Dave TV #

Australian ABC News creates Google World map of London bombings — pretty geeky for a mainstream news source #

Quicktime links to every Live 8 performance — great quality (via) #

New BASIC compiler for the Atari 2600 released — make new games for a decades-old console (via) #

Podcasting Juice, Japanese podcasts — I like Better English with Catherine; "I'm choking!" #

Google Extensions for Firefox — an official Google Toolbar, Google Suggest, and a neat way to send webpage text to phones (via) #

Greasemonkey script to add My Web 2.0 links to Google — I'm sure Google will love that one #

PSPKick — homebrew drum machine for the PSP #

Livejournal mood tracker — spikes in "sad" and "angry" since the London attacks (via) #

Onion AV Club interviews Negativland — on copyright, process, and trying to make money from illegal art (via) #

Wikipedia article on London bombings — as always, they're doing an excellent job of tracking news and links #

London Bomb Blasts pool on Flickr — mostly TV screen caps, but some original photos are coming in #

Dear Annie Dish — in response to Anil's letter to PR flaks #

Jason Scott on the death of a Teletype art collector — "we stand on crumbling sand" #

Video: The Chalets' "Feel the Machine" — plays with the idea of GUI elements interacting with real-life (via) #

1UP editor discusses walking off CNBC show on gaming violence — common in confrontational talk shows, they lied to him about the show's subject (via) #

Crates and Barrels — user contributed game screenshots of the inescapable gaming cliche (via) #

Channel 101 fights the "House of Cosbys" cease and desist! — also, this is a good writeup of how Channel 101 works and their recent shows #

Join the Eyebeam Open Lab — they'll pay you $30k/year to contribute whatever you want to the public domain #

Bad Day LA — bizarre game by American McGee with art by Kozyndan (via) #

Video: Voltron Gets Served — from Adult Swim's Robot Chicken #

NYT's Judith Miller jailed for refusing to reveal source — a federal shield law would be handy in times like these #

1UP's feature on MMORPG sweatshop farms — dirt-cheap overseas workers hired to earn in-game credits #

Dreamhost adds Ruby on Rails support — possibly the first big host to support it officially #

Wikipedia's history of the Goomba — did I mention I love Wikipedia? (via) #

Google Video, search playable videos only — filtering Google Video to find the good stuff; why isn't this an option yet? (via) #

RSSContact, simple contact sharing — from the creator of RSSCalendar (via) #

Gmaps Pedometer — great Google Maps hack to track traveling distance or creating custom routes (via) #

Opera embeds BitTorrent client — great news; every browser should support the BitTorrent protocol natively, as they do with FTP #

Fiona Apple rerecording Extraordinary Machine — rumors that she was unhappy with Jon Brion's production? (via) #

Halfbakery idea for McAmbulances — Starbucks Medical would work, too #

Google releasing toolbar for Firefox — the Googlebar extension is still far more flexible #

Blake Ross on the new Firefox tagline — an anecdote about his grandfather (via) #