Video: Harlan McCraney, Presidential Speechalist — Comedy Central on the President's secret speech writer (via) #

MP3: 3-year-old covers Van Halen's "Get Me A Doctor" — this made me laugh #

Cockeyed's 24 Hours of Foo — Dave Grohl is a fan of Rob's site and sent him to NYC to appear on MTV2 #

Num Sum, social spreadsheet for sharing data — more on the advantages over Excel from the creator (via) #

Video: Stella Artois' "Bench" commercial — quite possibly the strangest commercial ever made (via) #

James Burns' "Detached" — comic about the author's surgery for a detached retina (via) #

Pirated movies hosted on Google Video — by offering unlimited video storage and bandwidth, this was inevitable; could be a legal disaster (via) #

Microsoft to buy Gator adware? — a match made in hell (via) #

CNN begins podcasting — why do I feel like there are more people creating podcasts than listening to them? (via) #

TiVo announces Developer Challenge winners — some great free apps written with the HME SDK #

Horse Hater — best blog ever? offensive language (via) #

iTunes 4.9 also supports videoblogs — news to me (via) #

Video: Spoiled rotten kid fights with mom on Xbox Live — "Mom! You said you'd bring me some chocolate milk!" (via) #

Defective Yeti's crush on Kanga — perfectly normal (via) #

Yahoo Maps API — you can pass it a street address, in addition to a lat/long pair #

Geotagged Flickr photos mapped in Google Earth viewer — some screenshots of it in action (via) #

A9 redesigns map pages — very Google Maps-ish, but with their excellent storefront photos; update: they removed it (via) #

MAME ported to the PSP — well, with one game only for now (via) #

Insanely huge eBay lot of vintage 45s — a 60-year-old record collector sells his entire collection (via) #

Google Maps API — this is a huge relief for every Google map hacker (via) #

Ernest Miller on BitTorrent and the Grokster decision — would Bram Cohen's statements open the door for a case against BitTorrent? #

DVD Jon cracks Google Video restrictions — cracking an open source project isn't quite as impressive (via) #

Waxy Links' third-busiest day ever — geez, 25 links is just silly; and why do I link the most on Tuesdays? #

NYT on My Web 2.0, Flickr, and user content — it's almost quaint that they punctuate "R.S.S." #

Canada legalizes same-sex marriage — sad that Canada understands equal rights and the pursuit of happiness better than my own country #

Yahoo launches My Web 2.0, social bookmarks plus search — I was part of the private beta, here are my comments #

Unofficial ad-free versions of Gawker, NY Post launched on Blogspot — creator claims it's "performance art meets media" #

Salon on Tom Cruise and the new public face of Scientology — speculates that he's OT-VII; first in a four-part series on Scientology's PR campaign #

Video: OK Go's "A Million Ways" — the guitarist of the band is blogging, too (via) #

Developer asks city to seize Supreme Court justice's home to build new hotel — a response to the Court's recent unraveling of property rights (via) #

What does it take to "induce" infringement? — an excellent example from the Betamax era; Sony would've failed the Grokster test (via) #

Google Press Releases for 2006 — more search engine humor from Philipp Lenssen #

A Cynic's Guide to Videogame Politics — what the key players in game legislation have to gain, from the excellent Game Politics blog on (gasp!) Livejournal (via) #

House of Cosbys publisher cease-and-desisted by Bill Cosby!? — the short films are brilliant; "I like to sue people! I'm litigation Cosby, you see." (via) #

Wil Wheaton interviewed by Slashdot — as always, he's witty and humble and essential reading #

The Entrepreneur in a Post-Grokster World — blurring the lines of the Betamax decision (via) #

Monkeys, Ninjas, Pirates, and Robots in Safari's RSS database schema — very funny, I wonder what the unused fields are for #

World of Warcraft player stumbles on unfinished area — I've always suspected places like this exist in the real world, too (via) #

Extracting video from cat brains — Strange Days, indeed (via) #

Bloggers accepting payment for blog mentions without disclosure — commentary from Rebecca and Matt, and a list of other blogger shills; even USWeb's blog got in on it (via) #

43 Places goes live — the wanderlust is a great snapshot of where people want to visit #

Yahoo to relaunch Yahoo Mail with Oddpost features — expect a very GUI look and feel to try to outshine Gmail (via) #

Google relaunches personalized search — reorders search results based on past searching history; a step in Google's plan to fight spam (via) #

Google Earth launches — the massive Keyhole upgrade with businesses, driving directions, and 3D buildings (via) #

Connect Draw Remix, interactive CD sleeves — plug the CD box into a USB port, remix tracks with a pencil (via) #

iTunes 4.9 ships with built-in podcasting support — their Podcast Directory is very impressive #

AMD files antitrust lawsuit against Intel — claims Intel coerced hardware industry to avoid AMD (via) #

Flash: Michael Jackson Famicom — essential Japanese weirdness #

Gmail blocking Greasemonkey users? — several other people confirmed this behavior #

The Bad Review Revue: Burned At The Stake — "Critics are enchanted with Bewitched!" #