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!" #

Men that voiced Tigger and Piglet die one day apart — they both played the characters since Disney's first Pooh short in 1968 #

Corporate album cover remixes — brilliant Photoshop thread inspired by Nike's borrowing of Minor Threat album art #

Supreme Court rules against Grokster — unanimous decision finds technology services liable for its users' infringement #

Flash: Tetka.swf — human body falling through a bubble landscape #

Robot Co-op announces 43 Places — I've tried the beta; great design and fun to use #

Google launching online video playback today — based on VLC, no less #

AudioFlickrscrobbler — retrieve photos tagged with the last five artist names listened to (via) #

USA Today on Andy Milonakis Show — web meme gets own MTV show, and it's surprisingly funny #

Insanely great history of Suck.com — interviews with nearly everyone involved; so very good, read this now #

NYT profile of Party Poker — online gambling is technically illegal in the U.S., but nobody seems to mind their $600m earnings in 2004 #

Top 10 beams, lasers, and death rays in film — they left out the death ray from Real Genius (via) #

NY Times promotes Bugmenot — very strange; refers to "newspaper marketers" and "those annoying site registrations" #

Jason Scott's update on his podcast collection project — he's collected about 700GB of podcasts so far #

Katamari Damacy cosplay — some of the best I've seen (via) #

Another World homebrew port for the GBA — free conversion by the original author; found on 1UP's great feature on console emulation (via) #

Del.icio.us Director — gorgeously designed Ajax-style browser for Del.icio.us (via) #

Hacking the flag-burning amendment — using legal loopholes to make a statement; you can't keep a good dissident down (via) #

Joe Gregorio's Sparklines web service — the code is available, too (via) #

Report finds most people don't consider downloading digital media as theft — technically, it's not theft; it's illegal duplication (via) #

Data Munging with Sprog — Perl scripting from a GUI, without even knowing Perl (via) #

eBay launches open-source Community Codebase effort — more importantly, they're allowing 10,000 API calls monthly for individuals (via) #

Crying While Eating creator discusses the rise of the meme — they say that I linked to it first; go me! #

Behavior Javascript module — keep your code clean by using CSS selectors to apply JS functions #

Scientology's Nut Job Founder — The Smoking Gun digs through L. Ron Hubbard's FBI file #

Empire State Building vs. 100 billion hot dogs — it's like the MegaPenny Project, only delicious! #

Gizmodo's history of the Scientology E-Meter — never trust a religion that hooks you up to lie detectors #

Annalee Newitz on stringent new porn recordkeeping laws — won't somebody think of the children? (via) #

Live webcam from within Second Life — yeah, it's about that strange (via) #

Mad Hot Ballroom documentary markers encounter with the music copyright cartel — egregious examples of copyright hell; one publisher asked for $10k to clear a ringtone #

Google Sightseeing points out new highlights to Google Maps — finding the neat stuff in their newly expanded global satellite photos #

First look at Apple's Intel Macs — Windows XP installs fine on them, but OS X for Intel won't install on generic PCs (via) #

Neopets sold to Viacom for $160 million — the kids' gaming site is one of social software's biggest successes, but nobody's paying attention (via) #

Katie Holmes' Missing Days — Fox News conspiracy theory implies brainwashing #

Nerds Make Better Lovers — Slashdot commenter on the reality of this story (via) #

Jason Kottke on G4's "Attack of the Show" in about 30 minutes — update: Haughey has the video #

PSP no-swap homebrew loader released — no more swapping memory sticks! huge news for the PSP homebrew scene; more mirrors; how it works (via) #

Google not competing with Paypal — Eric Schmidt said it won't involve direct user-to-user payments (via) #

Flickr Montager — automated photo mosaics using Flickr; it must be hammering their servers, though (via) #

First look at the Nyko Movie Player — plug your iPod into this weird portable video add-on (via) #

YubNub's most popular commands — quite a community has popped up around the Rails Day contest entry #