Ten interesting ideas in videogame construction — themes bubbling under in indie gaming projects (via) #

pbWiki — instant, free wiki spaces for groups or individuals #

Is Trixie written by Microsoft? — other interesting information about the Greasemonkey clone for IE (via) #

Conversations with Anna, IKEA's helper bot — don't miss Pulp Anna #

SBC to drop DSL prices to $14.95 — perfect for low end, while the high end moves to fiber #

Who Owns Culture? — video and audio of the Jeff Tweedy/Larry Lessig talk (via) #

NeoGeo CD and Sega Genesis emulators released for PSP — sadly, still only works on the Japanese 1.0 firmware #

Trixie, Greasemonkey for Internet Explorer — closed source and, in my mind, somewhat unnecessary (via) #

O'Reilly roundup of BBC Backstage mashups with Google Maps — see also: gMapTrack, a tool to easily create custom Google Maps like this one #

Irina witnesses a stabbing — psychotic woman stabs a Nordstrom shopper right in front of her #

Christmas Day With My New Girlfriend's Family As a Circa-1982 Text-Based Computer Adventure Game — I wouldn't mind reading an entire book in this format #

Improv Everywhere fakes a U2 rooftop concert — I'm mirroring the slow performance video (via) #

First look at Google Earth — holy cow; 3D buildings, public transit, and driving directions (via) #

Concerned, a comic made with the Half-Life 2 engine — if you've played the game, this is funny (via) #

Fan-made Star Wars embroidered quilt — extremely geeky #

David Lynch gives the weather report — updated daily; eat your heart out, Nick Nolte (via) #

Ten Years of Zeldman — congrats, Jeffrey #

Ex-FBI official states he's Deep Throat — he denied it to Slate back in 1999, but he's been the likely culprit for years #

Videocrab's E3travaganza — entertaining photos and stories from E3 2005, including the classic gaming exhibit #

Origins of the Crazy Frog ringtone — started on the Internet in 1997 #

Phrack publishes final issue — end of an era; I've been reading the hacking e-zine since 1991 (via) #

Ringtone beats Coldplay to top of UK charts — it's a dance remix of a ringtone mixed with Axel F; the video #

Amazon reviews by Smith T. Aames — occasionally offensive, but very funny #

MP3: Seven Minutes in Deadwood — editing out everything but profanity in an episode of Deadwood #

Intel quietly adds DRM to new chips — very, very lame (via) #

Compositing Half-Life 2 models in photographs — my personal favorite #

All Consuming joins the Robot Co-op — how did I miss this last week? a natural move for Erik and company (via) #

JWZ on the Royal de Luxe parade — massive French marionettes with beautiful backstory; see the insanely cool photos and video #

Abused Amazon Images — some new net art made using the recent Amazon URI hacking guide (via) #

Fabricating video game objects in real life — uses HijackGL; I'd love to see sets of videogame object miniatures like this #

Blake Ross's roundup of college newspapers link farms — including, sadly, my alma mater's daily newspaper #

MP3: Interview with Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair — they cover the history of Boing Boing, from zine to Xeni #

Console Controller Family Tree — visual history of console joysticks and gamepads (via) #

Lost as an Infocom game — clever bit of TV writing #

Flickr Lifehack pool — this shoe hack is useful, as is the stapler/remover and ruler tattoo #

List of fictional curse words — from Wikipedia's amazing Archive of fictional things #

Blake Ross digs up link spam on the Stanford Daily site — there are many spam blog entries linking to Stanford Daily with the "diet pills" keyword, too #

Yahoo! Mindset — brilliant idea, a slider moving from commercial to non-commercial web results (via) #

Wikitrivia adds categories and images — a little quirky, but I got 8 out of 10 in the Blogs category #

NYT on falling box office attendance — they blame DVD sales, PVRs, video-on-demand, video games, and the Internet #

Mike Doughty busks outside his own Seattle concert — one of my favorite live performers, this should be a good EP #

Andrew Leonard commentary on Star Wars BitTorrent busts — hit this link after viewing the page to read the whole story #

Rojolicious — Greasemonkey script adds Del.icio.us linking to the Rojo feedreader (via) #

Guiness Ice Lollies — perfect for the summer, if a little big (via) #

TorrentSpy blocking some searches — like Google, they're filtering because of DMCA orders #

Yahoo Photomail — their photo sharing service that doesn't work in Firefox or on Macs (via) #

Mobile software startup spams Del.icio.us? — read Patrick Hurley's comment in the thread #

Podcasting Star Wars: Winer vs. Curry — silly little drama, but don't miss Winer's MP3 response; he sounds heavily stoned #

MP3: Waiting for my Hash Pipe — Gwen Stefani vs Weezer mashup, very clever mix of verses (via) #

Video: Indie Rock Cribs — the very talented Joe Pernice shoots a pilot for MTV2 Cribs (via) #