Piggy Bank extension turns Firefox into a semantic web browser — deep and interesting app; read more from one of the developers (via) #

Feedication, collect your data from other web services — pull from services like Flickr and Delicious, but doesn't displaying ads on Flickr photos violate their non-commercial clause? (via) #

Xbox 360 dashboard screenshots — nice IM and game downloads, but the tabs look a little confusing and ugly (via) #

Virtual Magic Kingdom beta goes live — Disney's odd massively multiplayer Flash game (via) #

Nick Bradbury on RSS spam and spyware — the EXE enclosures are fixable, but RSS blog spam is harder #

WikiTrivia — automated quiz game pulling entries from Wikipedia; ridiculously hard (via) #

Hippocamp's "Pet Sounds" remix on Banned Music — I love illegal remixes #

Bram Cohen to launch BitTorrent search engine — drawing attention to infringing uses of BT is a hugely bad idea #

Upcoming.org users create MovableType plugin and Python, Java, Ruby libraries — plus, we added related tags like on the "apple" page #

iTunes 4.9 to support integrated podcasting — though Apple will apparently be moderating the hosted podcasts #

Lawrence Lessig and John Hardwicke fight sexual abuse and the American Boychoir School — amazing story about a harrowing and extremely personal part of Lessig's life (via) #

GPS Visualizer — upload GPS data, get a lovely map (via) #

Philipp Lenssen's thoughts on Google's language translation tools — their new efforts could be a step toward a working Babel Fish #

Roadcasting — ad-hoc FM networks, sharing MP3s between cars and live DJing from the road (via) #

Simpsons episodes described for the blind — don't miss the MP3; it's like listening to old-time radio serials (via) #

Richard Linklater directing Fast Food Nation adaption — a "fictionalized thriller"? this must be a joke (via) #

Business Week profile of "hacker hunters" — one Slashdot commenter discusses the problems with prosecuting criminal hacking cases (via) #

PyPy public release — Python implemented in Python (via) #

Mark Pesce's "Piracy Is Good?" part two — how the Internet is rewriting the laws of television; excellent read (via) #

Socialized.net, decentralized search infrastructure for searching Bittorrent — with Azureus and Firefox plugins (via) #

Matt Haughey on a truly awful Reuters Variety article about Creative Commons — not only misguided, but flat out factually wrong; Lessig's comments #

MPAA blames BitTorrent for Star Wars distribution — blaming BitTorrent is like trying to blame HTTP or FTP; it's just a protocol #

Guns n' Roses Self-Similar Synth — compressing entire GnR songs into tiny samples; it's like fractal music (via) #

Scavenger — web scavenger hunt to find images on user-submitted lists (via) #

Ringtone Dancer — extremely obnoxious; warning: sound (via) #

Delivr — postcard builder app built on Flickr (via) #

Crying, While Eating — videos of people crying while eating (via) #

Contagious Media Showdown entries — some of these are brilliant! the next few links are my favorites #

Blogebrity, tabloid-style magazine about blogger gossip — an entry in the Contagious Media Showdown, and I fell for it (via) #

Google: Personalize Your Homepeage — drag and drop is nice, but I don't like the move away from simplicity #

Das Keyboard — blank keyboard for serious geeks (via) #

Pixel Group — Ajax play space for group pixel art #

"My Google" portal launching soon? — the shift from search engine to portal will be complete #

Nintendo announces DSpeak — voice over IP with the Nintendo DS!? (via) #

GrafikDemo — real-life wireframe teapot in a CBM shell; from the genius behind PongMechanik (via) #

The Morning News' 2005 Editors' Awards for Online Excellence — I'm honored to have made the cut on such an interesting list #

Saludos Amigos soundtrack ripped from vinyl — Kiddie Records is doing amazing work; Bugs Bunny in Storyland is great, too #

Netscape 8 released — what's the point? there's no advantage over using Firefox (via) #

Netflix takes over Wal-Mart DVD rentals — they're now a formidable opponent against Blockbuster (via) #

David Cross' "Albums to Listen to While Reading Overwrought Pitchfork Reviews" — David Cross writes on Pitchfork about Pitchfork writing about David Cross #

BitTorrent goes trackerless — less reliable, but only requires one active seeder and no tracker #

OpenID, an actually distributed identity system — looks very cool #

E3: Gameboy Micro hands-on — still looks too small to be useful, but it is sexy #

Cheap Gas, mashup of Google Maps and Gasbuddy — also: Google Maps Movie Search by same guy (via) #

Namco developing Katamari for cellphones — like most cellphone games, this probably won't port well #

Google launches Adsense for RSS feeds — the best practices recommend only using ads in full-text feeds (via) #

Del.icio.us pioneers — spotting the Del.icio.us trend makers (via) #

Image: Venice drawn with Microsoft Paint — also: two early versions of the 500 hour pixel drawing #

Backpack API — Backpack just got more interesting; here's a great real-world usage (via) #

Image: Star Wars' Last Supper — from Giant Magazine #