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 #

Nintendo announces Game Boy Micro — a GBA with a 2 inch screen; are games even playable at that size? #

Playstation 3 technical demos — all real-time, very impressive #

Nintendo Revolution revealed — first pics, but not focused on performance increases (via) #

Video: Killzone 2 trailer for the PS3 — looks pre-rendered to me; I'll believe it when I see it (via) #

Chicago Crime — amazing database of publicly-reported crimes; here's a first-degree murder Google Map #

NES emulator for the PSP released — SNES and Gameboy Color emulated already; is the GBA next? (via) #

Episode III hits BitTorrent? — sorry, I don't buy it; if anyone can confirm this isn't a fake, let me know #

Newsgator buying FeedDemon? — two of the biggest client-side Windows feedreaders merging (via) #

Joystiq's live coverage of the PS3 press conference — more powerful than the new Xbox; other photos in the comments #

50 Fun Things to Do with Your iPod — a great roundup #

Halfbakery idea for Google Minus Button — badly needed, and would also provide aggregate stats to Google for removing spam #

SNES9x emulator ported to the PSP — all these hacks require the Japanese 1.0 firmware, which Sony is quickly forcing out (via) #

Ariel Atom 2 — don't miss the video review (full-screen torrent); I've never lusted after a car before this (via) #

Adam Kempa's roundup of vinyl video — video encoded on grooved albums and neat zoetrope animations on records #

Elizabeth Gilbert on the worst wedding toast ever — just finishing up a toast for my mom's wedding tonight (via) #

Flickr switches from Flash to Ajax — that was quick! the notes work well with heavily annotated photos #

Nintendo DS demos to be distributed wirelessly at E3 — exciting use of the technology (via) #

Why Lichtenstein sucks — I posted a refutation with some research in the comments #

Outfoxed, Firefox extension to socially annotate the web — extensively documented and clever thesis project; read the nutshell intro (via) #

Flash Is Ajax at the Ajax Summit — the Flash-Javascript graphing demo is nice #

UFOs on Google Maps — a commenter posted link to several other identical UFOs, all in a grid (via) #

Scientology losing ground to new Fictionology — "we offer our preclear followers procedures to erase overts in the reactive mind" (via) #

Xbox 360 to debut on MTV tonight — here's the TiVo link (via) #

Photos of 28 course, 7.5 hour tasting menu at Alinea restaurant — read more about this remarkable new restaurant (via) #

Broadcast Machine preview released — publish RSS video channels, distributing the bandwidth with Blog Torrent #

Google ponders Blogger, Gmail integration — also: privacy options and native photo uploading (via) #

OpenStreetMap — a wiki world map, created and hand-drawn by users (via) #

E3's "I Love Katamari" ball — a giant ball of stuff to be contributed by E3 attendees; should be fun (via) #

Del.icio.us starts a blog — I wish every corporate blog posted cat photos (via) #

Fundable launches — like Dropcash for groups; if the goal isn't met, everyone gets refunds #

Google buys Dodgeball — some interesting possibilities with Blogger and Google Maps (via) #

Video: Chronicles of Narnia trailer — also: Zathura, aka "Jumanji in Space," could be good too #

Monkeywire mailing list — since October 2000, the #1 source for monkey-related news online #