Video: Bright Eyes performs "When the President Talks to God" on Jay Leno — Leno: "great job, buddy!" #

Image: Nine Inch Nails covers Johnny Cash — silly mistake by the Press-Enterprise #

flickRate, enchanced ratings for Flickr photos — the Greasemonkey script integrates the rating function inline #

Azureus decentralizes BitTorrent — nice idea, but doesn't help BitTorrent's image #

Tumbleweed Dispenser on Halfbakery — some other recent favs: Arrggh!, Puzzle Prison, Airplane Seat Guestbooks, Pincushion Ceiling/Floors, and Pedagotchi #

Tear-Away Pringles Canister — Halfbakery is a great source for half-insane ideas; here's my personal view of the last month's top ideas #

37signals' Backpack goes live — brilliant and very flexible web-based PIM, with adding data by e-mail, RSS changes, and a very loose wiki style #

Video: Jon Udell explains simple single sign-ons — using this Javascript MD5 bookmarklet, which could also be a Firefox extension #

Backfence, local community sites — only in two areas of Virginia for now, but I like the community-edited approach #

Jeremy Keith's Adactio Elsewhere — pulling together personal information from disparate sources is a theme this year #

1UP's hands-on preview of Katamari sequel — the Prince is controlled by Katamari fans; warning: audio on first page (via) #

ABC to offer PSP-formatted news — strange, but okay (via) #

Gridlockd urban game — capture intersections on a city grid using semacode and cameraphones (via) #

Abandoned Japanese amusement park photos — much more urban decay on the same site, including this odd Gulliver attraction; see also, Defunct Parks (via) #

Shockwave: Searchscapes Manhattan — 3D visualization of Google searches for NYC addresses (via) #

AtomFilms hosting PSP-formatted short films — sponsored by Sony, naturally (via) #

Coachella 2005 photos on Flickr — blow up the crowd photos to feel like a rock star #

Image: Johnny Hart's B.C. comic on evolution — from the Sunday newspaper #

Unclaimed assets of the stars — Marlon Brando has a check for $48k waiting for him #

Fiona born — congratulations, Matt and Kay! #

Geobloggers, Flickr meets Google Maps — view geotagged Flickr photos on a Google map #

CNN spamming blog comments? — Wired News has more information #

Matt Haughey is photo blogging his daughter's birth — congrats, Matt and Kay! (via) #

Kottke roundup of bad Tiger headlines — I'm hoping cute headlines die off completely in an RSS-enabled news landscape #

Image: AFP infographic for blog-related article — it accompanies this story #

Longhorn preview screenshots — hideously ugly and a usability nightmare (via) #

Controversy over Creative Commons partnership with marketing firm — more on Lessig and BzzAgent #

Yahoo Traffic Conditions in RSS — some interesting possibilities here #

Gamespot's hands-on preview of Shadow of the Colossus — the new PS2 game by the team that made ICO (via) #

Der Spiegel grills Tom Cruise about his Scientology beliefs — Steven Spielberg catches some heat, too (via) #

Flickr's Creative Commons photo browser — another great source for free and legal photos #

Designline, design timeline — animated GIF of every step of the contruction of a new CSS-based blog design (via) #

Flash: Smart Stick Adventure, maze of death — perfect Friday Flash fun (via) #

Goatse shirt, now for sale — safe for work #

Amazon redesigns, down to only two tabs — if you're not seeing it, here's a screenshot #

Bush signs law cracking down on prerelease file sharing — anyone sharing even one copy of an unreleased film, software program, or music file could be sentenced to up to three years in prison (via) #

No Internet Explorer bundled with new Apple OS — if you're so inclined, Ars Technica has a massive 20-page Tiger review #

Apple sued over "Tiger" name, injunction could prevent launch — questionable timing on Tiger Direct's part #

Fan remixes of NIN's Garage Band track — 274 remixes, but none of them as good as The Ghost That Feeds (via) #

Wal-Mart uses DMCA against parody website — they cited copyright infringement against the Carnegie Mellon student #

The Hype Machine — a well-executed MP3 blog aggregator (via) #

GBA homebrew game contest winners, pre-order the cartridge for only $12 — this is a steal; the list of 10 winning games is in the Jan 23 news update #

Rare mixes, bootlegs, and pirate radio from the mid-1980s — transferred from mix tapes into MP3 format for download (via) #

1970s concert photos on Flickr — some of these are outstanding (via) #

Marc Hedlund on "bud vase" features — creating passionate users with small personal touches (via) #

Mystery of the Mario Paint Song — a strange tune that appears in Nintendo games from 1992 on, with MP3s and a backstory (via) #

Art group installs viewing platforms at L.A. gated communities — hilarious; I bet they're removed by tomorrow (via) #

Infinity launching listener-produced commercial radio station — submit audio files online, they review and play them on AM radio (via) #

Matt's Recumbent Bike — silliest Flickr pool ever; the original image (via) #

IHT redesigns to 1024 pixels wide — following WaPo's 1024px redesign, but both only have ads in the right-hand area (via) #