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) #

Slashdot adds ads to their RSS feeds — blecch #

Kottke on "A Whole New Internet" — expanding on Andre's original thoughts #

Disney developing Pirates of the Carribean MMO — I'm still waiting for Disneyland in Half-Life 2 #

Rosie O'Donnell's Flickr photos — she also moved her Blogspot blog to her own domain #

Pixel mural from Masters of Magic for MS-DOS — creative, retro, and obscure; I love this kind of thing #

Make a ring out of a coin — technically illegal, or is it? (via) #

How big is Jesus? — JWZ runs the numbers (via) #

MP3: Audio from Jeff Tweedy and Lawrence Lessig's "Who Owns Culture?" presentation — 45 MB of goodness (via) #

Retro-style RPG based on Columbine massacre — extremely offensive; don't shoot the messenger (via) #

UC Berkeley professor exaggerated laptop scary story — shocking! (via) #

TVTorrents closed down — they make reference to a costly settlement (via) #

Chris Ware to self-publish future work — including new issues of Acme Novelty Library! (via) #

Photos from "I Am 8-bit" gallery exhibition — looks like photos of every artwork (via) #

Comparing blog links to major newspapers — as a percentage of their print circulation, Christian Science Monitor is the most blog-friendly (via) #

Edward Tufte closing "Ask E.T." forum — for someone so brilliant at information design, the design of the forums is lacking; whoops, this was from 2004 #

Dangerous Hacker! — too good to be true, but I'm hoping (via) #

Adrian's Greasemonkey compiler — turn any Greasemonkey script into a standalone Firefox extension #

Matt finds video of a TV networks' emergency drill — an entire terrorist black plague scenario, with experts, eyewitnesses, and reporters in the field #

Japanese Pepsi promotion with tape rolls of Super Mario Brothers levels — and a lovely collection of bottlecaps; or buy the tapes and caps on eBay (via) #

Bastard Tetris for Linux console — algorithmically chooses the worst possible bricks as you play #

Neat idea for combining Google Maps satellite view with A9's storefront view — someone please do this (via) #

Flash: Guess-the-Google — wonderful game based on Google Images collages (via) #

Congress confuses file sharing with manslaughter — explosive headline, but these draconian lawmakers are in the industry's pocket and they need to be stopped (via) #

The New Pope condemns rock music — he hates the Eagles, so he can't be all bad; original Times UK article from 1996 #

Katamari Damacy 2 co-op play — plus, a much better split-screen mode (via) #

RIAA's open extortion, assisted by Comcast — "we obtained your personal data without consent, now give us $4,500 or we'll sue you!" #

Greasemonkey: Amazon Free Music helper — convert Amazon's MP3 links to direct downloads (via) #

Adaptive Path on the New Internet — things are getting exciting again; also, I'm honored Upcoming.org made the short list of highlighted examples #

BBC interview with Steve Meretzky about Infocom's Hitchhikers Guide text adventure — one of the best, but hardest, games they ever made (via) #

Jason Scott's Last Straw collection — a small collection of "last post" messages written by fed-up project maintainers (via) #

Video: Katie Couric interviews Rogers Cadenhead, Popesquatter — brilliant and funny, especially the ending #

Emulate a Texas Instruments calculator on your Nintendo DS — brilliant early hack, with an innovative use of the touchscreen (via) #

Podscope, full-text search engine for podcast audio — works surprisingly well, though only for words in its dictionary; plastic returns results, but not blog (via) #

Image: Meanwhile, Back at UCB — pixel comic about the Berkeley laptop thief (via) #

Evan Williams to blame for Google's recent problems — if you don't know why this is hilarious, read the comments (via) #

Google Maps on TiVo — nice HME hack by the founder/CTO of Strangeberry #

Processing 1.0 beta released — very neat programming language for designers and artists (via) #

Yahoo Images search for "O'Reilly Radar" — are the O'Reilly folks big M*A*S*H fans? (via) #

Wired's Why Google Is Like Wal-Mart — for some perspective, try Fast Company's article on Wal-Mart's business practices (via) #

LiveJournal usage statistics by state — 4.5% of Massachusetts has a LiveJournal account (via) #

Firms paid Today show tech editor to promote products on-air — $15,000 each from Apple, Sony, HP, Epson, and Creative (via) #

Prison terms on tap for 'prerelease' pirates — Congress approved bill allowing three years of prison for sharing one prerelease movie, program, or song #

Aaron Swartz accepted into Paul Graham's Summer Founders Program — Y Combinator is funding startups over a summer period #

Pointment — online meeting scheduler, but some screenshots would be nice (via) #