Tetris shelves — $7,000, cheap! (via) #

McDonald's employee hassles McCafe photographer — there are even more McCafe photos on Flickr; here's a review of the first store in 2003 (via) #

Flickr upgrades free accounts, drops price of Pro accounts — and they gave me another year of Pro service and two extra Pro invites for free #

Kottke rounds up blog responses to the Adobe-Macromedia deal — some great thoughts from Om Malik, Dave Shea, and others #

Chicago transit map overlay on Google Maps — a brilliant hack; I'd love to see this for all major metros #

Jokes with Realistic Endings — "What's worse than finding a worm in your apple? The Holocaust." #

MovableType 3.16 released — a big point release with hundreds of bug fixes and tweaks, including removing the nav-commenters.gif #

Upcoming.org libraries for Perl, PHP, and Drupal — also: 43 Things' neat Upcoming integration, and some groups switching from Meetup #

More details on Will Wright's Spore game — very drool-worthy playspace for gamers with a God complex (via) #

Classic arcade pegboard kits — I had this idea years ago, glad it's finally baked (via) #

TiVo in talks with Yahoo, Google — maybe for recording web-based video searches, but also some buyout rumors (via) #

Gamestop buys Electronics Boutique — another huge merger, for $1.4 billion in cash and stock (via) #

Adobe buys Macromedia! — all-stock buyout for $3.4 billion #

1up's roundup of nextgen console details — what we know, so far, about each upcoming console (via) #

Flickr network analysis, March 2005 — continuing his amazing work; I'm curious about the United Arab Emirates' insular adoption of the site (via) #

Knowspam shutting down in June? — anyone know the backstory here? I thought they were doing well #

Pretty in Pink sequel was an April 1 hoax — this one fooled the blog world, including me (via) #

PlaceSite — location-specific social network websites, only viewable by people within range of a single wifi access point #

Freetag, an open-source tagging/folksonomy framework for PHP/MySQL — we use it on Upcoming.org, and I designed the logo; read more about its creation #

Rojo feedreader goes out of beta — I'd been beta-testing it, but their features aren't notably better than Bloglines (via) #

Skinning Del.icio.us with Safari's PithHelmet extension — kinda like Greasemonkey for Safari #

Marc Hedlund's notes on building CodeZoo — essential read with great advice for building a web app with a small team (via) #

The Freesound Project — like Flickr for audio clips, all with waveforms and CC licenses #

FM Publishing, John Battelle's new blog publishing company — Boing Boing will be its first property (via) #

Yankees' Gary Sheffield scuffles with Boston fan — even better: first-person cameraphone photos of the fight, from the guy in this photo #

HTTP in tha House — generate a freestyle flow from the text of any webpage (via) #

Metafilter user passes away — Matt comments that Eric Osterhoudt is the first death he's aware of #

Video: Frogger-themed Jeep commercial — very clever (via) #

Binary Search Engine tracking — unusual visualization of search engine crawling; compare to their original approach for URIs #

MP3: NWA's "Straight Outta Compton," with everything except profanities removed — also: the edited version of Fuck Tha Police is a long 42 seconds (via) #

Michael Buffington working on a secret project with Adaptive Path — using Ruby on Rails, too; this should be interesting (via) #

MP3: Kleptones, "Bo Rhap" — from last Christmas, their massive mashup of Bohemian Rhapsody covers #

Great tutorial to wirelessly load homebrew code onto your Nintendo DS — requires a GBA flash cart and specific wireless cart; this is the start of the homebrew DS scene (via) #

Amazon adds keyword frequency and text stats for books — someone at Amazon has tag-envy #

NYT on Amazon's expansion into on-demand book printing — not true on-demand like the Bookmobile, though #

Downhill Battle's new DTV and Broadcast Machine projects — they're trying to develop an open-source platform for painlessly distributing and watching high-quality video online, built on Blog Torrent (via) #

Google Video Upload Program — just launched minutes ago; read more about the video program and Windows uploader (via) #

Robot Co-Op adds Upcoming.org support on 43 Things — also, Whedonesque just switched to Upcoming because of Meetup's new fees #

Fingerprint Maze — art installation that scans your fingerprint and turns it into a 3D maze (via) #

MFX's Aether, amazing PC graphic demo — if you have a fast PC and a good video card, try this; it just blew my mind #

Meetup to begin charging monthly fee — event organizers will pay $19/month to arrange meetups (via) #

Britney Spears pregnant — Stereogum offers up some composite predictions #

Sproutliner — sharable online outlines, like OmniOutliner for the web (via) #

Chris Anderson on the mainstream media meltdown — music, TV, radio, newspaper sales all down; movies, videogames, web all up (via) #

Ben Heckendorn's homebrew N64 portable — cute comparison between the N64p and the DS (via) #

Buzztracker — visualizing frequency and relationships between locations in Google News international (via) #

Greasemonkey User Script Repository — it's getting massive; read Jeremy's long update about moving it to Userscript.org #

Archive.org's public domain Superman cartoons — from their vintage cartoons collection (via) #

JSimpleton, a Z-machine bot for the Idle Thumbs message boards — I'd love to see someone adapt this to phpBB #

Psychonauts demo released — from the creator of Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, and co-creator of Day of the Tentacle #