Video: Mad Hot Ballroom trailer — adorable documentary about a children's ballroom dancing competition (via) #

Wired News on the therapeutic and educational uses of Second Life — some very interesting social experiments in the game world (via) #

EasyTree BitTorrent site shut down — unlike Suprnova and its ilk, this one hosted only commercially unavailable bootleg concerts #

Henry Blodget buys bootleg DVDs in Shanghai — a brief story about a DVD shop pretending to be a restaurant (via) #

Sploid — Gawker's new tabloid-style blog; in your face, Drudge! (via) #

Amazon redesigns book detail pages — also: Alan's much larger annotated screenshot on Flickr (via) #

Tasting Music — table that plays CDs without even opening the case (via) #

Defective Yeti reviews Doom board game — surprisingly positive review (via) #

Image: Flickrland — play "Where's Waldo" with 74,000 Flickr buddy icons #

Prodigem begins offering paid BitTorrent service — pick a price, upload your torrent, and buyers pay with Paypal to download #

Star Wars fans won't move line in protest — even though they're standing in front of a theater that won't play Episode III #

Burning Man camp on Google Maps — also: Dave! (via) #

Matt Haughey's annotated Google Map on Flickr — it inspired a new Memory Maps group #

Upcoming.org adds search, e-mail invites, and more — we've been cranking on the site; go check it out #

Maciej on Paul Graham and other blowhards — I love a spirited rant #

The Erotic Diary of George Wendt — an inspired part of TeeVee's brilliant April 1 prank, if you missed it #

Google Maps adds satellite photos! — insanely cool to switch back and forth (via) #

The Annotated New York Times — tracking NYT stories with real-time reactions from blogs (via) #

Implausible Claims Made by Vanilla Ice in "Ice Ice Baby" — "Turn off the lights and I'll glow." (via) #

Thurston Moore on the power of mix tapes — don't miss the last graf; "trying to control music sharing ... is like trying to control an affair of the heart" #

Joe vs. the Volcano creator wins Pulitzer Prize — strangely, AP doesn't mention "Joe" at all #

IRC on the PSP — cute on-screen keyboard; coming soon, PSP AIM (via) #

Stereogum on Pretty in Pink sequel — John Hughes directing; will the very depressing Breakfast Club 2 be next? #

Yahoo API adds term extraction from documents — wow, I could imagine using this on many projects unrelated to Yahoo (via) #

Video: DJ Format, "3 Feet Deep" — music video inspired by Konami's rhythm games (via) #

Independent developers claim wireless DS tunneling by April 11 — hard to believe, but here's an interview with them (via) #

The Thumb-sized Heart of TK the Cat — Paul Ford is a great writer, and this made me sad (via) #

How to port your blog to Gopher space — the finished product was one of my favorite April 1 gags #

Tetris and Pong on a mechanically scanned display — persistance of vision with quickly rotating LEDs (via) #

Business Week on tagging — nothing new here, but the most mainstream coverage so far (via) #

"I Am 8-Bit," retrogaming art show at L.A. gallery — here's a small gallery of inspired artwork (via) #

Best Buy to stop mail-in rebates within two year — Circuit City and CompUSA to follow (via) #

Free stock photo roundup — a great guide to finding free stock photos online (via) #

Stopdesign redesigns — try refreshing a few times for tributes to Kottke, Cederholm, Dominey, and Santa Maria #

Video: King Kong cast and crew discuss "Son of Kong" sequel — Andy Serkis, as Son of Kong, will fight the Nazis in WWII; a brilliant and convincing prank #

NASA photo of water on Mars — also: Life on Mars #

John Woo to direct Katamari Damacy movie — The Rock signed on to play the Prince of All Cosmos #

YagooHoo!gle — looks like the merger rumors were true #

Del.icio.us Colors — looks like those big VC bucks are already paying off #

UC Berkeley folklorist and hoax expert Alan Dundes dies while teaching — this is terribly sad, he was one of the best teachers I've ever had (via) #

Half Life 2's Gabe Newell leaves Valve to pursue music career — I think he has a chance #

MP3: New Foo Fighters' single, "In Your Honor" — Grohl is pushing the envelope with their new sound #

zoDiacS — Nintendo DS emulator for the Tapwave Zodiac #

Bloggy, the first automated blogging robot — Bloggy's blog is more interesting than 80% of human blogs #

ThinkGeek announces new products — including the executive Pong set #

The Commentator, utility to automatically comment your code — see also: the Herman-Miller Pairon chair for extreme programming #

Homestar Runner's Pay Plus — only $12.95/month #

Apple founder Jobs joins IKEA — "in every Mac home, a Waenka" #

Urgo's list of April Fool's websites — like last year, this is the ultimate reference for Internet Jackass Day 2005 #

43 Folders' April Power Hacks — "16. Consider using a desk." (via) #