Backpack, 37signal's new app — but what does it do? Writeboard is still brewing, too #

"White pride" news site in Google News — news sources are still hand-picked by Google Editors, right? #

Nazi forum posts by Minnesota school shooter Jeff Weise — he killed nine yesterday before killing himself; here's his Livejournal, too (via) #

New version of Ruby on Rails supports Ajax natively — don't miss Curt Hibbs' beginner's tutorials #

iPod Shuffle knock-off was a publicity stunt — Apple and the blog world fell for it, too #

Coudal's Crash Ballet 2 winners — Joshua Allen's entry is my favorite #

Friendster movie in development — Harold Ramis directing, so it can't be all bad (via) #

Video: Darkon, a documentary about LARPers — live action role-players, that is (via) #

The PC Forum Long Tail drinking game — I would've slipped into an alcohol-induced coma by day 2 of ETech #

Video: Grandaddy on "The Secret to Songwriting" — very enlightening #

Nintendo DS charging dock built from Legos — including game and stylus storage (via) #

Jon Udell's inspiring comments on Upcoming.org — read my response; I've committed to making some big changes by next Monday #

Using the Powerbook motion sensor to control Neverball and Google Maps — an extension of this article, don't miss the three videos (via) #

Rejected e-mails from the Snopes inbox — extremely gullible people ask Snopes to verify the truthfulness of jokes #

Slashdot redesigning with XHTML and CSS — don't worry, it'll still be just as ugly to look at (via) #

The Rhys-Davies Episode III Hoax — how a prank e-mail became fact, reported in the online and offline media (via) #

Flash: Kristan Horton remade Dr. Strangelove with household objects — here's an interview with the artist; warning, audio #

PSP Video 9 — download, convert and copy video to your PSP using BitTorrent and RSS (via) #

Ourmedia alpha launches — partnered with Archive.org, free tool to host and discuss grassroots media #

Image: No One Is Thirsty — courtesy of the new PBF homepage #

Video: The Secret of Bananas — a better-kept secret than the Yahoo/Flickr deal #

Barry Diller's Interactive Corp. buying Ask Jeeves for $2 billion — ridiculously overpriced #

PBS.org quietly enables trackback — but appears to only be using the ping info internally #

Yahoo buys Flickr! — it's official! more thoughts from Caterina and Jeremy #

Katamari Damacy coming to the Nintendo DS! — yay! #

How many 5-year-olds could you fight at once? — I love the Internet #

Gmail going public on April 1 — also: people have been exchanging Gmail invites for positive feedback on eBay (via) #

Video: Firefox TV commercial — gorgeous, but should probably mention the URL and what Firefox is (via) #

Hacking Google Desktop Search — remotely monitor other computers on your LAN (via) #

Audio: Google Autolink debate with Doctorow, Scoble, and Schwimmer — I'm still siding with Google on this issue (via) #

Livejournal added tags, too — update: it's just a new view of a very old feature (via) #

GoogleX mirrors — still no word on why Google removed it from their site #

French news agency sues Google News for infringement — in response, Google should change their pagerank to zero (via) #

Wikipedia hits 500,000 articles — and that doesn't count the multilingual editions or the other Wikimedia projects (via) #

Experimental Gameplay Project — Tower of Goo and Darwin Hill are great (via) #

Bla-Bla List recodes Ta-Da Lists in Java — it's devolving into a language war, but an entertaining one #

The Online Video Game Atlas — huge combined screenshots of video game maps (via) #

Livejournal adds podcasting support — this could be huge #

Funky Winkerbean character arrested for selling adult comic books — ripped from the headlines #

PyMusique, buy DRM-free songs from iTunes Music Store — DVD Jon strikes again (via) #

Six Apart's Power Tools — like Google Code, I love the trend of companies open-sourcing their internal tools (via) #

MP3: Shaun Inman's "What's the Word?" — lovely geek folk song, the guy is multi-talented (via) #

Five Questions to Verify if an Entity is a Robot — a low-tech Turing test #

Comic: The Warhol Factory Outlet Store — famous for 1500 people (via) #

Microsoft previews new screen fonts shipping with Longhorn — surprisingly tasteful, but how do they look at 9px aliased? (via) #

WSJ article on the history of yelling Free Bird at concerts — with accompanying audience clips from various concerts #

Defective Yeti's least hot followups — this made me laugh, repeatedly #

Photo tour of the Pixar offices — animators are encouraged to heavily mod their workspaces #

Chinese iPod Mini knockoff — first the fake Shuffle and now this; a sign of Apple's design influence overseas #

Make previews Odeo podcasting service — looks outstanding from the screenshots (via) #