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) #

Tag-o-Vision combines 50 Flickr photos into one average image per tag — the Python source is available, too (via) #

Google Code — just announced, centralizes their open-source projects and APIs #

Podshanking, kludge to direct copy audio from one iPod to another — using an iTalk, so slow and without metadata, but I love the spirit behind it (via) #

George wants a Firefox extension turning all popups into click fraud — evil idea of the day #

Pimp my Shuffle — hacking an iPod shuffle into a pair of headphones (via) #

Code v2.0 wiki — collaborative effort to update Lessig's essential Code book (via) #

Toyota launches record label — the music industry, flailing to find a way to survive (via) #

Washington Post on Creative Commons — some unlikely mainstream media coverage (via) #

BoingBoing Butler — Greasemonkey script to remove all non-content from BB (via) #

NYT on newspapers closing their archives — the irony is thick; they argue for pay archives throughout (via) #

Goombah — Mac app to provide music recommendations by comparing available iTunes shares; uses BitTorrent to transfer profile info around (via) #

New Dr. Who leaked online deliberately to build buzz — someone "leaked" a TV pilot recently by sending me a DV tape in an unmarked envelope #

Screenshots of Will Wright's Spore game — insanely expansive scope, simulating every scale from amoeba to galaxies (via) #

Game Gardens — build and host your own multiplayer games with a Java toolkit! from the brilliant people behind Puzzle Pirates (via) #

Comcast and TiVo finally team up — good for TiVo, but great for Comcast customers because their PVRs suck #

Hand-powered iPod shuffle — useful, if you're stranded on a deserted isle #

Flickr Postcard Browser — beautiful way of browsing images #

Butler Firefox extension rewrites Google — Mark Pilgrim's Greasemonkey add-in comments on the autolink controversy; I contend both uses are perfectly legit #

Clocky — an alarm clock that hides from you every day after hitting snooze (via) #

Yahoo 360° beta — Yahoo's entry into the blog and social networking market, without Flickr or Six Apart? (via) #

GoogleX — Google's silly little tribute to OS X (via) #

SXSW revokes press passes for Chunklet and others — for drawing attention away from SXSW with popular day parties #

Yahoo Research's Tech Buzz Game — fantasy prediction market for high-tech trends (via) #

Apple developing 2-button mouse — finally seeing the light, and making Macs even more attractive to PC users (via) #

Google Local adds business registration tools — makes perfect sense; "manage your own damn info!" (via) #

Beatallica suit dropped, band coming back — thanks to Lars Ulrich, of all people #

A9's OpenSearch — add in any third-party search service into A9 #

Amaztype, generates words from Amazon thumbnails — for example, hacks (via) #

Sifry updates his blog stats — Technorati tracks 7.8 million blogs, with 30-40k new blogs created every day #

Flickr version of the Web of Letters — edit the URL to change the letters #

AIM's new Terms of Service waives right to privacy — and grants AOL the unconditional right to use your conversations any way they want (via) #