Video: High-quality Legend of Zelda trailer — some of the best graphics I've ever seen (via) #

Web of Letters — generates an alphabet using Yahoo's image search API #

Video: The Contraption — excellent Rube Goldberg chain reaction, in the style of Honda's Cog commercial (via) #

A Century of Candy Bars — thesis on the history of candy bar wrapper design (via) #

Kasparov retires from chess — tired of getting beat by computers, maybe #

Japanese gallery of art in psychiatric advertisements — the surreal Serenace ads are the best (via) #

Flickr to add photo printing through EZ Prints — Ofoto and Shutterfly, watch your backs (via) #

The long tail of software — not just search engines, books, and music; also, user-written software (via) #

Flash: A New Bunny — very offensive language, but very funny commentary on the new Bugs Bunny (via) #

Luxpro Super Shuffle — or: how to get sued by Apple in five minutes flat #

Paul Graham on how to start a startup — only five references to Lisp this time #

Firefox extension uses phone numbers to find driving directions in Google Maps — clever hack (via) #

Microsoft buys Groove Network — Ray Ozzie becomes Microsoft's new CTO (via) #

Blockland — massively multiplayer Lego building game (via) #

PVRBlog interview with Lanovision's creator — already getting popular in the Yale dorms #

Start.com, Microsoft's web-based feed reader — a very early sandbox version, with no Firefox support (via) #

Video: Wonder Showzen teaser — remember the Kids Show pilot? this is the final product airing on MTV2 #

Video: Spike Jonze commercial for Adidas — dreamy (via) #

Algorithmic colorization of photos and videos — amazing and elegant technique (via) #

German Spiegel plagiarizes Wikipedia article — I hope they catch Encarta next #

Linus Torvalds switches to Apple — not what you think; he's still running Linux, but now on a dual G5 (via) #

MP3: Ted Leo covering Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" — don't miss the acoustic performance videos on UGO, as well #

Tim Bray on why blogging is good for your career — counteracting the trend of fired for blogging stories (via) #

Make a portable NES for under $75 — using those crazy bootleg NES joysticks from mall kiosks (via) #

Dot-Con Job — Seattle Times' amazing expose on the lies behind Infospace.com (via) #

Technical analysis of Google Print — has anyone made software to crawl Amazon's Search Inside? (via) #

Gamespy reveals details of the Xbox Next — three 3.0 GHz PowerPC CPUs and standard DVD media (via) #

Lan-o-Vision Beta — stream video to anyone on your LAN; like iTunes for video (via) #

Yahoo! Publisher Network — eh, I was pretty close (via) #

Arizona teen first to be convicted under state laws for illegal downloading — in the last sentence, they mention he sold the downloaded movies; that's a huge distinction #

Video: Katamari Damacy speedruns — the first ones ever, AFAIK; they're at the bottom of the page #

Zopa, like eBay for loans — UK only and a fascinating market experiment (via) #

BitTorrent 4.0 released — here's a list of the recent changes #

My mom fights to save community college journalism — in case you don't read my main weblog, a free speech issue that hits home #

Mac Genius Livejournal deleted — anyone know why? the entries are still cached on Bloglines #

Blogspot being systematically exploited by spammers — I'm sure they're working on this as we speak #

Technorati censoring employee blogs — they want to review individual entries? #

White House approves daily pass for blogger — reading about the experience is better than the briefing itself #

Blog Torrent adds support for server-side seeding — guarantees your torrents will always be available, at a bandwidth cost (via) #

Fiona Apple's new album leaked online in its entirety — you'd think Sony would learn from the recent past #

How to snatch an expiring domain — a small glimpse into the expiration process and the services competing for drops (via) #

Wall-sized whiteboards for $13 — this is a steal (via) #

Jon Udell screencast on the on-demand blogosphere — the inevitable future of RSS requires tools for managing a social network of feeds #

MP3: We Built This Starbucks — terrible Starbucks corporate version of "We Built This City"; other corporate anthems #

AllofMP3.com escapes criminal lawsuit with legal loophole — Russian criminal law only applies to physical goods (via) #

Video: Bram Cohen lecture at Stanford — covers benchmarking BitTorrent with an Internet simulation (via) #

Video: Still Seeing Breen — a Half-Life 2 machinima music video with a lip-syncing G-man (via) #

SXSW on your iPod — 2.6GB torrent of free songs by showcasing bands at SXSW (via) #

Video: Robot dinosaurs — life-size walking robot dinosaurs built for World Expo 2005 (via) #

Veerle's lovely CSS calendars — expect to see this on Upcoming.org very soon; also for reference, PHP Calendar (via) #