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) #

MPAA tracks a DVD pirate to a Shanghai penthouse — exactly what they should be doing, instead of suing their fans (via) #

Build your own PBX with Asterisk — $13 for a complete PBX, minus the phones (via) #

Battelle on new Google Desktop Search — includes a floating search bar and an API for plugging Google search into any Windows app #

NYT Magazine profile of Beck — he discusses Scientology about half-way through (via) #

Livejournal of an anonymous Apple Store "Mac Genius" — insiders say Apple is furiously searching for the identity of this guy #

Coherent essay on the Google Autolink controversy — it's about a fear of Google (via) #

Dualis, a new Nintendo DS emulator — no commercial games yet, but plays the existing homebrew demos (via) #

CSS Zen Garden screenshots — visually browse the garden (via) #

Trumba — new event calendar startup from the creators of Visio; they're still in private beta, but here's a sample calendar (via) #

Dr. Demento Show fan site — 95.3% of all shows online for free download (via) #

Paramount/MTV Films making biopic about Napster creator Shawn Fanning — with the screenplay written by Bill & Ted's Alex Winter (via) #

McSweeney's "Who's on First?" (via) #

Bumptunes — tilt your Powerbook to control music playback (via) #

Rex's roundup of online viral marketing campaigns — plus, congrats on the NPR appearance #

Batman's Greatest Boner — from Batman #66 in 1951 (via) #

Fred Durst sues Gawker over stolen sex video — worst celeb sex video ever (via) #

Twinoo, left and right brain game — though I can't play it because I'm colorblind (via) #

Google adds weather search — here's my local weather (via) #

Wired on Clear Channel's Indie 103.1 — I covered this back in December 2003 (via) #

Cameron Marlow's MT-Keystrokes — comment spam MT plugin that uses keystroke counting with Javascript #