Der Spiegel's contest to become the next web meme — it's very difficult to force a meme #

Spider-Man's Greatest Bible Stories — don't do drugs (via) #

Sparklines on the Observer blog — nice visualization of incoming links over time (via) #

Unhappy Birthday, report copyright infringements of "Happy Birthday" to ASCAP — reminds me of Send Them Back (via) #

Copyright laws keep TV shows off DVD — including my favorite example, music licensing in WKRP #

Phil Ringnalda on the Yahoo API — "Google: Yahoo just ate your lunch" #

Church Sign Generator gets lawsuit threat — a very funny misunderstanding (via) #

Yahoo announces Web Services — outstanding; pb wrote up a quick tour and an example utility #

Florida Project, free vintage Walt Disney World font — several more free Disney fonts, and a comprehensive font list (via) #

Video: Chris Landreth's "Ryan" — this year's Oscar winner for animated short; a surreal biography #

Dave Winer's worst nightmare — handy bookmarklet to rewrite Scripting.com in the spirit of Google AutoLink (via) #

Phil's roundup of niche product forums — there are many, many more, but these are some of the best #

Greg Knauss' damp pants — oh, and bundt cake; I miss EOD #

Image: First Person Shooter — very clever (via) #

Video: Chris Ware on French documentary series about comic artists — Kempa went to huge efforts to get the episode online #

Halle Berry attended Razzies ceremony to accept her award — "I want to thank Warner Brothers for casting me in this piece of shit" (via) #

Jef Raskin, Mac visionary and interface pioneer, dead at 61 — read some stories about Jef (via) #

Gameboy emulation on MP3 players — runs on Archos, iRiver, and Gmini players (via) #

Scene.org Awards 2004 nominees announced — the cutting-edge of algorithmic PC demoscene art #

Seattle radio playing new Fiona Apple tracks — you can download them here and here; let me know if these disappear and I'll mirror them #

Jason Scott from Textfiles.com is archiving every podcast he can find — so far, about 7,500 different files taking up 75 GB (via) #

Numa Numa Gary resenting his web fame — hmm, this sounds strangely familiar #

Flickr's new logo — very cute response to all the buyout rumors #

Nevada Girl, Japanese murder becomes Internet meme — from last year, but new to me; don't miss the three pages of fanart depicting the murder #

Google Maps now works with Safari and Opera — we knew about Safari yesterday, but Opera is new #

GeoURL 2.0 beta launches — now managed by Ask instead of Joshua #

Michael's tribute to Another World — one of my favorite games of all time #

Appcasting — great idea for using RSS 2.0 enclosures to deliver software updates (via) #

Blinfolded Pianist's Mario Fantasy — free album of NES videogame themes on classical piano; the Super Mario World I theme is my favorite #

Wall Street Journal growing irrelevant because of its online strategy — they'll survive off of subscriptions, but will lose influence over time (via) #

Simon thinks Wikinews isn't very good — I agree with all of this; as much as I adore Wikipedia, broadly covering daily news is a very different beast (via) #

Hiring the A-Team through Craig's List — some of the responses are classic, and scary (via) #

Blink-O-Rama, TV screenshots of people blinking — also: Flickr's blink tag (via) #

Glassdog responds to Dave Winer's criticism of Evan Williams and Odeo — to be fair, Dave's site is non-commercial so he can get away with no design #

Blog of a Comedy Central intern — the daily churn of fetching coffee and editing jokes for the Daily Show (via) #

Nathan Torkington compares local search engines — Yahoo and Google were the best, A9 and MSN the worst #

Tony Butcher's obsessive collection of collections — he has no shortage of shelf space (via) #

Flash: Nanaca Crash — some instructions and tips in English (via) #

flicReplacr bookmarklet — highlight a word, click bookmarklet, and it displays a Flickr image tagged with that word #

Why Anil Dash is a Kottke.org micropatron — this sums up my reasons for contributing, too #

Ev Williams on Odeo, his new podcasting startup — the NYT wrote about them this morning #

Beatallica shut down by ISP?! — it's not even infringing material! has the world gone insane? #

Harmon Leon goes to dinner at Applebee's with white supremacists — also: Mister Pants' Harmon Leon archive and his other SF Weekly columns #

Video: This Place Sucks — Justice League meets Office Space mashup (via) #

The Gates in Second Life — and much cheaper than the real thing (via) #

Eric Ward e-mails Yahoo's Jerry Yang in 1994 — patient zero of the SEO plague #

Flickr, Yahoo deal rumored — I've been hearing these rumblings, as well #

Google Movies vs. Keanu Reeves — some creative queries with the Google's new movie support #

Hints of a Google Calendar? — though they haven't started crawling Upcoming.org's iCal feeds yet (via) #

Disney to re-release Song of the South in 2006!? — wow, I came about *this* close to posting the whole thing for free download last month (via) #