BlogTorrent 0.9 released — now with Mac support for the client and MySQL for the tracker #

Flash: Ball Revamped — I beat the 125 levels #

WordPress 1.5 released — looks impressive #

43Things' Popular Goals by City — the #1 goal in Los Angeles is "work on my abs" (via) #

First image posted to the web — found from this Ask Mefi thread #

Video: Dan Castellaneta and Harry Shearer on Conan o' Brien — from November 2002; also, here's the entire Inside the Actor's Studio episode with the Simpsons cast #

Google e-mails webmasters of sites blocked by robots.txt? — funny, nobody ever created the Forbidden Search Engine #

How I Saved the World from Armageddon — amazing two-year art project targets a random gamer; more info by the artists toward the bottom of the gallery page (via) #

Video: Lejo DJ (via) #

Libsyn, cheap podcasting hosting — charge only for storage, not bandwidth usage (via) #

EA blanks the word "Sega" from House of Pain's "Jump Around" — removed from the NBA Street V3 soundtrack (via) #

Flickr License Searcher — great tool for finding legal stock photos in Flickr #

NYT buying About.com for $410 million — seems overvalued to me (via) #

Python programmer catches burglar on webcam — the BBC covered the story (via) #

Sony sends a cease-and-desist to Beatallica — I'm hosting their torrents, and I won't take them down even if Sony tells me to; they're perfectly legal cover songs #

Daily Show slash fiction — I love the Internet (via) #

Hasbro releases light-up basketball hoop "with Firewire technology" — I love that they claim a trademark on Firewire #

Video: Daily Show segment on blogger journalism — brilliant coverage, here's a partial transcript #

Spid.ero.us — social bookmark comparisons, including Japanese Delicious clones! (via) #

Today Show covers the Numa Numa video — Matt Lauer dubs him the new Star Wars Kid #

Typographica's favorite fonts of 2004 — Galaxie Polaris is lovely #

Katamari Damacy hand puppet — they should make vinyl action figures, too (via) #

Parent's guide to computer slang by Microsoft — darn those "online videogame bullies"! (via) #

The return of the Kottke webcam — wait, where's the monkey? #

Video: Thundercats — fan-made short film, complete with CGI effects and leather pants (via) #

Sleater-Kinney begs people to stop pirating their new unreleased album — the release date is three months away?! your biggest fans are pirating it because there's no legal alternative (via) #

MPAA cracking down on fan fiction sites — for using movie-style ratings to grade mature content in fanfic #

Acme Novelty Toy gallery — the Chris Ware cutouts actually work (via) #

American Idol blocking fast-forwards on Comcast DVRs — get ready to hear more of this #

They Might Be Giants releases second kids' album, Here Come the ABC's — buy direct online from the band, or watch the videos #

Interview with Mark Jen, the fired Google blogger — Mark confirms Google has no blogging policy (via) #

MSNFound, MSN Search's new viral web game — no matter how good the game may be, it still forces you to use MSN (via) #

NY Daily News on the "Numa Numa" lip-synching teen — the video is sent to me by e-mail and IM several times a day #

Buffington updates his asbestos blog experiment — he doesn't mention any numbers, but it was very profitable #

eBay prototype for the TiVo HME — "buy this TV show now, no reserve!" (via) #

Jamie Zawinski on the Hula project — make software for users, not for managers (via) #

43 Folders' Five fast e-mail productivity tips — I'm following this advice too late, cleaning out 590 messages from my inbox #

Boxer on NBC's 'The Contender' kills self — though not the first reality show suicide #

Crunching the stats on 8 years of e-mail — Slashdotted, but the Google cache works (via) #

Mapping iPod sightings in a stroll through NYC — 32 iPods in a 30 minute walk #

Great study of weblog tools market share — Richard's summary of the findings are excellent; Six Apart has 40% of the market with their three tools #

Internet Explorer 7 beta due out this summer — for some reason, this reminds me of Netscape Communicator (via) #

Audio of Robin Williams ranting on Disney, Pixar, and the iPod — "don't have to work for The Mouse no more" #

Fark buys 1-day rights to rename the Fleet Center — the winner, in typical Fark style #

Museum of Comic Art's Now Then! — 25 comic artists compare modern works to childhood drawings (via) #

Todd Dominey's SlideShowPro — Flash slideshow works with Flickr, $20 cheep #

New popular sites in Del.icio.us — basically, Blogdex for Del.icio.us (via) #

Hula Project — nice looking open-source calendar and mail server built in PHP, initiated by Novell (via) #

Everything Tori — the best-designed official artist website I've ever seen; includes the complete songs from every album, RSS feeds, and it's valid XHTML! #

Mule Design redesigns Six Apart — looks great, runs on MovableType (via) #