37 Signals' Intro to Using Patterns in Web Design — a simple guide for laying out usable sites #

Video: Extreme Unicycling — they manage to make unicycles look cool (via) #

I Am Learn, blog written by a Perl script — a cousin of R Robot, created by Peter Cooper (via) #

Luxology's Modo — very innovative new 3D modeling app for Mac and Windows (via) #

How MP3.com identified unknown bands based on user data — fascinating analysis with insights into music marketing (via) #

A Mario Sprite History — excellent evolution of 2D Mario characters (via) #

Ask Mefi on concepts that don't exist in the English language — this thread developed nicely (via) #

Video: Simon Robson's "What Barry Says" — best animation winner at the 2004 Brooklyn Film Festival (via) #

Image: AOL's new brand identity? — triangles everywhere! (via) #

Plink.org creator taking FOAF app offline — because there's no way to opt out of FOAF (via) #

How Six Apart got their funding — hmm, smells like a scam (via) #

Image: Best Team Portrait Ever — warning: this is a bit gross (via) #

Insane console collection on eBay — games sold separately (via) #

Six Apart gets second round of VC funding — from August Capital, Andrew Anker's former firm #

Cheney mixes up .com with .org, hilarity ensues — he meant to say this, but actually said this (via) #

Budweiser's new caffeinated beer — with the awful name "B to the E" (via) #

New Meetup.com much more flexible — no more restrictions on venues, dates, or topics #

Cameron's VP debate analysis — Edwards' "american people" and Cheney's "fact of the matter" #

Snap.com, new search engine with sortable results — the live refined queries are nice, but a stupid linking policy (via) #

Flash: Zoom Quilt — it's also available as a slideshow and movie (via) #

Installing OS X on the Xbox — using PearPC, of course (via) #

Wired on "The Long Tail" of the economics of scarcity — the biggest money is in the smallest sales (via) #

Flickr, "So Meta It Hurts" — photos of Flickr on Flickr, like this one #

Image: Eruption in Progress — new activity on Mount St. Halen #

DropCash via C# and .NET — drop-in Dropcash support for your Windows apps #

Evan Williams leaves Blogger — maybe he'll become a chef, too #

Graphic Novel Review — a promising new journal that takes graphic novels seriously (via) #

The Effect of Country Music on Suicide — the Medicine winner of the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize (via) #

SpaceShipOne wins the $10 million X Prize — commercial space travel just got much closer (via) #

Red Blue, mobile GPS utility that shows you nearby campaign contributions — like a Geiger counter for local political bias (via) #

Gmail adds Atom notifications, Drafts, and Contacts (via) #

Google needs to retain newly-rich employees — 60% of their workforce are new millionaires (via) #

Kotaku, Gawker's new gaming blog — also: they launched Screenhead and Jalopnik, which is sponsored by Audi #

Mirrordot, automatic Slashdot mirroring — attempting to dilute the Slashdot effect (via) #

Spaceballs sequel in development (via) #

Jeopardy's "Blogs" category — links to the questions for all five answers (via) #

Image: NYT's excellent map of Iraq attacks in September — Tufte would be proud (via) #

Nintendo DS final packaging — with the stylus, can you use the DS as your PDA? (via) #

Disneyland souvenir book from 1960 — check out the pre-Mansion "Haunted House" sketch and the park map #

GNUmobile, a modded Oldsmobile — you can drive it from the commandline #

Shirky on the essential elements of all social software — groups and conversation are the very basics (via) #

Washington Post may buy Slate from Microsoft — the NYT should buy Salon and get rid of subscriptions (via) #

Penny Arcade on Katamari Damacy — the game completely sold out across the country! #

US Census shows recorded music replaced by other media — piracy is only part of the story (via) #

The Strangerhood, machinima sitcom using the Sims 2 engine — from the people that created Red vs Blue (via) #

Alan announces Amazon Light 4 — he ties Amazon web services into Delicious, Gmail, Dropcash, Blogger, Netflix, iTunes, and more #

Cameron's Presidential Debate Analysis — crunch your own stats with his Debate Spotter tool #

Peter Molyneux apologizes for features cut from Fable (via) #

FPGameRunner, a treadmill for first-person games — get a workout while playing Doom 3 (via) #

Sam and Max 2 team form new studio — they may be releasing the cancelled sequel on their own #