Aruze develops Linux-operated arcade machine — meanwhile, Taito's using Windows XP for their arcade games (via) #

Give it up for Pam! — she wrote about my Lost Friends page and Upcoming.org #

RIAA Toilet Paper (via) #

Audio CD that plays an endless loop of random musical tones (via) #

OJR on blog transparency and trust — plus, a nice graph of Technorati data (via) #

Bjork opening the Olympics ceremonies (via) #

Bootleg RSS feeds for Pitchfork Media — finally, feeds for news and reviews (via) #

Light Speed, graphics app to simulate the effect of light speed on appearance — for example, a 1957 Chevy Bel-Air (via) #

RF shielding apparel — to prevent you from evil cell phone rays! (via) #

Microsoft shuts down SP2Torrent (via) #

Den Sen, neat unreleased game for the PS2 — also, some videos of a very early version of "Rez" (via) #

Advertising Plagiarism — side-by-side comparisons of pirated print designs (via) #

Beethoven's "Stairway to Heaven" — arrangements of Zep in the style of famous composers (via) #

Ubisoft's "Political Machine" game released — play the campaign manager for Bush or Kerry #

Mercury News profile on Brewster Kahle — he asked Google for a copy of their database (via) #

The TiVo LCD Project — hacking a show readout into your PVR (via) #

CirculaFloor, real-life holodeck floors — moving floors shift as you walk (via) #

Polystation, Panasoanic, Sonny, and Sanzyo — amusing Japanese knockoff electronics, like this fake PS1 (via) #

TV listings in RSS — this might come in handy for a BitTorrent TV project (via) #

Business Software Alliance asks kids to help name their new copyright-crusader weasel mascot — don't miss their new promo videos (via) #

Augmented Reality's Smart Projecters — real-time texture and color correction to project onto arbitrary surfaces (via) #

Open Audiobooks Project — distributed effort to record "Pride and Prejudice" (via) #

Inside Al-Qaeda's Hard Drive — remarkable research into documents recovered from an Al-Qaeda desktop PC (via) #

The Political Conspiracy BitTorrent Tracker — and one with politically-themed torrents (via) #

Ron Fedkiw's physics modeling videos — I can't wait for those water, mesh, and fire simulations in videogames (via) #

DVD Jon cracks Airport Express encryption — I love that guy #

Glassdog's complaints about BitTorrent — this is an essential companion piece to the BattleTorrent project #

Video: Mindgame trailer, new animated Japanese film — 2D, 3D, and live-action faces composited on animated bodies (via) #

Salon on TiVo-to-Go and BitTorrent TV  #

Video: Huge Japanese landslide caught on video — here's a smaller version without the commentary (via) #

Video: "Alone in the Dark" trailer — I loved the game, but this is the worst trailer ever #

Fark photoshops "What if Microsoft owned Nintendo?" — my two favorites (via) #

Morning News roundtable chat with six MP3 bloggers — Oliver has a great idea for official label MP3 blogs (via) #

Protester technology at the RNC — radio hijacking, mobile Wifi, backpack pirate radio, and aerial crowd photography #

Long Chris Ware audio interview from 2001 — shortly after the release of the Jimmy Corrigan hardcover #

Police investigating Daryl Kabatoff, and his mom gives more detail — he indirectly threatened me last year because of my post #

Yann Bertrand's Aerial Photos — gorgeous photos from "Earth from Above" #

Life-Size Mousetrap — photos from the giant recreation of the kid's game (via) #

Bookmarklet: Detect deleted Metafilter threads  #

Sprawl, experimental typeface based on Belgium maps — takes into account population density (via) #

Salon's feature on Six Apart and MovableType — strange, the word "cute" is nowhere to be found #

Stripe Snoop, free tools for analyzing magnetic stripe cards — what do your credit cards say about you? (via) #

TiVo saves Polyphonic Spree singer from airport arrest — microphone mistaken for pipe bomb, shutting down Dallas airport (via) #

Jason Scott on current geek documentaries (via) #

Japanese "Alice in Wonderland" cosplay — including several from Disneyland Tokyo (via) #

Video: Qua's "Devil Eyes" — bizarre, 8-bit style music video (via) #

Nelson researches the S.F. guy behind the fake beheading video  #

Windows XP SP2 BitTorrent site — BitTorrent meets the demand that Microsoft can't fulfill #

Saskatoon paper's profile of Usenet kook Daryl Kabatoff — I wrote about him back in 2002 #

Forbes thinks RSS is dumb — read the "Worst" section of the Standard review (via) #