Stormtrooper Fairyland Wedding (via) #

Piracy's Own Punishment — if mostly young people pirate, the industry will cater only to old people #

Netflix as social psychological experiment — people choose virtue over vice for simultaneous viewing (via) #

Washington Post profile on Washingtonienne — they're a little late to the story (via) #

Olympics shut down online streaming radio stations — distinguishing between online and offline radio licensing is dumb (via) #

Excel-based RSS reader — this is disturbing and wrong (via) #

Lord of the Rings My Little Pony — Dazzle Surprise of the Nazgul (via) #

Blogger adds search navigation bar to all unpaid Blogspot weblogs — and removed all of the ad banners (via) #

How to make a scale model of a city — next: how to make it into a Quake map? (via) #

Technorati cosmos spammers (via) #

MP3: WWE wrestler John Cena freestyling about the NES — he's surprisingly well-versed in the subject (via) #

Fijuu, real-time performance environment using 3D objects as instruments — it boots from a standalone Linux CD (via) #

Nature magazine on the urban maze — or read the "Networks and Cities" paper (via) #

Mom helped five-year-old son smoke crack — from a homemade bong made from a baby food jar #

Top 10 Black Metal Publicity Photos — rule #1: don't be evil #

Suprnova Light mirror scripts — also: this Suprnova search engine is nice (via) #

Novelty shaved head designs — lightning bolt! (via) #

Wired Style no longer capitalizing "net," "internet," or "web" (via) #

Food stamp recipients receive educational videogames instead of pamphlets (via) #

Playboy's open source mirrors — "I read it for the source code" #

NYT on Warner Brothers' marketing to MP3 bloggers (via) #

Feedster prepares ads in RSS feeds — I actively dislike ads in RSS feeds #

2004 Olympics website's silly hyperlink policy — whoops, I just violated their Terms and Conditions (via) #

Paper Napkin, a rejection line for e-mail (via) #

Retrozone, vintage console controllers modded to USB — for $24 each, these USB NES joypads are a steal (via) #

Mozilla team verifies Goat Cheese bug — the lighter side of browser programming (via) #

The Great Meatshake Experiment — one brave soul tries chicken, beef, and ham Meatshakes (via) #

Ask Mefi on emotional videogames — has a videogame ever made you cry? #

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) #