Nitrate fertilizers are causing increased shark attacks — one of nature's stranger chain reactions #

Matt Webb announces "Brain Hacks" book for O'Reilly — a practical companion to Mind Wide Open (via) #

Video: TV Funhouse's banned primer on Media Monopoly — aired on "Saturday Night Live" only once and censored by CBS; complete transcript (via) #

Image: Doom 3 floppy install — in reality, it would take over 1,200 disks #

CIA Asks Bush to Discontinue Blog — hmm, it looks like Typepad #

Googling for credit card numbers — made possible by Google's number range operator (via) #

RSSCalendar, freeform calendars by RSS — if they had an API, I could tie it into Upcoming.org (via) #

James Harry's Week in Review — obsessively analog cousin of Newsmap (via) #

How Much Gold Is Inside Goldschlager? — here's the bootleg RSS feed for Cockeyed (via) #

Trixie's eight months of sleep pattern data — visualizing a newborn baby's sleep patterns #

BattleTorrent project proposal — Downhill Battle's pitch for a simpler BitTorrent experience #

Wired News on porn blog spamming — Blogspot is an unlimited resource for spammers (via) #

Beta Band breaks up — they never seemed to like their own music (via) #

TextCat language guesser — try the demo (via) #

Archive of '96 Election campaign websites — when will that Clinton guy stop flip-flopping? (via) #

NewsIsFree's News Map visualizations — requires Java, but here's a screenshot (via) #

Google News source statistics — top 10 sources account for 66% of all Google News stories (via) #

eBay's digital music auctions are a big failure (via) #

Sega announces Shenmue Online — also, you can play Shenmue with the Chankast emulator (via) #

Fark.com secretly sells their homepage story links — Shirky has more thoughts on this fundamental violation of reader trust #

Sniper rifle modded into WiFi antenna — shoot packets up to ten miles away (via) #

phpBB Blog — blog add-on for phpBB forums #

DirecTV makes moves to drop TiVo — it'll be fun to compare the UIs of the NDS and TiVo #

Video: "Team America" trailer — Matt Parker and Trey Stone's political action/comedy with marionettes (via) #

Mario Paint Music Compo — make songs with Mario Paint for the SNES (via) #

Something Awful's Honest Album Titles — the best ones are toward the end (via) #

NYT on invention to walk on water  #

Video: "Thriller" music video in Second Life MMO — they used a pale woman for Michael Jackson's part (via) #

Jazz preservation difficult with iTunes — problems with performers, reissues, album art, liner notes, and more (via) #

Flash: Peasant Quest — Homestar retro adventure game in the style of King's Quest, plus a walkthrough (via) #

Wired News on Last.fm Internet Radio (via) #

Life Lessons from the Super Mario Bros. Instruction Booklet — another great McSweeney's list (via) #

Subservient President — MoveOn's parody of Burger King's meme campaign (via) #

Snopes on sugar in the gas tank — it won't destroy your car #

Doom III leaked onto Usenet and BitTorrent networks  #

Guest on the "Ali G" show gets upset — watch the interview in question #

Spoofing the Firefox 0.9 UI — could be used by evildoers (via) #

Review of PS2 Curry House simulator — like the Beef Bowl simulator (via) #

JibJab files lawsuit for right to "This Land" parody  #

EmoteMail — e-mail client with subtle visual cues for facial expression and typing speed (via) #

Museum of Hoaxes on Clubbo.com, the fake indie record label — elaborate prank, with MP3s from every fake band #

Toronto Star's entire 1945 archive — the comics archives are wonderful, but the interface stinks (via) #

Hilarity Ensues! — you'd think Fark would be the #1 result #

Young girl stumbles on Perl.org Journals, hilarity ensues — they thought the posts were autogenerated by a Perl module #

iPod helps police nab car thieves  #

Wikipedia on l33t speak — pwnz0r3d (via) #

Battle of the Bugs — Newsweek's 1987 article about information theft (via) #

Video: Oh, Danny Bot — ode to a robot going off to war (via) #

Kokogiak's badass Amazon Kneejerk Contrarian search engine — whipped together with the Amazon API and some glue! #

Video: Return of the Jedi's new ending — I'm 99% certain this is not a hoax #