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 #

Google.com removed from Google's index — a temporary bug, I'm sure, but curious #

Ed Helms Is Not Matt Haughey  #

Three new songs off Rilo Kiley's "More Adventurous" — only streaming, unfortunately #

O'Reilly's Make Magazine — Readymade for the geek crowd, edited by Frauenfelder (via) #

Cameron on a new comment spam tactic — promoting the Pagerank of an abandoned blog to promote other sites #

Doom 3 Hardware Guide — looks nice even at 640x480? (via) #

Woman handcuffed and jailed for chewing candy bar in D.C. Metro station (via) #

Pirate Screenings magazine on film piracy from 1975 (via) #

British RIAA going after MP3 blogs (via) #

Gettingit's "Body Bazaar" from 1999 — people are trading kidneys in the comments #

GmailXP — Windows client that replicates every Gmail function (via) #

Top 10 Game Videogame Cover Art — some of my favs: Katamari Damacy, Ico, Maniac Mansion, and Bureaucracy (via) #

NYT on DIY drive-ins — with optional iPods for radio receivers #

vBlog Central — drag-and-drop Java client for easy videoblogging (via) #

Dynamism, imported next-gen Japanese gadgets — the Sony video/MP3 player, insanely thin notebooks, tiny subnotebooks, and a credit card-sized cameraphone (via) #

Paul Graham's wonderful essay on "Great Hackers" — Teledyn has a good rebuttal (via) #

Test your reading speed — I'm between 350-400 words per minute for both tests (via) #

Atari CX-2000 prototype — a failed successor to the Atari 2600 (via) #