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) #

See What You Share — weblog of confidential photos found on P2P networks (via) #

Veen on the user experience of the new Sony Network Walkman — Mossberg's review says it's no iPod #

Transcript of Michael Moore's showdown with Bill O'Reilly — they're both acting like children (via) #

Snopes on the Paypal Class Action — get a piece of the Paypal pie #

Skin Bags — synthetic human skin purses and accessories (via) #

Terra sells Lycos for $95 million? — down from $12.5 billion in less than four years #

Detailed essay on how wireless P2P videoblogging could challenge TV network news — TV networks are just well-moderated video aggregators (via) #

Pitchfork's Top 50 Worst Guitar Solos of the Millennium — too many to choose from (via) #

RIAA raids Indianapolis music store for mix-CDs — triggering a chain of events that led to their closing (via) #

OpenEEG Project — open-source software for do-it-yourself EEG devices (via) #

White House West with Will Ferrell — I don't mind political propaganda, as long as it's entertaining (via) #

AOL to broadcast new TV show previews — they lost 668,000 customers last quarter #

Nintendo shows final DS design — still looks too much like a Game & Watch (via) #

Slashdot IT's radioactive beige — it is the beige of the end times (via) #

Image: Star Wars autograph prices — Mark Hamill seems overvalued (via) #

Supermarketing, classic comic book ads — another gallery, with gems like "Polio Precautions" (via) #

Designing Games for the Wage Slave — summary: stop wasting my time (via) #

NASA's Cassini probe finds the Death Star (via) #

Search engine results for "Revenge of the Sith" — Yahoo is more timely, but Google is more comprehensive #

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends — gorgeously animated new show on the Cartoon Network (via) #

Four New Yorker essays on the 1992 DNC (via) #

Steve Garfield is videoblogging the DNC (via) #

Video: Segway Polo — equipment: a ball and $27k worth of Segways (via) #

Video: Hitchhiker's Guide teaser trailer — more mirrors in the Slashdot thread (via) #

Atari 7800 designers talk about Atari history — recordings from the Vintage Computer Festival #

Dave Shea on Design Theft — Zarquon's comments are worth reading #

Common practices between guru CSS blogs — an excellent survey (via) #

Redesigning a tableless Microsoft.com — I'm with Matt, he should go on the road (via) #

Acme Novelty Archive — new design, new URL, and much more Chris Ware content! #

Fatal car accident may have been caused by dashboard DVD player — they were watching "Road Trip" (via) #

Sifry's roundup of bloggers' unique coverage of the DNC — cameraphones, Photoshopping, and posting Gore's speech before he delivered it #

MSNBC Newsbot beta — Microsoft's answer to Google News (via) #