Halo 2's subliminal trailer and web game — from the people who made the AI Game #

A great story of racial harmony in the DC subway (via) #

Total Asshole Compression — reverse compression, makes all your files much much bigger (via) #

Audio: William Shatner's "The Common People," Pulp cover (via) #

Brooklyn Superhero Supply — Dave Eggers' new East Coast counterpart to 826 Valencia (via) #

KoalaRainbow, visualization engine for MovableType 3.0 — lovely examples (via) #

Oxymoron dictionary (via) #

MovableType 3.0 Plugin Contest winners — congratulations, Jay! some of the others sound excellent (via) #

Snopes on the NOPLATE and MISSING license plate owners — they should just leave the field blank #

The KITT Dashboard Project — obsessive 20-year project to draw the Knight Rider dash (via) #

Dagwood on Detournement (1981) — also: Terry and the Situationists and more weirdness #

"Mortal Kombat: Deception" preview — it can't decide if it wants to be a fighting, adventure, chess or puzzle game (via) #

Guardian UK on Guerilla Gigs — flash mobs with a purpose (via) #

Industry group says pirate CD sales hit record 1.1 billion — as P2P usage increases in Taiwan, pirated CD sales have decreased (via) #

.htaccess Generator (via) #

You Have Bad Taste in Music — personally, I wouldn't lump in JT with the others (via) #

Dancing with Myself, profile of Kansas City's DDR subculture — read the community's reaction to the article (via) #

MP3: Of Montreal's "Know Your Onion" Shins cover — many more on their official site (via) #

Kottke's HTML version of the 9/11 Commission's report — or download the lovely PDF #

Vintage video game commercials  #

Video: Iron & Wine, "Naked As We Came" — whoops, I think I took Todd's server offline (via) #

Verizon to introduce Net-based phone service — competing with Vonage #

Small California newspaper gives control over content to local residents — this is a brilliant experiment #

eBay auction for an original KITT car from Knight Rider (via) #

GD graphics library supports GIF again — because the awful Unisys patent expired (via) #

List of sites with a Pagerank 10 — i.e. Google's highest-ranked websites (via) #

Retired carpenter rediscovers how the pyramids were built — with photos and video (via) #

Snopes on the five-year-old Peruvian mother — she gave birth in May 1939 #

MPAA and NFL team up against TiVo's TV-to-PC plans — PVRBlog has good comments on the story #

Official Doom 3 benchmarks — I'll shut up about this game on August 3 (via) #

Vintage 1960s TV clips about the hippie movement — highlights: discussions of the future and an unknown Joni Mitchell #

Monkey turns bipedal after near-death experience (via) #

Technorati teaming up with CNN for on-air coverage of the Democratic Convention — the CNN press release has more info #

UK High Court rules modchips illegal  #

Krisky Kreme announces glazed donut-flavored drink (via) #

Image: Waxy.org blocked by crappy SiteFilter proxy — Matt has a roundup of other blocked sites, including Blogger.com #

Spamusement — cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines (via) #

Why did Microsoft buy Lookout? (via) #

Four inmates escape, go on two beer runs — and they came back to the prison, twice (via) #

Censorzilla, dirty words in the Netscape source tree (via) #

Platform Jumping, tiled animated GIFs — from the b3ta crew (via) #

BookMachine — kiosk to download and print books on demand #

Katamari Damacy coming to US! — September release and original soundtrack! #

Fast Company's excellent profile of Whole Foods (via) #

Anil on leaving New York — San Francisco is the perfect median between LA and NYC #

Camera fiends — the reactions to the first cameras and cameraphones are identical #

Infoworld's RSS traffic resembled DDOS attack — on the hour, every hour (via) #

Doom III minimum requirements — with these, you can see the Doom III Interactive Slideshow (via) #

Verizon announces home fiber pricing — 15Mbps for $50/month sounds good to me (via) #

Musical preferences of computer geeks — ridiculous study, but amusing (via) #