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) #

Trapped on a boat with Journey, REO Speedwagon, and Styx — what, no Hall & Oates? (via) #

Weblog Snapshots — with PyObjC and webkit, source code to follow #

All Music Guide Corrector extension for Firefox — brilliant, it fixes some of the crappy usability issues #

The Social Computing research lab list — interesting work coming out of these places (via) #

Eric's son was born 1 pound, 7 ounces — the brave man is posting daily updates (via) #

Silly pie charts — like the alphabet and empty supervillian threats (via) #

Lame hotel wifi uses censorware — and they're blocking my site! (via) #

Image: Google circa 1960  #

SharpReader 0.9.5 released — still my feed reader of choice #

Star Wars Galaxies expansion adds multiplayer space travel (via) #

Ringo Starr's Japanese leisure suit commercials from the mid-1970's — with backing vocals by Nilsson and Davy Jones #

MP3Blogs Aggregator — the full-text feed is brilliant, but brings up ethical issues of hotlinking (via) #

The Hundred Thousand Gallon Restaurant — also: water-ghost Pac-Man maze, poetic Braille, Lego Tape, and more #

Daryl proves you should never talk politics with your parents — heartfelt story of a mother-and-son argument (via) #

Coffee Cup Watermarks — yet another Half Bakery idea is fully baked (via) #

Flash: Megaman vs. Ghost n' Goblins — perfect fan-made mashup of the two classic NES games (via) #

BLT-scented candles — I'm hoping for bacon-scented perfume next (via) #