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) #

Dunstan redesigns 1976 Design — awe-inspiring attention to detail (via) #

Obsessive collection of prop and scenery photos from David Lynch's "Mulholland Dr." — from this impressive fan site, including location renderings (via) #

Engadget on the survival of Netflix — "open up or die" (via) #

MIT review of Japan and America as two "cultures of piracy" — you can rent CDs in Japan? (via) #

Flash: The Incredibly Evil Machine (via) #

1961 monster-movie trading cart set — also: monster flip movies, Weird-Ohs, and many others (via) #

New Yorker on government-funded cosemetic surgery for soldiers — 496 breast enlargements from 2000 to 2003 (via) #

NYT on Jeopardy master Ken Jennings — also: the Christian Science Monitor on Jeopardy and pub trivia (via) #

Background on the Pioneer 10 probe's plaque (via) #

Jon Haddock's "Cartoon Violence" resin figures — traumatic events rendered in the style of early 1930s cartoons (via) #

Doom 3 for the SNES — hmm, not as impressive as the preview screenshots (via) #

MMORPG subscriber growth stats — Final Fantasy XI is number one with a bullet (via) #

Video: Dance, Voldo, Dance — choreographed dance machinima performed with Soul Calibur (via) #

Eric Meyer on political parties — the flaws of a two-party, black-and-white nation (via) #

Artist paints giant Google screenshot — I like the idea of folding up web sites (via) #

The Chaos of English Spelling — or why voice synthesis is hard (via) #

Newsweek's profile of the new iPod — also: the companion puff piece on the iPod's success (via) #

Background on the immersive "A.I." movie net game — more information about the game (via) #

U.S. Orkut users upset at Brazilian takeover — there are nearly twice as many Brazilian users than American #

Image: Newsweek cover with Steve Jobs and the new iPod (via) #

Trac, open-source project management — combined software tracking, revision control, and wiki (via) #

Apple rumored to launch new iPods on Monday — thinner and cheaper? (via) #

Ask Metafilter on Internet addiction — I'm addicted to information #

Wired profile of eDonkey  #

Electric Etch-a-Sketch hack — controlled by a PC mouse (via) #

An Artificial Brain with 20 Billion Neurons (via) #

Toshiba to unveil TV-capable laptop — whoops, make that "labtop" (via) #

I/O Brush, video-enabled drawing toy — watch the demo to see how cool this is (via) #

Hilary Duff prank calls your friends — choose a name, message, and phone number #

Blockbuster Rentals beta — the rental retailer takes on Netflix (via) #

IMWatching, stats on your buddy list — stalk your friends over time (via) #

Flash: Eskiv game — I got a high score of 140 (via) #

271 UK TV commercials from the 1980s — download 'em all in one giant torrent (via) #