Wired News on Cameron Diaz's Fleshbot cease-and-desist — lawyers are the bane of the free Internet #

Tutorial to creating isometric pixel art — draw in the style of eBoy (via) #

Alice's Adventures Under Ground — Charles Dodgson's the precursor to Wonderland (via) #

Smoking Coins (via) #

Debate on news website registrations — BugMeNot is just routing around damage (via) #

Video: Escher-inspired Audi commercial — read more about the production (via) #

Free Shell Accounts — learn Unix without a commitment (via) #

What the President is Not — as taken from his public statements, but one's missing (via) #

Microsoft buys Lookout — I'm with Sippey, this seems like an unusual buy (via) #

The Business of Social Avatar Virtual Worlds — problems with creating virtual worlds like Habitat, There, and Second Life (via) #

Matt's idea about letting friends correct your site — using trusted networks, why not? #

How to Sell the Same Startup Twice — sell for $80 million, buy back at $2 million, sell again for $70 million #

Ground Zero typo caught after two years — never forget (via) #

Possible Follow-up Songs for One-Hit Wonders (via) #

Java: The Shape of Sound — neat visualization for any uploaded MIDI file (via) #

Ari Paparo on Evite 2.0 and Upcoming.org — some interesting thoughts #

MP3: The Conet Project — legally download the entire collection of shortwave numbers stations #

Buck Truck, the Rappin' Trucker — oddball album from 1990 for download (via) #

Google to add audio and video search (via) #

Gawker Media gets a C&D for Cameron Diaz sex tape — for simply linking to the video website; will they go after Google next? (via) #

Flickr and Feedburner to develope photo syndication standard — two great companies working together #

How to make a Firefox extension — also helpful: creating a Mozilla extension (via) #

Video: Cutie Honey trailer — I don't what the movie's about, but I like it #

BitTorrent beats Kazaa in traffic numbers  #

Snopes on the London see-through loo — the infamous restroom made of one-way glass #

DOOM 3 goes gold! — official street date is August 5 #

Webcam foils Florida burglary — the teens were busted by a friend watching the cam in Kentucky (via) #

Golden Apples of the Sun — gorgeous compilation of indie neo-folk, listen here #

Wonkette prints all the Outfoxed "Fox News" memos — the basis for the upcoming documentary (via) #

Australian children survive six days as castaways — a tragic (and cinematic) story of survival (via) #

eBay to allow digital music downloads — only for approved sellers, though (via) #

Micro-Heros — comic superheroes in the style of Stor Trooper avatars (via) #

Internet Archive's RSS feed of all new additions — or by media type (audio, video, text) or collection name (feature films, etree) #

Metafilter turns 5 today  #

Wired on NYT's poor web archiving policies — or: "why nytimes.com results will never show up in Google" #

Andrew Anker joins Six Apart — and Mena steps down as CEO #

Tibetan mandalas, drawn by fifth-graders — don't miss Nick's inspired description (via) #

The history of Tired.com (via) #

Julie Fidler's transcribed teen diaries from the 1970s — on my birthday, she watched Sonny & Cher's "Good Times" #

Jimmy Carter's diaries of daily minutiae — on my birthday, he watched Robert Altman's "Nashville" #

Why Is Antifreeze So Delicious? (via) #

Cassini, the open-source Sega Saturn emulator — new, powerful, and supports many commercial games #

Wizard of Oz world for Second Life — the game community is endlessly creative #

Blocking MT comment spam with mod_rewrite — spammers can spoof referers, but most probably don't #

Google Predictions — some great ideas here #

PHP 5.0.0 released (via) #

Smarter Image Hotlinking Prevention — use PHP and mod_rewrite to redirect hotlinks to a targeted page (via) #

BBC on Poly Play, the Cold War-era German arcade machine — it's one of the few legal MAME ROMs (via) #

S&M Barbie — where's the Submissive Ken doll? (via) #

Sony to unveil Playstation 2 (sic) next May — whoops (via) #