Video: Lego Spider-man 2 — very professional, commissioned by Lego and Sony Pictures (via) #

Josh Santangelo on Spiceplay, the social networking porn site — the site launches on Saturday (via) #

Wikipedia hits 300,000 articles  #

Bloglines redesigned — the best web-based feed reader (via) #

Pac-Mondrian — Rhizome's Mondrian art-style remix of Pac-Man (via) #

Technorati tracks 3 million blogs — 15,00 new blogs created every weekday, 275k posts/day #

Snopes on terrible Ohio car crash video — watch the video #

Flickr adds moblogging — the site keeps getting better (via) #

Nintendo announces new classic NES reissues for the GBA — SMB2, Zelda 2, Metroid, Kid Icarus, Castlevania #

Layover.org, "In my Place" — upsetting personal blog from someone living with HIV (via) #

Powerpizza, pizza box-shaped laptop case (via) #

Golfing across Mongolia, Par 11,880 — one man golfing across 2.3 million yards, 1300 miles #

Japanese open source company's oddball ads — don't miss the link to the video #

"Joey" pilot leaked online three months early — I saw the release on a BitTorrent tracker and assumed it already aired (via) #

New York Post publishes wrong Kerry VP pick on cover — a "Dewey Defeats Truman" moment (via) #

Blogory's personalized RSS feeds — interesting recommendation service (via) #

Kerry/Edwards news was leaked online last night — on an aviation message board #

PearPC co-author passes away (via) #

NYT on the software politics of the 2004 presidential race — Democrats using open source software, Republicans using Microsoft (via) #

Evaluating Windows XP Service Pack 2 RC2 — new firewall on by default, IE addon manager, and automatic updates (via) #

NYT on Giant Robot — they're opening a restaurant, too? (via) #

New Yorker on radio payola and "spot buys" — record labels are gaming the Billboard charts (via) #

Bootleg RSS request service — $2 to get an RSS feed of any site (via) #

Audioscrobbler Weekly Charts — somewhat random, but should improve over time (via) #

RSS FedEx Package Tracker  #

Anil on track to win this month's SEO Challenge — he'll win a 17" flat panel on July 7th #

The Fray's "Fireworks" — anecdote from a politically-charged 4th of July #

LA Weekly rounds up media's treatment of Cheney's "fuck" quote — only the Washington Post spelled out the direct quote (via) #

Michael Moore approves of "Fahrenheit 9/11" downloads — spread it far and wide, but don't charge for it (via) #

Nintendo Famicom papercraft (via) #

Video: Super Mario theme on piano, blindfolded — he tackles several other NES themes, as well #

Justin Hall's review of the "Brick Attack" retrogame concert and fashion show — the Minibosses concert at L.A.'s The Smell (via) #

City Paper on dying online — everyone on my buddy list is still alive, fortunately (via) #

Bead art of retro videogame sprites (via) #

Suprnova mirror, ordered by subject — let the downloader beware (via) #

Getty Images' The Big Idea — short films made only from Getty's stock photos and video (via) #

Colin Powell joins the Village People — young man, put your pride on the shelf #

Google removes dictionary definitions from searches — never mind, they just added it back in #

Flash: Spark plugs? — prank phone call, turn up your volume (via) #

Rock, Paper, Saddam — caption silliness #

NPR Ombudsman on "Hip, but Inscrutable" music reviews — is he complaining about the reviews or the music? (via) #

Panasonic's vacuum-tube car CD/MP3 player — the Japanese homepage for the product (via) #

Browser exploits involving human reaction times — tricking users into executing malicious code with fake games and captchas (via) #

Marlon Brando died broke and alone — a tragic end to an excellent actor #

Facetop, desktops with webcam overlay — here are more photos and screenshots (via) #

Gmail as an online backup system — limited by the 10MB attachment limit, though (via) #

ASCII Rock — classic music videos converted to text and MIDI #

CAcert, free SSL certificates for everyone — I always wondered why certs were so expensive (via) #

New Chankast alpha supports Shenmue, Soul Calibur — amazing Dreamcast emulator gets even better #

ICO spawns Japanese novel — possibly the best game ever released for the PS2 #