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 #

Photos of the Bodie Ghost Town — nicely preserved mining town from the late 1800s #

Gothamist launching LA-focused LAist.com — finally, we'll have good L.A. events on Upcoming.org (via) #

NetNews Tracker, Usenet search agent — deliver daily search results from Google Groups by e-mail #

The source of the famous "My Pet Goat" story — as read by George W. Bush on 9/11 (via) #

iPod Mini Wedding Cake — heh, a "cakemod" #

Audio: The Delgados cover ELO's "Mr. Blue Sky" — very pretty #

Google bans Gmail swaps and sales — this should still allow sites like Gmail Swap #

Gamecritics interviews E3 "booth babes" — the guys are generally scared of the women (via) #

Underdog Webloggers 2004 — list is too pundit-heavy, so I nominated five of my favs in the comments #

Flash: Titanic in 30 Seconds, with bunnies — not as good as The Shining or The Exorcist (via) #

MSNBC on the "Fahrenheit 9/11" BitTorrent leak — correction: it's terrible quality, by any standard #

Microsoft drops paid inclusion for MSN Search — it's still no Google #

NYT on political video games — including the best one of all time, Bushgame.com (via) #

Implanted device relieves man of hiccups — stimulates the vagus nerve to permanently stop hiccups #

Salon on the Photoshopping of the President — how a software application brought political satire to the masses #

Night vision goggles foil Chatsworth teen's effort to bootleg Spiderman 2 — despite this, the telesync was released yesterday (via) #

Chess Boxing — finally, a well-rounded sport (via) #

Newthings on STALKER and the wave of realism in games — 3D modeling the mundane and the ordinary #

Erik posts the Tiger desktop widgets — some require Safari to run, though (via) #

Audio: new Rilo Kiley songs ripped from KCRW — these are so very good, thanks Leonard #

Anti-Moore site urging people to download "Fahrenheit 9/11" — it's a low-quality video, which may encourage more people to pay for it #

Jabber support in OS X 10.4's iChat  #

Flash: Japanese counting game — click the numbers in order, as fast as you can #

News.com on Kazaa's declining popularity — eDonkey and BitTorrent are gaining #

Video: Talking dogs  #

MAME teaser for Konfabulator — screenshots and marquee slideshow from the original arcade games #

Apple's Rendezvous for Windows preview (via) #

$130 homebrew PVC Flamethrower — highly dangerous, but the animations are stunning #

Second half of the "Fahrenheit 9/11" transcript — the first half, in case you missed it #

Stanford engineer says Orkut code was stolen — he claims that Orkut borrowed the code from a company they co-founded #

Flash: Michael Clague's AOOA — more inexplicable Flash toys (via) #

IGN buying Rotten Tomatoes — brace yourself for ridiculous advertiser tie-ins on RT (via) #

Flash: Color in Motion — excellent and fun animated guide to color theory (via) #

Mark Poyser's Threetwoone Diagrams — the connections between countries, Wall Street, descendants of Adam, and more (via) #

EFF decides on 10 patents to fight — they're fighting companies using their unfair patents to sue (via) #

Dance Dance Revolution leads to arcade heart attack (via) #

First half of "Fahrenheit 9/11" transcript — Drew found a biased error in the transcript #

Friendster switches to PHP — much faster than JSP (via) #

Coudal redesigns — big headlines are a reaction to the tiny type trend (via) #

Altoids' weird Wario Ware homage  #

Video: 1939-1940 New York World's Fair — the screenshots alone look great (via) #

"How to Avoid Flamewars" by Dave Winer — coming soon: Courtney Love's "Guide to Responsible Parenting" (via) #

City Pages interviews Plain Layne — so that's what Rex is doing instead of updating his blog #

New Jersey court says customers may take IP addresses away from ISP — that's like taking your ZIP code with you when you move #

Free frappuccinos at Starbucks tomorrow — well, free "samples" anyway (via) #

Lines on Paper's comic artist business cards — nine pages of goodness (via) #

Wired tracks the "Bill Gates" e-mail hoax to its origin — excellent detective work #

Free Wired magazine subscription — it doesn't even ask for your e-mail address #