Mayday Mystery texts — read about the history of the weirdness (via) #

CMP blocks Google News referers — when corporate paranoia affects your readership (via) #

Flash: Die Wagenschenke game — try not to fall over while stumbling home drunk (via) #

Moblogging within Second Life — take "photos" within the virtual world and post them to your blog #

Drunk Driving Rampage — amazing gallery of destruction #

Election Night Drink Specials — get your local barkeeps added to the site #

Webcam Music Box — Lego webcam reads printed barcodes for playing MP3 albums (via) #

MP3: Fiona Apple's "Extraordinary Machine," title track off her shelved new album — local mirror here #

AV Club interviews Nellie McKay (via) #

Screen-scraping with PHP 5 — scrape any poorly-formed HTML using loadHTMLFile #

The Onion's Guide to Celebrity Weblogs — what, no Wil Wheaton? (via) #

GBAX 2004, Gameboy Advance coding competition results — the winner is an excellent TurboGrafx 16 emulator #

Comdex 2004 is cancelled — maybe they can team up with Lollapalooza #

Induce Act draws key support in Senate — the Act makes me physically ill (via) #

Get notified when Googlebot indexes your pages — neat and simple idea #

Spamassassin Beats CRM-114 in anti-spam shootout — here's a good summary of the results #

ASCII art conversion of "Deep Throat" — 55 minutes of text-based smut (via) #

Early Xbox 2 spec leaked — could be fake, but appears legit (via) #

Google Pagerank Checksum Algorithm — if you want to port this to Perl or PHP, please contact me ASAP #

Kempa on more vinyl oddities — laser turntables, album scanning, human groove recognition, and DIY album pressing #

Punctuation errors in "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves" — copy editing the copy editors (via) #

Rivers Cuomo's Myspace profile — it's real, he posts new MP3s like "Tomorrow" from Annie (via) #

Doom 3 release date set for August 3 — I can't believe it's going to beat Half-Life 2 to market #

T-Mobile Sidekick 2 preview — what, no Sidetalking? #

Image: Rob Conger's "Marshall McLuhan," anamorphous hook-rug portrait — view his entire rug portfolio and a short film about him (via) #

Lollapalooza 2004 cancels all dates — poor ticket sales, but I blame the String Cheese Incident (via) #

Zelda Classic — Zelda clone with better graphics and a mapmaking community (via) #

Google plans to reveal some of its code — also, they're tripling their staff in the next year (via) #

Spam forces blind users to give up on e-mail — they listen to subject lines one at a time #

NYT on David Huffman's curved paper structures — here's a nice gallery of modern origami (via) #

WiFi-blocking wallpaper (via) #

Vivendi Games closes Sierra offices — death of another classic game company #

NYT on Imagination Environment — art project that searches Google Images for text found in closed captioning (via) #

Sorting Algorithm Visualizations — if you think this is cool, you're a nerd #

Snopes on those obnoxious "Word of Mouth" spams — someone is researching your background! #

Folderblog, drop-dead simple PHP photo blog or gallery — the default template is clean and simple (via) #

Werkkzeug, tool to create amazing real-time 3D graphic demos — see also: Conspiracy's Addict software and Moppi's Demopaja #

Ask Metafilter asks, "Why have kids?"  #

Michael Chabon's "Amazing Adventures of the Escapist Vol. 1" — B&N has Chris Ware's gorgeous cover sans watermarks (via) #

SpaceShipOne test succesful — first manned private space flight #

FCKeditor, inline DHTML text editor — works in IE, Netscape and Moz (via) #

Torrentocracy, a BitTorrent RSS plugin for MythTV — download new torrents with your TV remote control #

Bizarre Rev. Moon coronation ceremony held in Senate office building — I'm hosting the video on my BitTorrent tracker #

Scans of Scottish broadsides — the tabloids of the 18th and 19th centuries (via) #

The Daily Show provides better coverage than most "real" news shows — Aaron breaks coverage of one recent story down #

Video: Graphics Then and Now panel — Will Wright, Jordan Mechner and Rand Miller talk about graphics history and future (via) #

Looking back at The Lawnmower Man — in these gyrospheres, we wear full cybersuits #

NYT on fact-checking Fahrenheit 9/11 — Moore wisely hired outside fact checkers (via) #

Dooce's Father's Day tribute — this makes me want to cry #

Baby Formula Taste Test — we're using Horizon, which also smells funny #