Mario and Zelda Big Band Live — the full album for download from Phancy #

Top searches for Michael's anonymous blog — sadness and despair from anonymous posters (via) #

Command-line blog interface (via) #

New Harry Potter book called "The Half Blood Prince" — from Rowling's official site, more instructions on viewing it #

eBay auction of Ashton Kutcher's screen name — Ashton gets punk'd (via) #

Apple Tiger server to include bundled blogging software — they're bundling Blojsom (via) #

Transform your toaster oven into a PVR — extreme(ly silly) case modding (via) #

Steve Jobs announces RSS reader for Safari — here's a Quicktime preview (via) #

117 kindergarten kids photograph the alphabet (via) #

Mercury News on Plain Layne hoax — bugmenot (via) #

Video: Van Halen's "Eruption" on a violin — holy crap! #

Gmail notifier for Firefox (via) #

Tokyo subway people packers  #

Anil on mob justice online — he's proposing more constructive action than a pile-on #

Kottke redesigns — new homepage, tour, and archives #

Universal Studios attraction videos — one megafan tapes all the rides and shows, back to 1990 (via) #

Mountain Dew's Spy vs. Spy commercials (via) #

Infocombot in the Boston Globe — ha, "Waxy Enterprises"!? #

"Fahrenheit 9/11" NFO file — the cammed bootleg is spreading online, fast #

Fahrenheit 9/11 set to become top-grossing documentary of all time — Justin Hall posted a good mixed review #

"Felix's Nephews Inky & Dinky" #1 — also, watch these vintage Felix cartoons from the 1930s #

Followup to the "Clueless Childless Couple" story — Alex does the research, finds it wasn't accurate #

Video: Heat Vision and Jack — I'm hosting the infamous Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Owen Wilson TV pilot #

Senate passes toughened copyright laws — including the anti-camcorder law #

Glassdog diagnoses Dave Winer — sociopath, or at least empathy-deficient #

Today's two NYT op-eds on file-sharing — here's the other one, both advocate blanket licensing (via) #

Nationmaster's Mortality statistics — the rest of the site's stats are amazing (via) #

Flash: Swinger game — left and right to move, space to jump (via) #

Flash: The Animal Alphabet — you know, for kids! (via) #

1000 Characters — obsessive doodling (via) #

Flash: J. Otto's "Alice in Wonderland" — more about the pop-up book (via) #

Bill Gates may start blogging (via) #

Bearskinrug Compositionals — the submissions are nice (via) #

Update on the Plain Layne hoax — including the confession, inspired by Kaycee Nicole #

EFF's Prelude to a Fake Complaint — Induce Act makes the iPod illegal #

Chart of popular P2P artists with little or no radio airplay  #

Wired News on the "Inducing of Copyright Infringement Act" — it's inducing me to vomit #

Half Life 2 may arrive in August too? — Valve reacts to Doom III ship date (via) #

New Bjork album is entirely acapella (via) #

Video conferencing at 35,000 feet — Kottke's worried about security (via) #

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 #