NYT profile on Christopher Walken — he's an excellent cook #

Photos from the Mario vs DK ad shoot (via) #

Japanese collection of jazz album covers — also: vintage hi-fi magazines, mod interior design, and more (via) #

Photo gallery of Tokyo store window displays  #

Flash video for the Beatles' "Come Together" — by the French geniuses at Melon Dezign #

Eye tracking videos — including tracking eye movements on Google results #

U.S. missiles in the 1960s had a default launch code of 00000000 — and everyone knew the password #

Lushe, search only the sites you like — build a list of sites, search within it (via) #

Mocky's "Mickey MMFRS," music video made entirely with Google Images (via) #

Colecovision emulator for the GBA released — download the beta (via) #

The Daibijin, Japanese PS2 game — defend Okinawa from a giant girl in a bikini #

Tutorial to searching and downloading files on IRC — using the IRCSpy search engine (via) #

Teen plots his own murder in chatroom — he created eight characters to convince an older boy to kill him (via) #

Interview with Will Harvey, founder of There.com  #

CSS naming conventions on the websites of the pros — read the complete table (via) #

Audio tour of the Mac Plus  #

Strawberry Saroyan on Apple Martin and other fruity name  #

Image: Brandon Bird's "Lazy Sunday Afternoon" — my new Walken wallpaper, plus many more paintings #

Hasselhoff denies rap album rumors — Ice-T was joking about Hassel the Hoff #

Memory Hole website banned on U.S. Army PCs in Iraq  #

Warren Spector leaves ION Storm — many laid off, and they're switching to PS2 only (via) #

Google responds to the Gmail privacy issues — Battelle says Google smartly gave Gmail accounts to a bunch of journalists (via) #

Alien Swarm, a top-down space shooter mod for Unreal 2004 — reminds me of the side-scroller Quake 3 mod (via) #

Java: The Ladybug Game — fun, but aggravating, tile game (via) #

Chalabi's ancestry and Chalabi numbers — he received degrees from MIT and the University of Chicago #

New version of Netscape based on Mozilla 1.7 — finally, they made the switch (via) #

Brooklyn Camera Stores — documenting the fly-by-night storefronts advertising online #

iTunes Alarm Clock — trigger MP3s or playlists at particular times #

Rodeohead, bluegrass medley of Radiohead songs — here's a much faster local mirror (via) #

California Senate approved anti-Gmail bill — read the text of the bill #

Pros and Cons of John Kerry's Top 20 Candidates — I'm looking forward to a Kerry/Kutcher ticket #

New Yahoo toolbar removes spyware — for Internet Explorer only, though (via) #

Wired's profile of Nick Denton and Gawker Media — they pay their writers $2000 per month and a pageview bonus #

MTV won't air "Supersize Me" ads — there's another side to the story, though #

Alexa's popularity rankings of top U.S. sites dropping across the board — Alexa responds, explaining it's because of global competition #

Dave finds Washingtonienne lied about college degree and age — small stuff, but is she lying about the big stuff too? #

NYT reporter Judith Miller led the flawed Iraq reporting — she wrote or co-wrote 10 of the 12 problem articles cited by the NYT #

Flash: Bush Game, very entertaining political propaganda (NSFW) — Hulk Hogan, Mr. T and He-Man vs. Bush, Rumsfeld and Voltron (via) #

Grand Theft Auto phone conversation leads to bomb threat evacuation — don't talk and play, or get a 2nd degree felony (via) #

News coverage of the NYT Iraq retraction — the Times makes the news with the broadest retraction I've ever seen #

Ex-Nickelodean stars relate horrors of Green Slime Syndrome — punished for having the courage to say "I don't know" (via) #

OJR on bloggers influencing mainstream newspapers  #

Gish, original Windows platform game — watch the gameplay video and try the demo #

Rezedents Rights & Rispansabilities — withdrawn 1999 pamphlet by U.S. Department of Housing #

Why "American Idol" is always oldies night — because of royalties and clearance, of course (via) #

Gmail to POP3 converter — check your Gmail account with your e-mail app of choice #

Breedster Symposium — charts and animation analyzing trends in the unusual game community (via) #

Creative Commons 2.0 licenses released  #

Thursday's Frontline on the death of the music business (via) #

Strongbad Themepark — wait a few seconds at the end for the Jungle Cruise parody (via) #