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) #

MP3s of dental surgery sounds (via) #

Jason Gulledge needs a job in Little Rock — he's a smart guy, go hire him #

Did Rumsfeld really ban cameraphones? — original source may be a news satire site #

Iraq Authority website hijacked from think tank's design — compare and contrast #

List of all popular googlebombs (via) #

Video: Cooking and eating cicadas — the poor guy can only eat every 17 years (via) #

Die Duckomenta, German art gallery of Disney-centered pastiche art — mock historical artwork centered around Donald Duck #

P is for Programming Your Kid — from Greg Allen's blog for new dads (via) #

Trixie Tracker — hosted version of the baby analytics software powering Trixie Update (via) #

Gilligan's Island, the reality show — I wish this was a joke #

Flash: Spiral Motion Aftereffect — good explanation of the effect (via) #

McDonalds tries out DVD rental kiosks — they tried this before, but it didn't catch on (via) #

Book agent seeking out bloggers (via) #

European P2P users unfazed by lawsuits  #

Downhill Battle Labs — the software arm of the copyright activism group #

Ringtones and Torture Pictures Want to Be Free — Jeff Veen weaves a common thread between two weekend stories #

Futurama Panoramas — stitching still frames together, like robot porn #

Simpsons finale pokes fun at blogs, indirectly  #

Dave on the Washingtonienne (via) #

GeekMan action figures — where's GeekGirl? (via) #

Rumsfeld bans cameraphones in Iraq — fighting weapons of mass photography (via) #

Maniac Mansion Deluxe — Windows 256-color remake of the classic Lucasarts game #

O'Reilly's Inside the Atari 2600 Homebrew Scene — the second page has interviews with five 2600 gods (via) #

Abandoned japanese island of Gunkanjima — many interesting photos (via) #

Windows 95/98 emulated on Pocket PC (via) #

PS2 device adds MP3, DivX, CD-R and emulation support — unapproved by Sony, but sounds like an essential add-on (via) #

WordPress 1.2 released — tons of new changes, fueled in part by the MT licensing changes (via) #

There.com scaling back consumer service, ending updates — I wrote about them six months before their beta launch (via) #

IGN's Best of E3 — their platform-specific lists are better than the overall (via) #

USA Today on album royalty rates — the excellent sidebar breaks down all record costs (via) #

Wonkette interviews Jessica Cutler aka Washingtonienne — it's a long story, that the media is picking up fast #

Cooking with a giant fresnel lens (via) #

The Straight Dope on the Ninja Death Touch — can I kill my enemies with one fatal blow? #

Cherrnobyl motorcycle story was partially fake — photos were real, but there was no solo ride #

"I chased you for 12 years around the world" — a "missed connection" of epic proportion #

Haughey on Boston Globe's misuse of the term "blog" — I loved blogging on BBSes back in the 1980s #

Leaked photo of the new Sidekick — due out later this year (via) #

Cereality, the cereal bar & cafe — I'd rather buy this than a Jamba Juice (via) #

Thousands may have human form of mad cow  #

John Woo to direct Spy Hunter movie — Midway to make a game based on the film based on the game #

Impossible Objects — the Rubiks Cube in a bottle is impressive (via) #

Bloglines Most Popular — link popularity tracking for the best web-based aggregator (via) #

Bill Gates backs blogs and RSS for business — Microsoft would love to crush Blogger under its heel (via) #

Flash: Tokyoplastic's AIWA Music Box — long download, but well worth it (via) #