Playfair, iTunes DRM remover (via) #

Wonderfalls cancelled — all the good shows get cancelled (via) #

Brutal File Manager — 3D first person shooter/file manager, with screenshots (via) #

Tomas on unfounded Gmail paranoia — my thoughts exactly #

Lessig responds to a Forbes columnist's attacks — the columnist calls Larry a "moron" and "idiot" (via) #

Live Music Archive hits 10,000 free shows — highlights: Cowboy Junkies, Doughty, Soul Coughing, Tenacious D, Ben Lee, Ben Kweller (via) #

Short quiz to stop comment spam — the end of comment spam is nigh! (via) #

NewsDesigner — blog written by an anonymous insider at a metro newspaper (via) #

Webjay, listener-created playlists of web music — great idea, but hotlinking MP3s is usually frowned upon (via) #

Image: two full-size screenshots of Gmail — Sippey has some good notes on the UI #

txtkit, visual text mining tool for OS X (via) #

SphereXP, 3D desktop replacement for Windows XP — the screenshots and video are bizarre (via) #

Background of the Mezzoblue-StopDesign April Fool's swap (via) #

Image: First real Gmail screenshot — it supports threaded messages (via) #

Japanese emoticons — horizontal, instead of vertical (via) #

Google moves to block RSS scraping — if you don't release an API, the net routes around it (via) #

Man proposes to wife with Atari 2600 game — geekiest marriage proposal ever, download the ROM (via) #

PDTP, P2P directory mirroring — complicated concept, but very practical applications (via) #

Mogi, location-based multiplayer gaming in Tokyo — sounds like this is the first fun example of the genre (via) #

Quake 2 mod displays as "Magic Eye" stereograms — this is insane (via) #

David Bowie to perform inside Star Wars Galaxies? — it was an April Fool's joke after all #

Xanga is more popular and viral than Friendster — it's about to break Alexa's top 100 most trafficked websites #

Kinja's terms of service boo-boo — cribbed from Yahoo's TOS #

Visualizing Wikipedia changes over time (via) #

Nick Denton on Kinja launch — here's my public Kinja digest #

5.25" Disk Sleeve Archive — too bad the images are so small (via) #

Kinja scheduled to launch tomorrow — digests of subject-specific weblogs for new readers (via) #

4th Annual Chatterbox Challenge — you can play with all the chatbot entries! #

Altavista switched to Yahoo's database — the former king of all search engines is dead #

Recipe error could cause kitchen explosions — sounds like Swedish Lemon Angels (via) #

Google launching Gmail, free 1GB webmail? — official temp page, and not an April Fool's prank (via) #

Boston Globe on modchips — not just for piracy, chips are used for homebrew games and apps (via) #

Book deal for dragon hoax author — created by a professional creature effects studio (via) #

Sound of Magic, tribute to Disney theme park music — amazing site with tons of interesting MP3 downloads #

Letterman clip and the White House reaction — very entertaining clips and response #

Ashcroft creates task force for copyright violations — I'm hoping this is an early April Fool's joke #

Toronto court rules music sharing legal under Canadian copyright law — plus, the Canadian RIAA can't subpoena ISPs for names #

Popular Mechanics cover gallery — from 1902 to 2004 (via) #

Historical relationship of height to success — a society's height is a biological shorthand for well-being (via) #

Shirky on micro-social software tailored to small groups — not all software should be built to scale (via) #

Technorati hits 2 million blogs — I noticed it this morning, but was waiting from comments by Dave #

Newsmap, Google News visualization — size and color indicates importance and freshness (via) #

Yahoo's Tim Koogle to replace Jon Abrams as Friendster CEO? — he's a Nazi you know (via) #

Peanut Butter Terror Time — the Dept. of Homeland Security's terror alert banana (via) #

Obsessive list of "stinking badges" references — badges badges badges, mushroom mushroom (via) #

Video: Zelda Dance Party — Japanese rap, cosplay, dancing, and puppets! #

Frequency chart of "blog" and "weblog" in daily newspapers — "blog" is much more commonplace than "weblog" now (via) #

Socialight, wireless social networks — use your cell phone to gesture to people or annotate physical places (via) #

Video: Zefrank rant on Friendster and social networks — sarcastic and smooth (via) #

Aaron's technical description of iTunes Music Store and DRM — with a link back to my original thread about their encryption (via) #