Friendster CEO Jon Abrams' keynote at SXSW — Matt and Danah think he's a bit of an ass #

Translation guide for Perl and PHP — very handy, bookmarked for later (via) #

Google integrates localized search with live search results — for example, "donuts santa monica" #

Maciej hacks Russian literature — geeks eat books for breakfast #

Great roundup of old ZX Spectrum software found on vinyl albums — including the Thompson Twins graphic adventure game! (via) #

BitTorrent gains corporate support — Blizzard and Valve are using it for distribution #

Ask Dr. Michael, the 8-year-old advice columnist  #

Lifeline, Konami's voice recognition game for the PS2 — the official site isn't very good, but the game sounds strangely good (via) #

Starbucks opens first music cafe in U.S. — three blocks away from me, I'm heading over there to see Rufus play #

CNN on the Gameboy DS — free wireless gaming and local IM capabilities over RF (via) #

I, Lobot — the Star Wars geeks have a sense of humor #

ScummVM 0.6.0 released — now supports all of Lucasarts' SCUMM-based games #

Space Lane, vertical panoramic artwork (via) #

Outdated web design cliches — someone should put every one of these on one page #

Comic books coming to the GBA in Japan — distributed by kiosks that write to blank cartridges (via) #

iLife '84 — it's like Microsoft Works for the rest of your life #

Stewart answers questions by random AIM users — hilarity ensues (via) #

DevilFinder, high-res image searching — for example, searches for atari and piracy #

40-page Mac ad from 1984's Newsweek — Apple bought every page of advertising in the Nov/Dec 1984 issue #

Blik, wall graphic decals — their entire collection is nice (via) #

Image: Goatree — I've been on the web too long #

Not the 100th Strongbad E-mail — for real (via) #

Jokes cut from SNL's Weekend Update — appeared in dress rehearsals, but cut from the show for various reasons (via) #

Jay-Zeezer, the Black Album meets Weezer's Blue Album — thanks to the Jay-Z Construction Kit (via) #

ArtRage, freeware painting package for Windows — very nicely simulates paint on a canvas (via) #

Video: iPod^3 virtual reality of The Shining's Overlook Hotel — I suspect 3D games will eventually look this good (via) #

Snopes on nameless TV characters — Colombo, Quincy, Agent 99, Mr. Big, and more #

GBAFrotz, text adventure parser for your GBA — play Infocom or almost any other IF game #

NYT profile of Kerry Conran, Sky Captain's creator — watch the oddball trailer (via) #

Nintendo launching wireless GBA hotspots in Japan — JoySpot goes live in two weeks at retail locations throughout the country (via) #

Julia Robert busted for crack cocaine possession — she claims she doesn't know where it came from! (via) #

Ausdioscrobbler Browser — Java visualization for their excellent music similarity engine (via) #

Dave Johnson's 7-year-old son started a weblog — "when we got home daddy lock us outside" (via) #

The Dunbar Number and Online Communities — great analysis of the size limits of social groups (via) #

Windows OS anime fan art  #

NYT on the DARPA Grand Challenge results — Wired has more and Mike Elgan was there #

Insanely fast typing game — a compelling reason to learn touch typing (via) #

Celebrity voice talent with MP3 samples — highlights include Dan Castellaneta, Marlon Brando, and Debbie Gibson (via) #

U.S. targets hackers for selective military draft — what a wonderfully awful idea (via) #

Presidential campaign in The Sims Online — like any society, The Sims continues to self-organize (via) #

Exercises in Style — one comic, done 30 different ways #

Everquest Daily Grind — testimonials from the disgruntled spouses of Everquest addicts (via) #

Sideloading, sending files to remote locations — I wish this was built into operating systems #

Linux kernel swear counts — graphing the profanity in the Linux source code over time (via) #

Metafilter Stats updated through February 2004 — I posted my analysis to MetaTalk #

Dangermouse explains how he created the Grey Album — every element of the background beats and music were Beatles samples (via) #

Lego remake of Super Mario Land for the Gameboy — much shorter video by the same guy #

Shot-for-shot Lego remake of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" — here's a local mirror of the 35MB WMV (via) #

Jack Berg Sales, vintage merchandise mint in box — the Atari shirts, toys, and radios are all great (via) #

"Golden Tee" tournament fraud exposed — a team hacked the arcade golf game's centralized score database to win $20k in prizes #