Gay Penguins in the Central Park Zoo — more gay animals from Salon #

LA Times on William Hung — makes inevitable comparison to Star Wars Kid, u/p: waxyorg/waxyorg #

Hacking Friendster, Part I — cross-site scripting to become anyone's friend #

Daily Cal interviews William Hung — yes, the "She Bangs" guy from American Idol #

Viacom's internal memo about the Superbowl debacle  #

Fark.com, the future of journalism — weblogs and message boards break stories before the press #

Video: Spoof of Pepsi's iTunes Superbowl commercial  #

Basecamp launches — gorgeously usable hosted project management #

Pizza Party U.S.A. — finally, someone's taking charge of this country #

Crowd Simulation Framework for Java — I'm off to reenact LOTR battles on my desktop #

Alternative Valentine's Day cards — with PDFs suitable for printing #

Zelda: History or Myth?  #

What's New in Firebird 0.8 — it'll be out on Monday! #

Microsoft security education posters — they should warn about the dangers of Outlook instead #

Half Life 2 sets a new release date — if you call "late summer" a date #

Li'l Gn'R, the junior Guns n' Roses tribute band  #

Profile of Snotty Richter, another big-time spammer — don't miss the punchline in the last paragraph of page 3 #

Google Textads for "Orkut" — "can't join Orkut? try us at FriendSync" #

Superbowl moment created biggest spike in TiVo history — 180% increase in viewer reaction #

Xbox 2 specs leaked — three 64-bit processors makes for a badass machine #

NYT on outsider artist Mingering Mike — the original images were removed, but here are some hi-res scans #

Dave's Browser Support 2004 roundup — also: The Counter's global browser stats are back #

Video game tablature — written system for choreographing Super Mario Bros. moves #

Wired Reach — decentralized social networking app for Mac and Windows #

Video games predict the 2004 Super Bowl  #

Geek names baby son 2.0 — boy, you'd have to be pretty geeky to do something like that #

Alan's Orgulator web toy for IE 5.5+ — the only compelling reason to start IE in months #

Pixar ends talks with Disney — how will Pixar fare without Disney's marketing machine? #

Video: David Bradley explains the origins of Ctrl-Alt-Del — and disses a pissed-off looking Bill Gates in the process #

Teen Gets Blood Clot Playing Xbox — deep vein thrombosis from kneeling, via #

Tolkein as Calculus  #

Video: sports bloopers from NES games — the Excitebike one still cracks me up #

RealNetworks teams with Heineken for free song giveaways — logical, since you'd have to be drunk to choose RealAudio #

Video: Pepsi's iTunes commercial — putting young faces to the statistics can't be good for the RIAA's PR campaign #

Microsoft recommends manually typing all URLs — a great solution to Internet Explorer's URL spoofing vulnerability #

Currency of the lost Victorian colony of Nadiria — beautiful designs, I like the $91 dollar bills best #

P2P companies say they can't filter  #

Wired profiles The Minibosses, the best NES cover band — sadly, their new homepage removed most of the MP3, but try here #

X68000 Floppy Disk image gallery — more about the Sharp X68000 from 1987 #

Image: Yet Another 48 Hours — Nick Nolte and James Brown, via spingo #

MPAA's "Internet Enforcement" Manager job listing — Working knowledge of DMCA and copyright law preferred #

Confessions of a Car Salesman — fascinating series by an Edmunds.com writer going undercover #

Classic Sierra adventure games on the GBA — King's Quest, Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and more #

MSN Search beta is live  #

Slow motion movies — also, slow-motion gunplay #

Kaba Kick, Russian Roulette for kids — you know... for kids! #

Alexa Movers & Shakers — Orkut up 18,000% #

Gameboy Advance wireless link adapter — beat up your friends across the room #

New Face of the Digital Age — putting a human face to India's tech outsourcing #

Julian Dibbell sold his virtual house — a castle for only $600? that's it, I'm moving to Brittania #