When did US journalists become such wussies?

Mass is the size of our whole galaxy. And it's too old to fit simple theory.

What, me worry?

Interesting little acquisition

My biggest gripe with Mark's feed parser is no more - excellent documentation!

Crazy mechanical calculator (via Seth Golub)

DOS ain't dead

Wow, Apple's smart to roll in stuff like this

a complete failure in this case. I love how it's supposed to work: you wait 60 seconds for software to be installed that then talks to the Internet. To listen to a damn CD.

Lots of buzz for this film

Finally, a bit of sanity in the scary US imprisonment of suspected terrorists

Anil Dash: learning from experience

Handy collection (via delicious)

Linux Radio Timeshift HOWTO

Paying the Price: The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War | Metafilter

Web site that helps you organize political house parties

Don't know a Carbon from a Cocoa? All here in an annoying mouseover interface

another list of Mac appliations

Lets you get at the menu bar menus anywhere on the screen. Oh, if the mouse only had more than one button.

Finally someone with credibility says the obvious

Fan works to preserve the classic computer games

She's performing at SF Pride on Sunday

Those happy pictures of iconwoman jumping on the slide? She'll probably fall to her death.

"American Farmer" - plant crops, drive a John Deere tractor, get sued by Monsanto!

Advice is not to use MSIE at all because of the Scob worm. Great. (via Kottke)

This is a great and beautiful game, nice to see it for free. The sequel just came out retail.

More on the new worm. What a nasty name!

Someone's installing keystroke sniffers in all Windows IIS servers.

Slashdot asks what Linux distribution people like. Me, I like Debian.

BTW, when they say 'f-word', I think they mean 'fuck'

Time series of evolution of yahoo's most popular (via Anil Dash)

Video game contest is to be held on a giant IMAX screen (via Joystiq)

Costikyan breaks down seven rules for having an economically successful online game

"Done Right"; mnot's comments on E4X, a new Javascript / XML binding

"By invalidating my entire site with this one line of code, I ensure that I am made aware the instant it matters" (via Evan)

Numbing list of ways people have died in a silly sport

Weird integration between two languages at the VM level rather than like Jython

wow. (via BoingBoing)

Paean to BeautifulSoup, plus some other useful Python tools

switching to a new distributed computing infrastructure (via Slashdot)

Pretty cool hack - the screen only reflects pure red, blue, green so it looks black in ambient light (via Slashdot)

Bike 5600 miles in 100 hours

Sugar free, Atkins friendly! (via Metafilter)

Remake of the original Zelda, evolved into a general engine for Zelda-style games

Spam makes screenreaders unbearable (via waxy)

Congratulations, Mark. I really love the test suite.

Amazing photo showing the simultaneous transit of Venus and the space station

Handy bit of javascript that helps you inspect DOM

What a stupid policy

Amazing DHTML editor for allowing MS-Word style text formatting inline in a web page. Try the demo!

Expired in the US last year; other countries are falling, I think July 7 is the last date

Slashdot post - apparently the virus ecology on the Net is so bad that you can't run a new WinXP install long enough to update itself over the net

New restaurant from Daniel of the late lamented Elisabeth Daniel (thanks, Marc!)

Aaron takes apart the press "coverage" of the Bush administration's misstating terroism statistics. Strangely enough, the Daily Show seems to be the only "news" source that really gets it.

Beautiful soup - Python library for screenscraping HTML

The Fighting Styles of George W

Catalog of various seed dispersal methods (via Metafilter)

Woman arrested on re-entry to US on an outstanding warrant. Her crime? Having food at Yellowstone, a $50 fine.

6x13 is the most beautiful screen font ever drawn (via muxway)

Nicely formatted version of Cory's amazing talk

Another smart fellow

he's a clever fellow

Nice description of overlay networks to thwart DRM

12 essential VCS games, as good a list as any

ATT Wireless keeps all your Text Messages - Engadget

They're rejiggering one of the world's most pervasive namespaces. Why only a 1000x increase? (via Paul Bausch)

With a mesh of simple acoustic sensors and a simulation, you can "reverse time" to locate sharp sounds like gunshots in cities (via Physics News Update)

Gillmor's reflection on some of the ugly news

Odd archaeological site in Laos: giant stone jars

Weird story of an Italian chef brought to North Korea

gaming community helps track down the folks who stole code from Valve

True colour satellite image, green thread

Long piece arguing that the US mortgage market is very dangerous (via Mark Nottingham)

Google's beloved chef shares his delicious fried chicken recipe

New game looks to combine elements of Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, and Baldur's Gate