
John Siracusa goes to town on .Mac (spotted on Daring Fireball). Yes, it’s expensive, painfully slow, and sometimes unreliable, but I am still totally and utterly wedded to it. I don’t want it dead, I want it fixed. Lego Digital Designer (no longer online: ldd.lego.com) (spotted on The Unofficial Apple Weblog)

Gorillaz iTunes exclusives: Feel Good Inc, Dare, Dirty Harry, and El Mañana.

That nice Pennsylvania boy Trent’s been busy: upcoming New Nine Inch Nails live DVD and studio album. (spotted on Paper Thin Walls [no longer online: paperthinwalls.com/bullhorn/item?id=1205]) Transformers trailer. (guest submission from Andrea)

I don’t know where to start with this one. I’ve been a M. Night Shyamalan fan from the very beginning, even when the role was better described as apologist. Even to a fan, nearly every film comes with a “yeah, but…” disclaimer: The Sixth Sense is an excellent piece of slight-of-hand with some genuine emotion,…

50 Lost Movie Classics. Seen: Petulia, Top Secret, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Safe, The Parallax View, Save the Last Dance, Beautiful Girls, Millions. Heard of: The Swimmer, Bamboozled, 3 Women, Breathless. (guest submission from Andrea) Ahh… a life in the day of Tom Baker. (spotted on Kasterborous [no longer online: kasterborous.com/news.asp?id=878])

U2 announces Zoo2Live [no longer online: u2.com/highlights/?hid=330], a new live album available exclusively to fan club members. Although it doesn’t say so explicitly, it would seem the audio is taken directly from the same show as the commercially available DVD. Nine Horses, the latest project from David Sylvian, Steven Jensen and Burnt Friedman, releases their…

Anime in real life: Princess Mononoke flying thing [no longer online: akihabaranews.com/en/en/news-12983-Kaze+no+Tani+no+Nausicaa…+for+real?.html], Akira motorcycle, Ghost in the Shell female android. (guest submission by Dave)

At last, the IconFactory QuickPix 2006! (spotted on Daring Fireball) All the bastiches wot done ripped off Panic. Not just their graphics, but even a photo of their office. Cleaning up my bookmarks… Here’s one I saved a while ago but can’t remember if I posted: a working Lego Harpsicord. The indispensible guide to Bad…

A Doctor Who Magazine poll picks David Tennant as the best Doctor, above no less than legend Tom Baker! Spotted on Behind the Sofa, with whose own list I also cannot agree. Who are these people? For my (US) money, here are the best Doctors: Tom Baker Christopher Eccleston David Tennant Sylvester McCoy Peter Davidson…

Somehow I don’t see Les himself plugging his axe into a MacBook and fiddling around with Logic, but you never know: the new Gibson digital guitar. (guest submission from Dave) A fully-annotated electronic version of the WII manual. Iconfactory helpfully fills in the missing pages. (guest submission from Dave) Marginal Revolution Poorly designed objects. My…

What if George Lucas were to take a crack at retroactively realizing the visions of other filmmakers? Here’s G-Lu’s Singin’ in the Rain. (guest submission from Andrea) Continuing the wind-up to the new album, UNKLE’s online presence expands: UNKLE and James Lavelle on MySpace, Richard File‘s official site (no longer online: rich.fm), and new official…

Thank you, DaringFireball, now I know it’s not just me! I too adore Pilot Precise V5 Extra Fine black rollerball pens, and carry one with me everywhere! I loathe to lend one to anybody, and I’m thrown off for the rest of the day on the rare occasions I leave it behind. Further reinforcing my…