The Guardian on random/pseudorandom shuffle [no longer online: arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1889423,00.html]. Put simply, it’s not your iPod, it’s your brain. (guest submission from Andrea) Design Meltdown catalogs the best in itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny websites. My very own FringeDigital.com once lived a long interation packed into a tiny little box:

The MyDreamApp winners are in, and scores of Hijack lovers (why, why?) are sticking out their lower lips and crying foul. Adobe Soundbooth, a free beta until February 27. Wall Street seems to think Apple can do no knong these days, but in the bad old years there was plenty of wrong to go around:…

MyDreamApp finals! I voted for Whistler as I planned all along, but also for Portal, surprising myself, because I previously thought it was redundant for a .Mac user like myself. I still think Hijack is just lame, and Cookbook is really slick but not something I’d have the time or inclination to use myself. I’ve…

Finally found the source of the whizz-bang Lightbox 2 image viewer and Coloir.org slideshow scripts I’ve been seeing all over the place these days. All Doctor Who fans with a sense of humor ought to bookmark Behind the Sofa (no longer online: tachyontv.typepad.com), a great blog providing uncensored appraisals of nearly every episode and alternate…

Some time recently Michael Brook’s official website has expanded with a full discography, newsletter, and store. Joseph Arthur’s official site has video of him performing “Slide Away” on The Late Show With David Letterman on October 10th. Steve Jobs must be in a romantic mood; every metaphor he musters to dismiss Doo-Doo Brown Zune in…

Practically every site featured on csstux (no longer online: csstux.com) is so gorgeously slick it’s a wonder I have a job as a web designer. Terry Gilliam busks on the streets of New York for his controversial new film Tideland. (spotted on Neil Gaiman’s Journal) The Independent has a long interview with Alan Moore (no…

The Village Voice‘s rave review of Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s (porno)graphic novel Lost Girls. (spotted on EnoWeb) The next step in the evolution of Spoetry: The Brothers McLeod’s Spamland, a new series of short spanimations. (guest submission from Dave) The Internet Archive is collecting a massive cache of free and legal live recordings. Spotted…

New York magazine says Stephen Colbert has America by the Ballots. (guest submission by Andrea) R. Lee Ermey apparently isn’t concerned with publicly dissing one of the most powerful people in Hollywood. According to him, friend Stanley Kubrick privately confided in him that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman ruined Eyes Wide Shut. (spotted on Daring…

Screw the iPhone; EnoWeb has the scoop on the EnoPhone (no longer online: europe.nokia.com/A4176224), AKA the Nokia 8800 Sirocco. (click on “Experience the Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition”) Awwww… throw a pity party for the victims (no longer online: msnbc.msn.com/id/15175836/site/newsweek/) of “guerrilla comedian named Sacha Baron Cohen”, aka Borat (no longer online: borat.tv). Funny how every…

The official movie site for Fast Food Nation features Web 2.0-ish newsfeeds from YouTube, del.icio.us, and other fun stuff. (spotted on Popwatch [no longer online: popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2006/10/fast_food_natio.html] by Happy Meal Andrea) Help make Optimus Prime say “I guess I’ll transformer into a truck now.” See also Top Ten Lines Optimus Prime Should Use in the New…

Brian Eno has composed a “soundtrack” for the Nokia 8800 Sirocco Edition phone. Here’s the Nokia press release, but I haven’t found any sound samples yet. Peter Gabriel announces the winners of the Real World Remixed “Shock the Monkey” competition. They sound great, so good in fact that they ought to be released on CD,…