My buddy Ross has this model plane with a first-person perspective video camera that he flies over the city. The results are actually pretty damn cool.

Brad Bird on Ollie Johnston

Johnston, the last of Disney’s “Nine Old Men”, died this past Monday.

I’m down with any cop who can shake it to Billy Jean

Fragments of the lives of others just drift in, make you smile, or wince, or roll your eyes for a second, and then disappear. Very little offered, nothing expected in return. I can get behind that.

—Dean Allen’s still one of the sharpest writers this blogowhathaveyou has and his thoughts on twitter prove why, exactly.

Bacon Flowchart (best viewed large) [via Jay Heinz, a legend in his own right]

Well, if this just doesn’t top the list of asinine internet stupidity - the We Say NO to Videos on Flickr pool with 23,000 members and counting! What’s most unfortunate is that the mouthbreathing whelps that would actually join such a group are the very ones that make Flickr more like the stupidity that is YouTube than 90-second videos ever could.

(Ben points out that there’s hope yet)

Preliminary Bumbershoot lineup announced

Beck, Stone Temple Pilots, Neko Case, Del tha Funky Homosapien, !!!, Saul Williams, M. Ward, The Walkmen, Blitzen Trapper, and John Vanderslice are just a few reasons to go

New Waxy.org looks sharp

Great color and I dig the new logo

Muxtape recommendations

A Yahoo pipe that recommends muxtapes based on your last.fm profile. Clever, that

Any definitive agreement between Yahoo and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google’s hands. This would make the market far less competitive.

—Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel, without even a whiff of irony