Bad Language provides some insights into what it would take to start a games company, which is often difficult, risky and unlikely to be profitable.

Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor, who has pancreatic cancer, takes people on a touching journey through the lessons of his life in his Last Lecture. He is known for having helped develop Alice, a software for creating 3-D animations.

A tool for recording Skype calls, with options to select audio encoders and in-built audio player. It costs $14, but for a short period you can download it for free.

pbelow005 realizes the world is a good places after experiencing unexpected good actions by strangers in far away places.

Mashable’s list of over 20 PHP resources and tools to help you get started with PHP.

Over 30,000 free user contributed sound FX and loops.

A handy JavaScript add on for web designers and developers, which toggles a grid to the background of your page by pressing ctrl+shift+g (firefox: ctrl+alt+g). [Requires jQuery]

Croatian man in rubber boots hit by lightning while peeing and lives to tell the tale.

If you are into the whole grid deal, then here is a handy calculator to figure out the grid.

A list of the world’s weirdest/stupidest conspiracy theories.

“The driver shot JFK”

GigaOM compares, contrasts and rates the new Amazon MP3 service against Apple iTunes.

This look like a great idea with a lot of potential: record your sketch, optionally add voice, and embed to your blog like you would a YouTube video, priceless! [intro video]

Amazon has created a massive online DRM-Free MP3s music store to challenge Apple’s domination of online music downloads. Single songs can be downloaded for $.89, and albums at $8.99 or less. Now how about shortening some of those URLs Amazon?!

Looks like Microsoft is in talks with Facebook to buy a minority stake in the company, which could value Facebook at $10 to $15 billion. I hope they don’t sell out to Microsoft.

If you find the WordPress admin area difficult to use and annoying, here is a review of 5 desktop administration alternatives for WordPress.