BBC on political commentary in video games (via) #

MP3: Maciej's audioblogging manifesto — listen to this now, it's absolutely brilliant #

Disney's social software for vacation planning — Magical Gatherings is a Windows app with networking features (via) #

Brand mapping the presidential candidates — what brands do Bush/Kerry supporters associate with their candidates? (via) #

Mac sightings in the movies, with makes and models — obsessive "computers in media" lists are fun #

Fictional passwords and passcodes in movies — not a long list, but a nice idea #

BBC rereleasing Hitchhiker's Infocom game online with illustrations — you can play it online right now, with hints and a walkthrough (via) #

MovableType 3.1 released — also: the MT Contest Plugin Pack and the new Professional Network (via) #

GBA price drops to $80 — Nintendo DS will launch on November 11th at $179 (via) #

Engadget's interview with Jack Valenti — also: Ed Felten's debunking of the former MPAA head (via) #

Apple says new iMac G5 will run Doom III — look for the last sentence under "A Place for Everything" #

Amon Tobin making soundtrack for next Splinter Cell game — excellent choice for ambient gameplay (via) #

Adaptive Path's Extreme Usability series — a clever Burning Man parody by Mule Design (via) #

President Bush's nicknames for friends and foes (via) #

Friendster fires Joyce Park for blogging — this is an unbelievably stupid move on their part (via) #

What if Simpsons characters mated? — surprisingly good fan drawings (via) #

Ask Mefi poster performs mystery guitar riff, gets song identified — neat trick, it's like a manual search engine for music #

Liberated Games launches — commercial games officially released for free by their creators (via) #

NYT on eBay promoting dropoff stores — great service, but 30% is a serious cut #

Collin Brooke on Wikipedia's reputation — a Syracuse professor's take on the controversy (via) #

Woman's skin grows over wedding ring — impressive, but it's no match for dad's kidneys (via) #

History of the Apple.com homepage — I linked to the 1995 version (via) #

Scalable headlines in Flash — here's a funny side effect of the technique (via) #

Wikipedia's List of fictional companies — also: fictional video games, brands, radio stations, and much more #

A Lesson Is Learned, a beautiful web comic — surreal, but very funny (via) #

Analysis of an artificial meme — tracking of a small meme through social groups (via) #

Kempa on palindromic music  #

Justice Dept. censors Supreme Court quote — the irony of the blacked-out quote is thick (via) #

Construction photos of the Chubu Airport in Nagoya — here's the Wikipedia entry #

Fimoculous is back! — Rex Sorgatz' site was a big inspiration for my own links blog #

Glassdog calls for nuanced anti-Bush bumper stickers — liberal, but not dogmatic #

GmailFS, badass Gmail hack — mountable Linux filesystem using Gmail for storage (via) #

Classic anti-piracy print ads (via) #

Video: VH-1's profile on Randy Constan, the Peter Pan guy — he's unhappy with the portrayal #

Old Men Crying — Dan Rather tends to get weepy (via) #

McSweeney's E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone  #

Memespread Analyzer, track keyword popularity in Usenet over time — he was inspired by my old entry #

Acclaim files for bankruptcy — another classic game studio dies #

Verisign loses Sitefinder case against ICANN — lots of wonderfully thoughtful court rulings lately #

A morality tale of Spectrum ZX piracy and clones — like it or not, piracy and emulation serve to preserve culture #

NYT on the movement towards computerized sewing machines — "computers with needles and thread attached" #

Stiki Wiki — WYSIWYG wiki with neat outgoing link previews (via) #

Half Life 2 preloading begins — the game is done! (via) #

Paul Pfeiffer from the "Wonder Years" is a lawyer — I bet he makes twice the yearly income of Fred Savage #

TiVo-like application for XM Radio under fire — his software was C&D'ed by XM and the RIAA (via) #

Video: Townsend's "Pour Some Sugar On Me," boy band take on Def Leppard — the worst thing I've ever seen, made worse by the presence of Smashmouth #

Blog Torrent tracker beta — the first PHP tracker that doesn't need MySQL, but still too hard for most #

Interview with Downhill Battle's Nicholas Reville — they renamed Battle Torrent to Blog Torrent #

Microsoft redesigns with standards — well, almost there (via) #

Video: Bjork's Olympic performance — without the annoying U.S. color commentary (via) #