NYT on the remixed Shining trailer's creator — I burned through 560GB today after USA Today, Fark, and Aint It Cool News all hotlinked it; don't miss Tattered Coat's updates on the story #

Trulia — commercial mashup mixing real estate and Google Maps, with stats and great design (via) #

Video: Westside Story as a horror film — from the same group that made Shining #

Google Calendar close to launch? — like with Google Talk, the domain is resolving but not yet live #

PervWatch — creepy Google Maps mashup with sex offender data #

Steven Levy profiles Tim O'Reilly in Wired — he's one of the kindest and wisest people I've ever met (via) #

eHub — constantly updated list of new Web 2.0-ish projects #

Openomy, open file system — not much to look at yet, but open data stores have huge potential #

AJAX using only an image — crazy ass technique that doesn't use XMLHttpRequest, and works without cookies (via) #

MP3: George W. Bush covers "White Lines" — from the guy who made the amazing "Sunday Bloody Sunday" remix, also on that page #

Yahoo! Site Explorer beta — explore every page and inbound link, manually or with an API; for example, Waxy.org (via) #

Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Album — MP3s of 31 songs improvised to get out of his record deal; related: Ben Folds' "One Down" MP3 and lyrics #

Pixen — open-source OS X app designed for creating pixel art (via) #

Howto: PSP 2.0 to 1.5 downgrade — at least until homebrew can run under the 2.0 firmware #

eDonkey P2P network to close under Grokster ruling — following the closure of WinMX last week (via) #

Harvey Danger releases new album as DRM-free MP3s — I'm surprised more indie artists haven't done this (via) #

TGIF, the Ballad of Jesse Frederick — obsessive tribute to the guy who wrote the "Full House" theme, with tons of MP3s #

Rollyo — create custom searchrolls, powered by Yahoo search #

JotSpot Live — real-time collaborative text editor, like SubEthaEdit for the web #

Video: The Shining trailer, remixed — one of the best video clips I've seen all year; local mirror (via) #

NYT on the rent/buy debate — in California, it's far more cost-effective to rent these days #

Video: Napoleon Dynamite ads for Utah State Fair — I'm not a fan of the movie, but these are great #

MySQL 5.0 release candidate available — finally, shutting up other DB zealots about views, stored procedures, and triggers (via) #

Wikipedians edit Esquire article — the before and after will be published in an upcoming issue (via) #

Jen Carlson asks indie bands if they'd appear on The O.C. — poor, poor Lou Barlow (via) #

CNET talks to Google CEO about search engine size — notable only because Google apparently lifted their CNET ban #

iTunes Music Video Gate — paste in an iTunes music video link, get the unrestricted Quicktime download; with an XML feed of new videos #

Video: Everybody Hates Chris season premiere — Google Video legally hosts the first episode of Chris Rock's new sitcom #

How to download complete music videos from iTunes — great quality Quicktimes #

Cameron Marlow joins Yahoo Research Berkeley — Simon Willison joined Yahoo last week, too #

Penny Arcade on the SkyMall catalog — cover up unsightly snakes #

Armed dolphins released into Gulf of Mexico? — oddball Katrina story reported by the Guardian UK (via) #

DragonCon costume photo gallery — dear Lord, that's a lot of crazy cosplay #

WordPress' plans to incorporate put on hold — and their reported first employee no longer involved #

Rock Paper Scissors 15 — insane RPS variation with 105 outcomes #

Madden 2006 bug shrinks player to 7 inches tall — careful not to squish him (via) #

Six Apart's Project Comet — more on their new hosted blogging service from Mena #

BitTorrent raises $8.75 million funding — isn't this like investing in FTP or HTTP? #

Flash: Hyper Frame — addictive rotating 3D maze game (via) #

Video: Review of the POPStation Portable — a PSP clone that plays very differently from the real thing (via) #

Slashdot's CSS redesign goes live — still ugly, but much cleaner source #

Jet Blue disabled showed DirecTV during problem flight — CNN corrects the earlier incorrect report #

Kevin Burton announces TailRank, his new startup — ranking system for weblogs, posts, and people #

Ziff-Davis buys Gametab — congrats to my favorite gaming meta-news site (via) #

High school band plays DJ Shadow's Endtroducing — now mirrored at Archive.org; direct download #

Andrew Raaff's roundup of legal reactions to the Google Print lawsuit — amazing set of analysis on both sides; I'm strongly in Google's camp here #

Indie Rock Fantasy League — I'd love to see which bands scored the best/worst for this year #

Steve Jobs says OS X pirates will burn in hell — the road to hell is paved with bootleg software #

The Music of New Orleans — a brief aural history sampler with MP3s #

Video: Adult Swim on Frogger — short and funny; 1.8 MB #