Sony CD installs DRM rootkit? — malware that hides itself and impossible for almost everyone to remove (via) #

NBC News to broadcast online — for free in its entirety, with past shows archived historically (via) #

Apple sells 1 million videos in first 20 days — considering the limited library, this is impressive (via) #

Upcoming.org on the TiVo — using Galleon, a wonderful open-source media browser #

Archie goes goth — totally dismal and excellent #

Flickr adds photo printing! — by mail, or pick them up at your local Target store for one hour printing (via) #

Google Base launching soon — an open database of structured content #

President Bush cease and desists The Onion — for using the presidential seal #

Newsweek on the Boondocks animated series — the Adult Swim premiere is on November 6; here's an early review (via) #

Katamari Damacy individual level speedruns — video runs for every main level of the game #

Video: Do They Know It's Hallowe'en? — follow along with the indie rock all-star lineup #

Video: Romance of the Jedi — Episode III remixed as a gay love story #

Paul Stamatiou's good review of Flock — learn about the developer preview before you try it out (via) #

8-Bit Star Wars — Episode IV as a pixelized animated GIF (via) #

Details on Jason Scott's next documentary about text adventure games — from the creator of the wonderful BBS Documentary #

Ask Mefi finds an address in 1939 Vienna — within minutes, Ask Mefi finds grandfather's Nazi-era apartment and hand-written documents (via) #

Matt Mullenweg leaves CNET — he'll be working on Wordpress full-time; congrats! #

AMASS, permanent storage for Ajax apps on the client side — store 100k without user permission on the client using Flash (via) #

DVD Jon joins Michael Robertson at new startup — nicely timed with the WSJ profile earlier #

Time interviews tech pundits on future of technology — Tim, Esther, Clay, and a host of other familiar names; I like Moby's closing quote (via) #

Video: First music video shot on cell phones exclusively — they recorded footage at half-speed to work with the 10 frames per second limit (via) #

WSJ profile on Jon Johansen — Wikipedia has a nice list of DVD Jon's projects (via) #

Suck.com on Wordprocessor.com — disturbingly accurate pitch from October 1996, just over nine years ago (via) #

Fortune's long profile on BitTorrent — history and some details about the new business #

Jib Jab cease and desists website for borrowing 9 seconds of Flash animation — completely hypocritical, considering their history with fair use (via) #

Readable explanation of how the Myspace worm worked — if you missed it, read the great story by its creator #

Matt Haughey on this morning's massive Blogspot spam flood — Chris Pirillo is covering it closely, with a response from Google #

Screenshots of the Nintendo DS wifi interface — Joystiq explains some of the security issues (via) #

Video: My Successful Friends — many more videos on Tales of Mere Existence (via) #

Brian Wilson's drunk dad on the Help Me Rhonda session — the edited version is enough to hear what an ass Murray was #

Tom Coates leaves BBC for Yahoo! — Yahoo continues the trend of hiring people I genuinely admire #

NYT on life hackers — an essential read on the most important emerging technology trend: beating interruption overload #

1UP's Shadow of the Colossus review — with a 9.5 score, this sounds like an essential new PS2 game #

MTV buys iFilm for $49 million — will this affect their viral video section and its grey area copyright violations? #

David Cross, Subpop sued by Nashville nightclub owner for prank video — the guy put the very funny video clips on his site #

Subscribe to Del.icio.us video in iTunes — very neat #

How to Make 1 Million Friends on MySpace — outstanding story of the creation and spread of a MySpace exploit #

McSweeney's lists the Presidential cabinet by the etymology of their first and last names — The Fierce Warrior With Sweetness (via) #

My Outsourced Life — Esquire writer hires two Indian firms to manage his personal and professional life (via) #

Pez MP3 player — finally available for ordering (via) #

3D Duck Hunt model in real-life — like playing with giant Pixelblocks (via) #

MC Hammer visits Google — please Hammer, don't hurt him (via) #

ABC TV shows for sale in iTunes Music Stores — $1.99 for an episode of Lost or Desperate Housewives #

Engadget reports on new video iPod — the rumors were right; 2.5" screen with TV-out for $399 #

Jeff Veen on Measure Map — they're letting people into the beta slowly, so sign up now #

This Is How I Roll — designed to appeal to people like me, and it's working #

Remember the Milk — nicely-designed, feature-rich to-do lists (via) #

Hackaday severs ties with Weblogs Inc — because it could be another Justin Frankel situation #

Microsoft, Yahoo to link IM networks — to compete against AIM, Google, and Skype (via) #

Video: Hard 'n Phirm' s"Pi" — with digits of pi sung in harmony to the 190th decimal place #