Galactic Conquest, amazing Star Wars mod for Battlefield 1942 — look at those screenshots! (via) #

Ask Mefi thread about the history of scientific discovery — some very thought-provoking comments (via) #

Rat Haus Reality, odd rat-sized houses — rodents of unusual size (via) #

I Found Some of Your Life — blogger finds digicam memory card, posts photos online with fictional narration (via) #

The Jig Is Up  #

Rock stacking street art  #

Baby names for bloggers — these are almost as bad as the LOTR baby names #

Homeless use Internet to stay connected — I like that the ex-con geek has "LYNX" tattooed across his knuckles (via) #

Rave parties in City of Heroes MMORPG — I love the idea of superheroes dancing in abandoned warehouses #

Update on the underground Parisian movie theatres — an interview with the group behind the catacomb hacks (via) #

Imvu, Will Harvey from There.com's new avatar-based instant messenger — with hundreds of accessories for sale, naturally (via) #

9/11 tributes in Second Life virtual world — including this unusual recreation #

Downhill Battle's "Three Notes and Runnin'" remix contest — get creative to protest the insanely dumb recent court ruling on samples (via) #

Google Labs Aptitude Test — Michael scanned in the whole thing #

SIPshare, true P2P app over SIP — building a Skype alternative with open standards (via) #

Half-Life 2 release candidate sent to Vivendi — it's going gold any day now #

Popover ads in newspapers  #

Antigeist on the definition of chivalry — reminds me of this classic first date net.lore (via) #

Suprnova blocks external links to torrents — plus, they're blindly blocking requests without a referer (via) #

Atari ST emulated on the Dreamcast  #

Bic pens illegal under DMCA — what if the DMCA applied to analog devices? #

Video: ASCII Bush — Bush Jr. and Sr.'s State of the Union speeches rendered in ASCII and robot voice #

European cigarette commercials by American directors — David Lynch, the Coen brothers, Roman Polanski, Wim Wenders, and Robert Altman #

Video: Slowtron's "How to BBQ A Man" — end of summer silliness courtesy of Coudal #

New U.S. nickel design — heads on money are getting bigger and bigger (via) #

Google's 1999 hardware — how quaint! (via) #

Virtual Window project — fake LCD windows, a la Back to the Future 2 (via) #

Video: Greenskeepers' "Lotion" — great pop song inspired by Silence of the Lambs #

Gamespot's hugely improved reviews index — for example, PC games sorted by rating in the last year #

Oprah gives a new Pontiac to every audience member — they go ballistic for free soap, so this must have led to several deaths (via) #

Romanian photo gallery decays with every pageview — artsy, but clever (via) #

Adbusters files lawsuits against Canadian broadcasters — they won't air their ads #

Cameron's Foo Camp hack — also: here's why I wasn't updating my links for the last few days #

Trailers for Everyday Life (via) #

Image: Spam origin map (via) #

Firefox.com owner donates the domain to Mozilla foundation — an unselfish act, props to Kevin #

Gmail invite spooler — automated Gmail invite giveaways (via) #

"Godfather" horse head pillow — catching up on links I missed over the weekend (via) #

Megnut leaves tech to cook full time — I think this is wonderful, and so do others #

Video: Sin City preview trailer — a stylish comic book conversion, but the acting looks bad #

Quake IV preview scans — Raven's title will use the Doom 3 engine #

Waxy Links "via" Meta Aggregator — apparently, I have my own cult #

Cooking for Engineers — great recipe info design (via) #

Guardian UK on Dropcash — plus, some developers are using Dropcash to sponsor software features #

Diarists more likely to suffer from various ailments — well, that explains Livejournal (via) #

Snopes on the Big Burger — for people who refuse to heed Kliban's advice #

The Adventures of Superpup — obscure Superman spinoff from 1958 (via) #

Artist turns Scrambler ride into giant Spirograph — also: she uses pinball machines to make kinetic paintings (via) #

Meetup launches new site — better design, message boards, more flexibility for venues (via) #

Cincinnati Court rules all musical samples must be paid for — "Get a license or do not sample," they ruled (via) #