The Effect of Country Music on Suicide — the Medicine winner of the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize (via) #

SpaceShipOne wins the $10 million X Prize — commercial space travel just got much closer (via) #

Red Blue, mobile GPS utility that shows you nearby campaign contributions — like a Geiger counter for local political bias (via) #

Gmail adds Atom notifications, Drafts, and Contacts (via) #

Google needs to retain newly-rich employees — 60% of their workforce are new millionaires (via) #

Kotaku, Gawker's new gaming blog — also: they launched Screenhead and Jalopnik, which is sponsored by Audi #

Mirrordot, automatic Slashdot mirroring — attempting to dilute the Slashdot effect (via) #

Spaceballs sequel in development (via) #

Jeopardy's "Blogs" category — links to the questions for all five answers (via) #

Image: NYT's excellent map of Iraq attacks in September — Tufte would be proud (via) #

Nintendo DS final packaging — with the stylus, can you use the DS as your PDA? (via) #

Disneyland souvenir book from 1960 — check out the pre-Mansion "Haunted House" sketch and the park map #

GNUmobile, a modded Oldsmobile — you can drive it from the commandline #

Shirky on the essential elements of all social software — groups and conversation are the very basics (via) #

Washington Post may buy Slate from Microsoft — the NYT should buy Salon and get rid of subscriptions (via) #

Penny Arcade on Katamari Damacy — the game completely sold out across the country! #

US Census shows recorded music replaced by other media — piracy is only part of the story (via) #

The Strangerhood, machinima sitcom using the Sims 2 engine — from the people that created Red vs Blue (via) #

Alan announces Amazon Light 4 — he ties Amazon web services into Delicious, Gmail, Dropcash, Blogger, Netflix, iTunes, and more #

Cameron's Presidential Debate Analysis — crunch your own stats with his Debate Spotter tool #

Peter Molyneux apologizes for features cut from Fable (via) #

FPGameRunner, a treadmill for first-person games — get a workout while playing Doom 3 (via) #

Sam and Max 2 team form new studio — they may be releasing the cancelled sequel on their own #

Half Life 2 release set for November 23 — it's about time #