Metafilter Tags, 24 hours later — unbelievable explosion as Mefi users tag all their old posts #

Justice Dept. gets first two convictions in P2P piracy case — "felony copyright infringement" is an upsetting phrase #

Cory refuses to give up personal info to American Airlines — his letter to AA is a great read #

Movie: The Cyberpunk Educator — analysis of cyberpunk movies of the 1980s, full download with BitTorrent (via) #

Image: One does not simply walk into Mortor — mirrored locally #

Unintended consequences of "nofollow" support by search engines — legitimate linking in comments helped make Google relevant, but spammers ruined it for everyone #

Socialtext loses Disney deal to Jotspot — Mike downplays it, and he should know (via) #

Star Trek Enterprise not cancelled? — this sounds like a non-denial denial to me (via) #

Chris Anderson on the Long Tail applied to TV shows — the conclusion to his very good recent series #

Calculating the best albums of 2004 from 60 top ten lists — Franz Ferdinand firmly at the top (via) #

Comic: Perry Bible Fellowship's "Shotgun" — how do Rock, Scissors, and Paper settle disputes? #

Yahoo, Google, MSN announce "nofollow" support to combat comment and Trackback spam — more details about the spec that removes the Pagerank incentive for spammers (via) #

Dissecting the iPod Shuffle — not a bit of space is wasted (via) #

New Yorker on Collegehumor.com — four guys in their early 20s, 8 million unique visitors and $400k/month (via) #

Matt adds tagging to Metafilter — hopping on the tag bandwagon #

David Galbraith on search ordering by date — I've been wanting this for years; it will be increasingly essential as the web stagnates #

Blinx Video Search signs major networks — you can search the archives of BBC, Fox, Sky, and more (via) #

Michael Wolf's photographs of Hong Kong high-rises — from a distance, resembles random noise or UPC barcodes (via) #

"Legend of Zelda" upper back tattoo — in the style of Wind Waker, from this Gaming Tattoos community #

Video: Justin's dark night — the web's first blogger has a very public nervous breakdown; lots of questions here about the personal costs of posting your entire life online (via) #

FreeMe, remove DRM from Windows Media files! — never mind, this is really old news; Microsoft released a "fix" for it #

Ripshark will convert your CDs to MP3 — at less than $1/album, cheaper than RipDigital (via) #

Craig Robinson's What If? — illustrated with Minipops (via) #

PS2 brute force hacking of GTA San Andreas cheat codes — he connected his PS2 controller to his PC to step through every button combo #

Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers fan fiction — Mikester says, "No slash, I think, I hope." (via) #

Moistworks MP3 blog shut down by British RIAA — they contacted the host directly to shut them down; some commentary about the closure (via) #

Drunk Men Work Here's Blacklist log — an automated list of scumbag comment/Trackback spammer activity on DMWH's random weblog service #

EA teams up with ESPN for sports games — after the exclusive NFL deal, this clinches their monopoly on sports gaming #

Image: Katamari Damacy cosplay — damn, I was hoping they'd dress up like the King of All Cosmos (via) #

Technorati Tags — turn MovableType extensions to Technorati tags #

Overriding site-wide CSS styles at the page level with PHP — a nice hack #

Dream World, Thailand's cheap Disneyland knockoff — complete with fake Space Mountain, Fantasyland, and bootleg Disney gift shop (via) #

MP3: Nina Gordon's "Straight Outta Compton" — some other offbeat covers on her official site (via) #

Patrick Nielsen Hayden criticizes Boing Boing's "Copyright Communist" parody propaganda — outstanding comments by Cory Doctorow, Charlie Stross, and more (via) #

Marcus Arnold aka "LawGuy1975," dead at 19 — AskMe.com's #1 legal expert at age 15, he was featured in Michael Lewis' Next (via) #

Spam Assassin plugin for MovableType — very neat (via) #

Will you still need me, will you still feed me? — my mom overhears a conversation #

Technorati introduces tag searching — searches Flickr, Delicious, and category-tagged blog posts (via) #

BayTSP's FirstSource anti-piracy software targets first uploads — find the first instance of a file online, verify it, and capture the IP addresses of the initial seeders #

Blogpulse charts of blogger meals — "breakfast" and "dinner" references go up every Sunday, while "lunch" references go down #

Ocean-related keywords recede and then sharply rise after Indian Ocean tsunami — blog keyword frequency as a strange, but coincidental, predictor of tsunami activity (via) #

Jennifer Garner's Awesome Great Workout Mix! — I'm not sure what's worse, her comments or her taste in music (via) #

Gizmodo grills Bill Gates about his copyright communist remarks — read his earlier remarks for some background (via) #

A World of Invisibilia — photos with the people replaced by line drawings (via) #

Pac-Man Game Over — game ova, holla #

iTunes update breaks anti-DRM Hymn utility, again — and JHymn has the workaround and recovery procedure (via) #

Joey DeVilla's guide to writing interactive fiction with Inform — this is an impressive overview with tons of great references #

Blizzard orders World of Warcraft pulled from shelves? — the rumor is their servers can't handle the insane growth and demand (via) #

Gamasutra's excellent overview of emulating the Atari 2600 — it's one of the hardest and most CPU-intensive to emulate (via) #

Waxy Links Statistics — here's the background, for those of you that don't read the main weblog #