Penelope Trott's Best Baby Halloween Costume Ever — one-year-olds make surprisingly good balding comedians #

Domai.nr, find domains with wac.ky TLDs beyond .com and .net — you know, like del.icio.us and burri.to #

Interviewing the anonymous Twitterers behind FakeJohnMcCain, FakeSarahPalin and FakeJoeBiden — the parodists love Twitter because it's quick, concise, and you can grow a network quicky #

LittleBigPlanet delayed because of Qur'an verses in background music — I believe in religious tolerance, until it affects video game release schedules #

Mygazines shuts down after publisher lawsuits — as fun as these sites are, trying to build a business on copyright infringement is just dumb #

Qwitter, get alerts when people unfollow you on Twitter — software that enables hurt feelings and awkwardness (via) #

McCain and Obama do standup comedy at the Al Smith dinner — both are very, very funny; Obama starts at 11:00 #

Vimeo launches paid option — $60/year removes ads, increases limits, priority uploading, and limited HD embeds #

Slate Magazine on the rise of FAIL — the writer asked me on Tuesday about the meme's origins, so I'm a little bummed I didn't get credit (via) #

Andrew Sullivan's "Why I Blog" — "for all the intense gloom surrounding the newspaper and magazine business, this is actually a golden era for journalism" (via) #

The New Yorker challenges xkcd to a Cartoon-Off — Randall Munroe wins handily (via) #

Forumwarz Episode 2 is live! — the intro's interminable, but it picks up from there; and if you never played the first one, get to it! #

Barack Obama meets Joe the Plumber — I think it's worth watching the original encounter that inspired McCain's "spread the wealth" line of attack (via) #

First episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from January 1999 — amazing how fully-formed it launched, with the same voice that would make it so successful (via) #

Lexical analysis of the 2008 presidential and VP debates — word usage statistics and clouds, with parts of speech and word pairs; Atom feeds available for the whole dataset (via) #

Batman debates The Penguin — no mudslinging in this campaign #

Tears for Fears' "Head Over Heels": Literal Video Version — from the same people the Take On Me video #

Newzbin preparing for litigation — if media companies attack Usenet indexing services that host no files, Usenet servers can't be far behind #

Bluegrass musician plays banjo during his brain surgery — his ability to play was used as a measure of the surgery's success (via) #

Kongregate Labs tutorial for creating a side-scrolling shooter in Flash — helping convert gamers to creators is good for everybody (via) #

Scraping Wikipedia data with Google Spreadsheets and Yahoo! Pipes — solid tutorial; for this kind of thing, I'd also consider Freebase #

RjDj, reactive generative music app for the iPhone — reacts to sensory input from the microphone and accelerometer #

Midori-san, the blogging houseplant — if you think that plant's really blogging, then I have a bridge to sell you #

Frotzophone, making music with interactive fiction — the Z-Machine object tree as musical instrument; don't miss the MP3 of him playing Zork (via) #

New York Magazine's long profile of FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver — if you haven't, spend a little time reading about his methodology to understand how he's totally changed the game #

New York Times releases Campaign Finance API — totals for each candidate by state or ZIP code and lookup by donor name, with JSON, XML, or serialized PHP output (via) #

New York and the Panic of 1873 — the NYT digs into their archives to find some striking parallels to today's credit crisis #

Splatter art exhibit depicts Looney Tunes character murder — uncensored images from James Cauty's show are now online and prints are for sale (via) #

Doodlebuzz, typographic news explorer — draw a line to explore the news, branch lines to see related stories and excerpts (via) #

Jeremy Freese's Violet, entry for the IF Comp 2008 — best entry I've tried so far from the competition; hit enter a couple times to start playing #

Colleen Venable's connect-the-dots giraffe tattoo — culmination of three-year project trying to find a toy giraffe from her childhood #

MoneyTalks, listen to stock prices rise and fall — requires Flash 10 beta, or you can watch the sample videos instead #

iminlikewithyou launches open API for multiplayer games — the site's changed radically in the last year, from casual flirting to almost pure gaming #

Roundup of 84 knockoffs of Shepard Fairey's iconic Obama poster — and I'm fairly sure that's still a fraction of them (via) #

World of Goo is released to the public — the best game I've played this year; coming to Steam and WiiWare later today #

Simon Carless on Why LittleBigPlanet Is Web 2.0 For Games, Fulfilled — it's almost, almost worth buying a PS3 for #

Academic paper studying knowledge sharing in Yahoo! Answers (PDF) — the community's split between answer people and discussion people, and the categories can be clustered accordingly #

Halfbakery suggests naming recessions after people, like hurricanes — Recession George #

Ultima creator Richard Garriott launched into space — Lord British spending 10 days on the International Space Station for a cool $30 million #

Moral psychology testing on Amazon Mechanical Turk — Brendan O'Connor's blog is one of my new favorites; he works at Dolores Labs #

Conplot, a commandline plotter with ASCII art — for use with piping from sort|uniq -c and the like #

Preview of Gomibako, like Tetris with garbage — every object has physical properties, so trash can be crushed, burned, or toppled #

Drew on the financial crisis — see also: Woot's Google ads (via) #

Gary Vaynerchuk on recession-proof marketing and dumb advertising — don't miss the part where he queries his UStream followers in real-time #

You Fell Asleep Watching A DVD (via) #

Content-aware scaling in Photoshop CS4 — from SIGGRAPH demo to product in a year (via) #

Unicode Snowman for You — ☃ #

Tuttuki Bako, poke virtual characters in a little box — like Tamagotchi meets Levelhead #

Kevin Mitnick on the indictment of Sarah Palin's email hacker — he also touches on his own recent encounter with U.S. customs #

Portal: Prelude, extensive fan-made Portal mod, released a day early — Gamespy loved it, but warns that it's very hard #