Michael Crook settles out of court — and rescinds his false DMCA notices #

Video: Osama Team Hunger Force — "we will disrupt their workday with a mildly offensive blinking neon light!" (via) #

Schwarzenegger & Chan Terminate Piracy — I don't know how I missed this PSA, mentioned in the Vanity Fair article #

Pirates of the Multiplex — the Pirate Bay make Vanity Fair (via) #

You've Ruined Everything — Jason Scott's archetypes for online community members and the critical events that shape it #

Oscar Torrents — arrogant, but a good companion to my article #

WFMU's Ten Albums in Ten Minutes contest — don't miss Nevermind on 45; see also: Sixty-Second Song Remixes #

RU Sirius interviews Cory Doctorow — Cory may be a zealot, but he's my kind of zealot #

Guitar Hero coming to the Wii — I think Guitar Hero DS would be funny; see also: M-06, the Nintendo DS guitar #

Video: Adventure Time — "your mind has been transported back in time... and to Mars!" (via) #

Long exposure photos of '80s arcade games — Tempest is gorgeous #

Yahoo! Pipes, like Unix pipes for the web — Tim O'Reilly nails why this is so neat #

Outstanding Metatalk post from a former engineer at Data General — also news to me from that thread, Jessamyn is the daughter of Tom West (via) #

Steve Jobs argues against DRM for the music industry — wow, Cory Doctorow must be in hog heaven #

Microsoft to support OpenID — wonderful news #

Gizmodo's Superbowl ad roundup — Robert Goulet and Mr. Turkey Neck were my personal favorites, but overall, nothing too exciting #

Cyclowiz, the first real Nintendo Wii modchip, hits market — here's a video of the installation process #

Waiters Who Are Nauseated by Food — Carell and Colbert from the underrated Dana Carvey Show, which also had Robert Smigel and Charlie Kaufman as writers #

Bram Cohen vs. Marc Cuban — low blows from both sides #

Video: David Sedaris on the Stadium Pal — the testimonials have many happy NASCAR fans; see also: the Beerbelly #

Mooninites LED bomb scare on eBay — $2000, cheap! #

Boston ad prank suspects talk about hair — best press conference ever; is it somehow illegal to create LED displays in public? #

Boston police overreact to Aqua Teen promotional LED throwies — a Flickr user took one of the "suspicious objects" home (via) #

Flickr announces March 15 deadline for switching to Yahoo IDs — the backlash has been fierce; Stewart and clan have been responding throughout #

idproxy.net: Use your Yahoo! account as an OpenID — oustanding hack #

Midomi, music search using your own voice — incredibly, it worked for all three songs I belted out #

Teriyaki Boyz video parodies YouTube — I highly second the Rip Slyme and "Beef or Chicken" recommendations #

Mapping New Testament Social Networks — from the guys who did the Mechanical Turk bible quote database #

SF Chronicle starts podcasting voicemails from angry readers — "pilotless airplane! pilotless airplane! drone, drone, drone!" #

In My Language, autistic woman speaks her native language and translates into ours — she responds in the comments; this instantly changed my perception of the world #

Video: College Saga — funny real-life recreation of a classic 8-bit RPG #

Clive Thompson's A Head for Detail — good article on Gordon Bell and MyLifeBits; recording every piece of his life (via) #

Gen Kanai on the High Cost of Monoculture — Korean Internet are stuck using IE 6 because of ancient encryption standards #

Mates of State's Kori Gardner on touring with kids — she's been writing a regular column for Babble on being a parent in a band #

Yahoo's most popular BitTorrent searches — I swear I had nothing to do with this #

Quag7's State of the BBS — he called 50 dialup BBSes and wrote up the results; the parts about where web communities fail is essential reading #

Flickr quietly launches machine tag support — the possibilities here are kinda mind-bending #

Coca-Cola settles with Joel Veitch and his ninja kitten video — more from Joel (via) #

Jason Scott on A Sysop, Forever — story of one tiny BBS, the death of its 15-year-old sysop, and how his brother and father kept it alive #

Paul Ford's Followup/Distraction — "There are two kinds of distraction, at least." (via) #

IBM's Many Eyes — like Swivel, a site for creating and sharing data visualizations; O'Reilly has more #

Waxy.org: Pirating the 2007 Oscars — I just posted my research into Oscar screener piracy, also showing that restricting screeners may hurt film's Oscar chances #

Food Network running subliminal McDonald's ads — too bad subliminal ads don't work (via) #

Video: Flea Market Montgomery, the mini-mall rap — "You heard me! Come shop!" #

Coachella 2007 lineup leaked — three days of heat and music #

Video: Children Are A Gift — a star performance by Ben, the son of my oldest childhood friend #

Foo campers' Space Invaders and Cylon Raider artwork on Google Maps — Google arranged a flyover of the campus during last year's camp #

Social Whitelisting with OpenID — something big is brewing here; just wait until someone builds exactly what Scott proposes #

My Name Is Meta — "My Name Is Earl" writers plant references on Television Without Pity forums six months before they mention it on-air (via) #

Every Ad in Times Square — it's posts like these that make Ironic Sans one of my favorite new blogs #