Elderly harmonica player arrested for performing copyrighted songs at bar — what a relief (via) #

ESA threatens Kotaku over game rating parody shirt — "Your Mom Rated E for Everyone" #

Convert an analog wall clock into a binary clock — brilliant hack, with a printable pattern PDF (via) #

How I Was Duped by Ali G. — another first person story of an unwitting victim; also, a look behind the scenes #

Humiliated frat boys sue Borat — the inevitable followup to this Ask Metafilter question from a friend of one of the guys #

Video: One Bank — corporate America takes on U2's "One"; painful to watch in its sincerity #

Slashdot runs out of comments — they hit 16,777,216 comments, the upper limit for a mediumint in MySQL #

Review of Lou Reed's performance at the AOL Web 2.0 party — sounds painfully awkward (via) #

Unofficial FAQ for the Digg Algorithm — good look at what gets stories to the Digg homepage, but doesn't cover everything #

Video: Colbert Calls It Quits — grade-A ranting #

Video: Robot Chicken on Calvin & Hobbes (via) #

Comedy Central blogger breaks the Rumsfeld news last night — they're getting so good at fake news, it's turning into reality #

Bad SF Show Steals MySpace Page from Bad Indie Band — this sounds like the domain trademark wars all over again; update: they gave it back #

WSJ on bands that love Guitar Hero — I'd love to see the videos of bands attempting to play their own songs in the game #

Stikkit, sticky notes for the web — lovely design, launched at Web 2.0 along with 12 others #

You Can Learn a Lot From a Rich Girl — don't miss the linked footnote on how she got out of debt (via) #

Winners of The Morning News' Encyclopedia Brown for D.A. contest — "Vote for Miss Viola Swamp, Board of Education" #

The Rush Limbaugh Boogie — maybe I'm just giddy from the election results, but I can't stop laughing at this #

Ryan Carson publishes DropSend's monthly profits — it's still baffling why he's selling it if it takes so little effort (via) #

Michael Crook's Internet Club — excellent (and long) followup of the Michael Crook and the EFF lawsuit against him #

Video: Grand Theft Mario — as opposed to Mario in Vice City #

Goopymart's TEH INTERNETS — collect them all! (via) #

Video: Hacking Democracy — HBO looks at voting machine irregularities #

Nightmare  #

Let's Paint, Exercise and Blend Drinks! — making Bob Ross look like a slacker (via) #

Saddam Hussein sentenced to death — nice timing #

Orlando teen steals bus, drives regular route and pockets fares — "I drove that bus better than most Lynx drivers could" (via) #

Joni Mitchell working on first new album in 8 years? — coming out of her musical retirement #

Analysis of Comedy Central content on YouTube — though they claim the videos are coming back #

EFF files lawsuit against Craigslist sex scammer Michael Crook — more about the case from Jeff Diehl at 10 Zen Monkeys and the PDF of the complaint filing #

Minesweeper built in Pixelblocks! — the finished product is 38,240 blocks standing six feet tall; it cost over $900 wholesale! (via) #

Wired buys Reddit — I didn't see that one coming #

Google acquires JotSpot  #

Anonymous insider's details on the YouTube deal — fascinating read about collusion between Google and the major media companies #

Long New Yorker profile on Will Wright — The Sims was partially inspired by his daughter's dollhouse and his own house burning down #

NBC's Heroes comic book tie-ins — they're releasing a comic book after every episode with additional backstory; clever! #

Sketch your furniture in the air — 3D fabrication of freehand drawings in space (via) #

Fake Warrant Generator — clever commentary on the boarding pass generator fallout (via) #

Thou Art Early, But We'll Admit Thee — wonderful breakdown of the many ways to die in Nethack #

Video: On the Edge of Blade Runner — excellent BBC documentary on Blade Runner, with an unreleased scene at the 40:00 mark (via) #

Telephone Conferences: Phreaky Boys Collection — collection of phone phreak voicemail messages from 1990; glimpse into a quirky subculture #

FindMeOn — identity aggregation; still way too hard to use, but a step in the right direction (via) #

Myspace phishing attacks using customized Myspace profiles — it took me a second to realize how this was a phishing attack #

FBI raids "Fake Boarding Pass" programmer's house, seizes computers — blaming a web programmer for inadequate airport security #

ebay: The Worlds Largest & Best Saved By The Bell Collection! — 0 bids (via) #

Hell.com goes on auction — a mirror of the art site from 2001; background drama here (via) #

Comedy Central DMCAs YouTube — South Park, Colbert, and Daily Show clips removed en masse (via) #

Tetris Weightlifting — throw these in a geek gym with Doom treadmills (via) #

Guitar Hero 2's Hidden Tracks Revealed — Strong Bad's Trogdor and Dethklok hand-in-hand with Buckethead and Voivod #

Vox launches publicly — yay! drinks are on Ben and Mena #