Digg to counteract tight friend networks in promotion algorithm — close networks of friends have the end result of gaming Digg, even if they're not trying to (via) #

WFMU's Great Copycat Contest — bands that sound exactly like their influences; don't miss Scott Wilk, the Elvis Costello clone (via) #

Catbirdseat's Handy Music-Blogger "Best Of 2006" List Cheat Sheet — it'll be fun to compare this to the actual lists in December #

Adrian Holovaty on how newspapers need to embrace structured content — good comments, too #

Video: Gumbasia — Art Clokey's Gumby ancestor from 1955, abstract and set to a frenetic jazz soundtrack #

Six Apart acquires Rojo to get their founder and CTO — buying companies to get to the juicy people inside #

Tucows was Kiko's auction winner — glad to know it wasn't just a domain spammer, but a good company #

In-game developer commentary in Half Life 2 — I captured video of the best examples of this interesting glimpse into the videogame design process #

Video: Everyday — Noah Kalina has shot a photo of himself every day for six years; see also, every day for three years #

When What We Love And Who We Love Are At Odds — Greg Allen wonders whether our dangerous passions can, or should, change after becoming a parent (via) #

MP3: Mathowie's Community Blog — 22-minute epic parody of Alice's Restaurant, chocked full with Metafilter in-jokes (via) #

Aaron Swartz asks, who writes Wikipedia? — most Wikipedia edits are by core users, but Aaron finds the most important contributions are by infrequent or anonymous users (via) #

Croc Hunter Steve Irwin, dead in freak stingray accident — died doing what he loved #

100 Acre Deadwood — very offensive (and mostly unfunny) Disney meets Deadwood parody, banned from the new Cracked magazine #

Video: 1K Project, videogame cars as fluids — 1,000 virtual cars overlayed in a single Trackmania run; also, the 3K Project and the full game for free download (via) #

iTunes disabling CD burning for some albums — update: false alarm! it appears that the unburnable tracks are the bonus videos #

Fox trying to bury Mike Judge's Idiocracy — by all accounts, his followup to Office Space is an instant cult classic, but Fox released it this weekend without a trailer or website into only 130 theaters #

Game|Life's exclusive details on the new Sam and Max game — also, the original game's a steal at $25 with Day of the Tentacle, and runs on any modern OS with ScummVM #

Video: KITT vs KARR Showdown — like Nelson says, "TV never got any better than this" (via) #

Guitar Hero 2 Songlist Revealed — I can't wait until November 1 #

Video of the bootleg Super Mario World on the NES — insane port of an SNES game to NES; looks surprisingly playable #

Warrick, tool to reconstruct lost websites — uses Internet Archive and web caches to store website on your local filesystem #

Animatus, realistic resin sculptures of cartoon character skeletons — a physical manifestation of Michael Paulus's drawings #

Pirated jazz albums etched on recycled X-ray films — in the the '30s and '40s, vinyl was hard to come by in the USSR and Eastern Europe (via) #

Google Image Labeler, the Google Images multiplayer game — Luis von Ahn's ESP Game now officially part of Image Search; see also, his excellent Tech Talk at Google #

Video: Nigerian authorities bust 419 scammers — fascinating glimpse into the origin of Nigerian scam e-mails #

WOXY Internet radio calls it quits — 97X, bam! the future of rock n' roll #

Two tourists crash the Lost set in Hawaii — and post all the photos to Flickr (via) #

Video: Frank Lloyd Wright's Kaufmann House modeled in Half-Life 2 — deathmatches in famous architecture; download it here (via) #

Video: 49 Up trailer — the ongoing UK documentary series interviews the same group of adults every 7 years since age 7 #

Comcast blacklists e-mail from The WELL — at my last job, dealing with mistaken Comcast and Verizon blacklists were the norm #

Queen's Brian May slams Myspace for "pirated identity" — he doesn't want to do the Myspace salute; won't somebody think of the children #

The Dial-Up BBS Revisited — amazing story of calling ghost BBSes, and a great tip for using Vonage for dialup (via) #

Business Week on the LonelyGirl15 conspiracy — here's a good overview;s is YouTube's biggest star a viral marketing effort or just kids havnig fun? (via) #

Jeremy Bogan irritates telemarketers with random recorded responses — this is brilliant and cruel; what else can you tell me about this offer? (via) #

Evhead on why pageviews are an obsolete metric — part of Myspace's big numbers are attributable to terrible site design (via) #

Flickr adds extensive geotagging and maps support — and, surprise! two-way integration with Upcoming #

Upcoming.org adds Flickr and Yahoo! Local integration — increasing the number of events by 3000% overnight, plus pretty pictures and nicer event pages #

NYT tracks down "Canon Rock" YouTube star — the original video, and its many, many imitators (via) #

Video: Ricky Gervais at Microsoft UK — shut down by Microsoft on Youtube, now living on Google Video for the moment #

Review of Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud — create and destroy a virtual server farm in seconds with an API call; Amazon is doing the most innovative work in the entire industry #

L.A. Weekly on the gentrification of Los Angeles — also, five warning signs; most interesting are gelato and the flight patterns of visual artists (via) #

Nintendo Wii to limit wifi for third party titles — no non-Nintendo launch titles will have online play? #

Video of self-parking Lexus — I'd be terrified of crushing someone's legs #

Stephen Colbert rips off Ze Frank joke? — hard to believe it's a coincidence; maybe a staff writer watches The Show (via) #

Dev-Scene Nintendo DS homebrew portal — outstanding index of available homebrew apps and games for the NDS (via) #

Myspace considers print magazine — a possible partnership with Nylon (via) #

Fluid dynamics physics toy — not unlike Sand (via) #

Long New Yorker article on the recent Poincare Conjecture battle — a fascinating story of two very different mathematic personalities; more from Kottke (via) #

37 Signals on the Long Road to Simple — this basically summed up my day #