Sky pulls down video service after Windows DRM cracks — after FairUse4WM defeated Microsoft's patch within days, my insider sources say some major media companies will be pulling their DRM content within days #

eDonkey shuts down, kills installed clients — not quite a fond farewell #

Lonelygirl15's identity revealed — 19-year-old actress Jessica Rose from New Zealand; the producers were very good about covering up the original photos #

Jimmy Wales debates Brittanica editor — "fitting words for an epitaph"; them's fighting words! #

Apple announces 80GB iPods, iTunes Movies and Games, and iTV wireless set-top box — $13 for new releases, $10 all others; also, they bought Cover Flow #

Neave.tv — fullscreen mashup of Flash video sites; the transitions are outstanding #

Video: Douglas Adams' Hyperland (1990) — pre-web BBC documentary on hypertext and multimedia; interviews Ted Nelson (among others) and stars Dr. Who's Tom Baker as the software agent #

September 11, 2001: What We Saw — unreleased 30-minute home video captured from 500 yards away; Revver is crushed, so use the torrent #

Minnesota State Fair on a Stick — as advertised, 59 foods on a stick; Scotch Egg on a Stick gets my vote (via) #

Popcorn Song — over 300 versions of the obnoxious song made famous by Hot Butter in 1972 #

Video: SNL skit on Myspace pedophiles — "chadster1991?" "1,991 is my favorite number" #

Myspace graffiti in Italy — for an Orange County-based hip hop artist? #

Destinyland, Dave Cassel's new podcast — frenetic and full of fascinating random trivia, like Dave himself; most recent episode is all Disney secrets and urban legends #

Gary Brolsma releases "New Numa Numa" video — self-conscious and unfunny, it proves once again that creating a meme is practically impossible #

Robot Coop's Erik Benson changes name to Buster Butterfield McLeod — but only for a year #

Sex baiting prank on Craigslist affects hundreds — griefer republishes personal ad responses publicly, ruining lives in the process #

Video: Ze Frank at TED — quite possibly the best conference presentation I've ever seen #

Lonelygirl15 is an art project by independent filmmakers — the official site is down, but Danah has the best analysis #

Danah Boyd on the Facebook controversy — I was waiting for her to chime in; the big issue is not privacy, but too much transparency #

Microsoft patches DRM faster than fatal security flaws — they care about their record label partners much more than you or the Internet #

Video: Composing a Fugue — brilliantly meta explanation of how to write a fugue based on Britney Spears' "Oops, I Did It Again" #

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) #