Yahoo Music exec says labels should sell DRM-free music — a breath of fresh air to hear this; Ian Rogers agrees #

MPAA targeting Usenet binaries services — looks like NZB indexes and forums instead of Usenet feeds #

I'm Your Biggest Fan — blogger flunks job interview because of daily fan letters to Star Jones (via) #

World of Warcraft teaches the wrong things — grinding and the time commitment are two big reasons why I can't get into current MMOs (via) #

Google To Become Portal — silly 2002 April Fool's article predicts the future #

Kottke.org switches from micropatrons to skyscraper ads — the parallel universe Kottke #

Google Pages — Google's Geocities 2.0 offers a simple CMS, free hosting, and 100 MB storage #

Kottke reviews first year as a pro blogger — 1,450 people donated a total of $39,900, but almost entirely in the first three weeks #

All Google's Roads Lead to Kansas — with ground photos of the farm at the default center of Google Maps #

30 Boxes releases their API — they have serious momentum #

Neil Young's Perfect Echo Volume 1 '67-'71 — full album of heart-breaking rarities (via) #

MP3: Postal Service remixes Feist's "Mushaboom" — with new vocals by Ben Gibbard; also, the cover of Nina Simone's "See-Line Woman" (local copy) is worth hearing (via) #

Technorati launches Favorites — an RSS reader that never mentions RSS #

Democracy Player — making it drop-dead easy to subscribe, watch, and share video channels online; like a BitTorrent PVR community (via) #

Woman loses custody of son for participating in Subgenius holiday — anyone familiar with the Church knows it's religious parody and performance art #

Lego'd Video Games — the Excitebike scene is lovely (via) #

Techcrunch previews Flyspy, historical airline ticket search — like Zillow, blows up industries by making hard-to-find information widely available #

"Lost Camera" unlost, but not quite found — a Canadian couple found the Flickr fan's camera, but won't give it back (via) #

The Perils of Metadata — Washington Post accidentially exposes their anonymous botnet hacker with photo metadata (via) #

Gelf interviews the Smoking Gun on the aftermath of their Million Little Pieces expose — excellent interview on the history, media coverage, and a potential followup (via) #

Hell is Chrome — a screenshot of a new message in Outlook 12 beta (via) #

Bizarre "Contract of Wifely Expectations" emerges in Iowa kidnapping case — the text may be offensive #

Video: Sonic the Hedgehog soundtrack on piano — jaunty! (via) #

NBC demands YouTube remove "Lazy Sunday" video — biting the hand that feeds you; they should have paid for that kind of amazing promotion #

Bradley Horowitz on Creators, Synthesizers, and Consumers — only a fraction of a community needs to be active for everyone to benefit (via) #

OSX86 Project served with DMCA takedown — did it come from Apple? (via) #

Ning launches redesign — the popular apps page is useful, and they're doing a much better job of explaining what Ning is #

Anti-piracy poem hidden in Mac OS X source code — the AP got a quote from Apple about it #

John "Spumco" Kricfalusi's new blog is fun — there's a character named "Waxy" in the kid's show collage (via) #

Googler Matt Cutts photographs Jeeves, and vice versa — don't miss the followup (via) #

Video: Daily Show on Myspace — oof, Friendster gets dissed (via) #

SF Gate on Pillow Fight Club — also: the Upcoming event and photos (via) #

RIAA attacking AllofMP3.com — the Russian grey-market MP3 site is great, but not long for this world #

Podbop — podcasting MP3s from bands on tour using the Eventful API; very clever mashup (via) #

Little Food People — and a second set; originally from a French site with a bad UI (via) #

First Mac OS X trojan in the wild? — every Mac is a powerful Unix box, so it's inevitable that it gets targeted (via) #

Video: Oprah grills Tom Cruise — great mashup of two famous Oprah moments #

Fisheye — neat visualizations for CVS/SVN source code repositories (via) #

Amazon's most edited wikis — appropriately, A Million Little Pieces has nearly twice the edits of the next runner up (via) #

Daily Candy may be sold for $100 million — not bad for a daily newsletter that found its niche #

Chuck Norris Facts, Web 2.0 version — also: Chuck's selling his own shirts now (via) #

Flowcharts in art and comics — not mentioned is Jason Shiga's Meanwhile (via) #

37signals launches Campfire — group chat for distributed teams and projects (via) #

CNNi redesigns with clean onscreen titles — more details at Kemistry #

Google buys Measure Map — congrats, Jeff and the Adaptive Path crew! #

The Dumpster — a visualization of romantic breakups collected from blogs in 2005 (via) #

New York magazine's cover story on blogging — the issue includes a Ben Fry infographic PDF and some other fluff (via) #

WSJ on web parodies and copyright enforcement — with a very high-profile mention of House of Cosbys! #

Video: She Hit Me — motorcyclist records video of Honda Civic losing control and hitting her, posts video online #

Half-Life 2 to become episodic series — exactly the way it should be (via) #