Google Base launches — for real, this time (via) #

Wall Street Journal on the Interactive Fiction competition — this year's IF Comp winners should be announced tomorrow (via) #

eBay stops charging for API use — good move! I complained about their API charges back in 2003 (via) #

King Kong, business monkey — Alan rounds up the merchandising from Peter Jackson's Kong #

AOL launching online TV service — 3,400 hours of ad-supported video (via) #

Video: David Cross on Fox's mishandling of Arrested Development — from the Season 2 blooper reel, but very relevant #

Amazon tries tagging — also, they have a "Tags Team" #

Google Analytics — free, gorgeous web stats package, with site overlays; so that's why they bought Urchin #

Fan-made films from Lionhead Software's The Movies — Peter Molyneux's new RPG has a built-in machinima engine with export options #

Video: Harry Potter and the Hogwarts Dance Team — sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion #

Fox cancels Arrested Development — officially, this time; I hate Fox (via) #

Watching all six Star Wars films simultaneously — reminds me of Jason Salavon's work (via) #

Digg vs Dot — comparing cross-posting between Slashdot and Digg, with a running tally (via) #

Blogger catches SF Chronicle plagiarizing New Yorker — nicely handled without an angry mob, giving them the chance to fix it and respond #

Say So — like an anonymous, lo-fi version of Ask Metafilter #

SF Gate web designers get snarky in alt tags (via) #

Katamari creator dreams of playgrounds — ok, misread this story; he doesn't see a long career in gaming #

Katamari Sushi — nope, not sick of katamari yet #

Replica of Charlie Brown's Christmas tree — isn't the whole idea of this contrary to the moral of A Charlie Brown Christmas? (via) #

Ning.com's Anytown Marketplace — Jon Aquino's genericized Craig's List, cloneable for any city (via) #

Florida judge rules online discussion can apoint public figures — interesting precedent in a defamation case #

NYT on leaked Microsoft memos panicking about the "Internet services" era — Winer has the full text of Gates' and Ozzie's e-mails #

Flash: eBaum's World Sucks — it may be flamebait, but at least it's entertaining #

Digg.com set to overtake Slashdot in Alexa traffic rankings — pretty amazing, especially considering the timeframe (via) #

Yahoo Pirate Maps and Radar — using Flash filters and transforms to make a new look and feel (via) #

Mainstream Media Meltdown II — Chris Anderson updates his media stats #

Grokster shuts down network — the final chapter in the settlement, if not for the ongoing aftermath #

FlickrFS — Linux virtual filesystem that ties to Flickr for grabbing and posting photos (via) #

MySpace threats shuts down San Antonio high school — the school's reaction is puzzling; shouldn't they be grateful the information spread so quickly? #

Risk on Google Maps — the next version will attempt multiplayer (via) #

Aimi.cn — a Chinese 43things clone; this goal made me laugh #

Google adds Creative Commons license search — like Flickr, the ability to filter website by usage rights is wonderful #

Kottke on My Dirty iPod — I'll let him link to it, since it's explicit NSFW #

NYT tech columnist on the future of Yahoo — whoa, with a mention of Upcoming #

Dave Cassel's 100 Greatest Internet Moments — some serious nostalgia, mining the early web for memes and culture #

Something Awful on honest game titles — the first one is brilliant, but they're all good #

Best privacy policy ever — the Malevole text generator slips into production #

Japanese blogger poisons mother in homage to killer — with translated excerpts from her blog #

White Stripes cover Tegan and Sara on new EP — nice homage, but the original is much better; judge for yourself (via) #

MySpace starts record label — sounds like a natural extension of the buyout (via) #

Rasmus Lerdorf's PHP tutorial on the new Yahoo geocoder — for me, the geocoding platform is just as important as the new maps UI (via) #

Google Desktop 2 launches — with support for user-created plugins (via) #

Alisa Viejo teen murderer posted on Something Awful, Anandtech, others — he was about shotguns on SA, then killed his neighbors and himself three days later #

Amazon Mechanical Turk — develop questions that can only be answered by humans, make money answering them #

Fark makes violent videogames friendly — my favorites are Duck Hunt, Pac-Man and Postal (via) #

Cafepress copyright police shut down parody t-shirts for non-existent drug — the Panexa site is great, too (via) #

Yahoo! Maps beta — developers have already built some neat apps, including the outstanding MashUpcoming #

BitTorrent for Dummies — it doesn't get much more mainstream than this (via) #

Sony CD installs DRM rootkit? — malware that hides itself and impossible for almost everyone to remove (via) #

NBC News to broadcast online — for free in its entirety, with past shows archived historically (via) #