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) #

Apple sells 1 million videos in first 20 days — considering the limited library, this is impressive (via) #

Upcoming.org on the TiVo — using Galleon, a wonderful open-source media browser #

Archie goes goth — totally dismal and excellent #

Flickr adds photo printing! — by mail, or pick them up at your local Target store for one hour printing (via) #

Google Base launching soon — an open database of structured content #

President Bush cease and desists The Onion — for using the presidential seal #

Newsweek on the Boondocks animated series — the Adult Swim premiere is on November 6; here's an early review (via) #

Katamari Damacy individual level speedruns — video runs for every main level of the game #

Video: Do They Know It's Hallowe'en? — follow along with the indie rock all-star lineup #

Video: Romance of the Jedi — Episode III remixed as a gay love story #

Paul Stamatiou's good review of Flock — learn about the developer preview before you try it out (via) #

8-Bit Star Wars — Episode IV as a pixelized animated GIF (via) #

Details on Jason Scott's next documentary about text adventure games — from the creator of the wonderful BBS Documentary #

Ask Mefi finds an address in 1939 Vienna — within minutes, Ask Mefi finds grandfather's Nazi-era apartment and hand-written documents (via) #

Matt Mullenweg leaves CNET — he'll be working on Wordpress full-time; congrats! #

AMASS, permanent storage for Ajax apps on the client side — store 100k without user permission on the client using Flash (via) #

DVD Jon joins Michael Robertson at new startup — nicely timed with the WSJ profile earlier #

Time interviews tech pundits on future of technology — Tim, Esther, Clay, and a host of other familiar names; I like Moby's closing quote (via) #

Video: First music video shot on cell phones exclusively — they recorded footage at half-speed to work with the 10 frames per second limit (via) #

WSJ profile on Jon Johansen — Wikipedia has a nice list of DVD Jon's projects (via) #

Suck.com on Wordprocessor.com — disturbingly accurate pitch from October 1996, just over nine years ago (via) #

Fortune's long profile on BitTorrent — history and some details about the new business #

Jib Jab cease and desists website for borrowing 9 seconds of Flash animation — completely hypocritical, considering their history with fair use (via) #

Readable explanation of how the Myspace worm worked — if you missed it, read the great story by its creator #

Matt Haughey on this morning's massive Blogspot spam flood — Chris Pirillo is covering it closely, with a response from Google #

Screenshots of the Nintendo DS wifi interface — Joystiq explains some of the security issues (via) #