Verisign buys Moreover for $30m — Kottke points to thoughts by co-founders Denton and Galbraith (via) #

Google adds tagging to search history — no social aspect yet, but I bet it's coming #

Heatmapping Google Earth — dynamic data viz using Django and Google Earth layers #

Video: Charade, full-length film from 1963 — Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn thriller slipped into public domain because of a clerical error (via) #

Oracle's purchase of InnoDB affects MySQL users — catching up on news I missed while at Web 2.0 last week #

VGMaps, Vector Overlays for Google Maps — fusing Flash and GMaps; try the subway maps example #

Video: Rhythm of Life — excellent Guiness ad (via) #

Doctor Doom's Top Ten Euphemisms for Sex — Mike should be writing for McSweeney's #

Stanford wins $2 million DARPA Grand Challenge — more importantly, five teams' robot cars crossed the 135-mile finish line (via) #

Yahoo! Podcasts — thus marks the point where nobody trusts what I link to #

Kotaku's rant on Arnold Schwarzenegger — blocks the sale of violent video games to minors, in contrast to his history of movie violence #

International coalition of government poised to take control of Internet from U.S. — dissolving ICANN and handing the root servers over to the UN #

Cool musicians who blog — an excellent roundup (via) #

Marios 64 — 64 pixel Marios in famous costumes #

MySpace user found dead — final blog posts on LJ and MySpace usually get thousands of comments by mourners and onlookers #

Adam Kalsey's Tagyu — utility to auto-discover tags from content or websites; click a tag to view suggested tags for Delicious pages #

Google Reader — Google launches their web-based feed reader #

Tristan runs the numbers on the Weblogs Inc sale — breaking down value by blog and sector #

Mark Pilgrim writing Greasemonkey scripts for every microformat — I love that guy (via) #

LiveMarks — viewing Del.icio.us popular in real time; Joshua must hate this, though #

Salon redesigns — it reminds me of Slate (via) #

Kottke says Verisign bought Weblogs.com for $5M — a match made in hell (via) #

How many blogs did AOL buy? — 85 total, but only 31 are active (via) #

HBO poisoning BitTorrent downloads with bad seeds — their time would be better spent working on a distribution model instead of fighting it (via) #

First PSP trojan found in the wild — not a virus, just malicious software (via) #

AOL buys Weblogs Inc., including Engadget — I heard $40 million, but take it with salt; seems like an unusually expensive content play #

Synchroedit, open-source real-time multiuser web editor — whew, that's a mouthful; sounds like the open-source version of Jot Live #

Yahoo buys Upcoming.org! — have you heard the news? Waxy is going to Yahoo! #

Ning.com goes live! — 24 Hour Laundry's stealthy startup is an oddball social software playground; like Second Life for web apps, this is mind blowing geek cool #

Gametap goes live — two week free trial to play hundreds of retro games, from Pitfall to Myst (via) #

PDF: Towards Decentralized Recommender Systems — good thesis on an interesting topic #

Interactive Fiction Comp 2005 entries are available for download — or just wait for me to link to the winners in a few weeks #

37 Signals' Writeboard launches — nicely designed wiki with clean change tracking, but I'm surprised it's not real-time like Jot Live (via) #

Comment spammers linking to innocent blogs to discredit spam blacklists? — an excellent example of how blacklists fail as spammers adapt #

Tim O'Reilly tries to answer, What Is Web 2.0? — trying to wrangle an amorphous blob #

Metroblogging gets ripped off by scam artists? — designed by a Romanian IT company that makes Texas Holdem clones #

Google confirms plans to offer free San Francisco wifi — expect the cable/DSL companies to retaliate by pushing legislation (via) #

NYT on the remixed Shining trailer's creator — I burned through 560GB today after USA Today, Fark, and Aint It Cool News all hotlinked it; don't miss Tattered Coat's updates on the story #

Trulia — commercial mashup mixing real estate and Google Maps, with stats and great design (via) #

Video: Westside Story as a horror film — from the same group that made Shining #

Google Calendar close to launch? — like with Google Talk, the domain is resolving but not yet live #

PervWatch — creepy Google Maps mashup with sex offender data #

Steven Levy profiles Tim O'Reilly in Wired — he's one of the kindest and wisest people I've ever met (via) #

eHub — constantly updated list of new Web 2.0-ish projects #

Openomy, open file system — not much to look at yet, but open data stores have huge potential #

AJAX using only an image — crazy ass technique that doesn't use XMLHttpRequest, and works without cookies (via) #

MP3: George W. Bush covers "White Lines" — from the guy who made the amazing "Sunday Bloody Sunday" remix, also on that page #

Yahoo! Site Explorer beta — explore every page and inbound link, manually or with an API; for example, Waxy.org (via) #

Van Morrison's Contractual Obligation Album — MP3s of 31 songs improvised to get out of his record deal; related: Ben Folds' "One Down" MP3 and lyrics #

Pixen — open-source OS X app designed for creating pixel art (via) #