Cash donations relicense Eyes on the Prize — this actually just makes the copyright problem worse, as Stay Free points out #

CBGB's lease won't be renewed — legendary club to close despite rallies (via) #

Video: Cubic Tragedy — outstanding CG animation available as a very high-res download #

Flickr photobook printing with Qoop — here are some example pages of the book design (via) #

Kiko — nicely designed web calendaring with very low barrier to entry #

NYC subway flasher caught — Flickr cameraphone photo that made NY Post front page leads to his capture #

Racism in AP's Katrina photo coverage — everyone's talking about this one; you decide #

Image: Bush Extended Family Photo — geek political satire; reminds me of one ring #

Pandora Music Engine comes out of private beta — streaming music recommendation service #

The Onion redesigns, opens complete archives to all — Khoi Vinh comments on his top-notch work on the redesign; the new archives go back to 1996 #

Lego Factory — create and share digital Lego models, then buy custom-made kits of your designs (via) #

NYT on Flying Spaghetti Monster — classic net-style satire makes a comeback #

A judicial answer to the RIAA — RIAA sues mom for file sharing; judge kicks their asses #

Credible rumors on the IM war — Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL may be conspiring against Google Talk in the IM space (via) #

The Final Blow in the Doppler Wars — I'm waiting for Doppler Infinity+1 (via) #

Upcoming.org adds Groups — we just launched this; for example, SoCal Indie Rock and Flickr events #

TechCrunch's short review of Flock — the social web browser sounds interesting (via) #

Best CAPTCHA ever — next: captchas in Flash and VRML #

Hot Biscuit Mod — Nintendogs the next to be targeted after GTA San Andreas #

Image: Pac Man on Trial — best entry from b3ta's If Computer Games Were Real #

MovableType 3.2 released — looks like Greg updated MT-Upcoming for 3.2, too! #

Greasemonkey 0.5.1 final released — you may now resume remixing the web #

Matt Haughey writing reviews for the New York Times — I've always wanted to see my name in all-caps Times New Roman #

Playing a Platinum Record — it was recorded backwards and wasn't the song being awarded #

Last Stand for First Sale — sewing software publisher threatens woman who tries to sell her legal copy on eBay (via) #

Is MySpace deliberately ugly? — also, could crappy visual design have contributed to eBay's success? (via) #

I am not responsible for making Google better — concise counterpoint in the search engine spam debate with some good thoughts in the comments #

Trackback: A Tragedy in Three Acts — I wish more tech writing was done in the form of short plays #

TechCrunch reviews Pandora — new music recommendation engine for custom streaming radio #

China tries to remove Internet icon from Web — like always, Wikipedia's coverage of Sister Furong is essential #

Bricolage adds support for PHP templating — the open-source CMS we use at work keeps getting better #

Chris Anderson on "just enough piracy" — piracy can be useful, and there may be optimal piracy rates for different industries #

Kottke's essay on WebOS — lots of good thoughts and predictions #

Tim O'Reilly responds to accusations of supporting search engine spammers — thoughtful reply; this is a subtle issue that people are only now becoming aware of #

Google Talk launches — Skype must be freaking out right about now; here's a review #

Leaked info on logging into Google's new Instant Messenger service — using their Jabber-based IM with your Gmail username #

Dateline tracks down a porn spammer — odd bit of investigative journalism turns up the owner, web host, and spammer of a bestiality site; Joey has more (via) #

O'Reilly's search engine spam — read about this on my last day at Foo Camp, but couldn't get a quote from anyone there (via) #

TiVo adds support for moving video from PCs to DVR  #

Google running Jabber server, fueling rumors of IM tool announcement on Wednesday — the talk.google.com domain resolves, too (via) #

A List Apart redesigns — lovely work, great typography #

Quake III source code released under GPL — Slashdot thread on the quality of the code with comments by Carmack himself (via) #

Pwntcha — project to decode Captcha images; more info in this article (via) #

Phone pirates in seek and steal mission — thieves using Bluetooth phones near locked cars to find laptops to steal (via) #

News Corp may buy IGN Entertainment — which includes Rotten Tomatoes (via) #

Engadget 1985 — the SYSOP is IN #

Dick Tracy introduces the bootleg DVD gang — this storyline is hilarious; Cellphone, Digit, Download, and Miss Laptop! #

Google Desktop 2 beta release — the sidebar seems a bit obnoxious #

Scans of the Target-sponsored issue of the New Yorker — the first comment made me laugh #

Dick Tracy busting DVD pirates in new storyline — "your living is costing the movie industry five billion a year!" #