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!" #

Vice Records' "Do They Know It's Halloween?" — insanely bizarre benefit recording with an all-star indie rock lineup #

DJ Lush Life's West Sounds — remixing Kanye West with Beach Boys' Pet Sounds (via) #

Yahoo Local beta — very impressive alternative to CitySearch; some of the highlights #

Wikipedia entry on Flying Spaghetti Monster — take that, Brittanica (via) #

Protopage — gorgeously designed Ajaxy sticky notes website #

Turn your NES gamepad into a TV remote — funny hack (via) #

Seven Band Names That Would Be Impossible to Book (via) #

Maya's Micronomicon — my friend Maya's insanely detailed notebook drawings; more obsessiveness in her Flickr stream #

Salon to sell The WELL — a part of history that could be lost forever #

The Goddess Bunny — your guess is as good as mine #

Blogger toolbar for Microsoft Word — feels strange, but casual users will love this #

Quake III to be open-sourced this week — six years later, still a great game we play at work regularly #

Video: Grumpy Starbucks spec ad — it's no Nutrigrain, but it made me laugh (via) #

MyProgs — collaborative list of applications people use; like Del.icio.us for software #

Dave Matthews Band encouraging fans to bypass DRM restrictions on new album — they're petitioning Apple to support WMA in iTunes, rather than releasing DRM-free audio #

Etsy — nicely designed shopping site for buying and selling handmade stuff (via) #

Feedster's Top 500 — wow, Waxy Links is #60; read about who was excluded (via) #

Linux and Windows running on the PSP — a healthy homebrew community keeps the platform alive, despite the lack of good games (via) #

CNET buys Metacritic — still catching up from last week's vacation #