The Gates in Second Life — and much cheaper than the real thing (via) #

Eric Ward e-mails Yahoo's Jerry Yang in 1994 — patient zero of the SEO plague #

Flickr, Yahoo deal rumored — I've been hearing these rumblings, as well #

Google Movies vs. Keanu Reeves — some creative queries with the Google's new movie support #

Hints of a Google Calendar? — though they haven't started crawling Upcoming.org's iCal feeds yet (via) #

Disney to re-release Song of the South in 2006!? — wow, I came about *this* close to posting the whole thing for free download last month (via) #

Insanely huge man-made ice wall — pipes spewing water non-stop for three months forms a 132-foot tall sculpture (via) #

Airbag interviews Kottke — I can't get enough blogger navel-gazing #

KCRW to offer original programming as podcasts — but no music because of copyright laws (via) #

NYT on Craig's List Missed Connection — two strangers later found each other through the site and fell in love (via) #

Bluetooth Stereo Cassette — now if only the iPod supported Bluetooth without an adapter #

Google adds movie searching and reviews — not a category killer, yet, but some very handy uses #

Shinkuro — secure, cross-platform file sharing, screen sharing, and chat for private groups (via) #

ExplorerXP adds tabs to Windows Explorer — freeware utility for Win2k/XP (via) #

Doonesbury on file-sharing — Trudeau's covering the topic all week #

WTF OMG — from the Found Objects group on Livejournal #

Creative Commies t-shirt in Maxim — very weird context for the illustration #

Banned Books in the Year 2191 (via) #

Author's father leaves bad reviews of son's book on Amazon — the only review less than 4 stars (via) #

WhatIsMyIP.com sells for $386k on eBay — time to start using ipchicken.com (via) #

How Paris Hilton got hacked? — weak security question, but also a weak security system (via) #

Feedbeep, RSS to SMS notifications — this could work well with Upcoming.org feeds (via) #

Paypal Fee Calculator — a neat little utility (via) #

Gorilla Cover Gallery — 500+ comic book covers featuring gorillas (via) #

AllofMP3.com facing criminal copyright investigation by Russian police — well, there goes the best pseudo-legal source of DRM-free music online (via) #

The Jayhawks break up — or maybe not; to me, they broke up when Mark left the band (via) #

Every Calvin & Hobbes comic — if you like these, please pre-order The Complete Calvin & Hobbes (via) #

Kottke.org as a full-time job — Jason quit his day job and will rely on donations to support himself; I donated #

Video: 238 miles of Abba's "Dancing Queen" — sweet, delicious torture #

Paris Made Me Change My Number t-shirt — from meme to t-shirt in 24 hours (via) #

Vimeo — Kottke calls it "like Flickr for video clips" (via) #

Katamari Damacy in Play-doh — also: more cosplay (via) #

Jorn Barger is posting to Robot Wisdom again! — the man who coined the term "weblog" is back after a long hiatus #

Earthstation 5 calls it quits — sums up the history of the supposedly Palestinian P2P software that formally declared war on the RIAA and MPAA #

GreaseMonkey user scripts — for use with the GreaseMonkey Firefox extension to rewrite websites to your whim #

Parents Television Council's "Worst of the Week" — convenient clips of the best TV every week (via) #

How to Destroy the Earth — a sensible alternative to paving the Earth #

Jane's Animal Crossing world misses Justin — what happens when games start reminiscing about your ex? #

Kembrew McLeod's Freedom of Expression — brand new book on copyright idiocy and sampling culture, CC licensed and available for free download! (via) #

Magnatune signs digital distribution deal with CDBaby — all artists will now appear in iTunes, among others (via) #

Copyright Criminals — outstanding trailer for a CC-licensed documentary on sampling culture (via) #

Shaun McCormack interviews Jack Thompson — e-mail dialogue with the asshat lawyer prosecuting the $300m lawsuit against Grand Theft Auto's developers and retailers (via) #

Adaptive Path on the Ajax approach to developing web applications — in other words, web apps doing neat stuff without leaving the page (via) #

SF Chronicle on Justin Hall's blog farewell — with a roundup of other prominent blog quitters (via) #

Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide — very sad end to a literary great #

MAME name and logo trademarked by Ultracade CEO — Foley responds, but he still has no right to the trademarks #

Flickr Picture Viewer for the TiVo — if you haven't been upgraded yet, get in the priority queue #

Paris Hilton's hacked Sidekick address book, notes, and photos — the numbers and notes were confirmed authentic by Drudge and others #

NYT on podcasts — with obligatory Adam Curry reference #

Om Malik on how to save TiVo — he was one of the first to predict its current challenges #