Amazon tells Alan to remove Netflix/iTunes links from Amazon Light — if you use the Amazon web services, you can't link to any other commercial website!? #

Mark Fletcher's comments on the Jeeves/Bloglines buyout — like any good geek, Bloglines' CEO is a Monty Python fan #

Baby NameVoyager — Java applet, interactive charting of baby name popularity (via) #

Firefox spoofing vulnerability fixed 12 hours later — more details on the exploit #

Google employee Mark Jen fired for blogging? — 99zeroes revealed some internal info, but nothing critical #

Flickr Pipe Dream — emergent behavior emulates classic video game subgenre #

Google Maps — insanely great UI; it's only missing personalization and better URIs (via) #

Metafilter redesign contest results — the top three winners are all fantastic #

Register UK on why the new Napster will flop badly — paying $179/year to rent music you can never own; also: Gruber does the math (via) #

Burger King giving away classic Activision games in kids' meals — including my favorite Atari 2600 game, Kaboom! (via) #

List of Google acquisitions — from Deja to Keyhole (via) #

Court documents reveal Kazaa logging all user downloads — moral: don't trust closed, centralized servers that operate for profit #

iPod shuffle RAID — 3.9 GB of redundant iPod lovin' (via) #

Total Immersions D'Fusion's augmented reality demo — amazing video; I expect to see applications of this tech in retail gaming soon (via) #

Ask Jeeves buys Bloglines — Web 2.0 consolidation continues (via) #

The Cuddly Menace — "pair bond only with fellow Zogg" (via) #

BetterSearch, Firefox plugin that adds thumbnail website previews for many sites — it even works on Del.icio.us (via) #

New Kleptones mix, "From Detroit to J.A." — download it with BitTorrent, or get the split version mirrored locally #

Image Puzzle! — frustrating fun; I'm stuck on stage 8 #

CinemaNow to offer NBC shows for download — $1-3 each is an excellent price point; let the race for the iVideo Store begin #

iPod Photo Stereoscope — $1200, cheap! (via) #

MP3.com founder launching MP3tunes, DRM-free music downloads — also: Napster's case against the iPod (via) #

Fighting crime with Photoshop — Toronto police posted altered versions of crime scene photographs found in Usenet, leading to a positive ID #

Video: Make Mine Shoebox — sarcastic internal corporate video made for Hallmark Cards with a great 1950s feel (via) #

AX|BX — random art made from arcade game startup test screens (via) #

Why social software makes poor recommendations — short answer: your real-world friends have bad taste #

Rob Schneider buys full-page L.A. Times ad to defend Deuce Bigalow 2 — attacks a film critic over a snide comment (via) #

The Measure of All Things — short fiction about bioengineered living dinosaur toys; more info (via) #

College basketball player shoots 87 foot winning shot — then does it again for the local news; video clips viewable for both #

Microsoft upset about employee's iPods — quotes internal company memos on the second page #

State of the Union Parsing Tool — clever visualization of word frequency over time (via) #

The Onion interviews Will Wright and Howard Scott Warshaw — this launches the Onion's new weekly coverage of gaming (via) #

Comment spammers writing their own templating language — comment spammers are syn(hateful|jerks) #

UPN officially cancels Enterprise — the only Star Trek show I've liked since ST:TNG gets canned #

Mac mini review — excellent trolling of both Mac and PC users from parody site DivisionTwo #

Behind the scenes with Alone in the Dark's original screenwriter — quotes e-mails by Uwe Boll, but consider the source (via) #

Self-amplified vinyl record from the 1950s — very clever design (via) #

Dave argues against combining feeds — or: why you'll never find daily links or Flickr photos in my main feed #

Japanese to English adult language guide from the 1980s — I feel bad for this guy (via) #

Spam zombies to trigger e-mail meltdown — the infected PCs send mail as infected users through major ISPs, bypassing all blacklists #

Brando, Caan, Duvall appear in new Godfather game — Brando recorded the voiceover last year #

UweBoll.com — some context (via) #

MSN search's retarded copyright policy for RSS feeds — you can't use them anywhere but in a personal RSS reader #

Bad review roundup of "Alone in the Dark" — "even Pong: The Movie would have been better" #

Del.icio.us top gatherers of the month — wonderful analysis of who posts the most interesting links before anyone else #

Google AdSense salesman spamming bloggers — with wonderful partner program opportunities! #

Nintendo DS, dissected and annotated — Lik-Sang posted another dissection last year with many more photos (via) #

Virginia school district's screening of Eyes on the Prize shut down — the copyright holder is as clueless as the copyright laws preventing its distribution #

Wired News on folksonomies — yet another in a long line of Terdiman articles quoting people I know #

New MSN search supports web standards — XHTML 1.0 Strict and RSS feeds for search results #