Gilles Tran's 3D-rendered "Variations" — very creative rendering work #

DirecTV dropping Trio, which may kill it — too bad, they're an excellent channel (via) #

Pink Floyd pupils sue for royalties — we don't need no education; we need a cash settlement (via) #

Carmine Caridi fined $300k for leaking Oscar screeners — also: the owners of film88.com ordered to pay $23.8 million #

Veer's top 20 fonts are all scripts — surprising trend #

NPR's All Things Considered on BitTorrent — they talk to Bram Cohen and Lawrence Lessig (via) #

Eponymous songs — songs named after the band name #

15 Megs of Fame — promoting indie bands with a CC license (via) #

Blog Torrent launches! — pretty impressive for a first release; some great ideas here #

Wired News on newpapers losing young readers to the Web — only 3% of 18- to 34-year-olds read a newspaper, compared to 46% online #

Amazon.com's new Citations feature — "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" cites 14 books, and 96 books cite Fast Food Nation (via) #

Looking back on Wired's "101 Ways to Save Apple" from 1997 — some great ideas, but also some terrible ones #

Dijjer, Ian Clarke's new BitTorrent alternative — um, except that it quietly downloads and caches files you never requested! (via) #

Playstation 2 Portable — badass homebrew handheld PS2! #

Help find Dan Clune — BookCrossing's lead programmer went missing 2.5 weeks ago in Idaho #

Metafilter redesign contest — fine with me, as long as it's #006699 (via) #

Slate reviews JFK Reloaded — sickening, but well executed "game" #

Downhill Battle on the Kleptones' Hip-Hopera ordeal — also, it's the first public demo of the Blog Torrent beta #

Disney paranoia at Life Aquatic screener — Defamer posted two other recent examples of screening paranoia #

Disclaimer stickers for science textbooks (via) #

reBlog 1.0 released — reblogging tool comes with a neat web-based feedreader #

Google sets up shop next to Microsoft — it's fun watching the Google VP tapdance around their obvious motives (via) #

Derek Powazek joins Technorati — good, because it's ugly #

The Wikipedia Game — see also: Six Degrees of Wikipedia #

Origins of the Hopkin Green Frog meme — Mike tracks down the frog's owner; I love this kind of thing (via) #

Only 1/3 of Americans believe in evolution — this is extremely depressing (via) #

Autoportrait with grandfather — stunning example of expert Photoshopping #

Video game simulates Kennedy assassination — here are some screenshots from it (via) #

Radiohead, fair use, and the evils of copyright — an author's tale of meeting Radiohead and licensing their songs for his book #

Album: People Like Us's "Abridged Too Far" — remixed audio plundered from the Prelinger Archives, among other sources (via) #

Mom's Cancer — excellent autobiographical graphic novel (via) #

Paper CD Case — instantly generate a PDF label or origami paper case for your CDs (via) #

Complete Criterion Collection gift set — 241 movies for $5,000, about $20 each #

Auto-generating a graphic novel from blog posts — this makes me miss Radio vox Populi (via) #

Flash: 12many, counting game — tonypa's other games are wonderful, too (via) #

Dave Winer on RSS advertising — also: George rounds up some of the current techniques #

Elvis Costello interviews Joni Mitchell — from the November Vanity Fair #

MPAA wants to monitor Internet2 traffic — this Slashdot comment sums it up for me (via) #

43 Things' Twinkler preview — when expanded to any topic, this will be very interesting (via) #

Blogging featured on the West Wing — the character may have been modeled after Wonkette (via) #

File Magazine's Screen Series — photos taken through screen doors (via) #

Knork, the spork-like knife/fork — yet another Half Bakery idea finally baked (via) #

Metafilter turns on new user signups — membership has been closed for two years! #

Debate about Firefox not supporting image tooltips for ALT tags — someone wrote an extension to emulate IE's behavior #

2.5 gigapixel photo — a busy city scene would've been more interesting (via) #

Strongbad gets an e-mail virus — lots of clever stuff here, plus a Livejournal reference (via) #

Flash: EPIC, a prediction of the Google-enabled future — if this is the dystopian future, count me in (via) #

Vicepoker, free strip poker game for the Gameboy Advance — possibly the first porn for Nintendo's kid-friendly handheld? (via) #

Textfiles.com gets a threatening letter from a catheter manufacturer — they want him to remove enema references in years-old BBS text files (via) #

Mash the Planet — Philip Torrone's onto something here #