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

Mark Cuban fined by NBA for a blog entry (via) #

Library of Congress putting 30 million newspapers online — papers published from 1836 through 1922, and available by 2006 (via) #

2004 Interactive Fiction competition results — Dan Shiovitz and Andrew Plotkin posted their reviews of all the free games (via) #

Second Life citizens create Neverlend virtual theme park — they continually impress me (via) #

TiVo to add banner ads when fast forwarding — as Matt said in the article, this is a slippery slope (via) #

Gamespot's Half-Life 2 review — the only review so far that's not a complete gush #

The Grey Video — amazing Beatles/Jay-Z video mashup for DJ Dangermouse's "Encore" #

Edelman on Grokster's outrageous spyware package — no less than 15 bundled programs; some install even if you hit Cancel! #

PDF: Ben Edelman's economic analysis of Google Answers — many researchers answer questions at night, for around $8-10/hour #

The Sneeze interviews FedEx's logo creator — have you noticed the hidden arrow? #

Thoughts on BitTorrent usability — some interesting ideas, along with a nice mockup #

Bungie publishing RSS feeds for Halo 2 stats — get a feed to see all of your own games! #

MP3: Eddie Murphy's "Boogie in your Butt" — this should definitely be remixed on b3ta #

How to schedule TV downloads with BitTorrent and RSS — made possible by TVTorrents (via) #

US senator's portfolios beating the market by 12 percent — likely insider trading, but the SEC won't investigate (via) #

Did Clinton Gut the Military? — Gordon does some original historical research #

BBC's search engine shootout — not very scientific, but Google wins regardless (via) #

How It Works… The Computer — full scans of a computer primer from 1971 and 1979 (via) #

BusinessWeek piece on corporate blogging software — KnowNow is charging $50k to $100k for blog software? insane (via) #

RoboDump — immature, but funny (via) #

Gamespot's 25-page "behind the scenes" feature on Half-Life 2 — I preordered the game last week! #

PocketBeeb, a BBC Model "B" emulator for the GBA — the screenshots are very neat #

Halo 2 sales break all entertainment records — between GTA, Halo 2 and HL2, it's a good year for games #

EB breaks Half-Life 2's street date — I'm sure it'll be on Usenet by tomorrow (via) #

Sex in Second Life — the adult clubs are the most popular locations in the virtual world (via) #

The Venn diagram of "getting it" — no relation to Getting It (via) #

Rich nutcase trying to collect an MP3 of every song ever recorded — I posted some thoughts in the Mefi thread (via) #

Usability and users as hungry mice, cheese, and electric shocks — or: people care less about usability as usefulness increases (via) #

NYT on San Jose PD's problems with user interface design — the Windows-based mobile dispatch was designed without officer feedback (via) #

Bright Eyes grabs the top two positions in the Billboard Hot 100 Singles!? — this is insane, especially for an indie artist #

Shaw Cable censoring Internet access — they're limiting the speeds of filesharing protocols and lying about it #

Alphabet of blog favicons (via) #

Dragon optical illusion — make sure to watch the video (via) #

Cream reunion in the works  #

Microsoft launches Search beta — the site should be live tomorrow #

l33tspeak on Jeopardy College Tournament — just when you thought it couldn't get geekier than a Blogs category #

Video: Leaked Fantastic Four trailer — this movie will suck, badly #

Two new Pee-Wee Herman films in the works — I'm hoping they're more Big Adventure than Big Top (via) #

New PCSX2 screenshots — the best PS2 emulator now plays several games, albeit very slowly #

Video: Japanese McDonald's ad, with models dressed as Ronald McDonald — there's one for the ladies, too (via) #

Image: Wired's VoteStation mockup for e-voter receipts — very clever (via) #

Downhill Battle's proposal for a secure filesharing plugin for GAIM — their Blog Torrent project is getting closer, too (via) #

ICANN to make domain hijackings much simpler — update: the Netcraft article is inaccurate (via) #

The only negative review of Halo 2 — out-of-context quotes from nine different glowing reviews (via) #

Paul's daily links visualized — I'd like to do some infoviz with my own link history and vias (via) #

CiteULike — a Del.icio.us-like bookmarking tool for academic papers (via) #

Video: Mark Osborne's "More" — astounding and moving Claymation short #

Nintendo DS hands-on review — tons of screenshots, and a quirky thumb stylus (via) #

How to play flipbook videos on the iPod Photo — it's like a $600 digital Mutoscope! #