Half-Life 2 SDK released — would someone please make a Disneyland mod for me? (via) #

Our Traditional Non-Traditional Wedding — Wired's Steve Silberman on being a married gay man (via) #

Tivo adds show permalinks — they coincidentally added it the same day George requested it #

Capture the Map — a strategic game using the Google API (via) #

Furdlog on the MPAA's new anti-piracy campaign — don't miss their delusional glossary #

Obesity raising airline fuel costs (via) #

Blendie, the scream-controlled blender — also: ScreamBody, the wearable scream recorder (via) #

Cringely on TV2ME — is there an open-source howto for doing this? #

Improv Anywhere's Best Gig Ever — the guerilla improv troupe's other conquests are amazing, like The Hypnotist, Ted's Birthday, and Writers Against Piracy (via) #

How many cookies are inside Cookie Dough Ice Cream? — answer: two not very good cookies (via) #

2004 county election map, with proportional colors — a very different picture than this (via) #

Video: New Star Wars teaser trailer — currently "members only" on Starwars.com #

Gamestop stop Nintendo DS preorders — also: DS games will be $30, cheaper than GBA games (via) #

More details on the MPAA's pending lawsuits against movie filesharers — they posted several press releases about the actions #

Sales in virtual goods top $100 million — Castranova added up auction sales to get the lowball estimate #

Postal Service agrees to cross-promotion with USPS — bizarre terms of the band name's settlement #

Fox reporting that Ashcroft is resigning — also, they're saying Colin Powell may be leaving too #

Mario Quilt  #

Canada 2.0 — this made me laugh #

Mikester's background on today's Boondocks strip — their long lead times cause them to sidestep timely news #

Electing to Leave — a reader's guide to expatriating on November 3 (via) #

Visualizations of five years of Plasticbag blog postings — looks like Processing is a good environment for infoviz (via) #

Cartoon Network airing same Harvey Birdman episode 24 times tonight — to encourage people to watch something more important (via) #

Andy Baio hates Slurpees — he's referring to my very first entry; you should read the rest of Otto's site #

Eagle Scout shoots, kills atheist — don't miss the last sentence of the article (via) #

An hour-by-hour guide to election results — also: what to watch for on election night #

Eminem's Mosh video is hammering the Internet Archive's gigabit connection — it's been downloaded about a million times from them alone (via) #

Music.com, login-free music database — a great alternative to the still-sucky AMG redesign (via) #

Asian Mack, iTunes Music Store-centric blog — good idea, also implemented here as a community site #

Spam torrents appearing on Suprnova — spammers forcing users to jump through hoops to unlock encrypted files #

Andy Tannenbaum built the Electoral Vote Predictor — wow, the Minix creator and tech legend is the brain behind the site (via) #

Tivo's Hot 100 of Season Passes — at the bottom is their weekly top 25 most-recorded shows (via) #

Flash: Hammond Flower — interactive Hammond B3 organ synthesis (via) #

Friendster Pachinko — try someone well connected like Xeni (023680) (via) #

Flickr's Squared Circle group — try the slideshow (via) #

Snopes on the rapidly spreading Texas vote mishap — I've seen several friends mention this already #

Slashdot trolls hack the Dremel homepage — subtle hack, click the "Pumpkin Carving Kit" link at the bottom (via) #

Economist's overall view of the changing music industry — how they're trying to adapt #

Simon Carless on the Fragdolls controversy — exposing Ubisoft's Monkee-style manufactured girlgamer clan #

NYT on Nick Nolte Diary — Greg Allen mentions my role in the site's fast spread #

Printable vintage Star Wars masks — Forbes posted their annual collection of celeb masks, too (via) #

"The Incredibles" merchandise — a staggering list compiled by Alan (via) #

Flash: Nucleus game — I beat the game (final password is mtfpfd) (via) #

Conqwest, large-scale touring treasure hunt — employing phonecams, semacode, and giant animal balloons (via) #

Flash: Nintendogs for the Nintendo DS — Marc says it's a $200 Tamagotchi; here's another DS trailer #

Video: Internet Archive's DIY book scanning robot — direct link to the streaming Quicktime (via) #

Spazz Wheelchairs — inappropriate product naming (via) #

Raffi is spidering radio station playlists — one crappy Boston station played only 71 unique songs in one day (via) #

National Geographic on Evolution — Q: Was Darwin wrong? A: NO. (via) #

Upcoming.org's most popular events and metros — NYC is, by far, the most active on the site #