Brown Paper Tickets — impressive DIY ticketing site could break the Ticketmaster monopoly (via) #

Grand Theftendo — amazing homebrew port of Grand Theft Auto III to the NES! (via) #

2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes — Florida's touchscreen voting, Lynndie England, Nader, and more #

Lots of Toes — from the always-good Jogchem #

Cluster Ballooning — also: the tragic story of Larry Walters (via) #

Tron, the 12-Minute Rock Opera — featuring Brendon Small of Home Movies fame on guitar (via) #

Flickr users cover tonight's lunar eclipse — instant reporting, just add community (via) #

New font to be used on US highway signs — Clearview is a bit Meta-like #

Secret Service visits a Livejournal user — blog rule #36: never say you're going to kill the president (via) #

Milner's Descriptive Atlas from 1850 — fascinating and pioneering information design (via) #

I'm Not That Adam Levine — phone messages meant for the lead singer of Maroon 5 #

Ashlee Simpson-branded iPod — the karaoke edition #

GTA San Andreas to beat game sales record — at $225m, it would be the biggest opening week across all media; Spider-Man 2 was only $192m #

Wil Wheaton plays a news reporter in GTA San Andreas — the rest of the voice talent includes George Clinton, Chuck D, Ice-T, James Woods, David Cross, Axl Rose, and Charlie Murphy! (via) #

Video: Super Mario Ice Capades from 1989 — starring Jason Bateman, Alyssa Milano, and Mr. Belvedere as Koopa; more info (via) #

President Bush election site blocking non-US visitors — banning his overseas supporters seems like a bad move (via) #

Kaki King's Playing with Pink Noise — very good acoustic guitar noise #

Billboard debuts Top Ringtone charts — the global ringtone market was $3.5 billion in 2003!? #

Howard Stern drops in on FCC head Michael Powell's radio interview — it's at 32:20 in the heated and excellent MP3 #

Glucoboy — children's glucose meter for the Gameboy Advance (via) #

Super Mario-playing Lego robot — man, Engadget is finding really great stuff lately (via) #

XM MyFi, portable XM Radio receiver — at $350, it's way too expensive (via) #

iPod Photo — 60 GB of music and photo storage for $600, plus AV out (via) #

Guns return to Disneyland's Jungle Cruise — the guns even had their own urban legends (via) #

Sony PSP on the cover of Newsweek — the cover headline is "Saving Sony" (via) #

Sim Horror, a massive haunted house in Second Life — the game world continually rewards creativity #

NYT's unfocused article on web memes — it feels like it was thrown together overnight #

Republican insider e-mails accidentally sent to georgewbush.org — his real site is .com, not .org (via) #

TextArc, Java applet visualization of large texts (via) #

Legendary DJ John Peel, RIP — sad day; this site has MP3s of songs he played #

MP3: Wired Magazine's Creative Commons CD — download the free and legal torrent, here's a track list (via) #

The Web's Favorite Words — googling "my favorite word is *" #

Spinalcat, amazing DIY optical turntable made with a CueCat — don't miss the photos and the 83-page thesis PDF (via) #

Apple adds game trailers — but only for Mac games, which isn't much (via) #

Google Answers on how to whistle loudly — you just put your lips together and blow, hard! #

Correlating "cool cities" with blogging culture — he uses Meetup, Upcoming.org, and Craig's List as sources in his study #

Ask Mefi on overly accurate domain names — growing list of one-page domains (via) #

Amazon adds uploading of user's product photos — user generated media to complement user reviews (via) #

Foxylicious — easily integrate your Delicious bookmarks into Firefox (via) #

Fun World, abandoned Disney World mod for GTA Vice City — the Half-Life 2 engine would be perfect for a Disneyland mod #

Snopes on the Beach Boys' recorded sex sounds — including an MP3 excerpt from 1969's "20/20" album #

Something Awful's Misinterpreted Movie Posters — if movie titles were the literal description of the poster (via) #

I'm Feeling Spendy — put in a price, find a random Amazon product; another version here (via) #

Ashlee Simpson's disastrous SNL performance last night — she walked off after the wrong lip-sync track was played, more details #

XM Radio launching wearable receiver next week? — I'm sure people would pay for an XM-aware MP3 player (via) #

Forbes' list of top-earning fictional characters for 2004 (via) #

Flickr now lists related tags — unbelievable, we were just talking about this idea today #

Socks the Cat, unreleased SNES game — yes, that's Bill Clinton on the cover (via) #

Video game censorship on the NES — a history of Nintendo's ridiculous content changes #

Some truly awful political chart design — someone get them this book, stat! #