Flash: Treasure Box — surreal exploration game, in the style of Samorost (via) #

Bling Bling Medallion, the most branded object in the world — here's a closeup of one section (via) #

Jason Scott's detailed review of The Last Starfighter musical — the big finale is a song called "Caves of the Heart (The Battle)" (via) #

Video: Jon Stewart comments on the "Crossfire" appearance — the Washington Post has Crossfire's response (via) #

Gmail begins signing outgoing mail with DomainKeys — adopting the standard would eliminate spam for good #

Flash: Collaborative fridge magnets — the emerging behaviors here are fascinating (via) #

Half-Life 2 to ship on November 16 — more than a year late, but I'm still very excited #

Effect of presidential election on the markets — Table 5 talks about using the market to predict elections #

"Crossfire" downloads exceeds TV broadcast audience — it's been downloaded at least 500,000 times in three days #

P2P Politics — Lessig's new project freely hosts political videos on Archive.org (via) #

Compare and contrast the Carlsons — CNN's Tucker Carlson vs WKRP's Mr. Carlson (via) #

Nick Denton releasing rare Ed Wood porn film — under the new "Fleshbot Films" title (via) #

Urbz online promo uses indie comic stars — James Kochalka, Peter Bagge, Evan Dorkin, and more (via) #

Game Tunnel Client Links Xbox, PS2, and GC Games — free alternative to Xbox Live and PS2 online play #

GTA San Andreas is gold — rumors say Half-Life 2 is gold, as well! #

Irony level high on Disney's Peter Pan lawsuit — Disney wants to profit from the public domain, while keeping its own work from it #

Mobster, recommendation addon for iTunes — uses the Musicmobs community to recommend music #

Neal Stephenson classic on Unix and the Hole Hawg drill — remember that the next time you 'rm -rf /' #

Jon Stewart bitchslaps CNN's "Crossfire" show — the CNN transcript is jaw-dropping, here's the video #

Benchmarking 101 video cards on 14 games — even my Radeom 9700 Pro is showing its age (via) #

Found Item Clothing — t-shirt reproductions from movies and TV, but mostly just Real Genius for now (via) #

Halo 2 leaked to Usenet — French audio with English subtitles, you can read the release NFO here (via) #

Tracing the Evolution of Social Software — from the Memex and EIES to wikis and Del.icio.us (via) #

Early T.Rex ancestor was furry — happy fluffy dinosaurs (via) #

Poynter Institute's Eyetrack Heatmaps — interactive maps of eye movements reading news webpages (via) #

Google announce Desktop Search! — a huge announcement, many details in Rael Dornfest's overview (via) #

Cherry OS may be a PearPC clone — Slashdot and Wired News are convinced it's real (via) #

Seven die in "Internet Suicide" pact — just because they met online, that makes it an "Internet Suicide"? #

Brain controlled computing a reality — he's able to operate a PC with his brain with 70% accuracy (via) #

Bloglines subscriber stats redux — Richard crunches some numbers for A-list bloggers #

BBS Documentary in pre-sale — the staggering history of the BBS is finally done #

Nick Nolte's Diary — the archives are priceless #

Flash: Honda's Grrr Game — surreal goodness, but does it sell cars? (via) #

City of Heroes players honor Christopher Reeve — some good screenshots of the tribute #

Six Apart profile in the WSJ — with hedcuts of Ben and Mena! (via) #

Cardhouse on odd Hawaiian food products — everything looks like the Tiki Tiki Room (via) #

Hands-on with Nintendo DS games — they look like low resolution N64 games (via) #

Blogging the debate within Second Life — they're created a virtual stage for both candidates #

Wired magazine internships — this would have been my dream job, in 1995 (via) #

New Yorker on the broadcast spectrum giveaway — more information about the situation and McCain's proposal (via) #

Network Solutions takes Gawker offline — the domain expired a week ago #

The Perry Bible Fellowship — a wonderfully surreal weekly comic, like so and so and so #

Migrating your link list from MT to Delicious — a good howto, but I'd still like "via" support #

Alexa web services — I'm sure someone can use this for something good (via) #

How to Torture Your Sims — painfully funny (via) #

Background on the ABC News redesign — tableless XHTML, expanded RSS, and Flash headlines (via) #

Shakeskin Gallery — all you need is a camera and some loose skin (via) #

Flash: Dad's Home! (via) #

Tour of Ghostbuster locations in Spiderman 2's modeled NYC — with photos of locations in real life and in-game #

Video: Instant Messenger Fight — a little fresh air (via) #