The Children's Scientology Pageant — an all-kid ensemble humorously acts out the L. Ron Hubbard story (via) #

Video: Lie Girls — phone sex parody of the Bush administration (via) #

Crash Ballet contest winners — Coudal readers set NASA crash videos to music (via) #

LED Porn — nicely designed and photographed (via) #

Gizmodo's outstanding analysis of DVD's successor — they predict a clear win for Blu-Ray over HD DVD (via) #

Google volunteer translators strike back — the message is perfect for CAPS LOCK DAY (via) #

TODAY IS CAPS LOCK DAY — RANDOM SILLINESS FROM THE MEFI PEANUT GALLERY (via) #

Video: Conan O' Brien show on outsourcing — they send a writer to an India tech support center (via) #

MP3: Cisco System's "Peter Packet" theme song — why does Cisco needs a kid's section, anyway? (via) #

Extend Bluetooth by a mile — hack a 2.4GHz antenna onto your Bluetooth adapter (via) #

Japanese commercials for a tilt-sensitive Wario Ware — there are six more on the second page (via) #

Defective Yeti's Joke roundup — there are some great ones in the comments #

Yahoo Image Search upgrades to one billion images — their advanced search makes finding, say, wallpaper-size b&w photos easy #

SvN notes an unusual coincidence — Google and eBay both earned $805.9 million in 2004 Q3 #

Bush and Kerry living together in the Sims 2 — also featuring cameos by Saddam, Osama, and John Edwards (via) #

Regret the Error — a new blog covering media retractions (via) #

Ghouls with Attitude — 51-song mix of rare Halloween songs (via) #

Threading related blog posts together with sparklines — more on Tufte's sparklines, or word-size graphics (via) #

NYT commentary on Jon Stewart's Crossfire appearance — a great breakdown of why it was so satisfying #

Google saves Australian hostage — if they used Ask Jeeves, he'd be dead by now #

Bar Bot, a beer drinking robot — it begs for beer money, and then orders a drink before socializing (via) #

Slashdot's outstanding interview with Neal Stephenson — his answers are verbose, like his writing (via) #

Sun and Intel geek tattoos  #

Jandek played a live set in Glasgow — the enigmatic musician's first public performance, ever #

E! Online's interviews the creators of Nick Nolte Diary — regardless, it beats the crap out of his official site #

Forbes on the Apple/U2 deal and custom black iPod — Bono is visiting our office right now, no joke #

Business Week on Bugmenot and Mirrordot — Matt's corrections and Adrian's unused interview exposes the reporter's biases #

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) #