The Effect of Country Music on Suicide — the Medicine winner of the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize (via) #

SpaceShipOne wins the $10 million X Prize — commercial space travel just got much closer (via) #

Red Blue, mobile GPS utility that shows you nearby campaign contributions — like a Geiger counter for local political bias (via) #

Gmail adds Atom notifications, Drafts, and Contacts (via) #

Google needs to retain newly-rich employees — 60% of their workforce are new millionaires (via) #

Kotaku, Gawker's new gaming blog — also: they launched Screenhead and Jalopnik, which is sponsored by Audi #

Mirrordot, automatic Slashdot mirroring — attempting to dilute the Slashdot effect (via) #

Spaceballs sequel in development (via) #

Jeopardy's "Blogs" category — links to the questions for all five answers (via) #

Image: NYT's excellent map of Iraq attacks in September — Tufte would be proud (via) #

Nintendo DS final packaging — with the stylus, can you use the DS as your PDA? (via) #

Disneyland souvenir book from 1960 — check out the pre-Mansion "Haunted House" sketch and the park map #

GNUmobile, a modded Oldsmobile — you can drive it from the commandline #

Shirky on the essential elements of all social software — groups and conversation are the very basics (via) #

Washington Post may buy Slate from Microsoft — the NYT should buy Salon and get rid of subscriptions (via) #

Penny Arcade on Katamari Damacy — the game completely sold out across the country! #

US Census shows recorded music replaced by other media — piracy is only part of the story (via) #

The Strangerhood, machinima sitcom using the Sims 2 engine — from the people that created Red vs Blue (via) #

Alan announces Amazon Light 4 — he ties Amazon web services into Delicious, Gmail, Dropcash, Blogger, Netflix, iTunes, and more #

Cameron's Presidential Debate Analysis — crunch your own stats with his Debate Spotter tool #

Peter Molyneux apologizes for features cut from Fable (via) #

FPGameRunner, a treadmill for first-person games — get a workout while playing Doom 3 (via) #

Sam and Max 2 team form new studio — they may be releasing the cancelled sequel on their own #

Half Life 2 release set for November 23 — it's about time #

Mount St. Helens' insect overloads — mmm, underground sugar caves #

Why I'm not posting many links — their crappy rooms have no Internet access; light posting until Friday #

Top 10 Secrets about the Presidential Debates — both parties are to blame for this comspiracy to suppress real debate (via) #

Tribe.net goes local — for example, here's Los Angeles #

Cachelogic's survey of P2P network traffic — BitTorrent by far the biggest; P2P traffic far outpaces web traffic #

Girlhacker has a baby! — welcome, little Babyhacker (via) #

Cockeyed's TGI Fridays menu prank — one Bacon Churner and an Atkinz Soda, please #

The Internet's Most Accurate English-to-English Dictionary — now with support for three new languages! (via) #

Ask Mefi on skitter scatters, ghosts, and auras — very odd thread about a 6-year-old girl who sees strange things (via) #

University professors gathering students in Second Life — I highly recommend the free trial #

Boogah interviews Eric Kleptone — the Waxy shout-out left me blushing #

HR 4077 bill passed the House — bill proposes up to 5 years of jail for sharing 1,000 songs or one unreleased album #

Invisible Train, multiplayer augmented reality game for the PocketPC — watch the video to see the virtual trains running on real tracks #

Bloglines announces web services, sync support for other feedreaders — huge news; FeedDemon now supports it and NetNewsWire support is coming soon (via) #

Sony PSP to retail for $349? — update: it was a hoax #

Flickr slideshow of U2's "Vertigo" — wait for the images and hold the spacebar to flipall the frames #

Escher for Real — 3D printed models of Escher artwork (via) #

Tomas on the crazy juice in his hometown — take me to the river, drop me in the water #

Evil JPEG virus in the wild — tons of info, including the FTP site it connects to and the image itself #

Jeremy on new My Yahoo beta — very well designed, with RSS everywhere (via) #

Flash charts with PHP — easier than working with GD::Graph, and sexier too (via) #

Audio: Engadget has the breast-enhancing ringtone MP3 — it sounds very butt rock (via) #

Bontago, multiplayer Jenga-ish strategy game — it was a winner in last year's IGF (via) #

Conan to replace Leno on The Tonight Show — ...in the year 2009 (via) #

Lindows office building letters on eBay — looks like a job for the Anagram Server (via) #

Cornelius is Joi Ito's second cousin — lovely photo of them on Flickr #