Rex's thoughts on game culture intersecting with other media  #

MTV2's "Video Mods," music videos portrayed by video games — machinima goes mainstream, watch the clips (via) #

Black Magic, virtual reality pop-up books — the handheld viewers look like a modern take on stereoscopes (via) #

Dance Dance Revolution fan fiction — the rest of the Games category at FanFiction.net is fascinating, too (via) #

Image: Star Wars Battlefront game lets you kill Jar-Jar Binks — and the Ewoks, too #

Annotated recipes on Flickr — like Cooking for Engineers, a new approach to an old genre (via) #

Del.icio.us extension for Firefox — two great tastes that go great together (via) #

Annenberg survey finds Daily Show viewers far more politically aware — also: of the 83 jokes surveyed, he targeted Bush and Kerry equally (via) #

George draws parallels between the Kryptonite lock scandal and the DMCA — this is an excellent read #

Esther Dyson invests in Flickr — great to see them get the support (via) #

Technorati passes 4 million blogs — I wonder how many of those are from Livejournal's 1.8M active sites #

First screenshots of Wario Ware 2 (via) #

Theo Jansen's Strandbeest, huge walking kinetic sculptures — the videos are unbelievable, like a real-life Sodaplay (via) #

CBS adventure race contestant killed by 300-pound boulder — the first reality show fatality? (via) #

Bootable Goatse rescue floppy — make copies and put them in Best Buy PCs (via) #

Fable's first-week game sales beat Sky Captain's box office — it sold 375,000 games for an $18.7 million gross (via) #

Fascinating article on Second Life's economy and entrepreneurs by a Linden Labs VP — a must-read for both the uninitiated and experienced users (via) #

TiddlyWiki — neat UI, but a novelty until saving changes is fixed (via) #

MIT creating a spinach-powered computer (via) #

OJR on political coverage on Google News and Yahoo News — they claim Google's system favors conservative sources (via) #

Image: Sim playing "The Sims" in "The Sims 2" — very meta (via) #

MetaVNC, a window-aware VNC client — as in the screenshot, makes your remote Linux desktop transparent within Windows XP/2000 (via) #

Image: Nice hat! — Google Images is great for serendipity #

Emusic relaunches — $9.99/month for 40 DRM-free MP3s (via) #

Video: C-Mon and Kypski, "Shitty Bum" — excellent music video, with great Space Invaders sequence #

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Infocom game, redesigned with graphics — here's some technical information about the redesign (via) #

New California law requires disclosing valid e-mail address for filesharing — I'm absolutely furious about this MPAA-sponsored law, here's some of the reasons why (via) #

The Last Starfighter, the Musical — more information about this terrible idea #

Nick's update on Blog Torrent, and call for help — they need people with NSIS, ActiveX, and Moz plugin experience #

Commercial ultrasound services growing popular — we tried FetalFotos, and got our money's worth #

Sony to support MP3 on their portables — apparently, ATRAC never really took off (via) #

Record companies double royalties while online music sites lose money — Apple makes only $.04 per song, while the labels take $.62 or more (via) #

Brian's roundup of new social-network local listing services  #

Video: Watermelon Love — seducing the online consumer #

SpamAssassin 3.0 released! — also: a new logo, better performance, and a better plugin model #

Star Wars DVD released on Usenet two weeks ago — here's the Star Wars NFO file from Sept. 11 #

Archive.org's Sabucat vintage movie trailers collection — not public yet, but here's the growing index (via) #

Navy sailor crushes son to death while playing Gameboy — reminiscent of the Everquest neglect death (via) #

Change Mac desktop images based on CPU load — reminds me of the Ambient Devices line of aware devices (via) #

Botball organizer buys 350 Gameboy Advances — $40 for a pre-owned (non-SP) GBA is dirt cheap (via) #

Guitar 101's cover songs forum — like karaoke for guitars, but with an extremely supportive audience (via) #

Us Weekly says Britney faked her wedding  #

Dowser, interesting client-side search tool — privately tracks your local search history across multiple search engines (via) #

Flickr gets positive review in Sun-Times — they deserve all praise (via) #

Cat Stevens diverts DC-bound plane to Maine — he was on the federal watch list #

Nellie McKay is lying about her age — and the White Stripes weren't really siblings; does anyone care? (via) #

Life Lessons from Super Mario Bros. games — also: life lessons from the SMB1 instruction bookley #

Pongmechanik, outstanding mechanical tabletop version of Pong — check out the photos, or watch the video for gameplay #

Dave Chappelle reunites the Fugees in a massive Brooklyn block party — it was directed by Michel Gondry for a likely DVD release; Gothamist has first-person accounts (via) #

Changing page layout for different resolutions — check out the demo #