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 #

Gameboy DS set for $149 on Nov. 21 — also: the tiny PStwo set for $149 on Nov. 1 (via) #

First Nintendo DS commercial in Japan — also: nice wallpaper and a nice shot of the Developers Hardware (via) #

"I Found Some of Your Life" is gone — I suspect it's partly because of this excellent net research #

Emulation and the Video Game Industry, A White Paper (via) #

Wired on Kahle vs Ashcroft — saving orphaned works still under copyright (via) #

Projecting Middle-Earth onto a map of Europe (via) #

Slate dissects how Ali G keeps conning his famous guests — vague memos, fake websites, and fake companies (via) #

CoolGov — new blog of interesting info culled from official US government sites (via) #

Wikipedia hits 1 million articles — very impressive (via) #

Katamari Damacy for sale starting Tuesday — and at only $20, it's a steal #

Doom III demo released — 461 megs seems excessive for a trial version of anything #

The Kleptones, "A Night at the Hip-Hopera" — one of the best mashups ever created, local mirror (via) #

Visual history of one user's spam — excellent charts from 1997 to present (via) #

Jon Udell's badass bookmarklet to search library books via Amazon — Santa Monica people can use Sirsi and this base URL #

Paul Smith's Typewriter Art — some of the earliest ASCII art, I bet (via) #

Instant Replay Binocular — brilliant idea, if a flawed implementation (via) #

Video: Pepsi Can Fu — from this very good TV commercial blog (via) #

Google Answers on nerds in pop culture — from Woody Allen to Ken Jennings #

Torrone's howto on tagging photos with GPS coordinates — another step in documenting your every move #

Video: Willful Infringement, Mickey and Me — documentary of a video store owner's copyright battle against Disney, and many other similar stories (via) #

Screenshots of "Wanda and the Collossus," the Ico pseudo-sequel — IGN has more details about the game (via) #

Sony launching smaller PS2 next week (via) #