10 real-life inventions that came from science fiction — $20 gets you a lot on Google Answers #

A Livejournal Grammar Lesson  #

Simon Carless on O'Reilly's Gaming Hacks — I've read the draft, and it's excellent #

Detailed account of rock climber's infamous self amputation — cute book title (via) #

Data Fountain — international currency rates displayed with a Net-enabled water fountain (via) #

Jish quits blogging — now who will I get to mediate between me and Ghyslain? (via) #

New version of MyTunes, the easy iTunes copying software — the nag screen is only shown once now; thanks, Bill! (via) #

Darkguest, free and clean alternative to Evite  #

NYT on the World Rock Scissors Paper Championships — their FAQ is very entertaining (via) #

PBS special on the Video Game Revolution — plus a nice site supporting the show (via) #

Grand Theft Auto for the GBA confirmed — top-down perspective sounds more like the original (via) #

Fraud Frond — gallery of cellphone towers disguised as fake trees (via) #

Star Wars, the Not-So-Special edition — sarcastic and informative! (via) #

Jesus was a Jedi — a Christian journal's unusual cover story #

Adam Kalsey's new license plate  #

Titanic, the Animated Movie — a musical, with a kid-friendly ending (via) #

gmail copy, Perl script to copy files to/from Gmail — easy alternative to gmailFS (via) #

Brilliant method of linking to excerpts of a large MP3 — with the Python source (via) #

Archie Does Revelations — 1970s comics adaptation of a religious tract #

Image: Google Blog Google?  #

Waxy.org 'Via' Links Aggregator — very meta! read his justification for the hack (via) #

How to view and control your TiVo over the web — with video and audio over Quicktime streaming server (via) #

Ed Felten fact chects Wikipedia — including the entry on himself #

Ico sequel announcement next week? — the Japanese Sony site is counting down (via) #

Bigha's Jasper laser — incidentally, it's one of the cleanest retail sites I've seen (via) #

MP3.com on Microsoft's four new digital music initiatives (via) #

What's wrong with digital music stores? (via) #

Cher's Hexadecimal Clock (via) #

Baby name ideas from the Lord of the Rings — Treebeard, Wormtongue, and Farmer Maggot are all nice (via) #

Software group falsely accuses Interactive Fiction archive of pirating Doom 3 — doom3.zip is a 114kb freeware DOS game from 1988 (via) #

Image: The Words Republican and Democratic speakers used — lovely chart design from the NYT #

37signals web design tips for Christmas retailers — good usability tips (via) #

PVR Blog on XM Radio and Time Trax — XM walks away from a huge opportunity #

Apache rejects Sender ID spec  #

Creative Commons search beta (via) #

Paul Ford's "Screenscraping the Senate" — converting the government to RDF (via) #

The Omegathon Collection gaming contest at PAX — to win, you need to win rounds of DDR, Halo, Doom, Mario Kart, and more #

Hostess Twinkies Sushi — also: Twinkie-misu, Twinkie Tacos, and Twinkie Kebobs (via) #

Second Life's in-world tribute to Burning Man — including a massive player piano #

"The Apprentice 2" profiles on Friendster — more fake Friendster marketing, since their profiles don't have any real friends #

MSN Music beta preview — sneak a peek at Microsoft's answer to iTunes (via) #

Smoking Gun takes on Photostamps — Milosevic and Kaczynski now on official U.S. postage (via) #

Banner Ads Invade Gamespace — including automatic downloads of new ads (via) #

Kick Ass Kung-Fu — EyeToy-like game installation, with a great video demo (via) #

BBC on political commentary in video games (via) #

MP3: Maciej's audioblogging manifesto — listen to this now, it's absolutely brilliant #

Disney's social software for vacation planning — Magical Gatherings is a Windows app with networking features (via) #

Brand mapping the presidential candidates — what brands do Bush/Kerry supporters associate with their candidates? (via) #

Mac sightings in the movies, with makes and models — obsessive "computers in media" lists are fun #

Fictional passwords and passcodes in movies — not a long list, but a nice idea #