RipDigital converts your entire CD collection to MP3s for you — costs about $1 per CD #

Great interview with Ricky from Better Off Dead  #

RIAA puts troops in the streets — the home searches are next, I tell you #

Mad cow disease in humans — scary stuff, but I don't know if I could give up eating brains #

13-year-old sends Windows Messenger greeting to entire school network, suspended for three days — net send * "Hey!" #

Speed, addictive Flash card game — sloppy programming, but still fun #

How to Deconstruct Almost Anything — an engineer's adventure in postmodernism #

Business 2.0 article on Foo Camp — it was even better than the article makes it sound #

Usenet thread by spammers on blog comment spamming — evil, evil, evil #

TiVo announces TiVo to Go — download saved programs to your PC, officially #

Clay's trip to Atari HQ in 1983 — luckiest kid ever #

Quicktime clip of Howard Dean in Ninja III — Dean says it's not really him, IMDB still says otherwise #

Photoshop CS and Paint Shop Pro detects and blocks currency editing — that's absolute insanity; how it works #

Music Rebellion selling most songs for $.10 each — DRMed WMA, but cheaper than anywhere else #

Community sites that make money — interesting list #

Flash visualization of e-mail discussion lists  #

Musicmobs, aggregate iTunes playlists — another attempt at Audioscrobbler for iTunes, but uploaded manually #

Yahoo beta-testing an RSS aggregator for My Yahoo  #

Top Ten Reasons to Work at Google vs Microsoft Search  #

Refgrunt, reference librarian requests — Memepool says it's a trend #

Internet Archive open-sources the Wayback crawler code — more on the Heritrix homepage #

John Locke weighs in on the piracy debate  #

Good LATimes piece on the movie piracy scene — check out the 0-day moviez, d00d #

Weblog shrinky-dinks — my blog is longer than your blog #

Howard Dean in Ninja III: The Domination  #

Macworld Keynote blogged live — anyone taking bets on the mini-iPod? #

UK newspapers plagiarize Retrocrush article — then it was sourced incorrectly and published in US papers #

History of the planned encore — one of music's stupidest traditions #

Share and view RSS reading lists — beware: it's a Winer project; if you sign up anyway, view mine #

Photos from Iraqi LAN gaming cafes — lots of Counter-Strike #

TechTV interviews Timecube crackpot Gene Ray — highly entertaining nutcase, much more on his site #

Posters in "Rainbow Six 3" advertise porno website — Ubisoft should have registered the domain before putting it in the game #

DVD Jon cracks iTunes DRM again — can now be played in VideoLAN for GNU/Linux #

Sonic Death Monkey Bug — Jack Black makes a cameo on some defective Toy Story 2 DVDs #

Mister Pants is BACK! — as promised, the Pants have returned for 2004 #

TV report on Internet from October 1993 — obscure hobbyist network called "Internet" #

Fontifier, free tool to make a font from your handwriting — click the "1" to get started #

Burning Man project for Microsoft Flight Sim — some screenshots from Wired #

Epcot growing Mickey-shaped cucumbers — via Stereogum #

Britney Spears marries Jason Alexander — pop star weds Seinfeld co-star #

SNES controller adapted for GBA  #

Hollywood and computers — historical depictions of computers in film #

Cringely's tech predictions for 2004 — he has a good track record #

ReadyMade sells PDF back issues for $5 each — clever revenue model for magazines #

Please Don't Buy My Magnets — buy them, don't buy them... make up your mind, Mark! #

The economy according to eBay — eBay is a microcosm of the online world #

Plink, FOAF search engine  #

Functional pinhole camera made out of paper — do it yourself with the PDF instructions #

Nick Bradbury on software piracy — how many people would've bought it if they couldn't steal it? my guess: not many #

Drew Cope's Drum Machine, animated Flash music — runner-up in Rockstar's contest, more from Drew at Tokyoplastic #