Democratic candidates prefer PCs over Mac — except Al Sharpton, go figure #

Web servers of presidential candidates — Sharpton on Solaris, Dean on FreeBSD #

Microsoft developing a "Flash-killer" — like Frontpage is a Dreamweaver-killer? #

Artificial evolution of walking motions — great video shows self-learning 3-D models #

McDonald's giving away a billion iTunes songs — too bad I'd rather go hungry than eat there #

Steve Ballmer's iPod — get on your feet #

It's A Man's World  #

Rise and Fall of the BBS — sad but beautiful graph #

Upcoming.org in the NYT — the first mainstream press for the site #

Plugging the RSS usability hole — using XSLT to make XML/RSS buttons accessible for newbies #

NYC Marathon Course Simulator — pit Puffy against Maciej, then toss in Martin Lel for fun #

Flash borders with MovableType — click on the dark blue background #

iTunes install disables MusicMatch — they warn about it, but it's still bad form #

Beijing store caters to left-handed people — he's like the Chinese Ned Flanders #

15 Trends in Logo Design — get yer cliches here! #

Cat disease alters human personalities — truly bizarre #

Wesley Clark on Outkast — from Rock the Vote's video contest #

Jakob Neilsen homepage redesign entries — some very nice work (1, 2, 3) #

Maciej's NYC marathon recap — bloody nipples and feelin' groovy #

Sand painting video — your daily moment of zen #

Google indexing IRC channels? — Google vaguely acknowledges the effort #

Wired Blogs — their first blogger is Bruce Sterling #

Tenacious D begins 45-day hunger strike above Times Square — eat that, David Blaine! #

MTV planning to launch iTunes competitor — yet another entry in a crowded market #

Legal song downloads exceed CD single sales in US  #

iPod Halloween Costume — with optional drink holder #

Will L.A.'s real estate bubble burst? — grim outlook for first-time buyers #

Liveblogging childbirth via hospital WiFi  #

Insane video of point-blank shooting in Van Nuys — the lawyer dodges bullets like Neo #

Red Hat Linux Support to End — only supporting Red Hat Enterprise after April 2004 #

More info about MIT's music sharing shutdown — don't miss the clueless record label quotes #

Masters of their universe — the history of Bell and Braben's classic space-sim, Elite #

Fox News didn't try to sue the Simpsons — I'm fair and balanced #

Economist on Google's future  #

HotelChatter — K5 Rusty's new site, collaborative hotel reviews #

iPim — designing the perfect microcontent client #

Crunching Friendster's numbers — a microcosm of the social software bubble #

Big Bang sounded like a deep hum — coming soon: Lucasfilm sues universe #

Wired's breathless cliches — a thing of the past #

Spike Jonze adapting Where the Wild Things Are — Tom Hanks and Maurice Sendak producing the live-action adaptation #

MIT shuts down alternative music-sharing — turned off the LAMP #

Time Travel Spammer Strikes Back — moral: don't mess with psychotic spammers #

Pumpkin Carving DRM  #

Obsolete games exempt from copyright — most ROMs are now legal?! #

Boing Boing's new IP address — domain will start resolving correctly soon #

CEO Halloween Masks — Forbes has the most annoying video ads #

And Microsoft wants to buy Google  #

Friendster rejects Google's $30m buyout bid — I can't believe they turned it down #

Death notice of Gertrude M. Jones — unusual obituary, more from Snopes #

Sonic Wire Sculpture — 3D rotating sketchpad translates lines to sound #