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 #

New Kazaa beta attempts legitimacy — download it from their site, if you don't mind spyware #

Soda's Moovl — like a very intuitive version of Sodaplay #

Entire contents of S.F. apartment stolen — after cleaning it out, they cleaned it up #

Cory explains Boing Boing's downtime  #

Insanely great pumpkin carvings — the best I've seen #

Pac-Man for Excel 97 and 2000 — also: a flight simulator for Excel #

Microsoft Wallop — intelligent microcontent client for Longhorn #

Neat Expose/Ctrl-Tab idea — Windows should adopt this, as well #

Lafayette Project renamed to Kinja — supposed to go live in the next two months #

2600 on the White House robots.txt — the excluded files were available elsewhere on the site #