Here's a roundup of several curious buildings — shaped like robots, or melting into puddles, or built to appear to have been uprooted and inverted. Link (via Geisha Asobi)

Wendy sez, "Great news for all you producers, DJs, and remixers: the Copyright Criminals Remix Contest over at ccMixter has been extended by two weeks, ending on March 14. Additionally,… Read the rest of the article: Remix George Clinton and Chuck D!

This HOWTO explores methods for changing the behaviors of "Know Your Name Elmo," a computerized Sesame Street toys. I love projects that tweak or subvert the behaviors of computerized toys.… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO hack "Know Your Name Elmo" toys

Disneyland has restored Walt Disney's private car on his favorite of the steam trains at the Park, and while it's not open to casual visitors, guests can apply for special… Read the rest of the article: Disneyland reopens Walt's private railroad car

John sez, "Tinselman has a great set of scanned pages from the 1975 Haunted Mansion Standard Operating Procedure. Along with emergency and crowd control procedures, the SOP's offer useful tips… Read the rest of the article: HOWTO run Disneyland's Haunted Mansion

The RIAA has filed comments with a federal agency in which they claim that ripping a CD isn't fair use. As part of the on-going DMCA rule-making proceedings, the RIAA… Read the rest of the article: RIAA: CD ripping isn't fair use

Flickr has hit 100,000,000 photos uploaded! w00t! Link (Thanks, Hans!) Update: A reader sez, "There's been an actual countdown there for this moment along with all the photos at the… Read the rest of the article: 100MM photos on Flickr in two years

I've just posted the concluding installment in the podcast of me reading my novella, Human Readable, a story originally published in the Future Washington anthology and now short-listed for the… Read the rest of the article: Cory's Human Readable podcast concludes

Here's the sixth installment of the Sony DRM Debacle, tracing the history of all the misdeeds committed by Sony when it covertly installed malicious software on millions of music fans'… Read the rest of the article: Sony DRM Debacle roundup Part VI

I'm giving a talk on copyright, creativity and authorship at a public event in London next week put on by the Open Knowledge Foundation: Speakers: * Paula LeDieu, iCommons *… Read the rest of the article: Cory giving a talk next Weds in London

Bruce Sterling's got a stirring editorial about the underlying issues raised by the Sony DRM debacle, in which Sony BMG music was caught covertly installing malicious remote-control software on music… Read the rest of the article: Bruce Sterling on Sony DRM debacle

Computerworld has a lovely interview with J. Presper Eckert, co-inventor of the ENIAC, "the first practical, all-electronic computer." Eckert sounds like a likable crank, dishing dirt on Von Neumann's undeserved… Read the rest of the article: ENIAC co-inventor dishes dirt, debunks myths

Tobias Buckell is a very exciting new sf writer who combines the culture and atmosphere of his Caribbean upbringing with excellent adventure fiction. His first novel, Crystal Rain has just… Read the rest of the article: Online novel excerpt from Tobias Buckell

Are you a graphic designer who's had positive experiences with Creative Commons, either in getting paid work by sharing your works, or by making great designs by keying off of… Read the rest of the article: Looking for graphic designers' Creative Commons stories

Thomas sez, "Ed Bott has a screen shot up over at his site at Media Central where HBO is restricting his ability to view a show that he recorded on… Read the rest of the article: HBO targets PVRs

The Daily Olive site documents the $1,000 "Grand Opulence" sundae sold by New York's Serendipity restaurant: Made with "5 scoops of the richest Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream infused with… Read the rest of the article: World's most expensive dessert: $1000 sundae

Princeton's Ed Felten and Alex Halderman have published the final version of "Lessons from the Sony CD DRM Episode," a spectacular paper that they published in draft form in a… Read the rest of the article: Princeton DRM researchers release Sony debacle paper

Premshree sez, "Yahoo! just released the Yahoo! User Interface Library, under a BSD license. From the website:" The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written… Read the rest of the article: Yahoo releases free/open source UI library

The Adjust-A-Spoon is an ingenious alternative to graduated measuring-spoons; the slider in the handle changes the size of the spoon's bowl from a tablespoon to half a teaspoon. Link (via… Read the rest of the article: Adjustable measuring-spoon — clever!

Google's new Book Search promises to save writers' and publishers' asses by putting their books into the index of works that are visible to searchers who get all their information… Read the rest of the article: Why Publishing Should Send Fruit-Baskets to Google