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If you’re just hearing about Bansky this weekend, might I recommend this book. It’s a compendium of his finest work, and it’s truly impressive — both funny and thought-provoking. But mostly funny.

Snapshots from Banksy’s installation in LA.

What videos on YouTube and Google Video are getting the most links from blogs. Alternatively, your guide to what the hell those strange noises are you’re hearing from neighbouring cubicles at work.

Silly little true-or-false game from answers.com. Good fun.

Stretching the DMCA streaming limits as far as they’ll go, a site that lets you build up a playlist from their collection, then share it with friends for free. The embedded flash player is pretty nice.

“You can actually send a file to another Zune user, but it will only be playable three times or stored for three days, whichever comes first.” Well, that’s worth the battery drain of 802.11 networking.

“The greatest trick Apple pulled was to build a market where lock-in is mandated, but convince the world that this was something they did reluctantly, at the behest of the villainous recording industry.”

Videos of Nintendo’s non-gamey stuff built in to the Wii. Browse news and weather on your television set. What a concept! Someone should invent that 30 years ago and call it Teletext.

The Wii details are out: Launches Nov 19th (two days after PS3), $250 including one remote+nunchuck and Wii Sports, Extra remote+nunchuck for $60. From the download service, NES games will be $5, SNES games $8, N64 games $10. I can’t bloody wait!

Foxit Reader, the PDF viewer for Windows that doesn’t slow down your PC startup, kill your web browser, or take 45 seconds to load, has reached version 2.0. Recommended.

What an honest in-flight announcement would sound like.

Existing TiVo lifetime subscribers can transfer their subscription to a new “Series 3” HD box. This is an incredibly smart move by TiVo — A tasty carrot to encourage their existing customers to upgrade to the new hardware while it’s still full price.

Apple’s forthcoming hardware to stream music/video/photos over WiFi from your PC to your TV and Stereo. My uneducated bet: It’ll also stream music wirelessly (over Bluetooth, probably) from an iPod that’ll be launched in January.

Turns out that the official London Underground typeface is not, as I had been lead to believe, Gill Sans, but instead “Johnston”.

Dan takes on the new iTunes UI.

I’m dicking around with SixApart’s new Vox service. Go subscribe there if you want to see me answer memes.

One of the best Muppet Show clips ever. Beaker performs “Feelings”

HeyLetsGo is holding a free event at Fenway Park this Friday evening, watching the Yankees/Sox game in NY on the Jumbotron.

Installing Norton increases your Windows bootup time by 58%.

Funny SNL sketch. “I used to look like Ashley Parker Angel”

Dance Dance Revolution for the sitting-at-a-keyboard set.

The Boston Globe has endorsed Deval Patrick for the gubernatorial primaries in MA. Patrick is one of those rare politicians who, the more I read and hear about him, the more impressed I am with him.