Here’s irony for you, one company helps cheating on another (The Register):
Blizzard Entertainment, the maker of World of Warcraft, has created a controversial program that detects cheaters by scanning the processes that are running at the time the game is played. Called the Warden, the anti-cheating program cannot detect any files that are hidden with Sony BMG’s content protection, which only requires that the hacker add the prefix “$sys$” to file names.
On an entirely different note, Frappr looks like an interesting project:
Frappr (Friend Mapper) lets you see the zip code where your friends live or work, letting you find out who works in the office building next door and who lives in the apartment complex across the street.
That sounds more invasive than it is in practice. For non-US locations you’re limited to entering the nearest city and for US locations you can only enter 5 digit zipcodes, which tend to cover large parts of cities or more (depending on whether you’re in the middle of nowhere or not). Some Frappr entries I added myself to:
The last two are still fairly empty, so if you belong to those groups, consider yourself invited to add yourself on there. 
Update: Added current totals.
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