story links: earthquake disaster worst in history on record for pakistan [local blogger lahore and donation roundup; videos], boston red sox end season, new york yankees carry on, darpa grand challenge, weblogs, inc. sells to aol for $25mil, weblogs.com sells to verisign for $2.3mil, waxy moves to yahoo, converge south, dave winer, duncan black (atrios), ed cone, second life convention, arc quenching bottles fail on a 500kilo-volt circuit disconnect switch (thanks, alek!), chris columbus day, dynamic terrain by janisland (via)

update: yahoo launches podcast directory