They still work if you know the URLs. Here are the ones I use:
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level1.gz
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/dshield.gz
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/hijacked.gz
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/proxy.gz
http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level2.gz

Sure it is. You can still use their blocklists. I have a script on my NAS (running Transmission) to download them daily and tell Transmission to use them. Works perfectly other than having to automatically restart Transmission at 5am every day, which really isn't a problem.

If you're using a standard Linux with iptables (unlike my NAS which has iptables removed...), just use moblock. It handles getting them daily and blocking them at the firewall, though this won't really stop your torrent client from at least still trying to connect to those peers. Then again that's the same position PeerBlock users are in. Having the torrent client itself use them in probably more efficient, but this is easier.

You actually can setup GPG in Gmail's web interface, at least in Chrome: http://thinkst.com/tools/cr-gpg/. It seems that FireGPG was unfortunately discontinued for Firefox.

I live in a house with 4 other heavy use roommates. We have the medium tier of Comcast Business Class (ie no bandwidth caps). We broke 1TB transferred last month...

You should restrict it in robots.txt. I had to do it on my site because Google kept appending a character over and over to a variable in the URL. It would just add another character on and request again. It was a pretty weird bug and was generating gigs of traffic as well. You can also restrict Google's crawl rate in Webmaster Tools.

I had a friend who was sued while we were both freshman at the University of Pittsburgh in 2004. I forget how many thousands of dollars she had to pay. I only found out about it several years later, but I'm pretty sure she was one of the people sued when the RIAA got on i2hub (internet2 only DC++ server)

GoogleTV doesn't support DLNA streaming, so there's no way to play content stored on your network. For me, this is a deal breaker and will drive me to Boxee (or Roku if they add DLNA support soon) when it launches. I was excited about GoogleTV until I learned this...too bad.

on my Evo 4G, Flash is actually very usable. It defaults to blocking flash on sites (flashblock style), so you have to click on an element for the Flash content to load. Otherwise, the internet would be unusuable with all the Flash ads that would load up. It will slow down other aspects of the phone a bit and it sucks battery (at least watching a Flash video will), but I'd still much rather have it for those inevitable sites that are Flash only...

I second this. With Sprint, if you tell them you get no service at your house, and that you would like to keep them as your carrier, they will not only waive the monthly fee but sometimes will even give you the device for free.

Chrome on Linux supports pretty much any codec that ffmpeg supports, so it's not just limited to H.264 and Ogg.