Jonathan Franzen on "Peanuts" — also: the Peanuts box set is gorgeous (via) #

Screenshots of the new Netscape prototype based on Firefox — truly ugly, and forces users to choose between IE and Firefox rendering engines (via) #

Chris Ware and Ira Glass collaborated on a DVD/book — Lost Buildings is only available to public radio supporters #

Sony TV forces Jason Kottke to remove Jeopardy spoiler audio and transcript — even though the Washington Post ran the whole thing! #

Blogbox — like Konfabulator widgets for your blog #

Flickr's roundup of celeb photos on Flickr — the wallpaper tag is nice, too #

Rex kicks off his Best of 2004 List of Lists — like last year, this list will get huge; keep checking back #

Katamari Damacy sequel in development (via) #

Google's big secret plans for video search — yeah, Yahoo and MSN are working on it too (via) #

Ask Mefi goes straight to the source — beat that, Google Answers #

New York Changing — then & now photos comparing 1930s to present day (via) #

NY Observer's profile of Pitchfork Media — they get 115k visitors/day, and pay $20 per review (via) #

Zach Braff confronts a critic — my God, his site gets a lot of comments (via) #

Flash: How To Kill a Mockingbird — brilliant and stupid #

Wikinews Demo — looks like a great start, like the Rachelle Waterman murder article (via) #

Hacking Wi-Fi on the Nintendo DS — they're trying to tunnel Pictochat online; more importantly, wireless multiboot from the PC #

G-Man Sightings in Half-Life 2 — it's details like these that make HL2 the best PC game of the year #

Image: Life Before the Internet (via) #

eBay Pulse — like Google Zeitgeist for eBay (via) #

Teenage girl murders her mother — and posts about it on her Livejournal (screenshot) #

Gilles Tran's 3D-rendered "Variations" — very creative rendering work #

DirecTV dropping Trio, which may kill it — too bad, they're an excellent channel (via) #

Pink Floyd pupils sue for royalties — we don't need no education; we need a cash settlement (via) #

Carmine Caridi fined $300k for leaking Oscar screeners — also: the owners of film88.com ordered to pay $23.8 million #

Veer's top 20 fonts are all scripts — surprising trend #

NPR's All Things Considered on BitTorrent — they talk to Bram Cohen and Lawrence Lessig (via) #

Eponymous songs — songs named after the band name #

15 Megs of Fame — promoting indie bands with a CC license (via) #

Blog Torrent launches! — pretty impressive for a first release; some great ideas here #

Wired News on newpapers losing young readers to the Web — only 3% of 18- to 34-year-olds read a newspaper, compared to 46% online #

Amazon.com's new Citations feature — "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" cites 14 books, and 96 books cite Fast Food Nation (via) #

Looking back on Wired's "101 Ways to Save Apple" from 1997 — some great ideas, but also some terrible ones #

Dijjer, Ian Clarke's new BitTorrent alternative — um, except that it quietly downloads and caches files you never requested! (via) #

Playstation 2 Portable — badass homebrew handheld PS2! #

Help find Dan Clune — BookCrossing's lead programmer went missing 2.5 weeks ago in Idaho #

Metafilter redesign contest — fine with me, as long as it's #006699 (via) #

Slate reviews JFK Reloaded — sickening, but well executed "game" #

Downhill Battle on the Kleptones' Hip-Hopera ordeal — also, it's the first public demo of the Blog Torrent beta #

Disney paranoia at Life Aquatic screener — Defamer posted two other recent examples of screening paranoia #

Disclaimer stickers for science textbooks (via) #

reBlog 1.0 released — reblogging tool comes with a neat web-based feedreader #

Google sets up shop next to Microsoft — it's fun watching the Google VP tapdance around their obvious motives (via) #

Derek Powazek joins Technorati — good, because it's ugly #

The Wikipedia Game — see also: Six Degrees of Wikipedia #

Origins of the Hopkin Green Frog meme — Mike tracks down the frog's owner; I love this kind of thing (via) #

Only 1/3 of Americans believe in evolution — this is extremely depressing (via) #

Autoportrait with grandfather — stunning example of expert Photoshopping #

Video game simulates Kennedy assassination — here are some screenshots from it (via) #

Radiohead, fair use, and the evils of copyright — an author's tale of meeting Radiohead and licensing their songs for his book #

Album: People Like Us's "Abridged Too Far" — remixed audio plundered from the Prelinger Archives, among other sources (via) #