Game Set Watch — new gaming blog by Simon Carless, one of my favorite link sources #

Nick Montfort's Book and Volume — new text adventure about being a sysadmin; try the Java version online without save/load (via) #

Firefox 1.5 final released — read about their new marketing blitz #

RSS reader added to Yahoo! Mail beta — I've used it, and it's good stuff #

Time Travel Holograph conspiracy theory — photographic evidence the government is placing time travel holograms over this guy's face #

Mapquest FindMe — local mobile search plus Dodgeball-like GPS features #

Try Ruby — play around with the Ruby language in your web browser (via) #

Teen with peanut allergy dies after kiss — such a strange and sad story #

The Protomen's Mega Man-themed rock opera — details and MP3s from the epic concept album #

United Arab Emirates blocks Flickr, again — apparently for good, this time #

SplogSpot, spam search engine — all splogs, no blogs! #

Evan Williams' Ten Rules for Web Startups — from a man who knows #

Gollum, the Wikipedia browser — alternative UI for browsing the site, could be useful in a library or academic setting (via) #

Hands-on review of Sony's Talkman for the PSP — an avatar-based universal translator with speech recognition #

Archive.org asked to remove Grateful Dead soundboard bootlegs — very sad; Cory sums it up (via) #

Songbird — media player built on Mozilla platform, very iTunes-like #

Richard Scarry's The Best Word Book Ever, 1963 and 1991 — Alan compares all the subtle differences between the two versions #

Internet chatspeak as vintage type ligature — the "wtf" series is outstanding #

Meet with Approval — lo-fi meeting scheduler #

Gary Glitter facing death penalty in Vietnam — possible death by firing squad for child rape #

Anti-videogame lawyer Jack Thompson disbarred from Alabama courts — good, because that guy is a huge ass #

Gordon gets his traffic ticket dismissed — Gordon doesn't do anything casually, and I love that about him #

Washington Post Remix — Adrian Holovaty is leading the effort to let people mashup WaPo #

Bram Cohen agrees to remove pirated torrents from BitTorrent.com search results — about time; I said back in May that drawing attention to infringing uses was a big mistake #

Sketchplanet — cute community for instantly sharing Flash sketches #

Del.icio.us redesigns — increasing the emphasis on recently popular links is very smart #

WSJ interviews the Million Dollar Homepage creator — Philipp has great before and after screenshots #

BitTorrent and MPAA to make major announcement today? — Bram Cohen and Dan Glickman are holding a joint press conference at 2pm PST #

Video: Mario on the Marimba — very good talent show medley of Mario themes (via) #

VisitorVille 3D released — oddball visualization of your website traffic as people and vehicles roaming a city #

Video: Best Christmas Lights Ever — or: how to get your neighbors to hate you #

Web 2.0 Checklist — don't forget feature screencasts (via) #

8-bit NES covers of hit songs — not bad, but Virt's covers of Hot in Herre and Thriller reign supreme (via) #

TiVo adding iPod/PSP support to TiVoToGo — this is a surprising move, but wonderful for TiVo owners (via) #

Influential guitarist Link Wray, dead at 76 — the news is spreading on blogs and message boards, with nothing in the US media yet; MP3s here of the guy who arguably invented guitar distortion and the power chord #

Google-Mart — intriguing Cringely column on Google's dark fiber plans (via) #

Tom Coates on Space Cadets, the real-life Truman Show — I agree, it sounds cruel regardless of the execution #

Video: Dying Fetus, "Kill Your Mother, Rape Your Dog" — death metal music video using clips from Disney and Nickeloden kid's shows (via) #

JS/UIX, Unix OS in Javascript — with a stripped down vi clone; also, try /usr/bin/invaders #

MIT unveils $100 laptop — with photos (via) #

DVD Jon's GPL code in Sony rootkit? — this story continues to get weirder; Cory's coverage has been outstanding #

Peter Callesen's Paperworks gallery — amazing cutout art from sheets of A4 paper; more on his official site #

Text message transcripts admitted as evidence in teen murder trial — very disturbing read #

Meg Hourihan and Jason Kottke get engaged — five years after You've Got Blog; a warm and wonderful congrats, you two (via) #

Leeroy Jenkins mentioned on Jeopardy! — the contestants weren't well-versed in Internet memes #

Video: Rumble Strip's "Motorcycle" — one take music video for a good song, with very good timing (via) #

Interactive Fiction Competition 2005 winners announced — reviews are coming in; an excellent chance to play wonderful games created by a single passionate author #

Video: 12 Lucasarts games in 24 hours — what, no Grim Fandango? #

Linkroll.com for sale on eBay — get your own Del.icio.us clone for $499, cheap! #

Google Base launches — for real, this time (via) #