Exclusive screenshots of King Kong for the Xbox 360 — cute riff on the "glitch" with non-HDTV setups (via) #

Alexa opens up search index and API — the pricing model is interesting (via) #

Google Homepage API — create Javascript modules that can be shared with others (via) #

Official Katamari t-shirts — collect all seven! (via) #

Video: Mockups of Nintendo Revolution controller demos — still bizarre, and still very promising (via) #

NYT on Rocketboom — whoa, I just found out about the TiVo/Rocketboom deal; some analysis #

A Yahoo Company — all your startups are belong to us #

The Museum of Modern Betas — needs more Under Construction icons (via) #

Myspace Deaths — something like this would be meaningful if they'd drop the morbid humor #

Vivendi grants "fan license" to unofficial King's Quest sequel — the name is changing, but the characters can stay the same #

Yahoo! acquires Del.icio.us — everyone I know now works at Yahoo #

Flash: Samarost 2 — sequel to the enchanting Flash game; server is very slow right now #

Windows Live Local's overhead shots of Disneyland — including a peek into the drained Submarine lagoon #

Windows Live Local escalates the maps arms race — the birds-eye view is insane; the entire world looks like SimCity #

Abusive NYC camera store threatens to break customer's neck — Thomas Hawk, himself a recent scam victim, reports on a new case with recorded evidence #

Yahoo! Answers — look out, Ask Metafilter! #

DJ Riko's Christmas mix — from the creator of Whistler's Delight #

Rest Of U2 Perfectly Fine With Africans Starving — "You don't win 14 Grammys feeding Africans." (via) #

New AIM worm chats with its victims — it's probably more coherent than most IM conversations (via) #

Mena Trott calls out backchannel critic Ben Metcalfe from the stage — when drama erupts at a blogging conference, you get video, photos, and tons of commentary #

CNET buys Consumating — not bad for two guys in their spare time; congrats! #

Alison Mealy's Unreal Tournament art — artworks combine portraits and data viz from UT games (via) #

Wikipedia to disallow anonymous users to create new pages — an experimental change to deal with their social scaling issues #

Pre-order Jason Scott's new text adventure documentary film — support his work, and get three copies and your name in the credits (like me) #

NASA abandons IE for Firefox — next stop: widespread corporate adoption (via) #

Cloud Game — I played it to the end, and it was very satisfying in a Katamari way (via) #

Rex starts his 2005 List of Top Lists — as always, keep checking back over the next few weeks as it grows #

Image: What if the NYT owned Gawker? — the "National" column is good (via) #

Free wifi plan prompts BellSouth to withdraw New Orleans donation — infuriating (via) #

Digital effects reels from the '80s — from the effects houses who did the CG for Tron #

Wired magazine as a tech market barometer — as their page count goes up and down, NASDAQ follows #