Kasou Taishou Grand Prix 2007 — worth it for the human version of Breakout with marshmallows and blackface #

Wired's 101 Ways to Save Apple cover story from 1997 — ten years later, on the eve of an exciting Macworld, still a great read for its good and bad advice #

Digg Scares Me — refusing requests from Digg.com because of rampant asshats (via) #

xkcd on YouTube commenters  #

The Simpsonzu, anime version of the Simpsons — using this drawing for reference #

Zug.com's John Hargrave releases prank book — one of the oldest e-zines, Zug has been active since 1995 and still very funny (via) #

Suck.com's Joey Anuff launches recommendations site — sounds like Metacritic for music singles, gears, autos, and so on #

Merlin Mann's Phone Guy series — "my nails are salon-perfect" (via) #

A Kinda Patton Christmas — including custom Carvel cake and fake Photoshopped magazine #

Amazon launches Now Now answer service — send a question by email, get three responses from Mechanical Turk workers #

LA Weekly profile on Mark Allen and the Machine Project — an old friend and former coworker, Mark never fails to inspire me #

Jason Scott goatse's Myspace — a long read on a simple prank, but worth it for the conclusion #

How to play Windows XP alerts on the piano — don't miss the Tiny Music Makers links, the creators of famous computer sounds #

Google Reader adds personalized charts — the best feedreader around keeps getting better #

Celebrity Patents — Eddie Van Halen has the best patent illustration ever created #

Chip & PIN terminal playing Tetris — the video is mirrored on YouTube (via) #

Video: Joel Veitch vs. Coca-Cola Argentina — they ripped off his song and dancing kitten video for their ad #

Wired Science, the Wired/PBS collaboration, debuts tonight — it took ten years, but they finally launched Wired TV #

Video: Fionn Regan's "Be Good or Be Gone" — using ambient audio from diverse locations, creativity on zero budget #

Danah Boyd on ephemeral profiles — it always amazed me that my little sister created a new IM screenname every couple months #

Top 12 Appearances by Bands in Films — also: '60s garage band cameos in TV & film #

The Edge annual question, "What are you optimistic about?" — funny, everyone from Boing Boing was a contributor except Mark (via) #

Kongregate — nicely designed community for sharing Flash games (via) #

Sci-Fi Channel's "The Lost Room" as adventure game — sounds intriguing; the Wikipedia entry has more spoilers (via) #