How GoDaddy secretly profits from expired domains — they auction off popular expired domains, and quietly keep the rest for themselves #

Pulitzer Prize extended to online "newspapers," but not online "magazines" — the distinction is meaningless, but this is still a step in the right direction #

Blog comment spam on Mechanical Turk — what does it take to get rid of these idiots? #

Evolving the Mona Lisa — using only 50 randomly-sized translucent polygons (via) #

The Lonely Island's Jizz in My Pants on SNL — Jorma and Akiva finally appear on-screen in the first single off Incredibad, their debut album coming in February (via) #

Wikiscanner2 beta — Virgil's using a new technique for identifying more organizations and conflicts-of-interest (via) #

WSJ on Elvis Costello's "Spectacle" on the Sundance Channel — I've been waiting for a show like this, about the love of music, my entire life #

POTOtoo, Pirates of the Amazon recreated as a Greasemonkey script — let's see Amazon try forcing these 60 lines of Javascript offline #

Kim Rugg's alphabetized newspaper front pages — meticulously compiled with a razor, steady hand, and plenty of patience (via) #

Amazon orders Amazon/Pirate Bay Firefox extension offline — what right does Amazon have to control how we browse their site? are they going after Greasemonkey next? #

World of Warcraft is more secure than your bank — they're selling RSA key fobs to secure accounts #

Merlin Mann announces his new Amazon blog — just buy the camera, already #

BetamaXmas, celebrate Christmas in December 1988 — my god, even the TV Guide is in real-time #

Ze Frank on ideas and doing stuff — don't get addicted to brain crack (via) #

Video bootleg of Elvis Costello and Clover's "My Aim Is True" reunion — I didn't realize anyone had shot video! here's the backstory of the benefit show #

Jason Santa Maria asks designers to share their first websites — hilarious entries in the comments, including Veerle and Cameron Moll #

Flickr adds videos to iPhone-optimized site — works flawlessly; related: their lessons learned building a site for the iPhone #

Curb This — it's the new Yakety Sax (via) #

Remi Gaillard does Mario Kart in real-life — from the prankster who did the Rocky recreation and street soccer videos (via) #

Evan Williams on what Blogger should do now — some sound Monday morning quarterbacking from its former cofounder #

The Onion: Bush Dragged Behind Presidential Motorcade For 26 Blocks — latest in a series of briefs, including Bush Passes Three-Pound Kidney Stone, Crocodile Bites Off Bush's Arm, and Bush Tumbles Wildly Down Washington Monument Staircase #

Tina Fey's pinball past — she provided voices for the 1997 game Medieval Madness #

AOL to shut down Ficlets fiction-writing community — the small but dedicated community's shattered by the news (via) #

Music and the Market, academic paper compares average BPM to stock prices — he finds that the beat variance seems to predict future market volatility (via) #

Rob Reger responds to the Emily Strange controversy — this comment sums it up nicely #

Surfing for Seniors, instructional VHS video from 1997 — only the first 3.5 minutes, sadly (via) #

Prop 8: The Musical — starring John C. Reilly, Neil Patrick Harris, Andy Richter, Maya Rudolph, and Jack Black as Jesus #

Browse uploaded photos from Amazon's iPhone app on Mechanical Turk — 150 current submissions, including pens, old sneakers, plants, and the inevitable naked guy reflected in a Macbook #

Amazon's Turk-powered app for the iPhone to identify product photos — a truly harebrained idea, since SnapTell does the same thing instantly using image similarity for all CDs, DVDs, books, and games #

Sony deleting user-created LittleBigPlanet levels without warning — the gaming world is about to revisit all the lessons Web 2.0 already learned, from Friendster to Facebook #

YouTube's new video thumbnails to be determined algorithmically — they'll be representative of video content instead of cleavage shots designed to drive click traffic #

David Recordon on building OpenID in the browser — the best way to drive mass adoption, since it's such a difficult concept to understand otherwise #

Image and video manipulation in Mathematica 7 — also, it supports built-in parallel processing on EC2 #

Pirates of the Amazon, Firefox extension adds Pirate Bay links to Amazon listings — similar Greasemonkey scripts exist for Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB (via) #

Songbird hits 1.0 — very exciting release, though iPod touch/iPhone aren't supported just yet #

Whole Foods subpoenas New Seasons' financial and marketing records — the local Portland chain isn't even involved in the dispute #

Wired on how Dan Kaminsky and a set of DNS all-stars fixed a serious exploit — a dramatic retelling of "the largest multivendor patch in the history of the Internet" #

The Guardian publishes six unreleased 999 emergency calls — insanely dramatic life-and-death scenarios, including a solo childbirth and near-death choking (via) #

Jason Nelson's "I Made This. You Play This. We Are Enemies." — an exploratory Flash game/poem with levels based on sites like Metafilter and Fark #

Design lessons from World of Goo — "show, don't tell" #

Magic/Replace — spreadsheet manipulation built on the underrated DabbleDB; don't miss the demo (via) #

How Jeremy Keith's Flickr photo ended up in Iron Man — it was CC-licensed, but attribution in the credits costs money, so he signed a release instead #

Six Apart acquires Pownce, which will shut down in two weeks — unlike most acquirees, they thoughtfully built an exporter tool #

Lolcats postcard from 1905 — here's a completed auction for the same postcard #

Kottke on the "broken windows theory" applied to online communities — if graffiti can cause more crime, can the ugliness of a message board create more trolling? #

The Simpsons takes on Apple — a narwhal reference, too; full episode's on Hulu #

Give Me Something to Read — meatier articles bookmarked by Instapaper users; related: the toread tag on delicious #

Change.gov switches from copyright to Creative Commons — small decisions like these, made quickly in a time of transition, are inspiring #

Bio-Bak, the portfolio site of Dutch Flash artist Coen Grift — I've never seen anything remotely like it #

Emily the Strange character inspired by Nate the Great's Rosamond? — noticed before, but the phrasing on the sticker and book are virtually identical #