Six Apart sells Livejournal to Russian media company — I guess that answers the question about how Vox fits with Livejournal (via) #

Google bans ads for paid link sellers — finally! taking money from spammers while banning them from the index was hypocritical #

MobileScrobbler — Last.fm client for the iPhone/iPod Touch, at last #

Square America's The Party — some photos are NSFW; don't miss the other exhibitions and the wonderful blog (via) #

Airball, an unreleased NES game, now available for sale — new games for dead systems make me happy; see the detailed review with video (via) #

Google Reader adds feed recommendations — they were deadly accurate for me #

Tay Zonday promotes Dr. Pepper with "Cherry Chocolate Rain" — strangely depressing, but I guess it's better than William Hung's commercial (via) #

Google tests thumbs-up voting on search results — no social feedback, but retains your setting across searches for the same terms (via) #

Stir-fried wikipedia — I think I'd prefer the steamed eggs with wikipedia #

PayPerPost's bloggers ask if the marketplace is dying — the PPP forums are fascinating right now, seeing how the community responds as the business collapses around them #

Technical overview of how the Facebook Beacon works — this could have been fun and useful, if it was only opt-in on a site-by-site basis (via) #

Gamespot reviews Deal or No Deal for the Nintendo DS — problems with the randomizer make this the worst game released this year #

What the Google Intranet Looks Like — to compare, I found recent intranet screenshots for Yahoo! and Microsoft #

Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein compares real bands to Rock Band — she continues the discussion on her own blog (via) #

Video: Gay bashing in Halo 3 — warning, offensive audio; very upsetting to hear, but not at all surprising (via) #

Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock — the same group responsible for the secret cinema and bar built in a cavern under Paris #

Desert Bus for Hope hits $20,000 raised for Child's Play — they've been playing the world's most tedious game on live cameras for four days straight #

So You Want to be An Arcade Champion? — one man's quest to play all 4,000 games in the Twin Galaxies world records book alphabetically #

Managing RSS feeds with better groups — funny, this is almost exactly the way I organize my feeds in Google Reader #

Ron Paul Blimp — $235k in pledges so far; oh, the humanity #

ROFLCon's Guest List status report — shaping up to be one of the strangest conventions of all time #

Shredz64 — one man's quest to connect his Guitar Hero controller to his C64 and develop a game to use it with (via) #

Fray relaunches as a quarterly printed book — the original community for personal storytelling comes back after two years of hiatus #

Ze Frank on feeling uninspired — "let's not wait for inspiration, but let's be ready for it when it comes" #

Gameplay footage from The Act, cancelled coin-op game — the unusual game used cel-style animation and a knob to control the character's mood from serious to silly (via) #

LucasArts game engine ported to iPhone — all their classic adventure games running full-speed with multitouch control #

Facebook, you owe Mike a Christmas present — I need a spoiler warning for my mini-feed #

Desert Bus for Hope hits $11,000 and 98 hours — now in its 66th hour of gameplay, Penn & Teller donated $1,500 and bought them sandwiches; more on the game #

2 Guys 1 Cup with John Mayer — safe-for-work parody of the sickening original (via) #

iPhysics, physics game engine for the iPhone — inspired by Crayon Physics #

Rex starts the 2007 List of Lists — as always, keep checking back as we get closer to 2008 #

Video: Music Animation Machine plays Gradius, Dr. Mario, Donkey Kong, and more — images from classic video games play their own themes using MIDI visualization; more background (via) #

Food Pairing — tool to inspire creative cooking using the flavor components of 250 different ingredients (via) #

PickyPirate, a Metacritic-BitTorrent mashup — finding the best-rated media on popular torrent sites (via) #

Video: Grickle's Closet — I don't know why I find Graham Annable's animations so funny, but I do; see also: The Last Duet on Earth #

Flickr's second billion took three months — absolutely insane growth, though slightly skewed by the one-time Yahoo Photos user migration? (via) #

Flickr launches Places and redesigned map views — big congrats to Rev. Dan, Kellan, and the rest of the flickr crüe #

Mark Pilgrim's The Future of Reading — I wish they'd modeled the Kindle after their excellent MP3 store instead of bowing to paranoid publishers #

Google Reader team visits the set of Heroes — they should've given a bit part to Chris #

I Want to See That! — should be called "Go See A Movie With Ben and Katie" #

Google Maps adds collaborative map editing — fix address and Street View locations while retaining original locations (via) #

The Laptop Club — hand-drawn laptops created by 7- to 9-year-olds (via) #

Harry Potter and the Order of Typography — Jon Hicks highlights the typeface selection in a lovely slideshow (via) #

Katamari creator previews new game, Noby Noby Boy — the gameplay video shows off the stretching dynamic, combined with eating and expelling barnyard animals; whee! #

Jonathan Coulton performs "Portal" live — better than other shakycam versions, but the guy with the cake is scaring me #

Video: Twitter helps solve a murder on CSI — both usernames were registered shortly after it aired #

World of Datecraft — travel the world, meet interesting people, and steal their loot (via) #

Half-Life 2 Episode 2 statistics — this kind of communal feedback is fascinating for players, but invaluable for developers (via) #

Lost in the Static — strange freeware PC game builds a platformer out of noise (via) #

You gonna light that pipe? — Jim Treacher takes on a three-panel comic from a "write this comic" contest #