Craigslist Meets the Capitalists — refreshing (via) #

ABC News launches Amanda Congdon's new show — here's a mildly positive review from the NYT (via) #

Flickr's Ho Ho Ho easter egg — try adding a "ho ho ho hat/beard" note to any of your photos (via) #

Honan fact-checks the supposed iTunes collapse — then again, the original article cited was by Orlowski #

i'm going to live forever — Leslie founded Smug and Hoopla, among other, writings; Zeldman interviewed her in 2001, which only hints at the depth of her contributions online #

Thank you, Leslie. — Leslie Harpold, one of the web's most influential and interesting writers and designers, is gone; memories from Merlin, Kevin, Brad, Emily, Robert, Lia, Chris, Lance, Dan and more #

How many taps in a URL? — the results are non-intuitive #

Video: Pre-Taped Call-In Show — Mr. Show goodness #

Redubbed Christmas classics — worth it just for the Charlie Brown Christmas alternate ending #

Money circulation science using Where's George data — here's the Nature article with some interesting info vis #

NYT's Year in Ideas — my favs: work rumors are usually true, social-cue reader, ambient walkman, fighting homophily, and publishing negative results #

VerizonMath — customer service reps try to learn the difference between dollars and cents #

Charlie Brown Christmas performed by the cast of Scrubs — with all new dialogue read by the actual actors; some backstory #

YouTube launches Quick Capture — using your webcam to instantly create videos for YouTube (via) #

Reuters tracks down Chinese Photoshop meme — don't miss the very bizarre accompanying video #

Niall Kennedy goatse's Microsoft blog — here's a NSFW screenshot of the blog posting #

Top 50 Music Videos Of 2006 — soon to be seen everywhere #

Math Professor divides by zero — nullity is nutty #

BitTorrent Inc. Acquires µTorrent — their community doesn't seem to be taking it well #

Video: Real-Life Leeroy Jenkins — some background, in case you missed it #

James Kim found, dead — tragic end to this incredible story of survival and loss #

iFilm legally showing Comedy Central clips — welcome to the new networks; Daily Show and Colbert Report updated nightly #

Wife, daughters of missing CNET editor found alive — James Kim is still missing, but this is amazing news #

Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren't Reading — great list with some of my new favorites #

Kdice — multiplayer clone of Dice Wars; very fun #

eBoy's FooBar poster — view larger; spot the logos for 43 Folders, Laughing Squid, Rollyo, Newsvine, Feedburner, and tons more #

Video: Live Action Hamster Video Game — with background and music from Monty on the Run #

Chris Pirillo's Dueling Videos — synchronized videos, Brady Bunch style #

Penny Arcade on Wii accidents — that's not weird #

Burtin vs. Ellis/Williams — "comics are in everything" #

The Mii Lebowski — silly machinima using Wii Sports' Bowling #

Flickr Time — clock composed of Flickr photos (via) #

NPR's Morning Edition on Vince Guaraldi's "Charlie Brown Christmas" soundtrack — CBS hated the use of jazz, ordinary kids, and the central themes of materialism and faith #

Google Answers shuts down?! — but why? it seemed to be a successful niche community #

Asteroid's Revenge — turn the table on those bastard triangle ships #

Russia agrees to shutter AllofMP3.com at U.S. request — frankly, I'm surprised they lasted this long #

del.icio.us will eat itself — meta meta meta meta #

Tristan Lewis on the relaunch of Boo.com — he worked on the original site and has an interesting insider view of the original's failure #

Video: Children of Men trailer — I guess that means a Y: The Last Man adaptation won't be happening soon #

Kubick audition Brian Atene returns, for real this time — skip straight to 1:45; Atene claims the original audition was never actually sent in (via) #

Reports of Wii injuries rolling in — Nintendo anticipated this by placing obvious warnings and reminders in the games #

Google Master Plan — zoomable version of the whiteboard epic, leaked for the world to see (via) #

Google Earth team asks Gaia team to shut down project — finally, a human face behind the C&D, instead of nastygram lawyerbots #

'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders — behind the recent surge of Captcha-like image spam (via) #

Inside World of Warcraft gold farms — new documentary explores the half million Chinese making their living earning virtual currency (via) #

Make's Open Source Gift Guide — incredible resource; you could spend weeks exploring any one of these projects #

2006 Interactive Fiction Comp winners announced — detailed reviews of every entry linked in the comments #

The Secret World of Lonelygirl — Wired Magazine's late profile of the Lonelygirl fad is still an interesting read, with new details of the beginning #

Rex Sorgatz begins his 2006 List of Lists — as always, this will become the ultimate source for year-end best-of lists over the next six weeks #

Using Amazon EC2 for on-demand multiplayer game servers — EC2 enables all sorts of interesting niche businesses (via) #