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) #

Chris Ware's gorgeous Thanksgiving New Yorker covers (via) #

Flickr Camera Finder — also, they pushed the oft-requested Guest Pass feature #

Stephen Colbert on John Zorn — "I wonder how your little genius came up with that toe tapper" #

Wikipedia Brown and the Case of the Captured Koala — Adam Cadre's wiki reality (via) #

Gamer breaks TV with Nintendo Wiimote — sweaty hands and a faulty strap are hazardous to your living room #

Video: Woody Allen interviews Billy Graham — from a very rare TV special he hosted in 1969 #

"One Bank" U2 homage gets a cease-and-desist from Universal Music — meanwhile, David Cross and Johnny Marr covered it live #

Cary Grant Sings FCC Regulations — more oddball regulatory singing here #

The Tokyopia Wedding Game — friends create WarioWare-like game for newlywed gamers, with video! (via) #

A Coder in Courierland — story of a computer programmer who dropped out of tech to be a bike courier (via) #

Wagner James Au on Second Life's copying controversy — new tools let users clone any object or avatar without permission, creating clone wars in Second Life #

Inverted Inverted Pyramid — flipping sensationalist reporting on its head #

Leaked internal memo says Nick Douglas fired from Valleywag — at least partly because of his 10 Zen Monkeys interview #

10 Zen Monkeys stalks ex-Valleywag Nick Douglas — they obsessively track down Amanda Congdon, Rocketboom, Dave Winer, Nick Denton, and call Nick Douglas on his cellphone #

Amazon Earworm interviews XTC's Andy Partridge — Alexa's Web Discovery and Amazon Earworm are two of the best corporate blogs #

The Silent Penultimate Panel Watch — tracking abuses of the silent panel gag in the Sunday funnies (via) #

Nick Douglas leaving Valleywag — the blog everyone here won't admit they read; also: 10 Zen Monkeys interview with Nick #

Australian scientists build working air guitar — even better: air tambourine (via) #