Learn reverse engineering by hacking Windows Pinball — if nothing else, worth it for playing around with the backdoor cheat (via) #

Yahoo! acquires Webjay — if you haven't played with the playlist sharing community, try it out #

Create an e-annoyance, go to jail — "annoying" someone anonymously online is now a federal crime? Boing Boing readers say this isn't new (via) #

Google testing contextual ads in print newspapers — they're filling unsold ad space in the Sun-Times #

Newsvine beta released — I've been playing with this, and it's very well-designed; the story-specific live chat is great #

3D Japanese Google Maps — tech demo, only works in Firefox 1.5 (via) #

Mike Elgan on the Push Music project — automatic wireless sharing of music with strangers based on recommendations #

TiVo adds transcoding video to PSP, iPod — also: TiVo Central gets Ajaxified and a peek at the HD TiVo Series 3 #

Crazy Del.icio.us — it's like a web geek litmus test; if you get it, you're a lost cause #

Bounty County — blog listing cash bounties for open-source projects #

Fark's best Photoshops of 2005 — some of these are brilliant, like The Temptation of Jedi and I Want to Make Believe #

Extra Tasty — Drinking 2.0 from the Threadless crew #

TechCrunch on AllPeers — outstanding looking Firefox extension for sharing files privately with BitTorrent #

The Decade the Music Blockbuster Died — crunching the numbers on best-selling albums by decade (via) #

Massively Multiplayer Personal Productivity — there's a seed of a brilliant idea in here (via) #

Second Life's virtual prison — they send you to The Cornfield #

Retrievr — search Flickr by sketching; impressive examples on Mefi (via) #

What's your dangerous idea? — The Edge's annual question for 2006 with answers from 116 professional thinkers and a real live Monkee (via) #

Windows WMF vulnerability hotfix — possibly the worst Windows hole ever, affects all versions, and spreading fast; install this now, as even viewing an image can infect you #

Horse sex story was online hit — because of web traffic, arguably the most popular story in the Seattle Times' 109-year history (via) #

Clive Thompson on the last days of Asheron's Call 2 — how do people behave when a game world is about to end permanently? #

Cory Doctorow leaves EFF to write and blog full-time — more Cory on Boing Boing is a good thing #

Public Domain Torrents — with iPod and PDA versions, too; try the top 20 movies #

Slate reflects on the Chronicles of Narnia rap — it's not just funny, it's good music #

Suck.com taken offline, replaced by porn portal — suck, suck, sucks #

iFilm's top 25 viral videos of 2005 — I'd seen all but two #

Philipp Lenssen's 15 search predictions for 2006 — some intelligent guesswork #

Java: Falling Sand game — try the effects of sand and water on the bouncing object; also: hell of sand with people #

Flash: My Humps Christmas card — I wonder if American Greetings is getting complaints about this one #

PopCap mini-games save lives — bizarre testimonial #

Guardian UK on the grassroots UK music boom — how the Internet and word of mouth is launching indie acts and singles into the top charts (via) #

I'm Feeling Silly — Googlers order 250 pounds of Silly Putty; hilarity ensues #

Gaming Digg — story of one jerk who used a bookmarklet and fake accounts to ruin Digg for a day #

Google to release feed reader API — don't like the Google Reader UI? roll your own with the underlying data (via) #

Regret the Error's year-end roundup of media mistakes — most are funny, but several upsetting (via) #

Flying Spaghetti Monster tree topper — or put it on your Festivus pole (via) #

Acquisitions and the Big 3 — that's us: fun, jagged, and dangerous #

Typographica's favorite fonts of 2005 — some very flexible choices; Garda is beautiful (via) #

DivX browser plugin for Windows released — Mac and Linux versions coming soon (via) #

Video: Pac-Man Puppet Show — lovely viral ad for the Gametap emulation service (via) #

Brett Tabke's robots.txt blog  #

Metafilter members on Google Earth — nice screenshots; also, I updated the Mefi Stats through December #

Million Dollar Homepage creator on verge of reaching goal — at this rate, he'll hit a million in a week; also, there are quite a few cheap imitators (via) #

Khoi Vinh joins NYTimes.com — they must have liked the Onion redesign (via) #

Xbox 360 costs $715 to manufacture? — they may be losing more than $300 per sale #

Rex Sorgatz' 2006 predictions — more predictions from Blake Ross, Tristan Lewis, Cameron Moll, John Battelle, Jason Calacanis #

Do you get less wet if you run in the rain? — the BBC does the math; reminds me of the shower curtain puzzle #

Top 50 Music Videos of 2005 — generally good songs, too (via) #

How shows on DVD suffer from music licensing — mentions the massive WKRP music changes (via) #

Video: Pants Pants Pants, "Fabio Salsa" — SF indie band recreates the opening sequence from Full House #