A Yahoo Company — all your startups are belong to us #

The Museum of Modern Betas — needs more Under Construction icons (via) #

Myspace Deaths — something like this would be meaningful if they'd drop the morbid humor #

Vivendi grants "fan license" to unofficial King's Quest sequel — the name is changing, but the characters can stay the same #

Yahoo! acquires Del.icio.us — everyone I know now works at Yahoo #

Flash: Samarost 2 — sequel to the enchanting Flash game; server is very slow right now #

Windows Live Local's overhead shots of Disneyland — including a peek into the drained Submarine lagoon #

Windows Live Local escalates the maps arms race — the birds-eye view is insane; the entire world looks like SimCity #

Abusive NYC camera store threatens to break customer's neck — Thomas Hawk, himself a recent scam victim, reports on a new case with recorded evidence #

Yahoo! Answers — look out, Ask Metafilter! #

DJ Riko's Christmas mix — from the creator of Whistler's Delight #

Rest Of U2 Perfectly Fine With Africans Starving — "You don't win 14 Grammys feeding Africans." (via) #

New AIM worm chats with its victims — it's probably more coherent than most IM conversations (via) #

Mena Trott calls out backchannel critic Ben Metcalfe from the stage — when drama erupts at a blogging conference, you get video, photos, and tons of commentary #

CNET buys Consumating — not bad for two guys in their spare time; congrats! #

Alison Mealy's Unreal Tournament art — artworks combine portraits and data viz from UT games (via) #

Wikipedia to disallow anonymous users to create new pages — an experimental change to deal with their social scaling issues #

Pre-order Jason Scott's new text adventure documentary film — support his work, and get three copies and your name in the credits (like me) #

NASA abandons IE for Firefox — next stop: widespread corporate adoption (via) #

Cloud Game — I played it to the end, and it was very satisfying in a Katamari way (via) #

Rex starts his 2005 List of Top Lists — as always, keep checking back over the next few weeks as it grows #

Image: What if the NYT owned Gawker? — the "National" column is good (via) #

Free wifi plan prompts BellSouth to withdraw New Orleans donation — infuriating (via) #

Digital effects reels from the '80s — from the effects houses who did the CG for Tron #

Wired magazine as a tech market barometer — as their page count goes up and down, NASDAQ follows #

Game Set Watch — new gaming blog by Simon Carless, one of my favorite link sources #

Nick Montfort's Book and Volume — new text adventure about being a sysadmin; try the Java version online without save/load (via) #

Firefox 1.5 final released — read about their new marketing blitz #

RSS reader added to Yahoo! Mail beta — I've used it, and it's good stuff #

Time Travel Holograph conspiracy theory — photographic evidence the government is placing time travel holograms over this guy's face #

Mapquest FindMe — local mobile search plus Dodgeball-like GPS features #

Try Ruby — play around with the Ruby language in your web browser (via) #

Teen with peanut allergy dies after kiss — such a strange and sad story #

The Protomen's Mega Man-themed rock opera — details and MP3s from the epic concept album #

United Arab Emirates blocks Flickr, again — apparently for good, this time #

SplogSpot, spam search engine — all splogs, no blogs! #

Evan Williams' Ten Rules for Web Startups — from a man who knows #

Gollum, the Wikipedia browser — alternative UI for browsing the site, could be useful in a library or academic setting (via) #

Hands-on review of Sony's Talkman for the PSP — an avatar-based universal translator with speech recognition #

Archive.org asked to remove Grateful Dead soundboard bootlegs — very sad; Cory sums it up (via) #

Songbird — media player built on Mozilla platform, very iTunes-like #

Richard Scarry's The Best Word Book Ever, 1963 and 1991 — Alan compares all the subtle differences between the two versions #

Internet chatspeak as vintage type ligature — the "wtf" series is outstanding #

Meet with Approval — lo-fi meeting scheduler #

Gary Glitter facing death penalty in Vietnam — possible death by firing squad for child rape #

Anti-videogame lawyer Jack Thompson disbarred from Alabama courts — good, because that guy is a huge ass #

Gordon gets his traffic ticket dismissed — Gordon doesn't do anything casually, and I love that about him #

Washington Post Remix — Adrian Holovaty is leading the effort to let people mashup WaPo #

Bram Cohen agrees to remove pirated torrents from BitTorrent.com search results — about time; I said back in May that drawing attention to infringing uses was a big mistake #

Sketchplanet — cute community for instantly sharing Flash sketches #