Del.icio.us redesigns — increasing the emphasis on recently popular links is very smart #

WSJ interviews the Million Dollar Homepage creator — Philipp has great before and after screenshots #

BitTorrent and MPAA to make major announcement today? — Bram Cohen and Dan Glickman are holding a joint press conference at 2pm PST #

Video: Mario on the Marimba — very good talent show medley of Mario themes (via) #

VisitorVille 3D released — oddball visualization of your website traffic as people and vehicles roaming a city #

Video: Best Christmas Lights Ever — or: how to get your neighbors to hate you #

Web 2.0 Checklist — don't forget feature screencasts (via) #

8-bit NES covers of hit songs — not bad, but Virt's covers of Hot in Herre and Thriller reign supreme (via) #

TiVo adding iPod/PSP support to TiVoToGo — this is a surprising move, but wonderful for TiVo owners (via) #

Influential guitarist Link Wray, dead at 76 — the news is spreading on blogs and message boards, with nothing in the US media yet; MP3s here of the guy who arguably invented guitar distortion and the power chord #

Google-Mart — intriguing Cringely column on Google's dark fiber plans (via) #

Tom Coates on Space Cadets, the real-life Truman Show — I agree, it sounds cruel regardless of the execution #

Video: Dying Fetus, "Kill Your Mother, Rape Your Dog" — death metal music video using clips from Disney and Nickeloden kid's shows (via) #

JS/UIX, Unix OS in Javascript — with a stripped down vi clone; also, try /usr/bin/invaders #

MIT unveils $100 laptop — with photos (via) #

DVD Jon's GPL code in Sony rootkit? — this story continues to get weirder; Cory's coverage has been outstanding #

Peter Callesen's Paperworks gallery — amazing cutout art from sheets of A4 paper; more on his official site #

Text message transcripts admitted as evidence in teen murder trial — very disturbing read #

Meg Hourihan and Jason Kottke get engaged — five years after You've Got Blog; a warm and wonderful congrats, you two (via) #

Leeroy Jenkins mentioned on Jeopardy! — the contestants weren't well-versed in Internet memes #

Video: Rumble Strip's "Motorcycle" — one take music video for a good song, with very good timing (via) #

Interactive Fiction Competition 2005 winners announced — reviews are coming in; an excellent chance to play wonderful games created by a single passionate author #

Video: 12 Lucasarts games in 24 hours — what, no Grim Fandango? #

Linkroll.com for sale on eBay — get your own Del.icio.us clone for $499, cheap! #

Google Base launches — for real, this time (via) #

Wall Street Journal on the Interactive Fiction competition — this year's IF Comp winners should be announced tomorrow (via) #

eBay stops charging for API use — good move! I complained about their API charges back in 2003 (via) #

King Kong, business monkey — Alan rounds up the merchandising from Peter Jackson's Kong #

AOL launching online TV service — 3,400 hours of ad-supported video (via) #

Video: David Cross on Fox's mishandling of Arrested Development — from the Season 2 blooper reel, but very relevant #

Amazon tries tagging — also, they have a "Tags Team" #

Google Analytics — free, gorgeous web stats package, with site overlays; so that's why they bought Urchin #

Fan-made films from Lionhead Software's The Movies — Peter Molyneux's new RPG has a built-in machinima engine with export options #

Video: Harry Potter and the Hogwarts Dance Team — sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion #

Fox cancels Arrested Development — officially, this time; I hate Fox (via) #

Watching all six Star Wars films simultaneously — reminds me of Jason Salavon's work (via) #

Digg vs Dot — comparing cross-posting between Slashdot and Digg, with a running tally (via) #

Blogger catches SF Chronicle plagiarizing New Yorker — nicely handled without an angry mob, giving them the chance to fix it and respond #

Say So — like an anonymous, lo-fi version of Ask Metafilter #

SF Gate web designers get snarky in alt tags (via) #

Katamari creator dreams of playgrounds — ok, misread this story; he doesn't see a long career in gaming #

Katamari Sushi — nope, not sick of katamari yet #

Replica of Charlie Brown's Christmas tree — isn't the whole idea of this contrary to the moral of A Charlie Brown Christmas? (via) #

Ning.com's Anytown Marketplace — Jon Aquino's genericized Craig's List, cloneable for any city (via) #

Florida judge rules online discussion can apoint public figures — interesting precedent in a defamation case #

NYT on leaked Microsoft memos panicking about the "Internet services" era — Winer has the full text of Gates' and Ozzie's e-mails #

Flash: eBaum's World Sucks — it may be flamebait, but at least it's entertaining #

Digg.com set to overtake Slashdot in Alexa traffic rankings — pretty amazing, especially considering the timeframe (via) #

Yahoo Pirate Maps and Radar — using Flash filters and transforms to make a new look and feel (via) #

Mainstream Media Meltdown II — Chris Anderson updates his media stats #