Typographica's favorite fonts of 2004 — Galaxie Polaris is lovely #

Katamari Damacy hand puppet — they should make vinyl action figures, too (via) #

Parent's guide to computer slang by Microsoft — darn those "online videogame bullies"! (via) #

The return of the Kottke webcam — wait, where's the monkey? #

Video: Thundercats — fan-made short film, complete with CGI effects and leather pants (via) #

Sleater-Kinney begs people to stop pirating their new unreleased album — the release date is three months away?! your biggest fans are pirating it because there's no legal alternative (via) #

MPAA cracking down on fan fiction sites — for using movie-style ratings to grade mature content in fanfic #

Acme Novelty Toy gallery — the Chris Ware cutouts actually work (via) #

American Idol blocking fast-forwards on Comcast DVRs — get ready to hear more of this #

They Might Be Giants releases second kids' album, Here Come the ABC's — buy direct online from the band, or watch the videos #

Interview with Mark Jen, the fired Google blogger — Mark confirms Google has no blogging policy (via) #

MSNFound, MSN Search's new viral web game — no matter how good the game may be, it still forces you to use MSN (via) #

NY Daily News on the "Numa Numa" lip-synching teen — the video is sent to me by e-mail and IM several times a day #

Buffington updates his asbestos blog experiment — he doesn't mention any numbers, but it was very profitable #

eBay prototype for the TiVo HME — "buy this TV show now, no reserve!" (via) #

Jamie Zawinski on the Hula project — make software for users, not for managers (via) #

43 Folders' Five fast e-mail productivity tips — I'm following this advice too late, cleaning out 590 messages from my inbox #

Boxer on NBC's 'The Contender' kills self — though not the first reality show suicide #

Crunching the stats on 8 years of e-mail — Slashdotted, but the Google cache works (via) #

Mapping iPod sightings in a stroll through NYC — 32 iPods in a 30 minute walk #

Great study of weblog tools market share — Richard's summary of the findings are excellent; Six Apart has 40% of the market with their three tools #

Internet Explorer 7 beta due out this summer — for some reason, this reminds me of Netscape Communicator (via) #

Audio of Robin Williams ranting on Disney, Pixar, and the iPod — "don't have to work for The Mouse no more" #

Fark buys 1-day rights to rename the Fleet Center — the winner, in typical Fark style #

Museum of Comic Art's Now Then! — 25 comic artists compare modern works to childhood drawings (via) #

Todd Dominey's SlideShowPro — Flash slideshow works with Flickr, $20 cheep #

New popular sites in Del.icio.us — basically, Blogdex for Del.icio.us (via) #

Hula Project — nice looking open-source calendar and mail server built in PHP, initiated by Novell (via) #

Everything Tori — the best-designed official artist website I've ever seen; includes the complete songs from every album, RSS feeds, and it's valid XHTML! #

Mule Design redesigns Six Apart — looks great, runs on MovableType (via) #

Goatse t-shirt from Threadless — safe for work (via) #

Atari Cosmos for sale on eBay — prototype of a hologram-based Atari handheld from 1981 (via) #

MSN searches for pizza in Redmond — the MSN marketing team should try the searches before putting them on ads #

Anil on the Eason Jordan resignation and blogger firings — he says nobody's ever been fired from blogging, only from displaying poor judgement in a public space #

Ask Mefi on life-changing childhood experiences — fascinating thread tapping into the soul of Metafilter #

Jazz Composer Nabs Grammy After Web-Only Sales — first artist to ever win a Grammy without selling in retail stores #

Del.icio.us Popular sparklines — link removed: the sparklines were killing the Delicious server (via) #

The Late Night TV Page — late night talk show lineups, with RSS feeds for each (via) #

Katamari Damacy hats for sale — now with new colors (via) #

Nintendo's V-Pocket may turn the Nintendo DS into a PDA — just a rumor for now, Games Industry is more skeptical #

WarTuning, use your Wifi enabled laptop to scan open iTunes shares while driving — wait until an iPod clone supports this! it's an idea fleshed out in Cory Doctorow's Eastern Standard Tribe (via) #

LokiTorrent fined $1 million in Dallas court — even though they didn't host a single file #

Geocaching with Google Maps and Terraserver — plus: Jason wrote a great little utility for generating splitscreen views of both #

First homebrew game for the Nintendo DS! — not surprisingly, a Tetris clone #

Google Maps hacking and bookmarklets — including animating an entire route of driving directions (via) #

Katamari Damacy live-action role playing — dedicated fans (via) #

Mark Jen comments on his blog-related firing from Google — does Google have an official policy on blogs? (via) #

Sorting Del.icio.us Most Popular by most recent — Joshua should probably do this by default #

Kottke interviews David Bernal, the dancer behind the Gene Kelly VW Golf GTI commercial — don't miss the essential Kollaboration video #

Flash: Son of a Peach — mildly not safe for work; what happened after Mario rescued the Princess? (via) #