Unusual articles on Wikipedia — heavy metal umlaut is on there (via) #

Kottke on the maximum Starbucks density — current winner is downtown NYC with 169 stores in a 5-mile radius #

Bugs Bunny in drag — for those who were worried about Spongebob's pro-gay agenda (via) #

Long-lost video of Steve Jobs introducing the Mac in 1984 — taped off public TV, finally available online #

Google Video Search coming soon? — the directory and subdomain now temporarily redirect to the homepage #

Firefox's lead engineer Ben Goodger hired by Google — this suggests that the Google Browser is definitely a reality (via) #

Insecure vs. confident weatherman videos — both are painful to watch #

Street art in Counterstrike Source — anyone can make custom graffiti in CS:Source (via) #

Just A Plant, a children's story of marijuana — the next book should be "Poppies Are Pretty: A Children's Guide to Opiates" (via) #

2005 Bloggies nominations — the Bloggies need a "Best Linkblog" category (via) #

CD Baby rewrite in Postgres and Ruby — one developer's move away from PHP and MySQL (via) #

Hurricane Electric ISP adds automatic BitTorrent hosting for clients — drop a file in a directory, and it's automatically tracked and seeded locally; wonderful! (via) #

Non-desktop uses for a Mac mini — some great ideas here for DIY projects (via) #

Google rumored to offer voice-over-IP phone service — a bold move, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Google buy a Skype competitor (via) #

Collaborative fiction writing with SubEthaEdit — I'll bet it would work great for screenplays and sketch comedy, too (via) #

Snarkout essay on Will Eisner — tons of great links about Eisner and the Spirit #

Are design contests worth the time and effort? — B. Adam Howell asks contest winners if they got any business after winning #

Washington school district bans Halo 2 tsunami fundraiser — they cited violent games and the Columbine shootings (via) #

Habbo Hotel gets $23m in funding — one of the most successful and profitable multiplayer worlds, despite its lo-fi approach (via) #

Flash: Jon Udell's Wikipedia case study on the heavy metal umlaut — this is essential viewing for anyone with any interest in Wikipedia (via) #

Darwinia demo released — a real-time strategy game with a completely unique look, independently published (via) #

Phrack to publish its last issue — publishing since 1985, I used to read the hacker e-zine religiously in my BBS days #

Google raises word limit to 32 — before, you were limited to 10 words in a single query #

MP3: Ben Folds and Rufus Wainwright duet on Wham's "Careless Whisper" — the live version of Philosophy is nice, too #

Drivey, monochrome driving sim for Windows — also: history of driving games (via) #

Five terrible fake Livejournal memes — from Merlin Mann's 5ives (via) #

MoonEdit, multiplatform collaborative text editor — like SubEthaEdit, but for both Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD (via) #

Ivan Brunetti's Doodle-A-Day — his galleries of vintage postcards and art are good, too #

Wired cover story on Firefox — it's tempting for the media to put one face on a much larger project #

Target selling Mac mini — but only on their website, I believe (via) #

Johnny Carson passes away — even to the end, he was writing jokes and secretly sending them to Letterman (via) #

NYC radio station skit mocking tsunami victims — you'd think as New Yorkers, they'd empathize with the disaster (via) #

Exeem open beta released — yeah, but it has spyware with no opt-out; better wait for an updated ExeemLite (via) #

Google to provide AdWords API to advertisers — I could imagine uses for an AdSense API for publishers, as well #

Paul Ford's Three Favorite Computer Games of 2004 — the Will Oldham MMORPG should be called "Palace" #

A post about Sally Forth, the main character in Sally Forth (via) #

Video: Innernet, parody of Justin Hall's breakdown — some context; created by this guy #

Convert Tivo-to-Go to MPEG files — DRM, be gone! (via) #

Jacob Weinstein on the movie industry's screener DVDs — they're hassling award voters, or not sending out screening copies at all (via) #

Justin Foster signs up for free trade magazines — you, too, can get free subscriptions to Pig International, Aqua, Firehouse, and Tissue World #

Image: Sega's next football game — with EA's monopoly on NFL or ESPN rights, Sega doesn't have much left (via) #

mp3Blog Toplist, gauging popularity by multiplying Del.icio.us users by Technorati inbound links — Alf also made toplists for blogresearch and games #

Sparklines for representing Wikipedia activity — a brilliant idea they should try to reproduce as soon as possible (via) #

NYT journalist's followup on two girls he freed from Cambodian sex trade — he purchased them for $450 in 2003, turning journalism into activism (via) #

Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination — boy, I'm glad nobody cares about race anymore (via) #

Ourmedia launching this weekend — platform for free hosting of personal video content, partnered with Archive.org (via) #

PubSub tracking over 8 million blogs/feeds — wow, that easily trumps Technorati's 6.2 million blogs (via) #

Geocities 1996 — the best CSS Zen Garden theme ever (via) #

Ta-Da Lists — 37signal's free shared to-do lists; I've already set one up for Upcoming.org #

Metafilter Tags, 24 hours later — unbelievable explosion as Mefi users tag all their old posts #