Credit card statement drawings — drawing each one until they're paid off (via) #

Amazon pays for A9 reference on The OC — it sounds awkward, but here I am talking about it; anyone have a clip? #

Flicker slideshow of A9 photos down Melrose — set the speed to high; thanks, Jonah #

Smoking Mickey Mouse t-shirt — order one before they're served a C&D (via) #

Adwords API launches — web services for managing, deploying, and tuning Adwords campaigns; congrats, Nelson! #

Homebrew code now running on the Nintendo DS — graphic demos will probably be next, as programmers learn how to code for it #

Interesting images found on A9 Local — Alan has more information; also, finding yourself in a photo #

New IE security newsgroup launches — the first comment made me laugh (via) #

Ben Folds releasing new album in April — Weird Al singing backup on one song? #

Panoramas with A9's Block View — anyone want to write a tool to automate this to get an entire block or street? #

Russell Beattie on A9's block photos — it's been done before in Spain and France (via) #

Image: MSN's new math — 6 divided by 3 is...? #

Amazon/A9's amazing new Yellow Pages — with photos of 14 million storefronts across ten cities, like this one; walk up the block #

Yahoo moving up to 1,000 employees into new Santa Monica office — about six blocks away from my house (via) #

Craig's List traffic stats — 1.7 billion pageviews per month, and 7 million uniques! (via) #

Why Your Pointy Haired Boss Is A Mathematical Certainty — three cheers for the middle manager! #

Downhill Battle's Eyes on the Screen campaign — excellent campaign to rescue the classic civil-rights documentary from copyright hell (via) #

Steve Martin's letter to Johnny Carson — very sincere (via) #

Turn your Mac Mini into a home media center — great howto by Engadget (via) #

AOL stops offering newsgroup access — the endless September finally ends! (via) #

New Google employee blogging about work — update: he took it down for a short time, but Dave cached the homepage before he did (via) #

CastleZZT's mirror-image Garfield — the most interesting Garfield strips in two decades; see also, the rest of the site (via) #

Flickr coincidence — it's not the only uncanny coincidence on Flickr (via) #

Ashlee Simpson's spamming message boards — maybe not her, but someone involved with her PR effort (via) #

Christie's The Origins of Cyberspace auction — historical documents galore; BUY IT NOW! NO RESERVE! #

Real-life tribute to Calvin & Hobbes' snowmen — here's one more example #

Audio: Staccato Music 7 — featuring an interview with Magnatune Records creator John Buckman (via) #

Google Video launched — search major networks, but no video clips are available! (via) #

Today, Some McSweeney's Lists — Olivia Newton-Tron (via) #

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) #