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 #

Justice Dept. gets first two convictions in P2P piracy case — "felony copyright infringement" is an upsetting phrase #

Cory refuses to give up personal info to American Airlines — his letter to AA is a great read #

Movie: The Cyberpunk Educator — analysis of cyberpunk movies of the 1980s, full download with BitTorrent (via) #

Image: One does not simply walk into Mortor — mirrored locally #

Unintended consequences of "nofollow" support by search engines — legitimate linking in comments helped make Google relevant, but spammers ruined it for everyone #

Socialtext loses Disney deal to Jotspot — Mike downplays it, and he should know (via) #

Star Trek Enterprise not cancelled? — this sounds like a non-denial denial to me (via) #

Chris Anderson on the Long Tail applied to TV shows — the conclusion to his very good recent series #

Calculating the best albums of 2004 from 60 top ten lists — Franz Ferdinand firmly at the top (via) #

Comic: Perry Bible Fellowship's "Shotgun" — how do Rock, Scissors, and Paper settle disputes? #

Yahoo, Google, MSN announce "nofollow" support to combat comment and Trackback spam — more details about the spec that removes the Pagerank incentive for spammers (via) #

Dissecting the iPod Shuffle — not a bit of space is wasted (via) #

New Yorker on Collegehumor.com — four guys in their early 20s, 8 million unique visitors and $400k/month (via) #

Matt adds tagging to Metafilter — hopping on the tag bandwagon #

David Galbraith on search ordering by date — I've been wanting this for years; it will be increasingly essential as the web stagnates #

Blinx Video Search signs major networks — you can search the archives of BBC, Fox, Sky, and more (via) #

Michael Wolf's photographs of Hong Kong high-rises — from a distance, resembles random noise or UPC barcodes (via) #

"Legend of Zelda" upper back tattoo — in the style of Wind Waker, from this Gaming Tattoos community #

Video: Justin's dark night — the web's first blogger has a very public nervous breakdown; lots of questions here about the personal costs of posting your entire life online (via) #

FreeMe, remove DRM from Windows Media files! — never mind, this is really old news; Microsoft released a "fix" for it #

Ripshark will convert your CDs to MP3 — at less than $1/album, cheaper than RipDigital (via) #