iTunes update breaks anti-DRM Hymn utility, again — and JHymn has the workaround and recovery procedure (via) #

Joey DeVilla's guide to writing interactive fiction with Inform — this is an impressive overview with tons of great references #

Blizzard orders World of Warcraft pulled from shelves? — the rumor is their servers can't handle the insane growth and demand (via) #

Gamasutra's excellent overview of emulating the Atari 2600 — it's one of the hardest and most CPU-intensive to emulate (via) #

Waxy Links Statistics — here's the background, for those of you that don't read the main weblog #

Hong Kong makes first file-sharing arrest — he should've been arrested for bad taste #

NYT on the style guidelines of Google AdWords — Google reviews and edits text ads for spelling, grammar and clarity (via) #

Google Mini — hopping on the "mini" bandwagon with a $5k Google search appliance (via) #

Video: Bizarro iPod World — very, very weird (via) #

First issues of JPG Magazine released — Derek and Heather go print and bring Flickr users with them (via) #

Harvard Crimson interviews Think Secret's Nick Ciarelli about Apple lawsuit — Apple is suing the formerly-anonymous 19-year-old Harvard freshman (via) #

TKPal plugin for MovableType — easy micropayments at the post level with MT, Paypal, Typekey, and PHP (via) #

Wired's Top 10 Vaporware of 2004 — topping the list is Longhorn, CherryOS, and the Phantom console #

Comic: Derek Kirk Kim's "Same Difference" — All Things Considered just interviewed him #

Making ASCII stereograms with Javascript — my eyes hurt (via) #

Video: The Uncle Liam Show — Liam Lynch's music video for his nephew Arlo's first birthday #

Beatles Anomalies — obsessive list of Beatles oddness; see also, background noises in Led Zeppelin songs (via) #

Del.icio.us Inbox is back — one of my primary sources of linkage is back (via) #

Hacker penetrates T-Mobile systems, fails to notify customers — he monitored Secret Service e-mails, and took cam photos from Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, and Paris Hilton (via) #

Guardian Angel bags — handbags built with the outline of a gun or knife; laptop bags with the outline of groceries (via) #

Justin Frankel's Assniffer for Windows and Linux — network sniffer that automatically saves files of transferred data #

Early '90s Predictions Database — 4,200 predictions made between 1990-1995; also, some new predictions (via) #

Justin Hall stops publishing Links.net? — this was his last entry, also found in the source code of his homepage (via) #

OJR on tsunami video hosting on blogs — organized mirroring is great, but isn't BitTorrent a better long-term solution? #

iPod shuffle differences between US and UK — apparently, we eat gum in the US, while the Brits chew it #

Decentralized BitTorrent with Kenosis — more information in the Slashdot thread (via) #

Verizon blocking e-mail from the UK — as an ISP, Verizon has a responsibility not to have any false positives (via) #

The Words of Albert Spamus — spam poetry for the ages #

Mac mini, official homepage — do not taunt Mac mini #

iPod shuffle, official homepage — "do not eat iPod shuffle" #

Video: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians on Archive.org — also: most popular feature films for download on Archive.org (via) #

New iPod Shuffle, the Flash-based iPod — really tiny, no screen, weighs under an ounce; $99 for 512MB, $149 for 1GB; shipping today; photo #

Mac Mini, 2" tall headless Mac for $499 — Think Secret was right! more details coming; photos of box and product #

SQL Injection Attacks by Example — a great starting point to securing your own code (via) #

Rodeo in Salem gets unexpected song rendition — Ali G strikes again (via) #

TowerSeek — a prototype BitTorrent search crawler, with estimated speeds and file listings (via) #

An analysis of BitTorrent distribution and centralization — the long tail is very long; 87% of trackers have less than 100 torrents #

The Unicorns break up — looks like Mclusky broke up, too #

eBay: Sub Pop Singles Club — over 125 records; the complete collection, worth seeing just for historical value (via) #

Audio: Inside look at NPR's audio editing practices — removing "um" and "uh," ambient audio, and off-site interviews (via) #

Ming's page of Googleable webcams — he performed geo-lookups of the IP addresses, and made a nice UI for browsing (via) #

Face Transformer Java applet — excellent and bizarre algorithmic morphing #

Second Life's changing culture — the shift from innovation to 200 strip clubs #

Feedburner's list of the top 20 RSS readers — may be skewed by default feeds that ship with readers (via) #

Think Secret's top Macworld Expo rumors — even Cringely thinks the sub-$500 Mac is going to happen (via) #

Snopes on anti-seat belt law advocate killed in car accident — he wasn't wearing a seat belt, while two other passengers were and survived (via) #

TKPal implemented for Grouphug comments — interesting to see how it's getting used #

CodeCon 2005 Program — all sorts of interesting new projects (via) #

Salon feature on the death of the payola system for radio — Eliot Spitzer started cracking down in October (via) #

McDonald's Israeli "Pulp Fiction" commercial — very surreal, with dead-on impersonations of Travolta and Jackson #