Leslie Orchard on General Motors' new blog — a major corporate blog, with comments and Trackback #

Robin Good on Loki Torrent's battle with the MPAA — they're taking a hands-off ISP-like stance; their users have donated $40k to the legal fund so far #

Untouched comment spam breeds more spam — comment spammers search for vulnerable sites in Google (via) #

Andre Torrez's TKPal — pay for access to webpage content with Typekey and Paypal; understated announcement, but could have huge implications #

LA Times drops Garfield from comic pages — "a strip cynically designed to be inoffensive and bad, on the theory that public tastes are insipid" (via) #

Bram Cohen points to increased BitTorrent usage despite tracker shutdowns — people are using it for more than just pirating #

Camera Mail — cameras mailed with instructions asking the USPS to snap photos with it (via) #

Rumor of the day — you didn't hear it from me (via) #

Sims 2 hacks spread like viruses — magic espresso, teen pregnancy, and washing machines named Candace (via) #

Livejournal confirms the rumored sale to Six Apart — Mena discusses the purchase, and Six Apart's Livejournal FAQ and press release #

Apple suing Think Secret over Mac rumors — they want them to name names and stop leaking again (via) #

New Yorker on the mashup scene — and the recent attempts to cash in (via) #

Shirky's response to Danah Boyd on the recent Wikipedia debate — Clay on Danah on Clay on Sanger; a great debate #

Six Apart to buy Livejournal!? — holy crap! (via) #

Johnny Ryan's comic parodies of indie comic greats — he's been making fun of all the biggest names #

Angry dad blames Disney for profanity in pirated GBA game — The Sun and the Inquirer both uncritically reported the claims (via) #

Historical reenactments with the Half-Life 2 engine — made with Garry's Physics Mod #

Will Eisner, dead at 87 — a huge loss; one of the most important and influential artists in comic history #

Calgary Herald runs two-year-old tsunami photo on front page — even Snopes is still unsure about this one (via) #

Khoi Vinh redesigns Subtraction.com — possibly the best designed blog I've ever seen; many nice touches throughout (via) #

BBC News article talks about "dooced" bloggers — but makes no reference to Dooce herself!? (via) #

Guy calls every 867-5309 in America, reports on results — the 678 guy is cranky (via) #

250 covers of "House of the Rising Sun" — this site has descriptions of each MP3, in Russian (via) #

Videora, the BitTorrent RSS reader — with "Season Passes" and "Wishlists" (via) #

Workflow plugin for MovableType — and he started a Dropcash campaign to fund it (via) #

TivoToGo launched, with sucky DRM — plus, no Mac support and you won't have it for weeks! yay! #

Video: How Dylan Verdi got on TV — I'm partially to blame, apparently #

Video: Amateur Eye of the Tiger — this made me laugh (via) #

Lazyweb request for Taggle, a search engine for tags — please, someone do this and make an API #

Katamari Damacy 2 screenshots — much better pics than the first preview #

Meta Mammon — an options market for trading high scorers from Media Mammon #

Adam Mathes' thesis essay on Folksonomies — Adam should build tags into Organizine! (via) #

PuppetTool — old, but new to me #

43 Things Zeitgeist — what do people want to do? #

Garry's Half-Life 2 Mod — the screenshots are amusing #

Big Heads of 2004 — "giant head" photo cliche on Yahoo News (via) #

Boing Boing has screenshots of the Exeem beta — they've registered a company offshore #

Theme from Blog — every blog needs a theme song (via) #

Video: Darth Vader/Weirdo — completely inexplicable (via) #

eBay ends Microsoft Passport support — they lost Monster in October; eBay was their last big supporter (via) #

KFC Knockoffs, presidential edition — don't miss the states, also (via) #

"Life's Greatest Trip" by Arthur Blessit — "naturally stoned on Jesus" (via) #

passPod, Disneyland schedule for the iPod — for extreme Disney nerds only #

ABC News' "Person of the Year" is bloggers — get used to it, Jennings (via) #

AtariVox speech synthesizer for the Atari 2600 — completely new, from the homebrew 2600 scene (via) #

LokiTorrent fighting the MPAA lawsuits — they're setting up a legal defense fund #

Wired Magazine on the piracy scene — MaTinE posted a public response #

Carl Steadman requests donations for Plastic hosting — Ready Steadman Go! #

The Long Tail effect on Magnatune — also, how much money each country chose to pay for music on Magnatune #

Rumor: Apple to introduce sub-$500 Mac at Expo — designed to further lure PC owners who were tempted with iPods (via) #