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 #

Taggregator — combined display of Flickr and Del.icio.us tags; try apple, disneyland, and, of course, mathowie (via) #

Matt Haughey reports from CES on TiVo's new features — they're opening it up to developers, and linking it to portables #

Mathowie Lookalike group on Flickr — it's Matt Haughey day on Waxy.org! #

Matt Haughey on Bill Gates's anti-copyright comments — plus, he rounds up Microsoft's Internet-related failures #

Penny Arcade rips into "Non Sequitur" artist Wiley Miller's attack on web publishing — more background on the ongoing feud between Wiley and PvP's Scott Kurtz (via) #

Matt Haughey on Internet-wide comment tracking — Andre has a similar idea involving Typekey #

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) #