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) #

Business Week on video blogging — vog, vlog, and vidblog all sound awkward to me, but so did "blog" (via) #

Creative Commons for Science — promote open sharing of information in the academic world (via) #

Cat and Girl on moral consumption — I also liked this wordless comic (via) #

Final chapter of the Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Love Story — "Alicia" found the site and contacted Rob #

Temporary signage at the new Seattle Library — temporary signs usually indicate larger usability problems (via) #

Ricky Gervais to write for the Simpsons — Matt Groening is a big fan of The Office (via) #

Audio: Hank Handy's Beatles Mashup Medley — mixes 40 different Beatles songs, well worth the download #

Lycos' Top 100 search terms of 2004 — with previous year's rankings in parentheses #

Tornado warning in Southern California — the end times are near #

Wired profile on Bram Cohen and BitTorrent — long overview, with some good quotes from Bram #

Point-Counterpoint: Animal Adoption — some compelling points on both sides of the issue (via) #

Bickr, photo contests powered by Flickr — smart use of the Flickr API, discussed by Clay (via) #

Autocomplete CPAN Search — a la Google Suggest (via) #

Lost Hitchhiker's Guide computer game from 1998 — the concept art is nice, but the screenshots look like Leisure Suit Larry (via) #

Blockbuster may attempt hostile takeover of Hollywood Video — fun prediction of the day: video rental stores will be gone in ten years #

Sickening headline: "Tsunamis shatter celebrity holidays" — note that CNN is the only outlet to use that headline for the AP wire article #

Grey Album is Entertainment Weekly's Album of the Year — funny, I liked the Kleptones album better (via) #

How to fix Mom's computer — excellent primer for cleaning and securing any tainted Windows box (via) #

Anti-Walmart book for sale on Walmart.com (via) #

Suprnova preparing December 30 announcement — probably announcing the first Exeem release #

Review of Linux for the iPod — new games and picture viewing, and it supports Ogg at 80% speed (via) #