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) #

Spam Stopgap Extreme for WordPress — stops comment spam by requiring Javascript to send back a computed MD5 hash (via) #

NYT on first-person blog coverage of tsunami disaster — Xeni's roundups of first-person coverage have been very good #

WaPo on the Kings of Chaos web game — the article doesn't mention the web-based game rewards link spamming (via) #

Search Google's Adwords — search only the text of sponsored links (via) #

Wikipedia's new images gallery — comic books, old men, and other random fun (via) #

Ask Mefi on the phonetic spelling of Homer's drool sound — this would be a good one to pitch to Google Answers #

FutureFeature — feature requests in the style of 43things #

ccPublisher 1.0 released — CC license your work and optionally upload it to the Internet Archive! #

Fortune on the marketing force of bloggers — mentions the fake Mazda blog that I helped unravel #

Suprnova's eXeem beta review with screenshots — decentralized .torrent file distribution (via) #

The Parking Lot Note Anti-Prank — leaving nice notes to good parkers in Houston (via) #

Image: Anti-Aids Drive 2004 — what's wrong with this picture? (via) #

Del.icio.us gets Slashdotted — generally positive comments, but they're stunned by the lack of porn/spam #

Inconsistent numbers with Google's library scanning project — at their best rate, it'll take 43 years to scan all pages (via) #

Video: Tsunami wave hitting Phuket beach, RealVideo format — also: six minutes of raw flooding footage #

Photo sequence of tsunami flooding in Phuket resort — intense (via) #

First-hand photos of the tsunami damage in Phuket — another gallery, found from these forums #

Flickr as a MMO (via) #

Blizzard trying to end Warcraft auctions on eBay — they should be fostering economy, not trying to kill it (via) #

Headphone Headshots — what New Yorkers are listening to on their headphones, and what they ate for breakfast #

Overclocking the NES — the demo videos compare before and after (via) #

Child's Play II — more kids making fun of old video games (via) #

Stereogum's Top 14 Albums of 2004 — with b-side MP3s for every one #

LABlogs's Notable Blogs of 2004 — a great list of other Los Angeles bloggers #

Activision buys the cover of Electronic Gaming Monthly — Variety does this too, but EGM's case is more deceitful #

Dylan Verdi, 11-year-old videoblogger — kids like this will soon kick the asses of all the old-timers (via) #

Fresh Patents — RSS-enabled directory of new patent applications (via) #

Musical Pi — assign numbers to notes, and play the first 10,000 digits of pi as music (via) #

Full albums of "Dragnet: The Christmas Story" from 1953 and "Non-Stop Christmas Disco" from 1979 — more great Christmas rarities: FaLaLaLaLa.com, Oddio Overplay (via) #