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) #

D.C. Comics superhero Christmas album from 1977 — "Exciting Christmas Stories" with Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman (via) #

Technology Review on Amazon's web services — high-profile mention of Alan's excellent Amazon Light (via) #

Background of the Apple Graphing Calculator — sneaking onto Apple's campus for six months of unpaid work in hiding (via) #

pb's Radio Dials photographs — this one has an insane UI (via) #

Monkey Donkey Gift Guide — web lunacy with Google image search and speech synthesis (via) #

First Nintendo DS ROM successfully dumped — Darkfader posted the file listing for Metroid Prime: Hunters #

Mark Pesce on the MPAA's attack on BitTorrent — "Hey, Hollywood! Can you feel the future slipping through your fingers?" (via) #

Massive list of substantial non-infringing uses of P2P technology — an attempt to support the defense in MGM v. Grokster (via) #

WFMU's On the Download — monthly collection of oddball recordings published in the station's newsletter (via) #

Rex Sorgatz' Blogs of the Year — holy crap! I made #4 on the list, and #3 on Kottke's list!? #

Google Suggest Poetry Generator — here's how it works (via) #

Podcasting audio with Skype — co-workers could record Skype conference calls and subscribe to the MP3s (via) #

Final release of Dolphin, the best Gamecube emulator — the screenshots are stunning; Paper Mario 2, Animal Crossing, Zelda Four Swords, and more #

Rands on tool cruft — are you using obsolete tools just because they're comfortable? #

Stipple Portrait Illustration by Noli Novak — as seen in the Wall Street Journal hedcuts (via) #

eBay: Original engraving plate of Wally Wood's "Disneyland Memorial Orgy" — the infamous X-rated Disney spoof originally ran in The Realist in 1967 #

Manybooks.net — amazingly well-designed free eBook site, try the recommendations (via) #

Prodigem — free BitTorrent tracker for open, CC-licensed content (via) #

USPS website fails for non-IE6 users — in an extremely aggravating (and illegal?) way, too #

The Long Tail blog and book — Wired editor Chris Anderson's original article got him a book deal (via) #

If Internet Explorer was your girlfriend — spyware and popups as STDs and annoying children (via) #