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) #

Virtual virii in Second Life — red wings with a porn payload, and self-replicating swarming objects #

Staccato Music — downloadable music show of legal Creative Commons-licensed songs (via) #

The Clueless Top 20 of Google — "i'm confused" has 575k results #

Debunking the myth that video games are bigger than Hollywood — this recent SF Chronicle article perpetuates the myth (via) #

Unofficial Suprnova closure FAQ — includes a torrent link to an audio interview with Suprnova's creator; currently offline (via) #

BitTorrent 3.9.0 beta released — supports multiple torrents now, but a very awkward UI #

FCC photos of the DS — try searching for other wireless products, like Apple's Airport Express #

Anil nominates me for Wired News editor-in-chief — this link brought to you by Digerati™ Zeitgeist© #

Aaron Swartz on the Google Library — best roundup I've seen #

SwitchProxy extension for Mozilla — a really well-designed extension for bypassing censorware #

Wrong side of the road — Cameron's brain is playing tricks with him (via) #

Photos of Nintendo DS TV interference — leaky RF, or future Nintendo plans? (via) #

Scott McMullan's thoughts on semantic event aggregation — sums up all the current work, with ideas for the future #

RSS Reader Market Share — in a limited sample, Bloglines beating out every other client combined #

Legal threats against The Pirate Bay, another torrent tracker — the Suprnova admins were wimps compared to these guys #

Best of CG Talk's 3D forums — this animated short is particularly good #

Image: Calvin (The ADD Remix) — originally created by Jordan Fish for the Wesleyan Argus #

Cockeyed Airmail by Helium Balloon — one balloon traveled 521 miles in 7 days #

Traffic conditions added to Yahoo Maps — now, can they modify Driving Directions to take traffic into account? (via) #

Torrentbits and Suprnova shut down! — worth noting that Suprnova didn't host torrents (via) #

Official Sponsor of the Big Bang — Shell apparently invented hydrogen #

The Edge of Orkut — Joi reaches the hard limit of 1,024 friends (via) #

Spam Karma plugin for WordPress — MT badly needs something like this; the battery of tests is impressive #