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 #

White paper on measuring BitTorrent activity — tons of interesting charts #

Video: Honda's Asimo robot can now run! — bringing the uncanny valley into the real world; more videos and info (via) #

The Best Webcomics of 2004 — Keaner and Copper are my favorites of the list (via) #

Creative Commons' CCMixter — project to support remixing, with contests to appear on the new Chuck D album #

Blogs 4 Xmas — e-mail delivery of blogs as Christmas gifts for newbies, including mine! #

Flickr Sucks!  #

Nethack is 20 years old today — maybe the oldest game still being played today, without irony? #

AllofMP3 doubles rates to $.02/MB — still a ridiculous steal, at around $1 for an entire album (via) #

Excerpts from Game Developer's post-mortem on Katamari Damacy — also, there's a nice 8-bit Katamari mockup for download #

Greg Storey knew the Crystal Cathedral gunman — the nine-hour standoff ended in suicide; Greg provides some background #

Forbes on the Apple iPhone rumors — it sounds like this may actually happen #

Indeed.com, job search crawler — supports RSS and sorting by date (via) #

Playboy's iBod — cheesecake photos for the iPod Photo, NSFW (via) #

Mr. Bungle officially disband — their debut was brilliant, produced by John Zorn (via) #

Mozilla Firefox two-page ad in today's New York Times — paid for entirely by donations, unprecedented for an open-source project #

Yahoo Video Search — impressive, they found several on my server #

Kiddie Records Weekly — every week in 2005, a new vintage children's record for download (via) #

Too much of a good thing? — supply exceeds attention demand for digital photos, music, and movies (via) #

Mappr — geomapping of tagged images on Flickr (via) #

White paper on emulation and the video game industry — exhibit 3a and 3b were interesting (via) #

First screenshots of Katamari Damacy 2 — also, some weird Katamari papercraft (via) #

Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing — looks like Safari on an old Mac (via) #

CSS reference guide on the iPod — really geeky; maybe a Klingon-English dictionary next? (via) #

Image: Nintendo DS vs. the PSP — this made me laugh #

Japanese anime studio threatens fansub creators — they're suing their biggest fans, even though they only translate unlicensed videos #

New iPod firmware locks out RealNetworks music — another move in the ongoing battle (via) #

NYT Crossword Puzzle from Election Day 1996 — predicted Clinton's win before polls opened, or did it? #