Former Pantera guitarist killed on stage — Dimebag Darrell was gruesomely murdered #

The Onion's Best Albums of 2004 (via) #

Marvel sues City of Heroes — Fred von Lohmann on the copyright infringement case #

Blog the Caveman, comic book character from a 1959 issue of "Lois Lane" — brilliant find; Joey has a download of the entire book (via) #

Customize your iPod graphics — including a gorgeous dump of all fonts and images on the iPod (via) #

Feds raid D.C. gaming stores for modded Xbox consoles — flagrant stupidity got them shut down; Boing Boing has reader comments about it (via) #

Google auto-corrects the Jews — I expect someone to call Google anti-semitic any minute (via) #

Abandoned baby advocate wins $27m lottery — the last few paragraphs of this story are heartbreaking (via) #

DJ Riko's "Whistler's Delight" mashup and contest — 22-song mashup of songs with whistling; I could only name eight of them (via) #

Jazz, Funk, Soul, Disco joints sampled in House, Hip-hop, and others — MP3 clips of each; their plundered covers page is great, too (via) #

PVR Blog interviews TiVo's director of user experience — as Matt said, don't just read the news, make it #

Flickr Flashlight Challenge — dot the i #

Disney's War Against the Counterculture — history of the Air Pirates Funnies Mickey Mouse copyright case (via) #

The Haugheys are having a baby girl! — Greg Knauss should donate Metababy.com to them #

Engadget howto on podcasting random web videos to a Portable Media Center — using iPodder, Blogdigger, and WMP10 or Doppler #

Lik-Sang's Sony PSP hands-on review — load times are awful, but the memory stick may make homebrew gaming easy #

The 6 Myths of Creativity — fear, money, competition, and deadlines all stifle creativity (via) #

Thunderbird 1.0 released — it felt clunky last time I tried; time to try again, I guess (via) #

Re-Ment's miniature Japanese foods — their official site is great too, but in Japanese #

Sushi Pillows — may you dream of raw fish #

Engadget on iPod Flash rumor — there's a realistic mockup, but it feels like a fake to me #

Sony PSP tunneling works great — unlike the Gameboy DS, the PSP uses open standards for wireless networking! (via) #

Video: Science World's "Boardroom Kissing" commercial — more about the campaign #

Massive hands-on review of the Playstation Portable — with tons of videos and photos (via) #

Half-Life Saga Story Guide — some outstanding speculation and research here for any fan of the series #

Mashing for Beginners — mash-up tutorial with Tracktion, but applies to other software too (via) #

Google Adsense adds URL channels for tracking stats — track clickthrough traffic from individual webpages #

Generate Sparklines in PHP — I'm sure I'll find a use for this someday (via) #

Ask Mefi's top albums of 2004 — a good list that points to this Mefi member's great list; see also #

Wired on Pew Internet's poll of musician opinions on digital music — the 3,600 musicians surveyed embrace the Web and 36% support legalizing P2P; view the full report (via) #

Google blocking new groups with "blogger" in the name/e-mail — are they trying to lay claim to the generic term "blogger"? (via) #

Five Mistakes Band & Label Sites Make — Merlin designed the very nice site for the Long Winters (via) #

American Mr. Driller DS missing Japanese features — crippled multiplayer mode requires a US game cart for every player (via) #

Half-Life 2 speed run in under 3 hours — spoiler-rich 660MB download (via) #

Flash: Visual explanation of Coltrane's "Giant Steps" — look at all the pretty lights! #

Introduction to the Becker-Posner Blog — first blog authored by either a Nobel Prize winner and a federal judge (via) #

Sony's terrible PR commenting on Sony v. Kottke — one journalist posts her phone conversation (via) #

Salon's success story with gated content and day passes — they're making $2m/year in subscriptions and $.5m/year in ad sales (via) #

NYT Magazine cover story on viral marketing — a good companion piece to watching The Persuaders (via) #

Woody Allen puts Mickey Mouse on the witness stand — silly fan fiction for the New Yorker (via) #

Adrian's Links via Feedster extension for Firefox — some innovative, but potentially litigious, new work #

Skeletal systems for cartoon characters — his other work is very good, as well; temporary local mirror #

Small firmware requests for the Nintendo DS — someone should send this great list to Nintendo #

NetZero parodies AOL's obnoxious new ad campaign — compare the AOL ads and NetZero's parodies (via) #

Red Herring on Sony's legal threats against Jason Kottke — Calacanis is calling for a Sony boycott (via) #

Le Monde offers blogs to their readers — one of the first newspapers to do so (via) #

Startup company paying prominent bloggers $800/month to blog about them — impressive roster organized by Marc Canter, but not everyone thinks this is a good idea #

eBay adds "Want It Now" feature to request items to buy — they buried it on their site, but here it is (via) #

Nintendo DS hackers tunnel Pictochat over the Internet — they managed to tunnel the Metroid DS demo, too! (via) #

Correction: Bill Gates gets 4 million spams per year, not per day — Ballmer got it wrong (via) #