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? #

Beatles fan club Christmas records — download them before EMI crushes them (via) #

NFL sells exclusive gaming rights to EA Games — basically kills all competition in football video games (via) #

Secret codes of drugstores — letter substitution to disguise retail markup costs #

Disney working on Jungle Cruise movie — I hope they make my other ideas next (via) #

Flash: Podfolio — portfolio site in the style of an iPod #

Blockbuster drops late fees — if later than a week, you buy it (via) #

Scott Upton's incredible Javascript slideshow — who needs Flash? (via) #

A Cleaner, Safer America — the rest of Asher's comics are good, also (via) #

Newsweek on "A-list" bloggers — funny, none of those people are on my A-list (via) #

NYT's Year in Ideas — great snapshot of the entire year (via) #

Shopping for games in Osaka — it makes EB Games look pretty pathetic (via) #

PubSub's LinkRanks — blog popularity tracking; waxy.org is #215 today (via) #

C-Span's Digital Future series — Brewster Kahle is on tomorrow, Lessig and others coming up #

Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence CD lyrics — when you start moderating content, you become liable for it #

Found box of vintage film from 1958 — purchased at an estate sale, and posted on Flickr #

Clickable Culture on the Marqui pay-for-blogging campaign — mixing advertising with content is always bad, even for individuals #

Programmers dissect Dice.com's bad advertising pseudocode — compare to these billboards by EA Canada and Google (via) #

Kamiel Proost's money art — painting on $1 bills, more here #

First letter suggestions for Google Suggest — typing "p" returns "paris hilton" (via) #

What's That Song?, infinite music quiz — brilliant use of the Amazon API; they also made Amazon Card Wars (via) #

Dan Gillmor leaves the San Jose Mercury News — to work on a grassroots journalist project #

Google Suggest beta — real-time autocompletion of search keywords as you type (via) #

Google's secret data center in Georgia — or: how to turn "no comment" into 650 words #