The Spread of Weighted Lists — interesting visualization, but readability suffers in some cases (via) #

fi5e's Graf Analysis Project — I'd love to see an entire site dedicated to this effort (via) #

Rands interviews Joshua Schachter about Del.icio.us — not surprisingly, this is on the Delicious Most Popular (via) #

Google CFO calls ad click fraud the biggest threat to the Internet economy — it seems nearly impossible to stop completely (via) #

Guardian UK critics attack the musical greats — it's like the Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game for pretentious critics; they take on the movies, too #

Leonard's Flickrer, automatic Flickr uploading with Perl — made possible by the excellent Flickr API #

Search engines for handwritten documents — there's an explanation and demo on the UMass site (via) #

The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time — I like "A Canadian Christmas with David Cronenberg" (via) #

Video: Japanese demo of Band Brothers, multiplayer music game for the Nintendo DS — jam with up to 8 people, one person per instrument (via) #

Boing Boing's web stats — 13 million pageviews last month #

Smash Up Derby, live mashup cover band — clever idea, but the vocals sound too karaoke (via) #

First-hand account of a NYC subway fire — a blogger citizen journalist was actually on the train yesterday (via) #

The correlation between politics and OS/browser choice — visitors to liberal blogs more likely to use non-Microsoft products #

Dot-com instigator Henry Blodget writes about himself — he calls himself a short-sighted moron #

Metafilter Stats updated through Nov 2004 — November was a huge month for Mefi's growth #

Slashdot users review Flickr — and spectacularly miss the point, in endless ways #

Wired on the open-source metaverse projects — they're trying to develop an open equivalent to Second Life (via) #

"Exploding Mouse" t-shirt — can Disney sue for a deconstructed Mickey Mouse image? (via) #

Froogle wishlists added to Blogger profiles — that's synergy, people! #

Costco selling Ultracade arcade emulator cocktail tables — 35 games for $2300, a lovely Christmas gift #

Abandonia, abandonware games for DOS — very well-designed site, with an RSS feed and list of most popular games (via) #

Google Blog removed an entry about Google Groups beta — possibly because someone posted a link to Yahoo Groups? #

Val Kilmer Tagging Caper — someone else figured out who's behind it (via) #

Lexis-Nexis's new AlaCarte search — excellent for research, pay only for articles retrieved (via) #

Microsoft launches Spaces, their blogging tool — here's a video demo of it (via) #

Google Groups 2 goes live — I prefer the old interface, but I'll get used to it (via) #

Suprnova moves towards decentralization — they're trying to create a network of torrent trackers #

Early Coachella 2005 lineup listing — Billboard says it's too good to be true (via) #

Largehearted Boy's Best Albums of 2004 — a great list, with legal MP3 downloads for each (via) #

Media Mammon — a stock market simulation for key words and phrases culled from Yahoo News #

Jonathan Franzen on "Peanuts" — also: the Peanuts box set is gorgeous (via) #

Screenshots of the new Netscape prototype based on Firefox — truly ugly, and forces users to choose between IE and Firefox rendering engines (via) #

Chris Ware and Ira Glass collaborated on a DVD/book — Lost Buildings is only available to public radio supporters #

Sony TV forces Jason Kottke to remove Jeopardy spoiler audio and transcript — even though the Washington Post ran the whole thing! #

Blogbox — like Konfabulator widgets for your blog #

Flickr's roundup of celeb photos on Flickr — the wallpaper tag is nice, too #

Rex kicks off his Best of 2004 List of Lists — like last year, this list will get huge; keep checking back #

Katamari Damacy sequel in development (via) #

Google's big secret plans for video search — yeah, Yahoo and MSN are working on it too (via) #

Ask Mefi goes straight to the source — beat that, Google Answers #

New York Changing — then & now photos comparing 1930s to present day (via) #

NY Observer's profile of Pitchfork Media — they get 115k visitors/day, and pay $20 per review (via) #

Zach Braff confronts a critic — my God, his site gets a lot of comments (via) #

Flash: How To Kill a Mockingbird — brilliant and stupid #

Wikinews Demo — looks like a great start, like the Rachelle Waterman murder article (via) #

Hacking Wi-Fi on the Nintendo DS — they're trying to tunnel Pictochat online; more importantly, wireless multiboot from the PC #

G-Man Sightings in Half-Life 2 — it's details like these that make HL2 the best PC game of the year #

Image: Life Before the Internet (via) #

eBay Pulse — like Google Zeitgeist for eBay (via) #

Teenage girl murders her mother — and posts about it on her Livejournal (screenshot) #