Top 25 Album Covers of 2003 — also: Tiny Mix Tapes staff top album lists #

Second known photo of Emily Dickinson found on eBay — amazing tale of finding and dating a mysterious purchase #

Barbie, the Intolerance Collection — parodying the eternal Barbie controversy #

Yes.net, real-time radio playlists — someone should write an API for querying this #

WebTV co-founder dies at 39  #

Rex's Blogs of the Year roundup — shucks, I made the list #

Interactive Fiction all-stars release Narcolepsy — download the free multi-platform story/game or read the readme #

Sonata for the Unaware — commuters become generated music, watch the Quicktime demo #

2003 Year-End Google Zeitgeist — also: Yahoo's top searches for 2003 #

Using the Treemap control to visualize weblogs — borrows from the Netscan Usenet mapping project #

Charting the trajectory of 2003's #1 pop singles  #

Security weak at social networking sites — Livejournal, LinkedIn, and Tribe.net respond #

Subtly Simpsons — subtle jokes with accompanying explanations #

Japanese corporate anthem becomes unlikely hit single — We will destroy houses! We will destroy bridges! #

Rich Girls and Silver Spoons comparison chart — yeah, but Ally Hilfiger doesn't have her own video arcade #

Real-time comment previewing with Javascript — very clever #

Elliot Smith's death may not be suicide  #

Kazu Kibuishi's Copper, beautiful web comics — see also: Clive and Cabbage #

TinyURL Roulette — view a random TinyURL #

The Man Behind the Motion — mockumentary about the egos of motion capture #

Tim Berners-Lee gets knighted — Sir Tim should be granted sainthood next #

BitTorrent download traffic for Return of the King  #

George Chen, the Internet Guy — story behind the ubiquitous clip art image #

Pirate Radio in the Barrio — hobbyists bringing sonido music to the Bay Area via microradio #

Social software ideas — Matt's full of ideas, but I like the Epinionster one best #

Ben Affleck is parking in Google's space — more photos here #

USA Today discovers weblogs, again — this story is so awful and error-ridden, I don't know where to start #

Depenguinator — remotely replaces Linux with FreeBSD; a bit scary #

Skewering indie rock's sacred cows — very funny writing #

Al Sacui's new comic thing — more inexplicable nonsense, from the Nosepilot guy #

Cartoons and Social Networks, from 2000 — Sally Forth and Family Circus take on the field of social network analysis #

Man and Dad review the year's hit singles — a lot of rhythmic banging #

Dear Neighbor letter — local kids toilet paper his house, neighbor freaks out #

Metafilter gave Matt a trip to Iceland for Christmas — over $2100 raised, with nice photos #

Detailed views of the PSX internals  #

Background about Chikan, the railroad groping fetish — they even have support groups and hands-on training; here's one guy's journal #

If the Library were like Amazon.com  #

Stark Effect's Mic in Track — setting found audio recordings to music #

Rex's Year in Review keeps growing — the number of best-of lists doubled over the weekend #

1930s-style Cartoon Violence — traumatic events retold in the style of early-1930s cartoons #

Tinygrow, grow a surreal garden — reminds me of Vector Park #

Unpopular boy makes valedictory speech — "A lot of you were jerks" #

MPAA takes a softer approach to movie piracy — they give it 18 months before movie sharing becomes ubiquitous #

Interview with Soulseek's lead programmer  #

eventSherpa, iCal for Windows  #

Bill Hicks bootleg MP3 archive  #

Today is Free Listing Day on eBay — sorry, U.S. only #

Phillip Torrone's Option3 — he took a self-portrait every 30 minutes for three weeks #

Turn your cubicle into a house  #

Brooklyn cop investigated because of his weblog entries — he deleted all the posts on his Xanga site, but Google cached it #