Apple to announce mini iPods — 2GB and 4GB models, starting at $100 #

The Future of Adventure Games — is the genre dead? #

Chipmunks' Christmas Song slowed down to normal voices — Duff Man says, oh yeah! #

Boing Boing's traffic stats — about 20k unique visitors per day #

Monster.com adds social networking — the bubble gets bigger #

Basecamp, 37signal's project management suite — launching January, will likely be great #

Alf to get new talk show on Nick at Nite  #

Internet iTunes Registry — like Audioscrobbler for iTunes, with nice stats #

Howard Dean tattoo — it's good to have convictions #

The 8bits of Christmas — holiday chiptunes made on the NES, Vic-20, C-64, Atari 2600, Gameboy, and more #

Huge 6.5 earthquake hits San Simeon, CA — I felt it 200 miles away in L.A., and other people felt it in S.F. #

Neo-Nazi inventor of Sea Monkeys and X-Ray Specs, dead at 77 — Harold Von Braunhut was a strange man #

DVD-Jon acquitted in DeCSS retrial — all sorts of good news lately #

Dave Sim ends Cerebus — the comic started the same year I was born #

On Blogdex exploitability — don't try it, or Cameron will drop bows on your ass #

American Brandstand 2003 — the most popular brands mentioned in the Billboard Top 20 this year #

First-person account of the Saddam raid — follow the hoax debate on Metatalk #

Match.com expands into Friendster territory  #

365 Days Project finishing soon — MP3s will go offline on January 5th #

Mat's story of his S.F. mugging — and the death of San Francisco artist Daniel Price #

Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2003  #

Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools book free on Archive.org — or just read his weblog instead #

Screenshots and Movies from 1989's The Wizard — the female lead is Jenny Lewis, the lead singer of Rilo Kiley! #

Five-film Narnia series to be filmed in New Zealand — with effects by Peter Jackson's Weta Workshop #

Aggregate mood of Livejournal users over time — currently: tired, happy and amused #

Psychotic Minesweeper speed run videos — more on the speed runs homepage #

MUTE, new P2P app protects privacy — routes all search and download traffic through peers, hiding your IP address #

Maciej's essay on the Wright Brothers and their patent war — the patent system has been stifling innovation for 100 years #

Appeals court rejects Net music subpoenas — RIAA can't subpoena ISPs to reveal user info anymore #

Online gamer in China wins virtual property theft lawsuit — spent two years and $1,210 amassing virtual WMD #

Johnny Cash's Desperado, But With Monkeys — exactly what it says #

Knoxville News' Black History coloring book — don't miss MC Hammer, Arsenio, and Billy Dee #

Photos of yesterday's Wright Brothers hack at MIT — see also: other hacks on the Great Dome #

Dodgeit, free receive-only e-mail to an RSS feed  #

Law & Order: The Coloring Book  #

Livejournal adds Atom support — I'll add it to Upcoming.org and this site soon #

Turn your Gameboy Advance into an engine tuner  #

FluxBlog spotlights new MP3s daily — the Zooey Deschanel & Leon Redbone duet from "Elf" is lovely #

Gnewsgroups = Usenet + Gnutella — peer-to-peer mirroring of Usenet newsgroups #

Vonage goes wireless — supplanting the phone companies, one step at a time #

HugeURL — tired of TinyURL and Shorl? make a bigger URL instead #

11 minute Mario Bros 3 was fake — this seemed obvious to me, but fooled others #

PETA to distribute anti-fur flyers to kids — no longer raising awareness, they're only alienating now #

What A Crappy Present — "The company that makes this just sued my friend." #

MagicBikes, mobile wireless access points — they should mount a laptop on the handlebars #

Jack Black's Computerman — the first five episodes, but it's no Heat Vision and Jack #

Amazon: Qwert Iggle — don't miss the product manual PDF #

Gillmore excited about BitTorrent meets RSS — here are a couple torrent feeds for jam band and anime fans #

Frauenfelder on WINKSite's moblog tools for the masses — definitely worth looking into #

Amazon wishlist of stupidly expensive gifts — what's the most expensive item sold by Amazon? #