Rael Dornfest's Mobilewhack — weblog about nothing but mobile #

Screenshots of Cocolog, the new Typepad-powered service in Japan — created for Nifty, one of Japan's biggest ISPs #

Top 11 indie albums of 2003  #

SimpleQuiz discussions about semantic markup  #

Back of the new $20 bill — connect the dots to find the secret message #

Japanese bus advertisements  #

Bill Watterson still retired — tantalizing rumor of a Calvin & Hobbes movie #

Ridiculous DSL bill from New Zealand — for only 25GB, a scary glimpse into a metered future #

Slashdot trolling phenomena — Amazingly detailed Wikipedia entry, with many references #

Suggestions to improve Friendster — answers to an MIT exam question #

Acclaim's new billboards ooze fake blood — bloodvertising in the UK #

Mojo Mail vs Mojo Mail — free software forced to change name in dumb trademark dispute #

NYT predicts live and obscure downloads will be big online — it's a huge market, mostly unexploited #

Story behind Paul Ford's Harpers website — Everything is in the Taxonomy #

Digital sundial  #

Nine crazy ideas in science — time travel, two suns, and no big bang #

eBay: Tori Amos book of handwritten lyrics — my wife is lusting after this, the holy grail of Tori collectibles #

Amazing series on San Francisco homelessness — Mat explains the political subtext of the story's timing #

Intricate egg sculpture — pretty intense #

Roy Disney's letter of resignation to Eisner — Big Trouble in Magic Kingdom #

Collection of CNN's awful clip art — my personal favorite #

Veen explains why del.icio.us is so great  #

BitTorrent over DNS — a really bad idea #

Ancient Roman 20-sided die — where's the ancient Roman D&D Monster Manual? #

Super Mario Bros. 1 tricks video — 103MB AVI, exploits every bug in the game #

Penny Arcade on the Japanese release of Medal of Honor: Rising Sun — Gamespot has responses from uncomfortable Japanese gamers #

Seagate predicts $200 terabyte drives in two years  #

Alex the Parrot goes online — those wacky Media Lab guys #

Rick Bain's Pet Sounds tribute — played all instruments and sang every vocal #

Japanese police make first file-sharing arrests  #

Demeter Fragrance Library — smell like creme brulee, dirt, or a laundromat #

Folk-rock band organizing living-room tour online — living-room concerts for small bands seem to be catching on #

Cinemorgue — obsessive collection of actors that die in movies, with screen grabs #

Anonymous Mefi member buys Matt a $1000 camera — he's the new Ghyslain #

Superstar, the Karen Carpenter biopic told with Barbie dolls — download the whole movie #

Origami models of Nintendo characters  #

Quake 3 Trickjumping tutorials  #

Electric Sheep's Thanksgiving special — mmm, GMO turkey #

Matt turning on new user signups for Metafilter — new users will be moderated by a Mefi cabal #

Big Mouth Billy Bass video conferencing — the silliest hardware hacking project of the year #

3D filesystem viewer for Unix — as seen in Jurassic Park, almost #

World's cutest kittens — the original cliche kitty, old but good #

Mighty Morphin Power Bloggers — blame Joi Ito #

More NES speed videos — Contra in 13 minutes, Mega Man 2 walkthrough, etc #

Segway's first hit-and-run — flees the scene after hitting a three-year-old girl #

NYT on Danah Boyd and Friendster  #

Macronaut graphic demo in Flash  #

Smoking advocate testifies, then suffers fatal coronary — to be fair, he was 70 #

DeCSS Jon's response to QTFairUse backlash  #

Making sense of the recent Google update — spam-blocking efforts blow out many commercial sites #