100 Things we didn't know this time last year.

Things I didn't need to know about Martha Stewart

How to quit smoking

Firefly's Nathan Fillion is returning to tv

NYTimes' David Pogue on online etiquette

It's US-centric.

"50 Greatest Commercials of the '80's." The descriptions are almost better than the commercials. There's a sequel, too: 50 More ’80s Commercials

List of television shows canceled after one episode (My favorite description was "Heil Honey I'm Home!")

Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense Where wikipedia's best pranks and silliness are archived. Huge section. Also, Sandbox In-sand-ity.

Further proof that real life is stranger than fiction: Optimus Prime. He has a blog!

Lists of Lists of Lists

Fictional Expletives. Fictional Bartenders. Lists of Lists of Fictional Things

List of Films by Gory Death Scene. I didn't check to see if any had Crushing by Elephant.

Unsolved Problems and Problems Solved by MacGuyver, who is a person whose first name is not commonly known.

Cosplay

Songs Featuring Cowbells

Issues addressed in Nip/Tuck This must be a freaky, freaky show...

Hammerspace

Strange Units of Measurement

Video Games considered the Worst Ever

360º QT panoramas from around the world on New Year’s Eve.

BBC Magazine has posted their annual list of “100 things we didn’t know this time last year”

New Year’s prophecies are a risky business.

40 things that only happen in movies.

50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing / Lifehack: Essential Firefox extensions for webmasters

A free version of TurboTax is available online.

Kottke’s best links of 2005

A story I missed from this year... some guy added a javascript worm to his MySpace profile and gained over 1 million ‘friend requests’ in less than 5 hours. The hole has since been fixed. Explanation, articles and code available through the link.

BattlestarGalactica.com has an interview with Ron Moore (contains mild spoilers)


Scientists at a laboratory affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a stem-cell culture medium free of animal cells and used it to derive two new human embryonic stem-cell lines.