What the food looks like in business class. Not everybody eats peanuts and drinks three ounce cups of Sprite. That meal, six extra inches of seat room in all directions, and a better looking flight attendant will set you back at least a few hundred dollars. It's a great deal when it's not your money.

A t-shirt blog. Links to cool ass t-shirts from around the web. It's just getting off the ground, but it's already full of cool stuff. This is so necessary; t-shirts move fast and reflect the flavor of the day, anything but blog publishing would be too slow to disseminate the information. And the url is great.

Aside: what the hell is with all the "beta" stuff everywhere (gmail, flickr, and now Preshrunk). Months and months and months of "beta" status. They may as well throw up little "under construction" graphics everywhere. Nothing is ever finished with technology; ditch the beta baloney.

The New York Times ethicist in residence, Randy Cohen, weighs in on porn at the library in this week's column. Pretty solid, I think. You don't want libraries restricting access to information, and there are filters in place for younger surfers. (via Julis' blog)

Of course this all made me think back to Kelly's street justice resolution and smile. You go girl.

Donations to tsanami relief effort:
Most Powerful Person in the World*: $10,000
Sandra Bullock: $1,000,000

* This means GWB, who is the only president in history (or at least, since the US president could be considered the most powerful person) that might require this asterisk.

Last year, I started paying attention to the lists of good stuff that the critics like to write around this time and I found a lot of cool music I had missed. So, I thought it would be good to collect a list of lists again this year. If you find one, send it over and I'll update the post. Obscure lists are welcome.

Music and Movie Lists

• The Onion A.V. Club, Best Albums of 2004
  (thanks, hudge)
• Favorite Music at What Do I Know
• George Kelly talks music and movies, list-style
• Music from Matt Jacobs
• Top 30 Albums, ranked by Metascore at Metacritic.com (a list of the best movies is up too)
• Roger Ebert publishes his thoughts on the best of 2004 (he also has a worst list at the bottom of the post)

Reading Lists

• The NY Times, 100 Notable Books of the Year
• The Economist, Feet Up, Volume Down
• Strategy + Business, Best Business Books 2004
• Best Software Essays of 2004, Joel Spolsky

Other Lists

• The NY Times, The Year in Ideas
• Kottke's Best Links of 2004
• Kottke's favorite weblogs of 2004
• Right Wing News lists its 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes of 2004