jQuery homepage
Wikipedia page on favicons
my academic home page
Example page for favicon.js. See the favicon page on my blog and post "spice up boring lists of web links – add favicons using jQuery" for more details.
This list with nice icons:
started off just like this list:
The only difference is that the first list has class "favicon-fetch" on each <img> tag and the JavaScript code replaces each image with the corresponding favicon.
View the page source for the details.
Simple :-)