Shopping for games in Osaka — it makes EB Games look pretty pathetic (via) #

PubSub's LinkRanks — blog popularity tracking; waxy.org is #215 today (via) #

C-Span's Digital Future series — Brewster Kahle is on tomorrow, Lessig and others coming up #

Wal-Mart sued over Evanescence CD lyrics — when you start moderating content, you become liable for it #

Found box of vintage film from 1958 — purchased at an estate sale, and posted on Flickr #

Clickable Culture on the Marqui pay-for-blogging campaign — mixing advertising with content is always bad, even for individuals #

Programmers dissect Dice.com's bad advertising pseudocode — compare to these billboards by EA Canada and Google (via) #

Kamiel Proost's money art — painting on $1 bills, more here #

First letter suggestions for Google Suggest — typing "p" returns "paris hilton" (via) #

What's That Song?, infinite music quiz — brilliant use of the Amazon API; they also made Amazon Card Wars (via) #

Dan Gillmor leaves the San Jose Mercury News — to work on a grassroots journalist project #

Google Suggest beta — real-time autocompletion of search keywords as you type (via) #

Google's secret data center in Georgia — or: how to turn "no comment" into 650 words #

Video: New "Willy Wonka" trailer — most unnecessary remake since Gus van Sant's Psycho (via) #

John Romero posts early Daikatana history — including a free ROM of the unreleased Gameboy Color version (via) #

Sensory and Motor Homunculus — models of the male body distorted in proportion to brain activity (via) #

Apple breaks ties with Netscape — Apple switches the default Netscape for Mac homepage (via) #

GTK-Wimp — make GTK apps look like native Windows programs (via) #

Wired News on Flickr — nothing new here, but I got quoted a couple times #

Former Pantera guitarist killed on stage — Dimebag Darrell was gruesomely murdered #

The Onion's Best Albums of 2004 (via) #

Marvel sues City of Heroes — Fred von Lohmann on the copyright infringement case #

Blog the Caveman, comic book character from a 1959 issue of "Lois Lane" — brilliant find; Joey has a download of the entire book (via) #

Customize your iPod graphics — including a gorgeous dump of all fonts and images on the iPod (via) #

Feds raid D.C. gaming stores for modded Xbox consoles — flagrant stupidity got them shut down; Boing Boing has reader comments about it (via) #

Google auto-corrects the Jews — I expect someone to call Google anti-semitic any minute (via) #

Abandoned baby advocate wins $27m lottery — the last few paragraphs of this story are heartbreaking (via) #

DJ Riko's "Whistler's Delight" mashup and contest — 22-song mashup of songs with whistling; I could only name eight of them (via) #

Jazz, Funk, Soul, Disco joints sampled in House, Hip-hop, and others — MP3 clips of each; their plundered covers page is great, too (via) #

PVR Blog interviews TiVo's director of user experience — as Matt said, don't just read the news, make it #

Flickr Flashlight Challenge — dot the i #

Disney's War Against the Counterculture — history of the Air Pirates Funnies Mickey Mouse copyright case (via) #

The Haugheys are having a baby girl! — Greg Knauss should donate Metababy.com to them #

Engadget howto on podcasting random web videos to a Portable Media Center — using iPodder, Blogdigger, and WMP10 or Doppler #

Lik-Sang's Sony PSP hands-on review — load times are awful, but the memory stick may make homebrew gaming easy #

The 6 Myths of Creativity — fear, money, competition, and deadlines all stifle creativity (via) #

Thunderbird 1.0 released — it felt clunky last time I tried; time to try again, I guess (via) #

Re-Ment's miniature Japanese foods — their official site is great too, but in Japanese #

Sushi Pillows — may you dream of raw fish #

Engadget on iPod Flash rumor — there's a realistic mockup, but it feels like a fake to me #

Sony PSP tunneling works great — unlike the Gameboy DS, the PSP uses open standards for wireless networking! (via) #

Video: Science World's "Boardroom Kissing" commercial — more about the campaign #

Massive hands-on review of the Playstation Portable — with tons of videos and photos (via) #

Half-Life Saga Story Guide — some outstanding speculation and research here for any fan of the series #

Mashing for Beginners — mash-up tutorial with Tracktion, but applies to other software too (via) #

Google Adsense adds URL channels for tracking stats — track clickthrough traffic from individual webpages #

Generate Sparklines in PHP — I'm sure I'll find a use for this someday (via) #

Ask Mefi's top albums of 2004 — a good list that points to this Mefi member's great list; see also #

Wired on Pew Internet's poll of musician opinions on digital music — the 3,600 musicians surveyed embrace the Web and 36% support legalizing P2P; view the full report (via) #

Google blocking new groups with "blogger" in the name/e-mail — are they trying to lay claim to the generic term "blogger"? (via) #