Howto: PSP 2.0 to 1.5 downgrade — at least until homebrew can run under the 2.0 firmware #

eDonkey P2P network to close under Grokster ruling — following the closure of WinMX last week (via) #

Harvey Danger releases new album as DRM-free MP3s — I'm surprised more indie artists haven't done this (via) #

TGIF, the Ballad of Jesse Frederick — obsessive tribute to the guy who wrote the "Full House" theme, with tons of MP3s #

Rollyo — create custom searchrolls, powered by Yahoo search #

JotSpot Live — real-time collaborative text editor, like SubEthaEdit for the web #

Video: The Shining trailer, remixed — one of the best video clips I've seen all year; local mirror (via) #

NYT on the rent/buy debate — in California, it's far more cost-effective to rent these days #

Video: Napoleon Dynamite ads for Utah State Fair — I'm not a fan of the movie, but these are great #

MySQL 5.0 release candidate available — finally, shutting up other DB zealots about views, stored procedures, and triggers (via) #

Wikipedians edit Esquire article — the before and after will be published in an upcoming issue (via) #

Jen Carlson asks indie bands if they'd appear on The O.C. — poor, poor Lou Barlow (via) #

CNET talks to Google CEO about search engine size — notable only because Google apparently lifted their CNET ban #

iTunes Music Video Gate — paste in an iTunes music video link, get the unrestricted Quicktime download; with an XML feed of new videos #

Video: Everybody Hates Chris season premiere — Google Video legally hosts the first episode of Chris Rock's new sitcom #

How to download complete music videos from iTunes — great quality Quicktimes #

Cameron Marlow joins Yahoo Research Berkeley — Simon Willison joined Yahoo last week, too #

Penny Arcade on the SkyMall catalog — cover up unsightly snakes #

Armed dolphins released into Gulf of Mexico? — oddball Katrina story reported by the Guardian UK (via) #

DragonCon costume photo gallery — dear Lord, that's a lot of crazy cosplay #

WordPress' plans to incorporate put on hold — and their reported first employee no longer involved #

Rock Paper Scissors 15 — insane RPS variation with 105 outcomes #

Madden 2006 bug shrinks player to 7 inches tall — careful not to squish him (via) #

Six Apart's Project Comet — more on their new hosted blogging service from Mena #

BitTorrent raises $8.75 million funding — isn't this like investing in FTP or HTTP? #

Flash: Hyper Frame — addictive rotating 3D maze game (via) #

Video: Review of the POPStation Portable — a PSP clone that plays very differently from the real thing (via) #

Slashdot's CSS redesign goes live — still ugly, but much cleaner source #

Jet Blue disabled showed DirecTV during problem flight — CNN corrects the earlier incorrect report #

Kevin Burton announces TailRank, his new startup — ranking system for weblogs, posts, and people #

Ziff-Davis buys Gametab — congrats to my favorite gaming meta-news site (via) #

High school band plays DJ Shadow's Endtroducing — now mirrored at Archive.org; direct download #

Andrew Raaff's roundup of legal reactions to the Google Print lawsuit — amazing set of analysis on both sides; I'm strongly in Google's camp here #

Indie Rock Fantasy League — I'd love to see which bands scored the best/worst for this year #

Steve Jobs says OS X pirates will burn in hell — the road to hell is paved with bootleg software #

The Music of New Orleans — a brief aural history sampler with MP3s #

Video: Adult Swim on Frogger — short and funny; 1.8 MB #

Mini-Microsoft — anonymous blogger dishes dirt from within Microsoft as they try to reinvent themselves #

Video: Grandaddy's "Jed's Other Poem" — don't miss this one; fan-made video programmed on an Apple ][+ #

Loomia, podcast and videocast search engine — another Odeo competitor #

Populicious is back — yay! #

Google Secure Access beta — Windows client for secure wifi through a Google VPN; privacy issues ahoy (via) #

Plague strikes World of Warcraft — contagious disease infects players, leading to quarantines and panic #

Flash: JCB Song — from the brilliant animator of Low Morale's Creep video (via) #

Adam Kempa obsesses on comic artist Jason Shiga — great collection of links, with original video #

Lost Garden on the Nintendo Revolution — long and fascinating read about genre specificity and casual gaming #

Video: Nintendo Revolution controller teaser — huge gameplay possibilities #

How We Got Engaged — Dave and Raina's adorable collaborative comic (via) #

Onlife for OS X — fascinating tool to visualize and search all your computer activity #

Video: Fabulous Secret Powers — nice retro homepage, too #