PSP no-swap homebrew loader released — no more swapping memory sticks! huge news for the PSP homebrew scene; more mirrors; how it works (via) #

Google not competing with Paypal — Eric Schmidt said it won't involve direct user-to-user payments (via) #

Flickr Montager — automated photo mosaics using Flickr; it must be hammering their servers, though (via) #

First look at the Nyko Movie Player — plug your iPod into this weird portable video add-on (via) #

YubNub's most popular commands — quite a community has popped up around the Rails Day contest entry #

Flickr banned by United Arab Emirates ISP — the nudity debate on Flickr rages on (via) #

Foxit, freeware Windows alternative to Acrobat Reader — Acrobat sucks so bad, nearly anything else is better (via) #

Reblg, universal "Blog This" button generator — not to be confused with the outstandingly awesome reBlog project (via) #

Playlist Magazine interviews Evan Williams about Odeo — recording in the browser is the best feature, I think #

The Onion 2056 — a special issue transported from the future (via) #

Odeo launches quietly — if you signed up for the announcement, you should get an invite soon #

Lonely Google searchers form ad hoc community — where people that type "i am lonely" into Google find solace (via) #

Typepad integrates Kanoodle text ads for its users — turn on ads, and let the pennies roll in #

Tristan compares how Yahoo and Google index the blogosphere — surprising results: Yahoo is indexing blogs better than Google #

Universal adapting American McGee's Alice game to the screen — starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as the goth Alice in Wonderland, this could be awful (via) #

Video: Tom Cruise Kills Oprah — he's coming after your children next #

Ilya's thoughts on his involvement with the LA Times wiki project — though it failed, this kind of media experimentation should be commended instead of ridiculed #

Bram Cohen slams Microsoft's BitTorrent clone — an entertaining read #

Movie industry cracks down on copyrighted pinatas — fasinating article about L.A.'s homebrew pinata cottage industry (via) #

Snopes on the Ketchup Trousers e-mail — he's rumored to have resigned because of the notorious e-mail forward #

Real Simple's list of product expiration dates — very handy; honey lasts forever (via) #

MIT Weblog Survey real-time results — fill out the survey to view all the lovely charts (via) #

GoDaddy president condones military torture tactics — it's linked from the front page of GoDaddy, too (via) #

AOL blocking all e-mails with Metafilter.com links — part of AOL's antispam blacklist, apparently #

Website Payments Pro — accept website payments without ever redirecting to Paypal (via) #

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town — Cory Doctorow's new book, licensed for reuse and available in multiple formats (via) #

Flash: 3wish — short and lovely adventure games without words #

Howto: Watch BeyondTV video on your PSP — great tutorial for moving any video to the device (via) #

Alcoholix, social software for drunks — and it uses the Upcoming.org API, too #

Interview with creator of Gametap — with tons of high-res screenshots of Turner Broadcasting's upcoming on-demand gaming service; lots of emulated old games (via) #

CommonTunes — a directory of organized, freely-available music #

Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein is back online — hopefully, this will be a bit more permanent mirror (via) #

Xoc's full album of Super Mario World covers — made with diverse instruments; highly recommended (via) #

LA Times removes Wikitorials — they weren't prepared for wiki abuse, apparently (via) #

Yahoo closes user-created chat rooms — related to a lawsuit surrounding ad-sponsored pedophilia chat rooms (via) #

Google to launch Paypal alternative — it'll be hard for Google to compete with Paypal's ubiquity, unless they drop fees (via) #

Roundup of sexy podcasts — every new technology finds an application in porn #

Zellestyle — jewelry made from electronics and computer components (via) #

Eclipse, free and gorgeous Half-Life 2 full conversion — third-person mod built by students in five months of spare time (via) #

Fail Math's Video Game Quiz — fun with the cliche of gritty realism (via) #

Video: Ural 13 Diktators' "Name Of The Game" — excellent 8-bit music video, reminiscent of Junior Senior's Move Your Feet (via) #

Video: Surprise — I won't ruin the ending for you #

Jorn Barger debates with a misguided Wikipedian about the definition of "weblog" — this kind of debate is part of what makes Wikipedia so entertaining #

Microsoft readies BitTorrent alternative — yeah, but BitTorrent is a protocol, not an application #

Clay Shirky on copyrighted cakes — the chilling effect hits a Brooklyn bakery #

Brian Dear on more non-sequiter blog spam — Technorati is inundated with garbage blogs #

Wikipedia Animation bounty up to $150 — code a useful app, make a decent chunk of change #

Livejournal adds tags — the LJ community seems to like it, too (via) #

Onion A.V. Club's roundup of video game-related songs — the Pixies covered the theme song from NARC?! (via) #

Odeo beta screenshots — I got an invite, and the site is nicely done #