HySpace, Hyrule's online friend community — brilliant Zelda-themed MySpace parody, with profiles for each character (via) #

Google outage — DNS for several Google domains goes down; Google News still inaccessible #

Nintendo DS ads in Stuff Magazine — overtly sexual ads conflict with Nintendo's family-friendly image (via) #

Tiny Mix Tapes reviews the new Nine Inch Nails album — best album review ever (via) #

Video: Working Title — animation of 3,100+ movie title screens, spliced together and set to audio (via) #

Barbie USB Drive — disturbing and funny (via) #

What I Would Be Thinking About If I Were Billy Joel Driving Toward a Holiday Party Where I Knew There Was Going to Be a Piano — written by The State's Michael Ian Black (via) #

Upcoming.org gets a wiki — not much there yet, but I'd love some help fleshing it out; feel free to add your feature requests #

Google Web Accelerator wreaks havoc on web applications — since it follows every link on the page, it can cause a huge mess; I should block it on Upcoming.org #

The Onion A.V. Club interviews Ben Folds — the new album is more understated than Rockin' the Suburbs, and it's grown on me (via) #

Flags as infographics — clever and funny (via) #

Greasemonkey: Boing Boing Quiz — the Greasemonkey script game? (via) #

Broadcast Flag struck down by Appeals Court! — "nothing has changed to give the FCC the authority it now claims" #

Tristan Lewis on Google Web Accelerator — the utility may help Google mine the Deep Web, pages that aren't already getting indexed #

Blogger Mobile — post blog entries and photos with MMS (via) #

Google Web Accelerator showing other people's pages — SomethingAwful forums users snapped screenshots of being magically logged in as other users (via) #

Image: Institute of Eastern Studies — excellent logo; see also: SQL Fairy (via) #

New Movie Idea: E.T. — brilliant, it might catch on (via) #

"The Internet" t-shirt on Threadless — references to Goatse, Tubgirl, Domokun kittens, Badger Badger, John Titor, All Your Base, and more #

Creative Commons ends BzzAgent partnership — Lessig has much more commentary on the decision #

Adam Mathes hired by Google — congrats! but does that affect the future of Consumating? #

Soderbergh and Cuban closing the theater-to-DVD release gap — I mentioned this idea in my old entry on the future of movie theaters #

First homebrew code running on the PSP — a Hello World program, and a huge first step in opening up the platform #

Polish circus posters — gorgeous illustration from the late '60s and '70s (via) #

Kronos Projector — scrub parts of video forward and backward in time; don't miss the video (via) #

Linux for the DS working — the kernel's booting and a SASH shell is working (via) #

iPod shuffle captures 58 percent of Flash MP3 player market in six months — and Apple owns 90 percent of the hard drive-based market (via) #

PSP UMD format cracked, game ISOs appear online — don't hold your breath for an emulator any time soon (via) #

SEO Inc. sends a cease and desist to Google Blogoscoped — they have no case, but it's hard to fight even groundless lawsuits; read the Google cached story before it's gone #

Video: Montage of clips from Rosie O'Donnell's TV melodrama — the funniest thing I've seen all year; more details #

Image: Dr. Mario Winamp — drag this image onto Winamp for a surprise; how it works #

Long article on DDoS extortion in the online gambling industry — Eastern European hackers using zombie networks to shut down gambling sites that won't pay (via) #

Loews Theaters to publish actual movie start times — "10 to 15 minutes"? on Sunday, I waited through 20 minutes of commercials and trailers #

Mashup of Google Maps and Yahoo Traffic feeds — even though Yahoo was first, it functions better on Google Maps (via) #

Metababy back online with Typekey logins — launched in November 1998, Metababy was an early cousin to modern wikis but recently taken offline by rampant vandalism #

Roger Ebert and Daniel Woodburn on the derogatory use of "midget" — The Station Agent's Peter Dinklage doesn't agree (via) #

Oberkampf, Flickr-powered PHP photo gallery — very customizable, with nice utility functions (via) #

Protected Storage PassView — Windows freeware utility to decrypt all saved passwords from Internet Explorer and Outlook Express #

Google Web Accelerator for Windows — a Google proxy cache, but like other proxies, will muck with website stats and ad reporting (via) #

Senators who Flickr — the canned copy reminds me of the presidental candidates on Friendster #

NY Observer article on Bob Saget's dirty mind — mentions the Aristocrats joke; I'm still hosting the South Park version (extremely offensive) (via) #

Video: Bright Eyes performs "When the President Talks to God" on Jay Leno — Leno: "great job, buddy!" #

Image: Nine Inch Nails covers Johnny Cash — silly mistake by the Press-Enterprise #

flickRate, enchanced ratings for Flickr photos — the Greasemonkey script integrates the rating function inline #

Azureus decentralizes BitTorrent — nice idea, but doesn't help BitTorrent's image #

Tumbleweed Dispenser on Halfbakery — some other recent favs: Arrggh!, Puzzle Prison, Airplane Seat Guestbooks, Pincushion Ceiling/Floors, and Pedagotchi #

Tear-Away Pringles Canister — Halfbakery is a great source for half-insane ideas; here's my personal view of the last month's top ideas #

37signals' Backpack goes live — brilliant and very flexible web-based PIM, with adding data by e-mail, RSS changes, and a very loose wiki style #

Video: Jon Udell explains simple single sign-ons — using this Javascript MD5 bookmarklet, which could also be a Firefox extension #

Backfence, local community sites — only in two areas of Virginia for now, but I like the community-edited approach #