Craig Robinson's What If? — illustrated with Minipops (via) #

PS2 brute force hacking of GTA San Andreas cheat codes — he connected his PS2 controller to his PC to step through every button combo #

Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers fan fiction — Mikester says, "No slash, I think, I hope." (via) #

Moistworks MP3 blog shut down by British RIAA — they contacted the host directly to shut them down; some commentary about the closure (via) #

Drunk Men Work Here's Blacklist log — an automated list of scumbag comment/Trackback spammer activity on DMWH's random weblog service #

EA teams up with ESPN for sports games — after the exclusive NFL deal, this clinches their monopoly on sports gaming #

Image: Katamari Damacy cosplay — damn, I was hoping they'd dress up like the King of All Cosmos (via) #

Technorati Tags — turn MovableType extensions to Technorati tags #

Overriding site-wide CSS styles at the page level with PHP — a nice hack #

Dream World, Thailand's cheap Disneyland knockoff — complete with fake Space Mountain, Fantasyland, and bootleg Disney gift shop (via) #

MP3: Nina Gordon's "Straight Outta Compton" — some other offbeat covers on her official site (via) #

Patrick Nielsen Hayden criticizes Boing Boing's "Copyright Communist" parody propaganda — outstanding comments by Cory Doctorow, Charlie Stross, and more (via) #

Marcus Arnold aka "LawGuy1975," dead at 19 — AskMe.com's #1 legal expert at age 15, he was featured in Michael Lewis' Next (via) #

Spam Assassin plugin for MovableType — very neat (via) #

Will you still need me, will you still feed me? — my mom overhears a conversation #

Technorati introduces tag searching — searches Flickr, Delicious, and category-tagged blog posts (via) #

BayTSP's FirstSource anti-piracy software targets first uploads — find the first instance of a file online, verify it, and capture the IP addresses of the initial seeders #

Blogpulse charts of blogger meals — "breakfast" and "dinner" references go up every Sunday, while "lunch" references go down #

Ocean-related keywords recede and then sharply rise after Indian Ocean tsunami — blog keyword frequency as a strange, but coincidental, predictor of tsunami activity (via) #

Jennifer Garner's Awesome Great Workout Mix! — I'm not sure what's worse, her comments or her taste in music (via) #

Gizmodo grills Bill Gates about his copyright communist remarks — read his earlier remarks for some background (via) #

A World of Invisibilia — photos with the people replaced by line drawings (via) #

Pac-Man Game Over — game ova, holla #

iTunes update breaks anti-DRM Hymn utility, again — and JHymn has the workaround and recovery procedure (via) #

Joey DeVilla's guide to writing interactive fiction with Inform — this is an impressive overview with tons of great references #

Blizzard orders World of Warcraft pulled from shelves? — the rumor is their servers can't handle the insane growth and demand (via) #

Gamasutra's excellent overview of emulating the Atari 2600 — it's one of the hardest and most CPU-intensive to emulate (via) #

Waxy Links Statistics — here's the background, for those of you that don't read the main weblog #

Hong Kong makes first file-sharing arrest — he should've been arrested for bad taste #

NYT on the style guidelines of Google AdWords — Google reviews and edits text ads for spelling, grammar and clarity (via) #

Google Mini — hopping on the "mini" bandwagon with a $5k Google search appliance (via) #

Video: Bizarro iPod World — very, very weird (via) #

First issues of JPG Magazine released — Derek and Heather go print and bring Flickr users with them (via) #

Harvard Crimson interviews Think Secret's Nick Ciarelli about Apple lawsuit — Apple is suing the formerly-anonymous 19-year-old Harvard freshman (via) #

TKPal plugin for MovableType — easy micropayments at the post level with MT, Paypal, Typekey, and PHP (via) #

Wired's Top 10 Vaporware of 2004 — topping the list is Longhorn, CherryOS, and the Phantom console #

Comic: Derek Kirk Kim's "Same Difference" — All Things Considered just interviewed him #

Making ASCII stereograms with Javascript — my eyes hurt (via) #

Video: The Uncle Liam Show — Liam Lynch's music video for his nephew Arlo's first birthday #

Beatles Anomalies — obsessive list of Beatles oddness; see also, background noises in Led Zeppelin songs (via) #

Del.icio.us Inbox is back — one of my primary sources of linkage is back (via) #

Hacker penetrates T-Mobile systems, fails to notify customers — he monitored Secret Service e-mails, and took cam photos from Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, and Paris Hilton (via) #

Guardian Angel bags — handbags built with the outline of a gun or knife; laptop bags with the outline of groceries (via) #

Justin Frankel's Assniffer for Windows and Linux — network sniffer that automatically saves files of transferred data #

Early '90s Predictions Database — 4,200 predictions made between 1990-1995; also, some new predictions (via) #

Justin Hall stops publishing Links.net? — this was his last entry, also found in the source code of his homepage (via) #

OJR on tsunami video hosting on blogs — organized mirroring is great, but isn't BitTorrent a better long-term solution? #

iPod shuffle differences between US and UK — apparently, we eat gum in the US, while the Brits chew it #

Decentralized BitTorrent with Kenosis — more information in the Slashdot thread (via) #

Verizon blocking e-mail from the UK — as an ISP, Verizon has a responsibility not to have any false positives (via) #