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) #

Five Mistakes Band & Label Sites Make — Merlin designed the very nice site for the Long Winters (via) #

American Mr. Driller DS missing Japanese features — crippled multiplayer mode requires a US game cart for every player (via) #

Half-Life 2 speed run in under 3 hours — spoiler-rich 660MB download (via) #

Flash: Visual explanation of Coltrane's "Giant Steps" — look at all the pretty lights! #

Introduction to the Becker-Posner Blog — first blog authored by either a Nobel Prize winner and a federal judge (via) #

Sony's terrible PR commenting on Sony v. Kottke — one journalist posts her phone conversation (via) #

Salon's success story with gated content and day passes — they're making $2m/year in subscriptions and $.5m/year in ad sales (via) #

NYT Magazine cover story on viral marketing — a good companion piece to watching The Persuaders (via) #

Woody Allen puts Mickey Mouse on the witness stand — silly fan fiction for the New Yorker (via) #

Adrian's Links via Feedster extension for Firefox — some innovative, but potentially litigious, new work #

Skeletal systems for cartoon characters — his other work is very good, as well; temporary local mirror #

Small firmware requests for the Nintendo DS — someone should send this great list to Nintendo #

NetZero parodies AOL's obnoxious new ad campaign — compare the AOL ads and NetZero's parodies (via) #

Red Herring on Sony's legal threats against Jason Kottke — Calacanis is calling for a Sony boycott (via) #

Le Monde offers blogs to their readers — one of the first newspapers to do so (via) #

Startup company paying prominent bloggers $800/month to blog about them — impressive roster organized by Marc Canter, but not everyone thinks this is a good idea #

eBay adds "Want It Now" feature to request items to buy — they buried it on their site, but here it is (via) #

Nintendo DS hackers tunnel Pictochat over the Internet — they managed to tunnel the Metroid DS demo, too! (via) #

Correction: Bill Gates gets 4 million spams per year, not per day — Ballmer got it wrong (via) #

The Spread of Weighted Lists — interesting visualization, but readability suffers in some cases (via) #

fi5e's Graf Analysis Project — I'd love to see an entire site dedicated to this effort (via) #

Rands interviews Joshua Schachter about Del.icio.us — not surprisingly, this is on the Delicious Most Popular (via) #

Google CFO calls ad click fraud the biggest threat to the Internet economy — it seems nearly impossible to stop completely (via) #

Guardian UK critics attack the musical greats — it's like the Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game for pretentious critics; they take on the movies, too #

Leonard's Flickrer, automatic Flickr uploading with Perl — made possible by the excellent Flickr API #

Search engines for handwritten documents — there's an explanation and demo on the UMass site (via) #

The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time — I like "A Canadian Christmas with David Cronenberg" (via) #

Video: Japanese demo of Band Brothers, multiplayer music game for the Nintendo DS — jam with up to 8 people, one person per instrument (via) #

Boing Boing's web stats — 13 million pageviews last month #

Smash Up Derby, live mashup cover band — clever idea, but the vocals sound too karaoke (via) #

First-hand account of a NYC subway fire — a blogger citizen journalist was actually on the train yesterday (via) #

The correlation between politics and OS/browser choice — visitors to liberal blogs more likely to use non-Microsoft products #

Dot-com instigator Henry Blodget writes about himself — he calls himself a short-sighted moron #

Metafilter Stats updated through Nov 2004 — November was a huge month for Mefi's growth #

Slashdot users review Flickr — and spectacularly miss the point, in endless ways #

Wired on the open-source metaverse projects — they're trying to develop an open equivalent to Second Life (via) #

"Exploding Mouse" t-shirt — can Disney sue for a deconstructed Mickey Mouse image? (via) #

Froogle wishlists added to Blogger profiles — that's synergy, people! #

Costco selling Ultracade arcade emulator cocktail tables — 35 games for $2300, a lovely Christmas gift #

Abandonia, abandonware games for DOS — very well-designed site, with an RSS feed and list of most popular games (via) #