Gameboy DS set for $149 on Nov. 21 — also: the tiny PStwo set for $149 on Nov. 1 (via) #

First Nintendo DS commercial in Japan — also: nice wallpaper and a nice shot of the Developers Hardware (via) #

"I Found Some of Your Life" is gone — I suspect it's partly because of this excellent net research #

Emulation and the Video Game Industry, A White Paper (via) #

Wired on Kahle vs Ashcroft — saving orphaned works still under copyright (via) #

Projecting Middle-Earth onto a map of Europe (via) #

Slate dissects how Ali G keeps conning his famous guests — vague memos, fake websites, and fake companies (via) #

CoolGov — new blog of interesting info culled from official US government sites (via) #

Wikipedia hits 1 million articles — very impressive (via) #

Katamari Damacy for sale starting Tuesday — and at only $20, it's a steal #

Doom III demo released — 461 megs seems excessive for a trial version of anything #

The Kleptones, "A Night at the Hip-Hopera" — one of the best mashups ever created, local mirror (via) #

Visual history of one user's spam — excellent charts from 1997 to present (via) #

Jon Udell's badass bookmarklet to search library books via Amazon — Santa Monica people can use Sirsi and this base URL #

Paul Smith's Typewriter Art — some of the earliest ASCII art, I bet (via) #

Instant Replay Binocular — brilliant idea, if a flawed implementation (via) #

Video: Pepsi Can Fu — from this very good TV commercial blog (via) #

Google Answers on nerds in pop culture — from Woody Allen to Ken Jennings #

Torrone's howto on tagging photos with GPS coordinates — another step in documenting your every move #

Video: Willful Infringement, Mickey and Me — documentary of a video store owner's copyright battle against Disney, and many other similar stories (via) #

Screenshots of "Wanda and the Collossus," the Ico pseudo-sequel — IGN has more details about the game (via) #

Sony launching smaller PS2 next week (via) #

Spread Firefox campaign passes 720,000 downloads, with 7 days left — G4TechTV has the lead with over 17k referred downloads (via) #

Galactic Conquest, amazing Star Wars mod for Battlefield 1942 — look at those screenshots! (via) #

Ask Mefi thread about the history of scientific discovery — some very thought-provoking comments (via) #

Rat Haus Reality, odd rat-sized houses — rodents of unusual size (via) #

I Found Some of Your Life — blogger finds digicam memory card, posts photos online with fictional narration (via) #

The Jig Is Up  #

Rock stacking street art  #

Baby names for bloggers — these are almost as bad as the LOTR baby names #

Homeless use Internet to stay connected — I like that the ex-con geek has "LYNX" tattooed across his knuckles (via) #

Rave parties in City of Heroes MMORPG — I love the idea of superheroes dancing in abandoned warehouses #

Update on the underground Parisian movie theatres — an interview with the group behind the catacomb hacks (via) #

Imvu, Will Harvey from There.com's new avatar-based instant messenger — with hundreds of accessories for sale, naturally (via) #

9/11 tributes in Second Life virtual world — including this unusual recreation #

Downhill Battle's "Three Notes and Runnin'" remix contest — get creative to protest the insanely dumb recent court ruling on samples (via) #

Google Labs Aptitude Test — Michael scanned in the whole thing #

SIPshare, true P2P app over SIP — building a Skype alternative with open standards (via) #

Half-Life 2 release candidate sent to Vivendi — it's going gold any day now #

Popover ads in newspapers  #

Antigeist on the definition of chivalry — reminds me of this classic first date net.lore (via) #

Suprnova blocks external links to torrents — plus, they're blindly blocking requests without a referer (via) #

Atari ST emulated on the Dreamcast  #

Bic pens illegal under DMCA — what if the DMCA applied to analog devices? #

Video: ASCII Bush — Bush Jr. and Sr.'s State of the Union speeches rendered in ASCII and robot voice #

European cigarette commercials by American directors — David Lynch, the Coen brothers, Roman Polanski, Wim Wenders, and Robert Altman #

Video: Slowtron's "How to BBQ A Man" — end of summer silliness courtesy of Coudal #

New U.S. nickel design — heads on money are getting bigger and bigger (via) #

Google's 1999 hardware — how quaint! (via) #

Virtual Window project — fake LCD windows, a la Back to the Future 2 (via) #