Passme, an add-on for the Nintendo DS handheld lets you play homebrew games and ROMs from the Internet; this functionality has been around for the DS's main competitor, the Sony… Read the rest of the article: Nintendo DS add-on lets you play homebrew games and ROMs

Video gamers may have the same mental agility as bilingual people — an ability to swap out one task and bring another online quickly, which is useful in multitasking and… Read the rest of the article: Gamers are as good as bilinguals at solving mental problems

I have no idea what the back-story is behind this guy in a robot suit made out of cardboard boxes standing on the roadside, holding up a sign marked FREE… Read the rest of the article: FREE ROBOT SEX guy in a cardboard suit on the roadside

A leaked video of the new Super Mario Bros game for the Nintendo DS has turned up on YouTube — it looks awesome, retro 2D and lovely (though the footage… Read the rest of the article: Super Mario for the DS — leaked footage

Today on the Worth1000 photoshopping contest: ill-advised children's toys. This is photoshopping at its MAD Magaziniest. Link

A Polish casemodder has built this jaw-dropping Castle Wolfenstein-themed PC, fashioned to look like an old-timey military field radio. Link (via Gizmodo) Update Here's the whole build-log — thanks, Alex!

Johnny Depp will star in an exciting new brand of cinema-inspired breakfast cereal: Pirates of the Caribbean! Link

A woman's been arrested at the Fort Lauderdale airport for attempting to import a dessicated head from Haiti — she said she needed it to protect her from evil spirits.… Read the rest of the article: Woman busted for importing dried human head in luggage

Ray Bradbury has written an editorial for the LA Times calling on the city of Los Angeles to build a monorail network before the city's traffic becomes completely unmanageable. If… Read the rest of the article: Bradbury: LA needs monorails!

Statistical methods have been used to settle the question of wartime atrocities committed by Indonesian forces against the people of East Timor. The island of East Timor (now Timor-Leste) was… Read the rest of the article: How statistics caught Indonesia's war-criminals

The Canadian Red Cross has vowed to devote its resources to pursuing any and every use of the red-cross symbol, even to the point of threatening companies that make first-aid… Read the rest of the article: Canadian Red Cross vows to sue first aid kits, too

Today on Worth1000's photoshopping contest: if Canadians ruled the earth! Link

The Something Awful photoshopping army has spent the day posting an awesome and hilarious collection of Star Wars themed Valentines. Link (Thanks, Bonnie!)

Colm sez, "Following hot on the heels of its UK counterparts, Digital Rights Ireland is now accepting donations via its website. DRI has been extroardinarily active in the short time… Read the rest of the article: Irish digital rights group now accepting donations

Britons who have computers capable of playing DRM-locked Windows Media streams can see episode four of the brilliant new sysadmin sitcom, The IT Crowd, created by Graham Linehan, the comic… Read the rest of the article: The IT Crowd episode four is up for Britons who use DRM

Walt Disney's first successful cartoon character has been repatriated to the Disney company in a bizarre trade with NBC. Early in Walt Disney's career, he had a minor success with… Read the rest of the article: Disney's first character traded for a sports announcer

An Etsy seller called "Bad Lighting" makes these awesome, gruesome lamps out of mutilated baby-doll heads. These are really lovely and reasonably priced at $35 each! Link (Thanks, Chris!)

The Clarion Foundation is the charitable organization that oversees the legendary Clarion science fiction writers' workshop, and it's seeking your help in the form of donated banner-space on your site.… Read the rest of the article: Seeking free banner space for Clarion writers' workshop

A podcast can teach you the fundamentals of information security in small, easily digested weekly chunks. Security Now is a wonderful podcast from Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson, with a… Read the rest of the article: Great information-security weekly podcast

I recently dropped by a meeting put on by NYU's Free Culture chapter — they're the folks who've been staging anti-DRM street demonstrations in front of New York music stores… Read the rest of the article: Free Culture New York documentary