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Most popular by a landslide, was Mandolux. The site has an extremely simple design, lacking even a search function. The newest wallpaper is displayed on the main page, all previous ones are available on the archive pages.

Earlier today we learned that Apple had decided to allow a new genre of apps into the app store with the release of Pull My Finger, a humorous but simple application that emits predictably nasty sounds whenever users pull on a virtual finger. The application was intitally rejected by Apple, sparking debate over the seemingly [...]

Only the Danish could get away with something like this (but how great would it be to see Amazon do commercials like this). Danish ecommerce site Fleggaard recently made the commercial below. I don’t know if it was shown on Danish television (I’m trying to find out), but I wouldn’t be surprised.

The new Xbox Live Dashboard for Xbox 360s-known simply as ‘NXE’ (the New Xbox Experience)-is live, so fire up your Xbox and get downloading. The update only took a few minutes on my system, is followed by a bombastic welcome video, and is full of all kinds of promise, including support for Netflix Watch Instantly [...]

“The Morning After,” copyright Zina Saunders 2008, from The Party’s Over, a “hilariously scathing visual chronicle of the McCain/Palin presidential campaign. (Via This Isn’t Happiness.)

Ever since video game consoles moved to optical discs, manufacturers and users have battled over backups. Manufacturers fear that if they allow users to burn disc backups, users will download and burn games they haven’t paid for. Users argue that the discs they paid for are so easily scratched and ruined that it’s absurd for [...]

This is a must see for Star Wars fans… Yoda Sunscreen

While not as grandiose as having your own secret bookshelf door, constructing a hidden USB data stash won’t take a whole weekend and involve a table saw. At the DIY website Instructables there is a step by step tutorial on hiding your data behind a phone jack plate.

Handy webapp Cost To Drive estimates how much gas you’ll have to buy to make a given trip in your vehicle. Enter your starting point and destination, then the year of your car, make, and model, and Cost to Drive uses your car’s MPG, the average price of gas, and the distance to estimate the [...]

I love the RIAA. They make sure the hard working bands that record the music we love can still squeak out a living in the face of an ever-growing number of freeloading downloaders. Without them, how many talentless, lip-synching, manufactured performers would be able to afford homes in Orange County and multiple Bentleys?