desktopgaming.com – high resolution wallpapers using background sprites from classic video games. Duck Hunt, Super Mario Brothers and Dual-Monitor SMB 2 make me happy.

This fan-made iPod Mini commercial is pretty sweet.

Thunderbird 1.0 was released today. I don’t know if it’s really the ‘best’ email client out there, but it beats the hell out of Eudora, Outlook, The Bat, and, well…Okay, yeah, it is the best email client out there.

If you’re like me, and I doubt that you are, you grew up with a Sesame Street record player and a stack of 78s from the 50s and 60s. In 2005 you’ll be able to download a kiddie album, one per week, from your pals over at Basic Hip. Kiddie Records Weekly might just reintroduce…

Internet Explorer users are four times more likely to click on web ads than Firefox users. I think a surprisingly high number of people running Firefox also use the Adblock plugin. If there’s no ads to click, there’s no clicks to track!

NetZero throws down the gauntlet and starts broadcasting parodies of AOL’s latest commercials just weeks after they hit the airwaves. Check ’em out!

A federal law that recently passed enables any American to obtain a free copy of their credit report, once per year. If you live in the Western US, you can take advantage of that now and get a copy of your report at AnnualCreditReport.com. While your credit report may be free, you’ll have to pay…

Last night we spent a ridiculous amount of money buying gas logs for our fireplace. Ever since we moved in in 2002, our fireplace has been empty. Completely empty. Oh sure, there’s a gas line in there, but the previous owners never saw fit to actually use the fireplace for anything more than holding candles….

Historically, if you wanted to install a modchip in your PlayStation 2 you needed to solder it to the mainboard with something like 14 individual wires. 14 wires! That’s 14 chances for you to screw something up with a soldering iron. X-Box modchips have for a long time been ‘solderless,’ usually requiring just a clip…

More than a year ago I mentioned Steve Wesson’s attempt to rebuild Tomorrowland’s long-gone Adventure Thru Inner Space in CGI. After two years of working on it, he actually finished. That’s awesome because big internet projects like this never get finished! Anyway it’s done and he’s selling it on DVD for $20. That’s $20 more…