Just a quick note: as of today you can run unsigned code on Playstation Portables with the 1.5 firmware. That means emulators and homebrew games can be run from your memory stick -- in the past only the Japanese version of the PSP could do this, and people were going to great lengths to import them. I'm not a PSP expert, so I don't know if all US PSPs have the 1.5 firmware, but at least some do.

This also opens the door to homebrew media players, freeing folks from Sony's proprietary format requirements, and perhaps dooming the manufacturer's ridiculous plan to sell movies in the UMD format. Yes, I know -- there have been articles crowing about what a great success the UMD already is. Nearly 10% of PSP owners have one! Ignore, for a moment, that Sony heavily pushed a bundled offer including a Spiderman 2 UMD with PSP purchase. Well, now enterprising geeks can rip their own DVDs, or download files off the internet. There's no need to buy a tiny, $10 movie disc that will only play in your fancy gameboy.

But take heart, Sony: I predict your 1GB memory stick sales are about to skyrocket.

I'm not much of a runner. The first time I can remember going for a serious, self-motivated, coach-isn't-making-me run was my freshman year in college, when I decided to give the gym across from my dorm a try. After lurching a pathetically slow mile I staggered off the treadmill in a daze. Then my nose spontaneously started to bleed. That pretty much set the tone for my running career.

i have to say, as much as i love the song, the video for spoon's "i turn my camera on" is effin' ridiculous. what the hell is going on? the legs? the crawling on the lawn? the cat on the bed? THE SHOE COMING OUT OF BRITT'S MOUTH? please. try again.

A rainbow over the Human Rights Campaign HQ. Taken on Monday.