During these wintry months, I like to stay-in—away from the ice, snow, sleet, frigid temperatures, holiday shoppers and bad drivers—to knock-down and blow-up things … on my PS2, that is! Here’s an end-of-year list of my favorite video game moments-of-zen:

• Jak 3
• Ratchet and Clank 3: Up Your Arsenal
• Katamari Damacy
• We Love Katamari
• Lego Star Wars

Hmmn, Yahoo just added del.icio.us to its acquisitions, which includes Flickr and Upcoming, among others. Google holds Blogger, Earth, Picasa and (so much) more. “Begun the (Social Software) Clone Wars has?”

I find those self-playing song files on most myspace.com pages to be annoying as hell — yet another reason I consider it the vast middle school of the internets. “Dood, this song iss SO [crunk/sick/sweet/dope/whack/smooth/hawt] Ima gonna MAKE ya listen ta it! Wha?” Nevermind I’m—like most visitors—already listening to something. Newbie homepage design tip: Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should; think about the user. “Wha?” Alternate, make-lemonade-out-of-lemons tip for the rest of us: open several myspace homepages across multiple browser tabs for your own poorman’s megamix! ROTFLOL!

I should have known it would take someone like Ricky Gervais (The Office, Extras) to get me to subscribe to my first podcast. I love how Gervais and comedy partner Stephen Merchant banter, wisecrack and scream with their deadpan producer, Karl Pilkington: Ricky Gervais podcast at Guardian Unlimited.