- The Kogasnake's experience of Black 5am Friday in the Valley was alot like ours in Hollywood (above): lots of people, lots of cars, not much parking - blogging.la

- Wal*Mart's website crashed this morning, er, was down due to "scheduled maintenance" - Search Engine Journal

- Tawney Kitaen allowed cops into her house and forgot to stash the 15 grams of coke. Is 15 grams alot? She could end up in the slammer for 3 years - Reuters

- Is the LA Times an echo chamber for the enemy in Iraq? - Patterico

- Hack your Zune to be an external USB hard drive - Engadget

- Will Sam Raimi direct "The Hobbit"? *fingers crossed* - bitofnews.com

- Idiot PS3 scalper stands in line for 40 hours, puts together package that includes 2yr warrantee and 7 games, puts it on eBay and accidentally lists it as 99 cents BUY IT NOW. one word: bwaahahahahahahahahaha - ebay

- Shiniest car ever - BMW Quebec