In the U.S., it's pretty unusual for mobile phone users to do anything other than talk or take pictures with their phones, and even picture-taking isn't as widespread as you think. But in the coming months and years, look for that to change dramatically. Stage one: Mobile gaming. It won't be like video or computer gaming, because it can't be. Tiny screens, tiny buttons and tiny time frames all limit the cellphone to upstart games like Doom creator John Carmack's "Orcs and Elves," id Software's first new title since "Quake" debuted in 1996. And what else can you do with a cellphone?...

Love them. Everyone should buy their new album and make them smash hit wonders and also see them live and also, like, you know, love them, generally. ...

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Oh how I wish I'd done this, but I didn't. ...

I know I shouldn't laugh at this, but I just can't help myself. ...

I also really admire the guy in back trying to get some work done and/or view some online porn while these guys perform. It's all good. ...

Won't someone please buy this for me so I have something super fun to watch on Christmas morning? I didn't get a tree this year and I don't have any lights to put around the apartment windows and lord knows there's a chance in hell that there'll be any snow on the ground and my XBOX360 is nowhere in sight, so all I want is a cup of hot cocoa with Amaretto and whipped cream and "Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter" in the DVD. If there's a God in heaven, let it be so! ...