Make a nice tree-looking sculpture out of the drives, usb cables and glue, then put one wave file on each drive. Each wave file should be one note of the holiday song of your choice. Then write a script to play each note in sequence so the flashdrive leds blink as each note is accessed. Put the video on youtube and proceed to think of anything other than giving someone a low-capacity flashdrive as a gift containing something you could just as easily have emailed.

Or make them all get together to hear the "secret message" (ultimate weapon?), sending one person a pile of usb hubs and cable and the script.

It's in here: http://www.last.fm/legal/terms

If you read the Terms of Use when uploading, you basically give Last.fm the right to do ANYTHING:

"When you upload Your Upload Information via the Website, you irrevocably grant to Last.fm, its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, and partners, without any credit or compensation to you, a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, unrestricted, irrevocable, royalty-free and fully transferable, assignable and sub-licensable right and licence to use, reuse, modify, adapt, alter, display, archive, publish, sub-license, perform, copy, reproduce, disclose, transmit, communicate to the public, post, sell, translate, create derivative works of, distribute, make and export Your Upload Information (in whole or in part), or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, software or technology of any kind now known or developed in the future, for any purposes whatsoever including, without limitation, for advertising, marketing, publicity and promotional purposes, such as developing, manufacturing and marketing products and targeted advertisements using such Uploaded Information. You hereby waive any moral rights (or any similar rights in any jurisdiction) you may have in and to any of Your Upload Information, even if such material is altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you."

It is very cool of you to care for a friend's well being, take the 90% of these "fend for yourself" posts with a grain of salt.

We all have things in life that we want to spend all our time doing. What is most important is that we choose something healthy, something that benefits the world around us. At the very least and for the sake of mental health, our endeavors should benefit our future lives.

The best you can do is be a positive influence. Talk about your life outside of home whenever you can. Talk about girls, projects you're involved in, parties, music.
If you have any good lady friends tell them the situation, that you have a good friend in disconnection peril and want to help. It's a noble and selfless cause; women can be great company for such things. Try to get him to hang out when you're out with her and her friends. Sometimes just spending time with the opposite sex can get you off your ass and caring about your body/mind health again.

A good girlfriend can be a great way to clear yourself of addiction. But the most important thing you can have and the thing that will eventually help maintain a healthy relationship is self confidence. A first step is exercise. Try to plan some outdoor things with mutual friends. Organize a kickball game, get out a frisbee; hell, anything to get the blood moving other than video game-induced adrenaline and Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

In the end the best thing you can do is be his friend. Talk to him whenever possible, don't abandon him. If he's flunking out or missing work then drastic measures may be in order. Otherwise all you need to do is show him the path; leave it up to him to walk it.

Or just take a sharp object and destroy the lens, maybe even pry it out.

Seriously, if you never use it it's just bling.

And a universally delivered mood stabilizer makes for a conveniently complacent population.

Get your propaganda goggles on for this one.

At least they say it's designed for MP3 players.
If they're trying to push "HD" video as a standard than why not "HD" audio? Oh wait, they'll call it something like digital paper extreme HD 3D surround that makes you forget why you asked if it sounds good.

I smell a new routing protocol that redirects traffic to the cold parts of the world

Also from TFA: "Separate research shows that when ice shelves are removed, the glaciers and landed ice behind them start to move towards the ocean more rapidly. It is this ice which can raise sea levels, but by how much is a matter of ongoing scientific debate."

There's also eustatic sea level rise due to the thermal expansion of sea water (less ice = warmer water)

Gmail is the ultimate captive audience for targeted advertisements, which I'm brings in significant revenue. Not to mention it hooks you in on the paid-for apps bundle.

Next up: Microsoft donates Encarta to Wikipedia (sans the staff)

Basing a business model on profit (needs of the few) vs people benefit (needs of the many) is at the core of the current economic crisis.

It not much different than the RIAA attacking it's customers, except here Shell is slowly killing us while still making obscene profits.

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No wonder his mind is warped

As an independent artist I was considering joining your service until I read this (from the lastfm.com Terms of Use):

When you upload Your Upload Information via the Website, you irrevocably grant to Last.fm, its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, and partners, without any credit or compensation to you, a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, unrestricted, irrevocable, royalty-free and fully transferable, assignable and sub-licensable right and licence to use, reuse, modify, adapt, alter, display, archive, publish, sub-license, perform, copy, reproduce, disclose, transmit, communicate to the public, post, sell, translate, create derivative works of, distribute, make and export Your Upload Information (in whole or in part), or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, software or technology of any kind now known or developed in the future, for any purposes whatsoever including, without limitation, for advertising, marketing, publicity and promotional purposes, such as developing, manufacturing and marketing products and targeted advertisements using such Uploaded Information. You hereby waive any moral rights (or any similar rights in any jurisdiction) you may have in and to any of Your Upload Information, even if such material is altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you.

It is a truly sad day when an artist forfeits the rights to their art with no compensation or guarantee of credit whatsoever. As your service relies on the creations of others, I recommend a Creative Commons license. Respect the artist and they will respect you.