October 2003 - Page 2 of 4

October 24, 2003

eBay affiliates spamming Google — I expect Google to retaliate any day now #

October 23, 2003

"I want to be an engineer… Sex can wait!" — if you're an engineer, you're probably involuntarily abstaining anyway #

Text editor for the Gameboy Advance — interface input optimized for joypads #

Jason Salavon's amazing portfolio — don't miss Song of the Century, Late Night Triad and Every Playboy Centerfold #

Dartmouth's wireless setup and the wireless future — via Matt #

Wired on Amazon's full-text searching and the Internet Archive — possibly the first time Wired has published a story online before printing it #

Bloggers Vol. 1 — I just ordered this Japanese magazine about Mighty Morphin' Power Bloggers #

Mat Honan on latest anti-spam bill — why the Burns-Wyden bill is thinly-veiled pro-spam legislation #

Amazon adds full-text searching of 120,000 books — requires a valid credit card to view pages, though #

Malcolm McLaren on the Gameboy music scene — people are still making MODs, too #

Spin magazine's media kit — PDF, targeting the 25-year-old, $60k/year male demographic #

7th grader's Internet research gets red-flagged by FBI — also: the Transportation Authority are a bunch of squealers #

iTunes 4.1.1 for Windows — "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" preference is now turned off by default #

Florence Lawrence, the first movie star — careers ruined by the introduction of sound in movies #

Why Moreover was an innovator #

October 22, 2003

Fred "Rerun" Berry dead — will he be buried in a red beret? #

16oz Jamba Juice for $1 — Thursday 3-6pm, not really prime smoothie time #

Todd Rundgren commentary on the music industry — argues that labels have mishandled music downloads #

Dave Winer: don't comment on my site — he removed the entry shortly after posting it #

Britta's notes from the Lessig/Rosen debate #

Ann Coulter talking action figure #

Elliot Smith, dead at 34 — so very sad #

October 21, 2003

Leonard's writeup of tonight's Larry Lessig/Hilary Rosen debate — more info, audio should be forthcoming #

New Fiona Apple album due in February — four years in the making #

Webcam Painting Tool — paint with live webcam images around the web #

9/11 Survivor game — morbid Unreal mod lets players escape before towers collapse, Mefi #

ABC's Saturday Morning Fall Preview Special from 1983 — Rubik the Amazing Cube, Pac-Man, and the Monchichis #

Light of Other Days — Slow glass, ten years thick [indirectly via Ming] #

History of Joe Portman Sand Worm Infection #

rssWeather — local weather reports via RSS #

NYT gets a facelift — headlines all in Cheltenham typeface, example #

October 20, 2003

The Inner Lives of Fonts — Aimee Bender's very short stories about typefaces #

This Is the Title of This Story — Self-referential goodness #

Pongomania — fun with modeling clay, via Mefi #

Beanie Baby Meltdown on eBay — or brilliant ruse? it sold for $860 #

Mobile gaming ideas — Ghostbusters for GPS-enabled devices sounds fun #

Statistical Analysis of the World Series — Game 7 occurs much more often than simple probability would suggest #

Outside the Inbox — songs inspired by spam #

Washington Post pulls week of Boondocks comics about Condi Rice — read the pulled strips #

The nTag Sleep Attack — tech conference attendees hack their "smart" badges #

Turn your Nokia cellphone into a Gameboy #

How to render the Segway obsolete — they'll architect cities around it #

Amazing video of Ohio school bus rollover accident — mirror, no serious injuries #

Student fools international newspapers with spoof story — story behind the fake CNN "fellatio cures breast cancer" article #

Princess Diana predicted own death in handwritten letter #

One million songs sold since Thursday's iTunes for Windows launch — 14 million songs sold since April launch #

Jesus teething ring #

New Google feature: "define" — retrieves definitions culled from the web #

Fear to Fear — Leonard's short film about the dangers of p2p #