February 2005 - Page 2 of 5

February 23, 2005

Google adds movie searching and reviews — not a category killer, yet, but some very handy uses #

Shinkuro — secure, cross-platform file sharing, screen sharing, and chat for private groups (via) #

ExplorerXP adds tabs to Windows Explorer — freeware utility for Win2k/XP (via) #

Doonesbury on file-sharing — Trudeau's covering the topic all week #

WTF OMG — from the Found Objects group on Livejournal #

Creative Commies t-shirt in Maxim — very weird context for the illustration #

Banned Books in the Year 2191 (via) #

Author's father leaves bad reviews of son's book on Amazon — the only review less than 4 stars (via) #

February 22, 2005

WhatIsMyIP.com sells for $386k on eBay — time to start using ipchicken.com (via) #

How Paris Hilton got hacked? — weak security question, but also a weak security system (via) #

Feedbeep, RSS to SMS notifications — this could work well with Upcoming.org feeds (via) #

Paypal Fee Calculator — a neat little utility (via) #

Gorilla Cover Gallery — 500+ comic book covers featuring gorillas (via) #

AllofMP3.com facing criminal copyright investigation by Russian police — well, there goes the best pseudo-legal source of DRM-free music online (via) #

The Jayhawks break up — or maybe not; to me, they broke up when Mark left the band (via) #

Every Calvin & Hobbes comic — if you like these, please pre-order The Complete Calvin & Hobbes (via) #

Kottke.org as a full-time job — Jason quit his day job and will rely on donations to support himself; I donated #

Video: 238 miles of Abba's "Dancing Queen" — sweet, delicious torture #

February 21, 2005

Paris Made Me Change My Number t-shirt — from meme to t-shirt in 24 hours (via) #

Vimeo — Kottke calls it "like Flickr for video clips" (via) #

Katamari Damacy in Play-doh — also: more cosplay (via) #

Jorn Barger is posting to Robot Wisdom again! — the man who coined the term "weblog" is back after a long hiatus #

Earthstation 5 calls it quits — sums up the history of the supposedly Palestinian P2P software that formally declared war on the RIAA and MPAA #

GreaseMonkey user scripts — for use with the GreaseMonkey Firefox extension to rewrite websites to your whim #

Parents Television Council's "Worst of the Week" — convenient clips of the best TV every week (via) #

How to Destroy the Earth — a sensible alternative to paving the Earth #

Jane's Animal Crossing world misses Justin — what happens when games start reminiscing about your ex? #

Kembrew McLeod's Freedom of Expression — brand new book on copyright idiocy and sampling culture, CC licensed and available for free download! (via) #

Magnatune signs digital distribution deal with CDBaby — all artists will now appear in iTunes, among others (via) #

Shaun McCormack interviews Jack Thompson — e-mail dialogue with the asshat lawyer prosecuting the $300m lawsuit against Grand Theft Auto's developers and retailers (via) #

February 20, 2005

Adaptive Path on the Ajax approach to developing web applications — in other words, web apps doing neat stuff without leaving the page (via) #

SF Chronicle on Justin Hall's blog farewell — with a roundup of other prominent blog quitters (via) #

Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide — very sad end to a literary great #

MAME name and logo trademarked by Ultracade CEO — Foley responds, but he still has no right to the trademarks #

Flickr Picture Viewer for the TiVo — if you haven't been upgraded yet, get in the priority queue #

Paris Hilton's hacked Sidekick address book, notes, and photos — the numbers and notes were confirmed authentic by Drudge and others #

NYT on podcasts — with obligatory Adam Curry reference #

Om Malik on how to save TiVo — he was one of the first to predict its current challenges #

Napster's about-face in the courtroom — ironically, they want the court to shut down Grokster #

Jeremy Wright comments on IE7's feature list — better standards support, more secure, and tabs; yep, sounds like Firefox (via) #

Hand-cranked Nintendo DS battery charger — I want one for my iPod #

The Maoist International Movement reviews videogames — CAP Alert should start doing game reviews, too (via) #

Boogieplay beta — Blogdigger's blog video viewer; not sure how I feel about hotlinking big files without asking #

February 19, 2005

Burton and Jefferson reminisce about MTV — "they looked like Satan's eyes, man!" #

The Shining's Overlook Hotel rendered in the Duke Nukem 3D engine — I'd love to see this redone with HL2's Source engine #

BlogTorrent 0.9 released — now with Mac support for the client and MySQL for the tracker #

February 18, 2005

Flash: Ball Revamped — I beat the 125 levels #

WordPress 1.5 released — looks impressive #

43Things' Popular Goals by City — the #1 goal in Los Angeles is "work on my abs" (via) #