July 2005 - Page 2 of 4

July 25, 2005

Flying Omelette's Top 50 Videogame Ending Songs — mostly NES and early PC, with MP3s for each! #

July 24, 2005

Yahoo buys Konfabulator — they're releasing it for free (via) #

Family Guy movie leaked two months before official release — it's DVD quality, too (via) #

WikyBlog Maps — interesting wiki-style annotation for Google Maps (via) #

Glamestris, AI algorithm for Tetris for Windows — I have this running at 370 rows per second right now #

Lussumo Vanilla — gorgeously designed forum software, open-source PHP/MySQL (via) #

Video: Max Fleischer's "Now You're Talking" from 1927 — education film about the telephone mixes live action and classic Fleischer Brothers animation (via) #

Mario Battle No. 1 — homebrew NES ROM with all enemies and goals removed (via) #

MSN Virtual Earth — Microsoft's answer to Google Maps; also: Google adds a hybrid map view (via) #

Flash: Avoider — don't let the little guy grab your cursor (via) #

July 23, 2005

Orkut used as Brazilian drug network — an innovative new use of social software! (via) #

Types of Stories My Mother Tells — funniest thing I've read in ages #

July 21, 2005

c|net's Top 10 web fads — many more documented on Wikipedia #

WFMU's American Song Poem MP3s — two outstanding albums worth of vintage songs-for-hire, ready for download with cover art #

Japanese bank adds slots game to ATMs — if you win, you get cash or your withdrawal fee waived (via) #

Sony updates PSP to surf web, download TV shows — and, incidentally, lock out all homebrew code again (via) #

Rob Dobi cartoon on MySpace's sale to Fox — oh, man #

July 20, 2005

Greasemonkeyed — newly-launched repository of Greasemonkey user scripts #

Help test the new Greasemonkey security release — I can't imagine browsing the web without Greasemonkey again #

Weblogs Inc. close to $1M/year in Adsense revenue — that's a whole mess of ads #

AIM Fight — I defy anyone to beat my "infocombot"; may the most connected buddy win! (via) #

Blurb Racket — weekly column of movie review blurbs quoted out of context (via) #

Can a spam filter play chess? — insane hack with the dbacl Bayesian text classifier #

New Bloglines statistics — 1,121,655 feeds have at least one subscriber (via) #

New Yorker profile of Roald Dahl — excellent read #

How to make a 13-pound gummi bear — disgusting, but strangely compelling (via) #

Anecdotal Leads for News Stories Reporting the End of the World — closed for good (via) #

300GB Seagate hard drives for $99 — from Circuit City after a $90 mail-in rebate (via) #

Design the winning UI for Internet TV, get $1000 — help the next-gen video player powered by BitTorrent #

Google Groups Alerts — keeping tabs on Usenet, now much easier #

How a Seattle Times reporter handled a bestiality death story — Washington man died while having sex with a horse (via) #

July 19, 2005

Google Moon — try zooming all the way in #

Digg Spy — by the powers of Ajax! #

John Dvorak rants on Creative Commons — here's one debunking of his moronic column; I love this Slashdot comment #

Video: Infinite Flickr — morphing recursive photos of people looking at Flickr screenshots #

How Google Maps helped someone evade a traffic ticket — with wifi kung-fu in court (via) #

July 18, 2005

Associated Press misrepresents BitTorrent in Opera article — Corante is blaming bias, but I think it's just deeper problems with public perception #

Terrible security hole found in Greasemonkey 0.4 — a malicious website could retrieve any local file and send it to any other server; uninstall or downgrade ASAP! #

Finding Nemo swimming pool mosaic — built custom for Pixar president Ed Catmull (via) #

Video: Potter Crash — drive-by spoiler at a midnight Harry Potter line (via) #

Domains by Proxy reveals whistleblower's personal information — Jason Levine found the clause that lets them revoke anonymity if you're trying to embarrass someone #

News Corp buys MySpace for $580 million — holy cow #

Fold n' Drop — innovative UI technique; don't miss the video (via) #

Naked Mr. Burns on Flickr — unblurred animation cel from the Simpsons (via) #

July 17, 2005

Bootleg Harry Potter NES game review — it's as bad as they say, but I'm mirroring the ROM anyway (via) #

Find the Landmark — another Google Maps game #

New Harry Potter scanned and OCRed by e-book pirates — a distributed effort ended up in a text and audiobook release within 12 hours (via) #

July 16, 2005

Daddy Types on parents reading their nanny's blog in the NYT — with a link to a long response by the nanny in question #

Review of Japanese PSP porn title — the game mode is very Mystique (via) #

Video: 7 Words You Can't Say in Kindergarden — man, Nat's kids are adorable #