August 2005 - Page 2 of 3

August 18, 2005

Vice Records' "Do They Know It's Halloween?" — insanely bizarre benefit recording with an all-star indie rock lineup #

DJ Lush Life's West Sounds — remixing Kanye West with Beach Boys' Pet Sounds (via) #

Yahoo Local beta — very impressive alternative to CitySearch; some of the highlights #

Wikipedia entry on Flying Spaghetti Monster — take that, Brittanica (via) #

Protopage — gorgeously designed Ajaxy sticky notes website #

August 17, 2005

Turn your NES gamepad into a TV remote — funny hack (via) #

Seven Band Names That Would Be Impossible to Book (via) #

Maya's Micronomicon — my friend Maya's insanely detailed notebook drawings; more obsessiveness in her Flickr stream #

Salon to sell The WELL — a part of history that could be lost forever #

August 16, 2005

The Goddess Bunny — your guess is as good as mine #

Blogger toolbar for Microsoft Word — feels strange, but casual users will love this #

Quake III to be open-sourced this week — six years later, still a great game we play at work regularly #

Video: Grumpy Starbucks spec ad — it's no Nutrigrain, but it made me laugh (via) #

MyProgs — collaborative list of applications people use; like Del.icio.us for software #

Dave Matthews Band encouraging fans to bypass DRM restrictions on new album — they're petitioning Apple to support WMA in iTunes, rather than releasing DRM-free audio #

Etsy — nicely designed shopping site for buying and selling handmade stuff (via) #

Feedster's Top 500 — wow, Waxy Links is #60; read about who was excluded (via) #

Linux and Windows running on the PSP — a healthy homebrew community keeps the platform alive, despite the lack of good games (via) #

CNET buys Metacritic — still catching up from last week's vacation #

August 15, 2005

Video: 10 mph movie trailer — film about two guys crossing America on a Segway (via) #

Del.icio.us adds recommendations — and, just as important, they added full search #

Technorati about to be sold? — I guess I could ask Dave in person on Friday at Foo Camp #

Flash: Spaceworms — use the arrow keys to evade the dots; I can't get past level 8 #

Om Malik says Google building massive broadband network — he speculates they could one day offer country-wide free wifi (via) #

Fiona Apple album to be released in October — apparently, she wasn't happy with Jon Brion's production; stream a new track (via) #

BBS Documentary Video Collection on Archive.org — as promised, Jason started uploading the raw interviews from his excellent documentary (via) #

August 8, 2005

Waxy goes on Vacation — I'm taking the week off; in the meantime, try Populicious or my favorite sources for links #

August 7, 2005

Amazon's long tail shorter than previous estimates — the original Wired article said 57%; new research shows closer to 25% #

August 6, 2005

Doom ported to iPod Linux — crazy hack; watch the videos #

John Gruber on Apple's Trusted Computing — a rebuttal to Cory Doctorow's essay #

Video: OS X running on generic Intel hardware? — OSx86 project claims it's not fake, but it's currently slow and unstable #

August 5, 2005

"Phil Collins Minus One" and other radio station promo scams — MP3s of a fake interview album and some good station identifiers #

Complete scan of Mickey Mouse vs the Air Pirates — the infringing comic book that launched Disney's copyright war (via) #

Homebrew port of Heretic for the DS — Doom DS may be close, as well (via) #

These Are the Breaks — MP3s of famous original samples; reminds me of this other amazing site #

Wikipedia to tighten editorial controls? — the Wikimedia board says Jimmy Wales was misquoted (via) #

Video of the San Francisco bouncy balls — the photos of the Sony commercial shoot made the rounds last week; high-res video here (via) #

JJG interviews Eric Costello on the history of Flickr — they've influenced the entire industry with their ability to adapt quickly to user wants and needs #

Google blacklists CNet reporters — because of information about CEO Eric Schmidt in this previous article? #

Peekaboom — Carnegie Mellon's multiplayer game used to train computer vision algorithms #

Jason Scott partnering with Archive.org to host raw interviews from BBS Documentary — all under a CC license; over time, this is even more important than the documentary itself #

August 4, 2005

A Rocket to Nowhere — Maciej Ceglowski's excellent article on the problems with NASA's manned space flight program #

Redbug, graphic Javascript demo from Assembly 2005 — try it in IE #

Broken counterfeit jeans — buggy code prints an Excel function onto clothing labels (via) #

August 3, 2005

Ask Mefi on porn in the woods — growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I'd never encountered this phenomenon #

Vox Delici — Stamen's neat visualization of Delicious Popular (via) #

TiVo banner ads released — show me ads or charge subscription fees, but not both #

Assembly 2005 awards and releases — the PC demoscene continues to amaze; don't miss the Che Guevara and Fiat Homo 64k demos #

Wired News interviews Mike Lynn on Cisco security flaw — bizarre story; ISS asked him to do it and wanted to release it to hurt Cisco? #

Mozilla announces the Mozilla Corporation — for-profit subsidiary headed by Mitchell Baker #