January 31, 2006

The Cost of A La Carte Television — how much would it cost to replace cable TV with iTunes downloads? #

January 30, 2006

Blogs vs the NYT in Google — sounds like Winer has almost won his bet #

January 29, 2006

MP3: Kevin Long covers Fiona Apple's "I Know" — pure serendipity; from Hype Machine's most popular to this MP3 blog to his MySpace #

Congressional staffers authorized to change Wikipedia biographies — but lots of other trolling edits are coming from the House IP address (via) #

Jason Scott discusses an idea for a hackathon TV pilot — dubbed "Hardcoded," he's outlined a show I would easily watch every week online or off #

Long WaPo profile on the Great Zucchini — witty and moving profile of a kids' entertainer; don't miss the followup with the writer (via) #

January 28, 2006

Blizzard blocks GLBT guild in World of Warcraft — by being openly gay, Blizzard claims they'd incite harassment by other users #

A Comics Panel with Chris Ware, Seth and Ivan Brunetti — illustrated by Gordon McAlpin, who recounts comic-related events in comic form (via) #

World of Warcraft maps — what, no driving directions? (via) #

January 27, 2006

Tic-Frac-Toe — playable version of this visualization; requires Firefox 1.5 #

Google removes help entry on censorship — it's one thing to censor to comply with local laws, just be open and honest about it #

Grandaddy split up — a good time to revisit Jed's Other Poem #

January 26, 2006

Image: Google China — man, this kills me #

Averaging Gradius — overlaying 15 game runs of Gradius into a single video; I want Pac-Man next! (via) #

eBaum's World gets TV show on USA Network — the controversial viral video site has some enemies (via) #

January 25, 2006

FeedLounge goes public — nicely designed web-based feedreader goes out of private beta #

Greg's Music Forum 2005 — aggregation and analysis of 75 "Best Albums of 2005" lists #

Fastr — fast and addictive Flickr multiplayer game (via) #

Reddit looking for investors as seed money runs out — one of Y Combinator's eight startups is still growing #

Tic-Tac-Toe as a fractal — a great visualization of all 362k possible permutations (via) #

Video: Wintergreen's "When I Wake Up" — music video about the true story of E.T. for the Atari 2600; also, a great interview with the game designer #

Google Code's Web Authoring Statistics — popular elements and attributes across a billion webpage sample set (via) #

January 24, 2006

8088 Corruption — full-motion video and audio running on the first IBM-PC (via) #

OGLE, the OpenGL Extractor — grab 3D models from games or apps for reuse, mashup, or 3D printing; badass! (via) #

January 23, 2006

The Most Downloaded Konfabulator Widgets — unofficial, created by Jon Aquino by scraping the official Konfabulator gallery (via) #

Finding a Beached Xbox — some theories on the Gizmodo thread #

Audition, a Korean massively multiplayer dance game — DDR with 50,000 of your closest friends #

January 22, 2006

The Waxy Cloud — Waxy Links tag cloud visualized using Ajax, the PHP5 XML DOM, and Yahoo Term Extraction API #

House of Cosbys Soundboard — still popular; I've served 215 GB of the House of Cosbys pilot this month #

"The city as an avatar of itself" — aerial city photos that very much resemble scale models #

January 21, 2006

Video: Tripod's "Make You Happy Tonight" — gamers get smooth #

Andy Samberg responds to Nick and Amelia's "Lazy Sunday" — Nick's response was "I'm exploding inside" #

January 20, 2006

Disney may buy Pixar for $6.8 billion — Steve Jobs would sit on the board and be a major shareholder #

What technology will be like in 2001 — tech predictions from the October 1989 issue of Compute! magazine (via) #

C64S — web-based Commodore 64 emulator (via) #

Patriot Search — sly commentary on the US Government asking search engines for private search queries #

Schoolchildren recruited as copyright 'spies' in Hong Kong — remember kids, nobody likes a snitch #

January 18, 2006

Jason DeFillippo leaves Technorati to work on Metroblogging full-time — with Mumbai, they're up to 40 local blogs #

Top 65 Music Videos of 2005 — outstanding annotated list #

January 17, 2006

Google Robot FAQ from 2030 — sounds familiar #

Washington DC schools target Facebook, MySpace — won't somebody think of the children? #

Ted, torrent episode downloaders — Windows utility automates TV episode downloads from public trackers (via) #

Video: Dev2.0, "Whip It" — directed by Gerald Casale of DEVO for Disney Records (via) #

Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure — Zork meets the Washington Post #

Disaffected — videogame parody of working at a Kinko's store, sounds like Root Beer Tapper #

Nick and Amelia's Lazy Sunday

Posted January 17, 2006 by Andy Baio

My 9-year-old nephew and 7-year old niece perform “Lazy Sunday.” (Watch the original.) Need I say more?

Download: Nick and Amelia’s Lazy Sunday.mp3

January 21 Update: I just received an e-mail from NY Daily News reporter Julian Kesner, who wrote a profile on Andy Samberg and “Lazy Sunday” last month. Julian heard about Nick and Amelia’s MP3 and sent it to Andy Samberg. Andy wrote back and said, “That might be my favorite thing of all time ever.”

January 22: ADM of the excellent Amy’s Robot blog remixed the original video with Nick and Amelia’s audio. The results are surreal, and iPod-compatible!

January 24: Two 11-year-old boys recreated the video, with the help of their dad. Apparently, there’s a market for SNL Kids.

January 12, 2006

Kottke on the Digg vs. Slashdot effects — Slashdot still wields enormous traffic, even as Digg's influence grows #

January 11, 2006

Video: Live Action Punch-Out — not great, but I've been humming the Punch Out theme since I saw this last week #

The Prejudice World Map — silly fun with Google wildcards #

January 10, 2006

Apple's stock price closed at $80.86 today — cute coincidence (via) #