January 2006 - Page 2 of 2

January 10, 2006

Flickr's firstgoatse tag — not even Ron Jeremy could handle it #

Slashdot's CmdrTaco on their story moderation process — an uncharacteristic rant posted to the Slashdot homepage; some users want /. to be more Digg-like #

Mac Rumors Live — live coverage of the Macworld keynote, now with Ajax! #

January 9, 2006

Student Life on the Facebook — wow, incredible analysis of UNC's freshman class Facebook usage, including demographics and information sharing #

Nat Torkington on the Steve Mallette vs. Digg controversy — O'Reilly contributor accused of stealing templates for Digg clones, turns out to be unfounded #

Package Mappers — map the routes of UPS, Fedex, and USPS packages (via) #

The Aargh Page — tracking the popularity of various spelling permutations on the web (via) #

Video: Nintendo's holodeck prototype — a neat interactive floor display #

Internet feud escalates between Ebaumsworld and its detractors — this time around a borrowed Lindsay Lohan animated GIF (via) #

Learn reverse engineering by hacking Windows Pinball — if nothing else, worth it for playing around with the backdoor cheat (via) #

Yahoo! acquires Webjay — if you haven't played with the playlist sharing community, try it out #

Create an e-annoyance, go to jail — "annoying" someone anonymously online is now a federal crime? Boing Boing readers say this isn't new (via) #

Google testing contextual ads in print newspapers — they're filling unsold ad space in the Sun-Times #

January 6, 2006

Newsvine beta released — I've been playing with this, and it's very well-designed; the story-specific live chat is great #

3D Japanese Google Maps — tech demo, only works in Firefox 1.5 (via) #

January 5, 2006

Mike Elgan on the Push Music project — automatic wireless sharing of music with strangers based on recommendations #

Crazy Del.icio.us — it's like a web geek litmus test; if you get it, you're a lost cause #

Bounty County — blog listing cash bounties for open-source projects #

January 4, 2006

Extra Tasty — Drinking 2.0 from the Threadless crew #

January 3, 2006

TechCrunch on AllPeers — outstanding looking Firefox extension for sharing files privately with BitTorrent #

The Decade the Music Blockbuster Died — crunching the numbers on best-selling albums by decade (via) #

Massively Multiplayer Personal Productivity — there's a seed of a brilliant idea in here (via) #

Second Life's virtual prison — they send you to The Cornfield #

Retrievr — search Flickr by sketching; impressive examples on Mefi (via) #

January 2, 2006

What's your dangerous idea? — The Edge's annual question for 2006 with answers from 116 professional thinkers and a real live Monkee (via) #

Windows WMF vulnerability hotfix — possibly the worst Windows hole ever, affects all versions, and spreading fast; install this now, as even viewing an image can infect you #

Horse sex story was online hit — because of web traffic, arguably the most popular story in the Seattle Times' 109-year history (via) #

January 1, 2006

Clive Thompson on the last days of Asheron's Call 2 — how do people behave when a game world is about to end permanently? #