February 2006 - Page 2 of 3

February 15, 2006

37signals launches Campfire — group chat for distributed teams and projects (via) #

February 14, 2006

CNNi redesigns with clean onscreen titles — more details at Kemistry #

Google buys Measure Map — congrats, Jeff and the Adaptive Path crew! #

The Dumpster — a visualization of romantic breakups collected from blogs in 2005 (via) #

February 13, 2006

New York magazine's cover story on blogging — the issue includes a Ben Fry infographic PDF and some other fluff (via) #

WSJ on web parodies and copyright enforcement — with a very high-profile mention of House of Cosbys! #

Video: She Hit Me — motorcyclist records video of Honda Civic losing control and hitting her, posts video online #

Half-Life 2 to become episodic series — exactly the way it should be (via) #

Review of Firewall movie, a big-budget computer thriller — Harrison Ford just hacked your bank account with an iPod; the trailer (via) #

Can MTV stay cool? — I wouldn't be shocked to see YouTube bought by Viacom (via) #

Alexadex — like Blogshares for the entire web, using Alexa traffic data (via) #

SiteAdvisor Preview — Firefox/IE plugin detects unsafe websites and warns you in search results; Waxy is safe, but try looking for divx #

Dave Winer responds to Steve Kirks, former Userland evangelist and developer — I knew Dave could be difficult, but this is ridiculous #

The Beastles — Beatles to Beastie Boys mashup album; illegalicious! (via) #

LA Times on creationism being taught to young children — most depressing are the two curious kids crushed by their parents' dogma (via) #

The Song Tapper — overloaded the last time I tried to visit, it's working now and found "Since U Been Gone" on the first try (via) #

Oh No Robot — web comic search engine and transcription (via) #

How to Make Garfield Funny — a growing meme, this thread collects some of the best examples #

February 12, 2006

Video: Top Gear trashes a Toyota Hilux — increasingly insane tests of strength; also: Top Gear Turismo and more #

Star Wars Valentines — "my love for you will stay on target" (via) #

February 11, 2006

The Hall of Best Knowledge — weekly comic on Flickr combining hand-drawn typography and prose (via) #

February 10, 2006

Image: You Complete Me — originally from 4 Color Rebellion, but their account was suspended #

PowerGlove Mouse — brilliant hack to control your mouse with a Nintendo PowerGlove; it's so bad (via) #

EFF issues Google Desktop warning — I'd prefer a Hamachi-like virtual network instead of sending everything to Google, but it's a tradeoff of privacy and convenience #

Who Is Harry Nilsson? — new documentary about one of the most underrated songwriters of all time; also: production notes (via) #

Video: Half-Life 2 mousetrap — ridiculous Rube Goldberg device built with Garry's HL2 mod (via) #

February 9, 2006

Brokeback Mountain mod for the Sims #

Current style in web design — a good explanation of current trends in good web style (via) #

18×18 pixel clones of classic arcade games — they're surprisingly playable #

Alone together in World of Warcraft — the MMO players favor loose, indirect forms of social contact (via) #

Video: Dave Chappelle's Block Party — Michel Gondry directs the story of an epic party (via) #

February 8, 2006

The Mohammed Dance — yes, it's exactly what you think it is #

Reclusive Sly Stone surprises Grammys — sporting a huge mohawk, he wandered off after a couple minutes #

Zillow, real estate valuation search — find out how much your boss's house is worth #

Video: Multi-Touch Interaction Research — it's like the Nintendo DS as a PC #

Yahoo testing new homepage — funny that this first appears on Flickr #

Make Your Own Oscar Pool — I'm voting for a Dukes of Hazzard sweep #

Boing Boing interviews Rob Lord on Songbird — the open-source iTunes clone launched today, though the site is totally crushed #

Video: Pac-Man on campus — incidentally, these YouTube clones are popping up like weeds #

February 7, 2006

Canadian customs censoring adult DVDs at the border — the list reads as both bizarre and arbitrary #

BitTorrent to crack down on use of name — I was afraid this would happen eventually #

WINE running on Intel iMacs? — if true, the ability to run Windows apps in a natural way could be huge (via) #

Video: Nacho Libre trailer — quite possibly the best and/or worst movie of the year #

Blurb — brilliant book creation software for on-demand publishing, a la Cafe Press #

Cupid Mistake — a particularly good Perry Bible Fellowship this week #

Sketch Swap — draw a picture, get one in return; also, File Swap #

Clearbits, free CSS icon set — looks uncannily similar to Dan Cederholm's Chameleon; is it plagiarism? (via) #

Visualizing relationships and geographies of New York Times articles — Aaron dumps the RDF daily, so you can hack on it yourself; mashups, please! #

February 6, 2006

Ben Goodger on the history of Firefox — a must read; it also cites Greg Knauss' pan of Netscape's themes #

The Art of De-Touch — Eyebeam's Processing utility lets you scrub through before and after retouches (via) #