March 2006 - Page 2 of 3

March 19, 2006

Xbox 360 DVD firmware hacked — no homebrew yet, but bootlegs are now playable four months after the 360's release (via) #

Del.icio.us adds private bookmarks — this must have been their most demanded feature #

TV and movie set locations in Windows Live Local — including the Back to the Future town square and the Bluth banana stand (via) #

Odeo adds embedded recorders for blogs — like voicemail for websites, I predict this becomes way bigger than Odeo's podcasts (via) #

South Park's pulled Scientology episode is on YouTube — challenged by Tom Cruise, who will incidentally be speaking at Yahoo next week; don't miss the closing credits #

EasyUtil — finally, a recommender web service! if it works, I expect this to be massively huge (via) #

March 18, 2006

Math for Programmers — read the comments for views from other disciplines (via) #

March 17, 2006

Videogame Theater, Pac-Man as an alcoholic has-been — more from their official site #

Howto install Windows XP on an Intel Mac — read the FAQ for details of what works and what doesn't (via) #

NetNewsWire adds sorting by attention — did reBlog's Etech presentation jumpstart feedreader innovation? (via) #

Thomas Hawk reviews CozmoTV — opt-in TiVo integration for sharing and recommendations, but miserable full-screen Flash UI #

Video: Snakes on a Plane trailer — and an oddball contest soliciting music from Tagworld-hosted bands (via) #

Gawker Stalker Google map — someone needs to do a Dodgeball mashup for real-time mobile stalking #

Video: High Score trailer — documentary about beating the world record for Missile Command, last set in 1982 (via) #

Digg used for stock market manipulation? — the Google/Sun rumor is being spread by a particular cabal on Digg (via) #

March 16, 2006

Rojo adds feed sorting by relevance — the screenshot looks like a personalized Digg #

CNET acquires Chowhound — social experiment: can they change the archaic software without killing the community? (via) #

Lifehacker reviews reBlog 2.0 — the only RSS reader that's innovating for power users; try the new hosted demo or watch the screencast #

Isaac Hayes quits "South Park" — great comments from Parker and Stone cite their Scientology parody as the cause #

Antville Videos available as a video podcast — nice hack to subscribe to great music videos #

SXSW to MPAA: STFU — great Powazek rant started by a SXSW panel gone awry #

March 15, 2006

Top designers redesign Craig's List — the Javascript sparklines are a bit much, but everything else is gorgeous (via) #

Rogers Cadenhead gets a letter from Dave Winer's attorney — also: Winer's side of the story #

Gamespy's long roundup of the Independent Games Festival finalists — including Dofus, a full-blown MMORPG in Flash (via) #

Flash: Flow in Games — lovely experimental toy lifeform #

Video: Hard Candy trailer — I hope they met on Flickr #

March 14, 2006

Google buys SketchUp — I've been a huge fan of the natural 3D drawing app for years #

Techcrunch on Amazon's storage web service — the first serious implementation of an essential idea #

March 13, 2006

Wired on the Pirate Bay — their political party could very likely get seats in Swedish parliament #

March 12, 2006

LiveJournal punches the monkey — adding a third member option with premium features, but free and ad-supported (via) #

Digitize Textfiles, vintage computer ephemera — also: see the flaming conversation that inspired the scanning project #

The Earth Is Not Moving — finally, someone who isn't afraid to speak the truth #

March 11, 2006

EvokeTV, sharing your TV habits with the world — why doesn't TiVo do this? (via) #

Judith got her lost camera back — the authorities retrieved it from the selfish Canadian family (via) #

The Torn-Up Credit Card Experiment — Chase issues a Mastercard to taped-up card applications for another address (via) #

Techcrunch reviews DabbleDB — replacing Microsoft Access with simple builder tools #

NBC launches "web favorites" viral video — insulting the people who made them popular #

Trixie Tracker launches — a long time coming for the insanely detailed baby log (via) #

March 8, 2006

Sean Bonner finds censorware director's infantilism past — dating back to 1996, Usenet never forgets #

iPodMAME, arcade games on the iPod — I'll bet Asteroids would play well with the wheel (via) #

The Logos of Web 2.0 — I used Ballpark Script for the Upcoming.org logo (via) #

Techcrunch gets exclusive screenshots of Google Calendar — not as nice as 30 Boxes, but good enough to kill off most every Ajaxy calendar startup #

March 7, 2006

Stamen's Backchannel — real-time infovis of the #etech IRC channel #

Negativland interviews U2's The Edge in 1992 — great prank right after U2's label sued them for copyright infringement; he's very gracious under pressure #

March 6, 2006

The Aural Times, singing the news — sounds like a good job for failed American Idol candidates #

Oscar winners popular on BitTorrent — I skipped my Oscar bootleg roundup this year, but run it yourself on VCD Quality #

AIM releases developer SDK — they're also releasing an Open Bots program soon #

March 5, 2006

NYT on the House of Cosbys fight — any article that mentions "Data Analysis Cosby" is a good one #

Video: Natalie Portman rap on SNL — they've found a niche; update: NBC gets them all removed from YouTube, but posted an official version #

Wizard of Oz-themed Annie Leibovitz photoshoot for Vogue — Keira Knightley as Dorothy, posing with artists like Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, and Chuck Close #