May 23, 2006

The Sheep Market — 10,000 sheep drawings created by Amazon Mturk workers for $0.69/hour (via) #

Oblivion dominoes — like the Half-Life 2 mousetrap, but using the Oblivion engine #

Crushing Competition — tax preparers lobby to make California taxes more difficult to prepare (via) #

I Liked It Better Live — MP3 bloggers collect songs with better live performances than the recorded original #

Star Wars Kid, Redux

Posted May 22, 2006 by Andy Baio

If you’re going to videotape your Star Wars fighting skills on a school camera, remember to remove the cassette when you’re done. Watch this embarrassingly good video.

(Some context may be necessary.)

May 22, 2006

Ultrastar, open-source port of karaoke game SingStar — the original judged your vocal performance by analyzing pitch and duration #

Graphic Novels for People Who Hate Comics — I'd also toss in Seth's It's A Good Life #

Video: Mr. Rogers addresses the U.S. Senate in 1969 — essential watching, this guy was a hero; plus, he could breakdance (via) #

Bay to Breakers Katamari — my, Earth really is full of things! #

Berkeley's "Naked Guy" commits suicide at 33 — I always heard about him, but never saw him in my four years on campus (via) #

May 21, 2006

Random Pokey the Penguin generator — funny, doesn't affect the readability of the original (via) #

May 20, 2006

Leonard's primer on Nintendo DS Lite homebrew — worth it for ScummVM alone #

May 19, 2006

Super Happy Dev House 10 tries a new idea — a weekend-long contest to build a "money making machine," with Paypal revenue determining the winners #

May 18, 2006

Snooker maximums on YouTube — don't miss John Higgins' lucky shot at around 6:40 in this video #

3D milling service to be offered for Second Life avatars — at E3, I saw that the Spore team was 3D printing their character creations from corn starch (via) #

San Francisco scar tissue — "a piece of San Francisco healing around now-gone railroad tracks" (via) #

E3 Crabtacular — apparently, Half-Life 2 gave the entire gaming industry crabs (via) #

Flickr's hiring — you couldn't pick a cooler group of people to work with, aside from maybe Upcoming #

Flash: 10 ways, "information" — outstanding recursive photo mosaic browser (via) #

Eric Kleptone speaking at next Web 2.0 conference — I've been obsessed with the Kleptones' 24 Hours album lately; try Sixteen Sisters for a taste #

Wireless Guitar Hero mod — okay, I'm slightly obsessed #

37signals e-book earns $175k in first 75 days — incredible argument for self-publishing online (via) #

Freetar editor preview — Guitar Hero clone for the PC, still in development #

May 17, 2006

Nielson/NetRatings study on growth of top social networks — note that Typepad and Classmates are the only ones charging #

Video: World Trade Center, the movie — I predict two years before there's a scifi time travel movie with 9/11 as the backdrop #

Last chromosome in human genome sequenced — yay! I want my next child to have a prehensile tail and wings (via) #

May 16, 2006

Visceral song moments — MP3 bloggers isolate parts of songs that made them feel #

Beating Traffic — OCD commuter collects a year's worth of traffic data during his daily commute #

History of Videogame Console Prices — absolute and adjusted for inflation; is it any surprise the Neo-Geo and 3DO flopped? #

Flickr goes gamma! — wow, the new Scrumjax Organizr is neat; no more Flash! #

Yahoo launches new homepage — also, it looks like they're changing the size of the left-hand navigation links based on your own personal activity #

Dilbert on Google #

Google Notebook launches — like a personal wiki space, but with options to share publicly (search coming soon) (via) #

AOL launches UnCut Video — a YouTube clone with a focus on local video (via) #

Paying for camouflage — the new black MacBooks cost $150 more than identical white ones with an upgraded hard drive #

May 15, 2006

PS3 could be homebrew friendly? — I'll believe it when I see it #

Video: E3 morning stampede — everyone bolted for the Wii, including me #

Siskel and Ebert behind the scenes — when Gene gets liquored up, things get interesting #

Video: President Al Gore on SNL — missed this while I was out of town (via) #

May 14, 2006

GameSetWatch's nostalgic look back at the first E3 — with memories and maps of the convention floor circa 1995 #

Guitar Hero Trainer for Windows — scrolling tablature and speed control using the Guitar Hero disc (via) #

May 11, 2006

No dancing at the Parthenon! — good to know #

Video: Duck Hunt on the Nintendo Wii — nuts, they should've added the gloating dog #

May 10, 2006

Jason Scott on the Best and the Interesting — I predict Jason Scott will be crowned a saint of the Internet era #

Plasma Pong — pong with fluid dynamic (via) #

Emily Short's observations on using Inform 7 — writing interactive fiction with natural language #

New Sam & Max game back from the dead — stop toying with my emotions, people (via) #

Google Trends — compare frequency of particular search terms over time, but without exposing actual numbers (via) #

Flickr releasing big UI changes next week — new nav, new search, and a redesigned Organizr #

May 9, 2006

Love Lines — tracking the daily loves and hates of the blogosphere #