Twenty mp3s of Great Songs from 1901-1920
— one great thing about early 20th century MP3s: everyone that would sue you is dead #
No more cavities?
— how genetically modified organisms could wipe out cavities, and every species on Earth! #
Ajax timeline of the Kennedy assassination
— interesting choice of a sample dataset; all the timeline code is open source #
For the love of Florrie
— the woman that Jerri Blank from "Strangers with Candy" is based on; don't miss the insane LSD video (via) #
Couchsurfing down for good
— hard disk failure and bad backups led to the permanent loss of the great service #
Canadian scientists regrow teeth with low intensity ultrasound
— what a relief! I'll be able to go back to my all-gummi diet #
Nigerian scammer baited into making actual-size wood carving of Commodore 64 keyboard
— Shiver Metimbers is the God of scam-baiting; he convinced one scammer to get a "Baited by Shiver" tattoo #
Disney's list of trademark registrations for Pirates' Jack Sparrow
— related: Alan's great roundup of Cars merchandise #
Bible quote database built with Amazon Mechanical Turk for $75
— 2 cents a quote, with a 98.3% success rate (via) #
Daily Show on Congressional hearing on video game ratings
— with Samantha Bee reporting live from San Andreas (via) #
Mike Monteiro looks for backstory to the "Sucker Punched Teacher" video
— after getting called out, I did some research; not a PTA meeting, but a courtroom #
Jeopardy all-time champion Ken Jennings is blogging
— he's a good writer, and funny! for example, his writeup on a trivia court decision, movies to sitcoms, and his giant head (via) #
Stewart Butterfield on Photobucket
— an interesting comparison of photo sharing numbers, but also insight into the accuracy of web tracking services #
Neat dataviz of coordinates mined from 10% of the web
— any guesses on why the lightning bolt pattern emerges? #
Kevin Smith recording a Clerks 2 commentary track for in-theater use
— free iTunes download to encourage second viewings for viewers with iPods #
Rails Day 2006 list of live projects
— all built in a day; D20, Roomind, and Hugtracker are my favorite ideas #
Down From the Top of Its Game: The Story of Infocom, Inc.
— 52-page PDF of the definitive history of Infocom's rise and fall #
Details on Johnny Depp added to Disneyland's Pirates of the Carribean
— the LA Times had some fan response; most of the Disney fans who've actually seen it like it #
Travian reaches the end of the world on Server 1
— one alliance in the web-based game triggered the game's end and server reset, despite an all-out war from other players #
David Lynch's 52-second Lumiere film
— in other Lynch news, he's selling his own ringtones; "my teeth are bleeding!" (via) #
Ask.com blocks search queries related to illegal sex acts
— nobody's rooting for sex offenders here, but I don't think I've ever seen it handled this awkwardly before #
Washington Post reporters get digital video cameras for online reporting
— useful in field reporting, but I could see where it could distract from interviewing and writing #
Digg v3.0 to launch Monday
— I just left the Digg party; TechCrunch doesn't mention the amazing Stamen visualizations or open API #
Video: BumpTop 3D desktop prototype
— toss files into piles with a pen-driven GUI with physics; also, I think every demo needs a rap version (via) #
Pitchfork's 100 Awesome Music Videos
— all with embedded YouTube links; I just killed a full hour on this #
TextAmerica to switch to paid model, and delete all non-paying moblogs
— holy cow, that's terrible form #
Video: Reanimating Marlon Brando for Superman Returns
— great clip breaking down the effects process (via) #
Microsoft C&Ds Vista Torrent for trying to help them
— LawyerBots suck; is there some law that companies can't send human e-mails anymore? (via) #
Company buying Myspace profiles with over 20,000 friends
— be prepared for your "friends" to start dropping references to Cialis retailers #