Singlestat.us shut down by Myspace ten days after launch
— don't miss David Weekly's excellent response, and the entertaining Valleywag interview #
Tim O'Reilly on Internet usage in South Korea
— really interesting discussion of Cyworld, broadband usage, and spam #
Summary of the LiveCoda real-time programming competition
— write an app in ten minutes; I'd love to see this as a regular vlog show #
Valleywag scoops the new Digg redesign
— finally expanding beyond tech, even though the community's been forcing the issue #
Which products, used by few today, will be essential in five years?
— Leonard has some great thoughts, but he left out holographic nachos and 3D chocolate printers #
Aaron sees a market for liveblogging delivery of big events
— getting pushed IM updates from E3, the Macworld keynote, or sporting events would be neat #
ASCII World Cup 2006
— streaming ASCII video over telnet, begins ten minutes before every game (via) #
Walt Disney's time capsuled 1956 letter to people of the year 2006
— nice find! we can all read it, thanks to atomic energy and the extension of radar #
New Yorker on Bazooka Joe's makeover
— the punchline is in the final paragraph; meet the new gang (via) #
Diet Coke experiment gives Mentos a surge in publicity
— Coke and FedEx seem desperate to kill grassroots love of their product because it "doesn't fit with the brand personality" #
Paul Kedrosky finds an unusual profanity in an SEC filing
— I'd love to see a followup on this (via) #
NSA to datamine social networking websites
— is it any wonder that Tom is their only friend? (via) #
Hamptons garage sale unearths rare Nintento motherload
— with screenshots of the ultra-rare championship cartridges #
Eliot Turns Two
Two years old already! Not just walking and talking, but singing, conversing, drawing, counting (to two), playing drums, laughing at my jokes, and running to hug me when I walk in the door. I thought having a two-year-old would make me feel old, but it’s like being a kid again. Happy birthday, Eliot!
Flickr and Del.icio.us founders invest in Etsy
— one of my favorite sites gets backed by some of my favorite people! (via) #
OJR interviews "journalist programmer" Adrian Holovaty
— I suspect there's more of us than people realize; my background and education is in journalism, not computer science #
Facebook C&D's Gawker for posting profile photos
— the Facebook profiles aren't public; only viewable by friends and people affiliated with the same school #
Time and Again
— photographer returns to small Iowa town 20 years after taking photos of every citizen (via) #
Slate on athletes using LASIK as performance enhancer
— is surgical eye enhancement a form of cheating? #
AllofMP3 breaks silence
— they claim they're going to work out deals with all music rightholders by September 1 #
Zasterisk, Zork on Asterisk
— voice recognition and speech synthesis for playing Infocom games over the phone #
Singlestat.us, Myspace single status monitor
— David Weekly's brilliant entry for the Super Happy Dev House money printing competition #
Pilot finds snake stowaway inside cockpit
— "one hand full of snake and the other hand full of plane" #
Fonts on LOST
— good to know I'm not the only one who thinks Verdana in the closing titles is hideous #
MP3: Nelly Furtado covers Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy"
— almost makes me forgive her for her new album #
eBay to Launch Blogs, Wikis and Tags
— signs point to Typepad as the blog provider, which would be a big win #
Eurogamer reviews Half Life 2: Episode 1
— it was released today, and I can't wait to play it tonight #
Six Apart launches Vox public preview
— invite-only, and incredibly sexy; if you think it's just another social network, you're missing the point #
Techcrunch on the new Yahoo Video
— YouTube competitor with no time limits; will they be as laid-back about infringing content? #