August 2006 - Page 2 of 2

August 14, 2006

First Nintendo DS emulator to play commercial games released — compatibility list with some screenshots; also, you'll need to dump your BIOS (via) #

Full-motion 3D posters — don't miss the soccer video; estimated to cost $200-500 per square foot #

MP3: Sprites, "I Started A Blog Nobody Read" — "I started a blog and nobody came; no issues were raised, no comments were made" #

August 13, 2006

Video: Coca-Cola's Grand Theft Auto inspired commercial — this could almost be Sims 2 machinima (via) #

Second Life closes forums — a truly awful move that will damage the community (via) #

August 11, 2006

coComment's Firefox extension — instantly makes the service seamless and invaluable #

My 12 favourite demos — reminding myself that I need to do this someday, too #

Interweb Medley — so obnoxious; I'd love to hear a version using only the original samples (via) #

Video: Telling It All, Part 1 — 78-year-old man vlogging on YouTube; watch his first video to see how quickly he's evolved in six days #

Beating two SNES games at the same time — wiring a single controller into two SNES emulators, and recording the results #

Top Web 2.0 Apps in Russia — continuing his great series of Web 2.0 apps around the world #

August 10, 2006

Video: Clell Tickle, Indie Marketing Guru — Aziz Ansari comedy with cameos by Tapes 'n Tapes, Pitchfork Media, and Ted Leo (via) #

Video: Ze Frank on terrorism — "leveraging our inability to understand risk" (via) #

Creating in-cell graphics with Excel — very neat use of old tech (via) #

Endgame, the Google Maps real-time strategy game — like the Goggles flight simulator, why aren't Flash developers making games with the Yahoo Maps Flash API? #

Video: YouTube founders on Charlie Rose — uploaded by Charlie Rose! I like picturing him sitting on YouTube moderating the spam comments #

upcalendar — Aaron releases his Python hack for syncing Upcoming events to Series 60 phones #

Tom Coates on World of Warcraft addiction — "are we as a culture starting to construct toys that are too effective and end up hurting people?" (via) #

August 9, 2006

Myspace asks for "Salute" for verifying identity — it's a good thing there's no way to fake photographs on a computer (via) #

Seth Godin created a series of Nintendo fiction books for kids? — the excerpts and reviews are hilarious (via) #

Spam Stock Tracker — updated yesterday; too bad it's nearly impossible to short penny stocks #

Tales of the telegraph — great bit on "hog-morse" and the origin of "hams" #

August 8, 2006

Search engine for released AOL logs — my God, the search logs of anonymous user 711391 is an unbelievable epic; Philipp has many more (via) #

AOL search data shows users planning murder? — I'm just catching up from a short vacation, and the AOL blunder is blowing my mind; I'd do some crunching if I had time #

Surviving Sudoku — article about sudoku backlash from the crossword community (via) #

Youtube Trends Report #2 — I love this kind of thing; 86 out of the top 100 are user created (via) #

August 5, 2006

Urban Counterfeiters — major chains are plagiarizing designs from indie artists #

August 3, 2006

Coudal's response to the Agency.com video — made me laugh #

August 2, 2006

Video: Leaked pilot of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip — Aaron Sorkin's new show starts with an amazing Network-style rant by Judd Hirsch (via) #

Send a "Snakes on a Plane" prank call to your friends — for example, I had Samuel L. Jackson call Matt Haughey earlier today #

Nintendo DS MIDI Port — I'd love to see Elektroplankton controlling other devices #

WorkFriendly — safe-for-work proxy formats websites to look like Microsoft Word (via) #

Stephen Colbert gets banned from Wikipedia — he made edits and encouraged others in this episode; they locked the article #

Bill to ban social networking sites in schools and libraries moves to Senate — overly broad and completely unnecessary, it affects commercial sites with profiles and private messaging #

Analysis of Digg's top users and the impact of Netscape's attempt to poach them — top 10 users responsible for 30% of front page stories, while top 100 goes up to 55% (via) #

Agency.com posts Subway pitch video online — if we roll, we roll big #

Homeowner tracks down toilet-paper prank suspects — mom finds the jerk kids with grocery store receipts, surveillance tapes, yearbooks and online databases; with video (via) #

August 1, 2006

Sweater Girl, Peter Pan, and Tron Guy sing for net neutrality — where's Mahir, Star Wars Kid, and Numa Numa? #

Assembly 2006 game competition entries released — "Racing Pitch" controls cars by mimicking engine noise into your mic, "TattooFrenzy" draws tattoos with the PocketPC touch screen, and a free Guitar Hero clone #

Wired typo leads to Insta-pundit parody blog — the typo domain in this Wired article now leads to a bizarro world mashup of Daily Kos in the Instapundit design #