Peter Rojas' RCRD LBL goes live
— exclusive DRM-free music from their own new label and partnering with like-minded labels on a daily MP3 blog #
ASCII rave in Haskell
— creating music by typing text into a "broken" speech synthesizer; another video (via) #
Prince sends DMCA notices to b3ta users for Photoshopping contest
— this is just idiotic (sorry, Anil!) #
Prince of Persia butchered in "Life" TV show
— laughably bad portrayal of technology, including Excel spreadsheets hidden in the 10th level of the game (via) #
Announcement: I'm leaving Upcoming to work on Waxy.org full-time!
— a friend said I should cross-post this to Waxy Links since they didn't see the main blog post #
Outgoing
Five years ago this January, I wanted to solve a personal problem: finding events I cared about and sharing them with my friends. Nine months later, Upcoming.org popped out and changed my life forever.
After five years of working on Upcoming and two years after its acquisition, I’m moving on. This Friday is my last official day as a Yahoo!, after which I’ll go back to being a lowercase yahoo.
Smoking Gun uncovers David Bowie's 1976 mugshot
— the only guy that could make a mugshot look like a high fashion photo shoot #
Elvis Costello reunites with Clover to perform "My Aim Is True" live, tonight
— I'm insanely giddy about this; I'll be in line for the late show at 7:30pm if anyone wants to say hi (via) #
Homebrew version of The Last Starfighter
— they developed a working version of the nonexistent game from the film #
Tim O'Reilly on Open Social and Facebook
— he nicely articulates why both fall short, while reframing the problem with a solid prediction #
FoxDiff, tracking diffs in FoxNews.com headlines
— biases aside, it's fun simply to watch a newsroom making slight changes over time #
Google's OpenSocial API docs go live
— the Orkut sandbox is moderated, so Plaxo Pulse is the only live implementation so far #
Tumblr 3.0 launches with a zillion new features and improvements
— including privacy, hosted MP3s, video through Vimeo, and investors #
Mythbusters to test "plane on conveyer belt" riddle on December 12 episode
— using an Ultralight plane and a quarter-mile conveyor belt #