February 2009 - Page 2 of 3

February 19, 2009

East Bay Express' long hit piece on Yelp — Yelp's response, which I completely agree with; someone needs to record a sales call to settle this #

February 18, 2009

Marc Hedlund on Hulu, Boxee, and "content providers" — "someone else -- not you, someone smart -- will win instead, or you can change your mind" #

Home of the Underdogs goes offline for good — the essential abandonware site is abandoned; thanks for the memories, Sarinee (via) #

Hulu content providers demand Boxee remove Hulu support — here's Boxee's blog post; that's a great way to drive Boxee users back to BitTorrent #

Sanctuary Wood — an urban explorer finds an abandoned caravan in the woods (via) #

Dirk's Accident, very graphic images of a Neodymium magnet collision — crushed finger after two magnets with 700 lbs. of force came within 20 inches of one another (via) #

Rex Sorgatz interviews Moot — this is the best idea I've seen for making money off the site, with more here #

Matt Webb's retweeting Carl Steadman's 99 Secrets from 1996 — someone needs to do Two Solitudes for the Twitter era with @replies #

Wired reviews Retro Game Challenge for the DS — game about playing games, inspired by Japanese reality show about playing games #

Facebook reverts to previous Terms of Service after outcry — best quote: "like you were going to write Finnegans Wake on someone's wall or some shit?" #

February 17, 2009

Steal This Film, The Trial Edition — early cut of the anti-copyright documentary's third part; see part 1 and part 2 on Google Video (via) #

Facebook's TOS changes compared to MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, and more — while I'm sure Mark means well, Facebook's lawyers are still overreaching (via) #

Washington Post profile of 4chan's moot — they spend four pages in backstory, leaving the interesting personal stuff for the last page (via) #

The Trilogy Tomatometer — inspired by Dan Meth's charts, Darren Levy fulfilled my Lazyweb request #

February 16, 2009

The Trilogy Meter — I'd love to see a version redone using ratings from Rotten Tomatoes #

TorrentFreak summarizes the Pirate Bay's first day in court — their coverage is great; also, their writeup of the press conference #

Nate Silver predicts the Oscar winners — or: how to ruin an Oscar pool (via) #

February 15, 2009

The Simpsons' new HD title sequence — airing in HD for the first time tonight (via) #

NYT's Article Skimmer prototype — I find this much more usable than the homepage (via) #

February 13, 2009

Yo-Yo Ma Shreds — in the style of StSanders (via) #

Pirate Bay trial starts Monday in Stockholm — BitTorrent trackers don't host any infringing material, but clearly aid infringement; should be an interesting trial #

February 12, 2009

Twitter's "Don't Click" clickjacking, explained — the most coherent explanation and how Twitter resolved it #

Winners of Information Aesthetics' paper-based visualization competition — Charlene Lam's Petals and Britta's watercolor map are particularly nice (via) #

February 11, 2009

Compression artifact art in Chairlift's "Evident Utensil" music video — yes, it's supposed to look like that (via) #

Slyck interviews Giganews, the most popular Usenet provider — it's up to 5 terabytes of new uploads per day, with no signs of slowing #

Kittens, Inspired by Kittens — it's like Lolcats narrated by a 6-year-old girl (via) #

WhatTheFont released as free iPhone app — take a photo, discover the font instantly (via) #

Antiques Roadshow 2550 — I'd like to see someone doing serious scifi in 5-10 minute shorts, like Twilight Zone for YouTube #

Kevin Kelly on hackers and technology in the Amish community — some first-hand mythbusting #

February 10, 2009

Bohemian Deconstruction — Eric Kleptone sources his massive Bohemian Rhapsody mashup #

Buster McLeod's history of the Morale-o-Meter — he's been gaming his life for years; every post on his new blog about enjoyment is great (via) #

The Pepsi Gravitational Field — supposed internal document explaining the Pepsi logo redesign; quite possibly a joke (via) #

Chad After Dentist — also, the WSJ tracked down the boy and his father #

Jonathan Coulton on The Setup — YACHT's interview ended up causing a big controversy when he admitted to pirating audio software #

IHT on the reinvention of Newsweek — "If we don't have something original to say, we won't." (via) #

February 9, 2009

Torrentfreak on internal drama on a private BitTorrent tracker — piracy takes effort so it's natural, but still amusing, to see the scene get upset over leaks #

Funky bass lines in the Sonic the Hedgehog series — Dan argues the 16-bit era changed the way composers thought about arranging music #

Elizabeth Gilbert's TED talk on creative genius and the muse — very inspiring talk, she received a standing ovation #

Google Sync beta comes to iPhone and Windows Mobile — using Exchange, wirelessly pushes changes from your Google contacts and calendar #

Smarterware, Gina Trapani's new blog — after leaving Lifehacker, a "slower pace and a more personal approach to online publishing" #

Supercut of every profanity in The Sopranos — added to the list (via) #

Take Away Show with Tom Jones — I'm a little surprised they didn't leave the hotel room #

James Duncan Davidson fought off a mugger trying to take his TED badge — "All I know is that he didn't want money. He wanted access." #

February 8, 2009

The Lonely Island's "I'm On A Boat" in HD — get your towels ready, it's about to go down (via) #

February 6, 2009

Ridethrough of revamped "It's A Small World" with added Disney characters — they added stylized versions of at least 25 Disney characters to the ride #

Wired on MIT's wearable computing project with interactive displays — demonstrated at TED, these video demos are very clever #

February 5, 2009

Boston Phoenix digs up off-color MP3s from Barack Obama's audiobook — April has the clips with an inline player #

Bill Gates talks about ending malaria at TED 2009 — the only TED video released so far; he unleashes the mosquitoes at 5:06 #

Fake parking ticket leads to malware download — malicious spam leaking into real life (via) #

_why on the Art & Code conference for young hackers — created by Golan Levin, who spoke at TED today; here's his 2004 talk #