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November 30, 2003
Roy Disney's letter of resignation to Eisner (Big Trouble in Magic Kingdom)
Collection of CNN's awful clip art (my personal favorite)
Veen explains why del.icio.us is so great
BitTorrent over DNS (a really bad idea)
Ancient Roman 20-sided die (where's the ancient Roman D&D Monster Manual?)
Super Mario Bros. 1 tricks video (103MB AVI, exploits every bug in the game)
November 29, 2003
Penny Arcade on the Japanese release of Medal of Honor: Rising Sun (Gamespot has responses from uncomfortable Japanese gamers)
Seagate predicts $200 terabyte drives in two years
Alex the Parrot goes online (those wacky Media Lab guys)
Rick Bain's Pet Sounds tribute (played all instruments and sang every vocal)
Japanese police make first file-sharing arrests
Demeter Fragrance Library (smell like creme brulee, dirt, or a laundromat)
November 28, 2003
Folk-rock band organizing living-room tour online (living-room concerts for small bands seem to be catching on)
Cinemorgue (obsessive collection of actors that die in movies, with screen grabs)
Anonymous Mefi member buys Matt a $1000 camera (he's the new Ghyslain)
Superstar, the Karen Carpenter biopic told with Barbie dolls (download the whole movie)
Origami models of Nintendo characters
Quake 3 Trickjumping tutorials
November 27, 2003
Electric Sheep's Thanksgiving special (mmm, GMO turkey)
Matt turning on new user signups for Metafilter (new users will be moderated by a Mefi cabal)
Big Mouth Billy Bass video conferencing (the silliest hardware hacking project of the year)
3D filesystem viewer for Unix (as seen in Jurassic Park, almost)
World's cutest kittens (the original cliche kitty, old but good)
Mighty Morphin Power Bloggers (blame Joi Ito)
November 26, 2003
More NES speed videos (Contra in 13 minutes, Mega Man 2 walkthrough, etc)
Segway's first hit-and-run (flees the scene after hitting a three-year-old girl)
NYT on Danah Boyd and Friendster
Macronaut graphic demo in Flash
Smoking advocate testifies, then suffers fatal coronary (to be fair, he was 70)
DeCSS Jon's response to QTFairUse backlash
Making sense of the recent Google update (spam-blocking efforts blow out many commercial sites)
FOAF splinters into 10 competing efforts (I'll be joining FOAM shortly)
John Hinckley's letter to Jodie Foster (written a few hours before he shot Reagan)
MTV celebrity profiles (they're seeding their message boards with pre-created accounts for celebs and VJs)
Lil Markie's Diary of an Unborn Child (adorably creepy anti-abortion propaganda)
November 25, 2003
MovableType security hole exploited by spammers (rename, delete or patch it ASAP)
Inaugural speeches from other action heroes (Thundercats Ho!)
Beating Super Mario 3 in 11 minutes (18MB Windows Media, absolutely amazing (mirror))
Treo 600 logo modding (change the carrier logo to Hal from 2001)
Physical theories as women
Arnold one-liners (You’re luggage)
Unfortunate book cover design (in other news: Jackie Collins fires graphic designer)
Treo 600 for $250 ($350 off regular price)
Domain registrations for pets (flashback to 1998!)
Deadlock (great online comic on Other People's Stories)
November 24, 2003
Massively multiplayer sweatshops (Florida company employs 65 Chinese workers to deliver virtual goods 24/7)
Gamecube w/Zelda for $80 (suffer through Wal-Mart, though)
Archive.org offers to host MP3.com's files (Brewster Kahle's whuffie keeps soaring)
Andrew Dice Clay on CNN (more info at the NY Post)
1-Dimensional Tetris (much easier than 4D Tetris)
MP3s of Yamaha's singing synthesis software (not as talented as 386-DX)
Amazon recommendations for Michael Jackson's "Number Ones" (screenshot, in case they fix it)
iPod's dirty secret (disgruntled iPod user takes it to the streets)
Last Words of Texas Executions (I'm haunted by all the pleas of innocence)
November 23, 2003
Leonard's roundup of Treo 600 blog compatibility (kottke.org reboots it, waxy.org looks a-okay!)
November 22, 2003
Right-Justified Fixed-Width Text (I used to format all my BBS posts like this, from 1989-1994)
QTFairUse (attempt to circumvent iTunes DRM, download)
Toronto man charged with wardriving (pull over next time, perv)
Flip Flap (deceptively simple game)
November 21, 2003
Retooling Slashdot for Web Standards (the flawless redesign looks just as ugly as the original!)
BitTorrent distribution of Matrix Revolutions (8500 simultaneous connections at its peak)
Cat in the Hat bad review revue (many, many more on Rotten Tomatoes)
LATimes on hacking culture (very hacker-positive)
The Periodic Table of Comic Books (references to every element in the comics)
Lazy Meadow, 1950s-style motel (created by B-52s singer Kate Pierson)
Atari 2600's Mind Maze (unreleased game, controlled by your thoughts)
Clichewatch: Phil Spector, Millionaire
November 20, 2003
RIAA sues 15-year-old Seattle girl ($3,500 settlement, or $825,000 in court)
USC to offer a minor in video games (curriculum includes modeling, animation, programming, development and production)
Robot Wisdom takes a nap (hasn't updated since early October; is Jorn alive?)
Clay Aiken and Jessica Simpson at McDonald's (practicing for their future careers)
Bayesian categorization of weblog content (anyone want to make it an MT plugin?)
Fresh Air interview with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (Terry Gross says "poop")
Decoding the psychedelics in Kubrick's 2001 (determining the original images of the slit scans)
Lt. Gov. Novoselic (Nirvana bass player may run for office)
b3ta on the Victorian Internet
Visual guide to navigating blog comments (plus nifty reply alerts by e-mail)
Amiga intros/demos in DHTML (IE-only, unfortunately.)
Gaming Open Market (virtual world currency exchange)
Amazon album cover finder
November 19, 2003
PHP's clever autocomplete search form (try searching for something)
Barney's selling classic Mattel Football and Baseball (Mattel Football is one of the most boring games ever made)
Googlehouse, house built on Google Images (IE-only, I think)
Audio Lunchbox (DRM-free indie MP3 albums for sale)
Skinning in Seoul (I'd love to skin my GBA, or my car)
November 18, 2003
CBS News on Star Wars Kid (about six months too late, guys)
The Scannery investment search engine (searches 11,000 publicly traded companies)
World's oldest puzzle solved (Archimedes' box has 536 solutions)
Apple claims ownership of employee's freeware project (Netflix Fanatic manages your Netflix queue, mirrored here and here)
Automated news images (Google News, without the words)
November 17, 2003
Rumor Monger (Apple employee invents p2p messaging in 1990)
Microsoft's Matrix parody at Comdex keynote (features Gates as Morpheus, Ballmer as Neo, and a Linux diss)
MSN Newsbot (Microsoft's answer to Google News)
Desiderata, lovely Flash piece (by the people who did Paper Sky and UFO)
Review roundup on MobiTV (TV-on-cellphones service isn't too useful)
Send Them Back (send your MP3s back to the RIAA, via Dave)
Martin Amis' awkward attempts at e-mail shorthand (u should go @ it 40ssimo)
Uberman's sleep schedule (sleeping only three hours a night, without Provigil)
Conditional probability (like the Monty Hall problem, it's mathemagic)
iPod/iBook refinishing kit (turns brushed metal back into shiny goodness)
Blogrolling.com hacked (Jason says it was malicious)
IFComp '03 results are in (many people have reviewed all the entries)
eBay's founder invests several million in Meetup (explains their already-working revenue model)
NYT on Gawker Media
Yet Another Friendster Rip-Off (from the hotornot.com guys)
November 16, 2003
Arnold to be served lawsuit at inauguration (inaugural won't be inaugural)
Guardian UK on Nigerian counter-scammers (don't miss the Nigerian scammer portraits)
Computer geek on MTV's Made (and Mr. Brown comments in the thread)
Foot surgery to fit into high heels (foot binding for the 21st century)
November 15, 2003
Mark Pilgrim on comment spam (pessimistic but realistic scenario)
Art Rocks (artists design album covers for their favorite bands)
Tale of a failed LASIK surgery (swapped eye charts and surgical flaps)
November 14, 2003
Porn Sites Hiding Behind Blogs (nice detective work, Adam)
Heavy hail blankets Los Angeles (a very surreal scene in South Central)
Second Life recognizes ownership on user-created in-game objects (interesting Slashdot discussion)
DNS Report (good, free DNS tests)
Top Listmania Lists (Amazon sells silly stuff)
Stalking Chunk (Salon writer tracks down Goonies actor, from 2000)
CNN planted Mac vs PC debate question
SCO subpoenas Torvalds, Stallman (SCO is evil, evil, evil)
Let them sing it for you (text-to-song synthesis, example)
UI design for web applications
Jesse Ventura's official portrait (using The Thinker as an armrest)
US babies named after brands (I prefer programming languages)
Cnet buys MP3.com (they're dismantling the site)
November 13, 2003
Metroid Prime 100% speed run (video of entire game beaten in 1:37)
Creepy anime cosplay webcam (Sabrina is happy, but I'm scared)
Metababy is back (like a wiki, only clinically insane)
Livejournal now supports posting audio by phone
#1 downloaded single outsells #1 offline single (Outkast's "Hey Ya" marks a first in Billboard history)
Evite gets social
Evite 2.0 offers public events (sounds similar to Upcoming)
Streaming live TV on Sprint phones (more about MobiTV)
Metallica to voice Disney characters (stripping away what's left of their metal cred)
ProFont, great programming font (looks like the X Windows terminal)
One-night-stand finds out about blog (sex is complicated in the Internet age)
Beanie baby ex-wife followup (it was a clever ruse (cached))
36 1/2 inch flat screen (don't trust that man)
Ritz digital camera hacked (copy photos directly without paying for processing)
Nintendo launching new console next year? (very spare details, though)
Cat in the Hat merchandising
November 12, 2003
Goonies director developing sequel (that's what I said, booty trap!)
Kazaa starting print ad campaign (even more jarring than the recent Napster ads)
Threadless t-shirt contest (amazing submissions)
The Sixdegrees.com patent (sold to the highest bidder for $700k)
Battle of the social networking patents (LinkedIn and Tribe.net team up against Friendster)
Bombardier's Embrio vehicle (finally, a Segway with a seat)
CSS Vault (inspiring examples of CSS design)
November 11, 2003
First kiss in There.com
Amazon's Best Albums of 2003
Bulleted search results (obnoxious, like eBay listings)
UK band schedules concert in online game world (Steadman performing in There.com)
Instant Message Question Answerer (I get random questions like hers every few days)
How children perceive TiVo (without it, TV is "broken")
Mom Finds Out About Blog (the only thing scarier is when your mom starts her own blog)
N-Gage security cracked, games run on other phones (more details)
XGoogle, IRC search engine (search channel names, topics, and XDCC files)
Gameboy Advance programming with DevKit Advance (try GBA Dev for more news and info)
Underwear Boiling System (finally, an autoclave for undies)
Larry Flynt buys topless photos of Jessica Lynch
First Galaxies Jedi confirmed, hunted
November 10, 2003
Bender goes to Vegas (with blackjack and hookers)
Subversive Cross-Stitch (reminds me of indie sew kits)
Which Social Software are you? (it said I'm the Blogosphere, when I'm really Upcoming.org)
Postal Service ordered by government to change band name
Gothamist Events, powered by Upcoming.org (the announcement gives more detail)
Fleshbot launches (Gawker Media's porn weblog)
Harv's Friend (the story behind Harv Was There)
Berklee Shares, free music lessons (learn to shred)
Slashdot on Disney's move away from hand-drawn 2D art (when are they going to learn it's about the story, not the medium?)
November 9, 2003
Buddhist game (more fun than the Athiest game)
November 8, 2003
Entertaining review of There.com (don't miss the last screen grab)
Wired on Microsoft's Wallop
November 7, 2003
Supposed anti-spammer spams weblog comments (he spammed my site a couple hours ago)
Conversation with a weblog spammer (everyone should start sending invoices)
McDonald's/iTunes story was a rumor
RSS reader for the Hiptop
Belle du Jour (weblog of a London call girl)
New version of SharpReader (faster startup and lower memory footprint)
Reading On A Dream (guerilla musical theatre)
Searching for BitTorrents with Google
Cowardly senators duck Iraq funding vote (only six people showed up)
November 6, 2003
Democratic candidates prefer PCs over Mac (except Al Sharpton, go figure)
Web servers of presidential candidates (Sharpton on Solaris, Dean on FreeBSD)
Microsoft developing a "Flash-killer" (like Frontpage is a Dreamweaver-killer?)
Artificial evolution of walking motions (great video shows self-learning 3-D models)
McDonald's giving away a billion iTunes songs (too bad I'd rather go hungry than eat there)
Steve Ballmer's iPod (get on your feet)
November 5, 2003
It's A Man's World
Rise and Fall of the BBS (sad but beautiful graph)
Upcoming.org in the NYT (the first mainstream press for the site)
Plugging the RSS usability hole (using XSLT to make XML/RSS buttons accessible for newbies)
NYC Marathon Course Simulator (pit Puffy against Maciej, then toss in Martin Lel for fun)
Flash borders with MovableType (click on the dark blue background)
iTunes install disables MusicMatch (they warn about it, but it's still bad form)
Beijing store caters to left-handed people (he's like the Chinese Ned Flanders)
15 Trends in Logo Design (get yer cliches here!)
Cat disease alters human personalities (truly bizarre)
Wesley Clark on Outkast (from Rock the Vote's video contest)
Jakob Neilsen homepage redesign entries (some very nice work (1, 2, 3))
November 4, 2003
Maciej's NYC marathon recap (bloody nipples and feelin' groovy)
Sand painting video (your daily moment of zen)
Google indexing IRC channels? (Google vaguely acknowledges the effort)
Wired Blogs (their first blogger is Bruce Sterling)
Tenacious D begins 45-day hunger strike above Times Square (eat that, David Blaine!)
MTV planning to launch iTunes competitor (yet another entry in a crowded market)
November 3, 2003
Legal song downloads exceed CD single sales in US
iPod Halloween Costume (with optional drink holder)
Will L.A.'s real estate bubble burst? (grim outlook for first-time buyers)
Liveblogging childbirth via hospital WiFi
Insane video of point-blank shooting in Van Nuys (the lawyer dodges bullets like Neo)
Red Hat Linux Support to End (only supporting Red Hat Enterprise after April 2004)
More info about MIT's music sharing shutdown (don't miss the clueless record label quotes)
Masters of their universe (the history of Bell and Braben's classic space-sim, Elite)
Fox News didn't try to sue the Simpsons (I'm fair and balanced)
Economist on Google's future
HotelChatter (K5 Rusty's new site, collaborative hotel reviews)
iPim (designing the perfect microcontent client)
Crunching Friendster's numbers (a microcosm of the social software bubble)
Big Bang sounded like a deep hum (coming soon: Lucasfilm sues universe)
Wired's breathless cliches (a thing of the past)
Spike Jonze adapting Where the Wild Things Are (Tom Hanks and Maurice Sendak producing the live-action adaptation)
November 1, 2003
MIT shuts down alternative music-sharing (turned off the LAMP)
Time Travel Spammer Strikes Back (moral: don't mess with psychotic spammers)
Pumpkin Carving DRM