January 29, 2004
Video: David Bradley explains the origins of Ctrl-Alt-Del
— and disses a pissed-off looking Bill Gates in the process #
RealNetworks teams with Heineken for free song giveaways
— logical, since you'd have to be drunk to choose RealAudio #
Video: Pepsi's iTunes commercial
— putting young faces to the statistics can't be good for the RIAA's PR campaign #
Microsoft recommends manually typing all URLs
— a great solution to Internet Explorer's URL spoofing vulnerability #
Currency of the lost Victorian colony of Nadiria
— beautiful designs, I like the $91 dollar bills best #
Wired profiles The Minibosses, the best NES cover band
— sadly, their new homepage removed most of the MP3, but try here #
MPAA's "Internet Enforcement" Manager job listing
— Working knowledge of DMCA and copyright law preferred #
Classic Sierra adventure games on the GBA
— King's Quest, Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and more #
Julian Dibbell sold his virtual house
— a castle for only $600? that's it, I'm moving to Brittania #
PocketNES author developing an SNES emulator for the GBA
— here's an 8MB video of Super Mario World gameplay #
Interview with Streamcast CEO about Morpheus
— the new version leeches off other P2P networks, but they blame Kazaa #
Seattle newspaper customizes their homepage by time of day
— big news in the morning, lighter stories after lunch #
Torrents.us, an anonymous open BitTorrent tracker
— if you want to create your own torrents, this is a good bet #
Justin Frankel resigns from AOL and Nullsoft
— happened Friday morning, but I haven't seen this anywhere #
Orkut down for improvements
— probably wise, considering the security issues and current criticisms #