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March 31, 2004
Kinja scheduled to launch tomorrow (digests of subject-specific weblogs for new readers) [via]
4th Annual Chatterbox Challenge (you can play with all the chatbot entries!)
Altavista switched to Yahoo's database (the former king of all search engines is dead)
Recipe error could cause kitchen explosions (sounds like Swedish Lemon Angels) [via]
Google launching Gmail, free 1GB webmail? (official temp page, and not an April Fool's prank) [via]
Boston Globe on modchips (not just for piracy, chips are used for homebrew games and apps) [via]
Book deal for dragon hoax author (created by a professional creature effects studio) [via]
Sound of Magic, tribute to Disney theme park music (amazing site with tons of interesting MP3 downloads)
Letterman clip and the White House reaction (very entertaining clips and response)
Ashcroft creates task force for copyright violations (I'm hoping this is an early April Fool's joke)
Toronto court rules music sharing legal under Canadian copyright law (plus, the Canadian RIAA can't subpoena ISPs for names)
Popular Mechanics cover gallery (from 1902 to 2004) [via]
Historical relationship of height to success (a society's height is a biological shorthand for well-being) [via]
Shirky on micro-social software tailored to small groups (not all software should be built to scale) [via]
March 30, 2004
Technorati hits 2 million blogs (I noticed it this morning, but was waiting from comments by Dave)
Newsmap, Google News visualization (size and color indicates importance and freshness) [via]
Yahoo's Tim Koogle to replace Jon Abrams as Friendster CEO? (he's a Nazi you know) [via]
Peanut Butter Terror Time (the Dept. of Homeland Security's terror alert banana) [via]
Obsessive list of "stinking badges" references (badges badges badges, mushroom mushroom) [via]
Video: Zelda Dance Party (Japanese rap, cosplay, dancing, and puppets!)
March 29, 2004
Frequency chart of "blog" and "weblog" in daily newspapers ("blog" is much more commonplace than "weblog" now) [via]
Socialight, wireless social networks (use your cell phone to gesture to people or annotate physical places) [via]
Video: Zefrank rant on Friendster and social networks (sarcastic and smooth) [via]
Aaron's technical description of iTunes Music Store and DRM (with a link back to my original thread about their encryption) [via]
Leaked Catwoman and Spiderman 2 trailers (Catwoman looks laughably bad, I'm mirroring it locally)
Create your own iPod adventure games (more like "choose your own adventure" stories than interactive fiction) [via]
Heavy metal umlaut [via]
Gameboy Advance programming tutorial (excellent crash course to creating a Pong clone) [via]
FunHi, camgirl-ish gift economy (the motives driving the site are unusual)
Google Web Alerts (get notified of new pages matching search terms) [via]
Charlie Brown, existentialist (The Great Pumpkin represents the absence of God) [via]
Blogger gets a big icon on Google's new Options page (here's a list of all the new Google changes)
March 28, 2004
Songs about robots, MP3 mix tape (the only mix tape with both tATu and Kompressor) [via]
After Celebrity, the bizarre world of Livejournal celebrity role-playing (they even have their own set of rules)
Audioscrobbler adds support for Windows iTunes
Extinct Disneyland Attractions DVDs (these vintage Disneyland home movies are great, too) [via]
Flash: Warthog, alien car exposion game (I can't get past level 38)
NYT on web vigilantes (sums up last week's trend)
Guardian UK on Citizen Kubrick (amazing glimpse into Kubrick's personal archives and library) [via]
March 27, 2004
Nintendo confirms NES GBA reissues (the $20 games are a rip-off, but I must have the NES-style GBA) [via]
Far Cry's hostile copy protection (installer won't run if a virtual drive app is also installed)
Community recording Lessig's "Free Culture" as an audiobook (sign up for a chapter) [via]
Blogroll as a fractal (I need to modify the Levitated source to make my own) [via]
March 26, 2004
Reflections of a Texas prison cook (he prepared the last meals for over 300 executions) [via]
Stay Free interviews Rick Prelinger (of the Prelinger archives)
Screenshot leak of Gamecube Online? (I guess I'll found out at E3 in May)
Kottke tries the Times Square racing game (read more about it at Gothamist)
Blogspot and Ben Brown's balls (he dipped his balls in it)
Sippey on the layout of the big three travel sites (homepage maps of Expedia, Orbitz, and Travelocity)
Bento box character photos (Japanese food turned into cute creatures) [via]
Sony shows first PSP in-game footage (looks like Death Jr. was heavily inspired by Grim Fandango) [via]
Hide your valuables in fake dirty underwear (add a couple Doo Drops to complete the illusion) [via]
The Method of Developing ICO (the design process of my favorite PS2 game) [via]
EV1 CEO has second thoughts about SCO deal (he publicly says he shouldn't have done it, in hindsight)
Half-Life 2 physics engine ported to PSP (the Playstation Portable is powerful enough to handle Havok?)
March 25, 2004
Screenshots and videos of new Xbox 2 tech demos (a bit underwhelming, really) [via]
Free Culture, Lessig's new book available for download (I'm a bit behind on the memes today, sorry) [via]
Flash: Yacht.shtml (video game core dump music video) [via]
Audio: Comprehensive English Supplemental Audio #19a (you must listen to this right now) [via]
Exercise guru Richard Simmons cited for assault (let's drop our bags and rock to the '50s!) [via]
Wired News on the InfocomBot (now if only AOL would stop kicking it off the network)
Google Voice Search Demo (search Google by phone) [via]
TiVo plans commercial on demand (view extended ad content linked from ads using the TiVo remote)
March 24, 2004
Speak & Spell simulator (silly nostalgic fun)
BannedMusic.org, Downhill Battle's virtual record label (distributing banned albums with BitTorrent) [via]
First Danger Hiptop 2 pictures (it looks like candy)
Jack Valenti retiring from the MPAA (it'll be hard to find a bigger jerk to replace him, but I'm sure they'll succeed) [via]
March 23, 2004
Guide to Indie-Rock Hair (Julian Casablancas as Vinnie Barbarino) [via]
Paul Ford redesigns Ftrain.com (finally, a site that takes advantage of my 2048x1536 resolution)
Real Networks' CEO urges Apple to open iPod (Rob Glaser, champion of open platforms!)
Unreal 2004 cheaters will have their CD keys banned (hopefully, they won't spoof the serials from unbought copies) [via]
The Science of Eternal Sunshine (SBJ digs into the subtleties of memory erasing) [via]
NES Mini in the U.S.? (20th anniversary NES nostalgia for the GBA)
Recovering data from discarded hard drives for fun (maybe you'll end up with a celebrity's hard drive!) [via]
Pricewatch's $10,000 t-shirt contest entries (hardware geeks and Photoshop don't mix (except for #193 and #174); here's the rules)
Black on Black, Jay-Z vs Metallica mash-up (download the whole album with BitTorrent) [via]
Typekey FAQ answers all questions (naturally, Winer isn't satisfied)
March 22, 2004
A Brief Conversation with the Blogosphere (or: if Blogdex could talk)
Cameron interviews the "Nanniebot" (seems like an obvious fraud to me, confirming suspicions)
3D rendering of Back to the Future's Hill Valley in 1955 (the entire town square and Marty's hoverboard, all made with Sketchup)
New Technorati beta site (much more pleasant to look at) [via]
Worldbuilder, Lego real-time strategy game (from the brilliant designers at Gamelab) [via]
Mark Pilgrim's hilarious rant on Typekey (he's taken sarcasm to new undiscovered heights)
March 21, 2004
Do we really use only 10% of our brains? (well... no.) [via]
A Prayer for the Part-Time BBS (there were several evening-only BBSes in the 818 and 805)
Criminals follow laws of statistics (crime rates follow power laws) [via]
Adam Gessaman on the Typekey backlash (I agree with everything he said)
Video: Night of the Living Dead (the entire movie is freely available on Archive.org!) [via]
Poker probability calculator (using one of the more esoteric open-source projects I've ever seen) [via]
Sarah Champion on being mistaken for Belle du Jour (LinkMachineGo is keeping tabs on the story as it develops) [via]
Dept. of Homeland Security's "Entertainment Liaison Office" job description (they're looking for an insider to control Hollywood's portrayal of the DHS)
March 20, 2004
The Untitled Project, urban photos stripped of all typography (too bad the typefaces only rarely match) [via]
eBay vigilantes fight auction fraud (looks like it's vigilante week on the web) [via]
Video: One-legged Dance Dance Revolution (he came in second place according to this thread) [via]
Yahoo's Web Rank (their version of Google's Pagerank, only viewable from their toolbar) [via]
Image: Left arrow (note the URL and filename) [via]
March 19, 2004
Typekey, central authentication for blog comments (not limited to MovableType blogs, either) [via]
Scientific American on Tetris dreams (I think everyone with the first generation Gameboy experienced this) [via]
LOAF, social network filtering for e-mail (Maciej and Joshua's idea to filter mail by sharing your entire address book) [via]
Kema.com's entire vinyl series (this is some of the most entertaining research I've ever seen online)
Unreal 2004's hidden toilet vehicle (the developers have a sense of humor) [via]
USA Today compares Orkut and ICQ Universe (short version: Orkut wins) [via]
Vigilante group entraps and exposes online pedophiles (the story of one person's exposure, here's their official site)
Anti-piracy vigilantes track P2P users (they're logging and publishing the IP addresses of everyone that runs the fake cracks) [via]
SketchUp, sketch-based 3D design software (I wish all 3D FPS level editors were like this) [via]
March 18, 2004
On gay characters in videogames [via]
Yetisports 3, Seal Bounce (much better than the last game) [via]
Sports Illustrated's digital photo workflow (a glimpse into a major magazine's editing process) [via]
Doom, the board game (great, but can I kill zombies with a shotgun?)
100 most mispronounced words in the English language (Febyuary, nucular, sherbert, and other verbage) [via]
Secret Service affidavit on Fox Entertainment's movie piracy bust (fascinating details of how they caught a pirating employee)
Jeffrey Veen doesn't care about accessibility (his SXSW notes are great reading for anyone who designs for the web)
Unreal 2004 comes on six CDs and takes up 5.5 gigs (time to start distributing games on DVDs, I guess)
People kissed by Min Jung at SXSW (she really gets around) [via]
Degree Confluence Project world maps (snapshots from every degree intersection in the world) [via]
Eyezmaze's Vanilla growing game (from the same guy that made Grow) [via]
March 17, 2004
Google Pagerank Tool (enter in URLs to find out their pagerank) [via]
Video: Immortel trailer (intense looking French sci-fi, reminds me of the Casshern trailer) [via]
The Pink Lady of Malibu Canyon
Image: Goatse reference in Unreal 2004 (okay, no more goatse links) [via]
Dating goes wireless with MIT Media Lab's Serendipity (social networking with proximity alerts)
Morse code hidden in music (the rhythm for the Rush song "YYZ" spells those letters in Morse)
United Media's lawyers C&Ded everyone hosting the "Hey Ya" Charlie Brown video (copy of the cease and desist, and my local mirror of the video)
Corante's great series on broadcatching news (RSS + BitTorrent = broadcatching)
Friendster CEO Jon Abrams' keynote at SXSW (Matt and Danah think he's a bit of an ass)
Translation guide for Perl and PHP (very handy, bookmarked for later) [via]
Google integrates localized search with live search results (for example, "donuts santa monica")
March 16, 2004
Maciej hacks Russian literature (geeks eat books for breakfast)
Great roundup of old ZX Spectrum software found on vinyl albums (including the Thompson Twins graphic adventure game!) [via]
BitTorrent gains corporate support (Blizzard and Valve are using it for distribution)
Ask Dr. Michael, the 8-year-old advice columnist
Lifeline, Konami's voice recognition game for the PS2 (the official site isn't very good, but the game sounds strangely good) [via]
Starbucks opens first music cafe in U.S. (three blocks away from me, I'm heading over there to see Rufus play)
CNN on the Gameboy DS (free wireless gaming and local IM capabilities over RF) [via]
I, Lobot (the Star Wars geeks have a sense of humor)
ScummVM 0.6.0 released (now supports all of Lucasarts' SCUMM-based games)
Space Lane, vertical panoramic artwork [via]
Outdated web design cliches (someone should put every one of these on one page)
Comic books coming to the GBA in Japan (distributed by kiosks that write to blank cartridges) [via]
March 15, 2004
iLife '84 (it's like Microsoft Works for the rest of your life)
Stewart answers questions by random AIM users (hilarity ensues) [via]
DevilFinder, high-res image searching (for example, searches for atari and piracy)
40-page Mac ad from 1984's Newsweek (Apple bought every page of advertising in the Nov/Dec 1984 issue)
Blik, wall graphic decals (their entire collection is nice) [via]
Image: Goatree (I've been on the web too long)
Not the 100th Strongbad E-mail (for real) [via]
Jokes cut from SNL's Weekend Update (appeared in dress rehearsals, but cut from the show for various reasons) [via]
Jay-Zeezer, the Black Album meets Weezer's Blue Album (thanks to the Jay-Z Construction Kit) [via]
ArtRage, freeware painting package for Windows (very nicely simulates paint on a canvas) [via]
Video: iPod^3 virtual reality of The Shining's Overlook Hotel (I suspect 3D games will eventually look this good) [via]
March 14, 2004
Snopes on nameless TV characters (Colombo, Quincy, Agent 99, Mr. Big, and more)
GBAFrotz, text adventure parser for your GBA (play Infocom or almost any other IF game)
NYT profile of Kerry Conran, Sky Captain's creator (watch the oddball trailer) [via]
Nintendo launching wireless GBA hotspots in Japan (JoySpot goes live in two weeks at retail locations throughout the country) [via]
Julia Robert busted for crack cocaine possession (she claims she doesn't know where it came from!) [via]
Ausdioscrobbler Browser (Java visualization for their excellent music similarity engine) [via]
Dave Johnson's 7-year-old son started a weblog ("when we got home daddy lock us outside") [via]
The Dunbar Number and Online Communities (great analysis of the size limits of social groups) [via]
Windows OS anime fan art
March 13, 2004
NYT on the DARPA Grand Challenge results (Wired has more and Mike Elgan was there)
Insanely fast typing game (a compelling reason to learn touch typing) [via]
Celebrity voice talent with MP3 samples (highlights include Dan Castellaneta, Marlon Brando, and Debbie Gibson) [via]
U.S. targets hackers for selective military draft (what a wonderfully awful idea) [via]
Presidential campaign in The Sims Online (like any society, The Sims continues to self-organize) [via]
Exercises in Style (one comic, done 30 different ways)
Everquest Daily Grind (testimonials from the disgruntled spouses of Everquest addicts) [via]
March 12, 2004
Sideloading, sending files to remote locations (I wish this was built into operating systems)
Linux kernel swear counts (graphing the profanity in the Linux source code over time) [via]
Metafilter Stats updated through February 2004 (I posted my analysis to MetaTalk)
Dangermouse explains how he created the Grey Album (every element of the background beats and music were Beatles samples) [via]
Lego remake of Super Mario Land for the Gameboy (much shorter video by the same guy)
Shot-for-shot Lego remake of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" (here's a local mirror of the 35MB WMV) [via]
Jack Berg Sales, vintage merchandise mint in box (the Atari shirts, toys, and radios are all great) [via]
"Golden Tee" tournament fraud exposed (a team hacked the arcade golf game's centralized score database to win $20k in prizes)
Nintendo patents handheld emulation, threatens to sue GBA emulator (good luck with that, Nintendo) [via]
Red Swoosh finally launches (News.com covers the launch of the ex-Scour crew's new company)
March 11, 2004
David Siegel's "I ruined the web" article from 1997 (surprisingly good foresight from the creator of the High Five Awards) [via]
China orders their largest blog service to shut down (looks like they complied) [via]
The Passion of the Curly (Curly was beaten for our enjoyment) [via]
Boing Boing switches to Movable Type! (finally, individual archives!)
Why You Should Use Upcoming.org (btw, I'm launching iCal support later tonight)
Painful XHTML/CSS jokes (you've been warned) [via]
Starbucks to provide in-store CD burning (they're building a new Hear Music store two blocks away, with a Starbucks inside) [via]
Leaked Nintendo DS handheld spec includes touchscreen, wireless, and 3D (what, no cell phone, camera or can opener?) [via]
Unsolicited advice for the new father (also: I adjusted Meconium.org to reflect the real definition)
Banned words for the Bush/Cheney sign generator [via]
Reverse engineering Marble Madness's design (see also: the same author's article on isometric view theory) [via]
Ad agency spoofs porn sites and webrings for web campaign (clever marketing, and 100% hot "pot noodle" action) [via]
Tracking social networking in Shakespeare's plays (meet me in #hamlet, d00d) [via]
Wired News on Salon's survival (isn't Wired News struggling to survive, too?)
Demor, an audio-only first person shooter for the blind (tracks your position and direction you're facing) [via]
March 10, 2004
Overclosking your Sega Genesis (sure, but can you overclock an NES for the slowdowns in Metroid?) [via]
Corante on BitTorrent plus RSS (these unofficial feeds for Suprnova and Torrentz are a great example of "broadcatching" in action)
Writeup of the Orkut launch party (it was over a month ago, but it's a good piece) [via]
Major label exec doesn't like being called evil (also: Magnatune is not evil) [via]
Orwellian Newspeak Dictionary (there's a doubleplusgood modern version, too)
Blogs eroding traditional news sites (News.com's overall ranking is dropping)
SharedID, centralized web authentication (neat idea, but the charging for more than 10k monthly uniques makes me nervous) [via]
Feel the awesomeness of THOR! (experience the raw power of John Mikl Thor)
Rasterbator (make poster-sized half-tone prints of any image online) [via]
NYC woman gets Chris Rock's old cell phone number, hilarity ensues (she chats with Jack Nicholson, Ken Burns, Spike Lee, Adam Sandler, and more) [via]
March 9, 2004
EFF sues the FCC about the Broadcast Flag (Cory's enthusiasm is contagious) [via]
Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Earthlink to make major announcement about spam (if this involves paying to send e-mail, I'm gonna throw up) [via]
Myst/Uru license plate conspiracy (great research from the game community) [via]
Hack a Super Mario cart to remove everything but clouds (the gameplay may suffer a little, though) [via]
RIAA must sue file sharers one at a time (no more mass lawsuits) [via]
Unusual baseball cards [via]
Good roundup of MP3 blogs (blogs that regularly put free MP3s online) [via]
March 8, 2004
EV1 underestimated reaction of SCO licensing (also, SCO and Microsoft have a lot more 'splaining to do) [via]
Typographica's amazing photo gallery of Disneyland sign lettering (also: this handy guide to Disney typefaces)
Excellent contest entries to redesign Project Gutenberg (part of the ongoing Version 2 redesign series) [via]
Stewart Brand Future Unclear (gotta love those digerati in-jokes)
"Janet and Justin Half-Time" Barbie dolls [via]
Sleeves, t-shirts that make you look tattooed (clever idea for wimps who want to look badass) [via]
Matt Haughey mixes Jay-Z with Kenny G (Kenny-Z is Satan's music)
Image: Epworth Methodist Church on the Passion of the Christ [via]
March 7, 2004
Witchcraft goes online in small Mexican town (where e-commerce meets shamanism) [via]
Flash: Korean toilet cartoon (with translation) [via]
Atari 2600 to USB adapter (use your 2600 joysticks on your PC for only $30) [via]
Spam Glam (clip art images culled from spam e-mails)
March 6, 2004
Bookmarklet to toggle Google's new look [via]
How Superman's "Clark Kent" disguise really worked (his Kryptonian glasses enhanced his low-level hypnotic gaze)
SomethingAwful's Product Placement of the Christ (very offensive fun with Photoshop)
Video Game Jam (guitar and bass tablature for an assortment of platforms) [via]
Reinvigorate, free and gorgeous real-time website stats (I've been playing with this for the last couple days, the timezone chart is clever) [via]
Tomas gets another insider e-mail from Real Networks (this is shaping up to be a classic story of bad management)
Statue of Mickey Mouse dressed like Janet Jackson (Disney just discontinued it because of the Superboob scandal, it's not listed on the site anymore) [via]
Slashster, Friendster for Slashdot users (the source code is available) [via]
Painting with Baskin Robbins' Radical Blast drinks (it's even more fun after you eat it!)
A peek at script kiddie culture (a security admin infiltrates the scripting scene) [via]
March 5, 2004
Patent office nullifies Eolas plugin patent (good riddance) [via]
Tomas gets a response from Real (an anonymous employee forwarded him an internal memo)
Sam & Max creator responds to Lucasarts' game cancellation [via]
John Romero confirms the N-Gage 2 (he should port Daikatana to it) [via]
Hilary Rosen joins fight against marriage amendment (I guess she's not all bad) [via]
The "Google Friends" mailing list is hosted by Yahoo (delicious irony) [via]
O'Reilly may launch "Make," a hacking lifestyle mag
The Exorcist in 30 Seconds, with bunnies [via]
The American People (Greg Knauss' new mini-project) [via]
CSS replacement for image slicing rollovers (damn cool trick)
One fanboy's quest to develop River City Ransom 2 for the GBA (he bought the trademark, but backed down when another developer stepped in) [via]
HP's Blog Epidemic Analyzer (visualization of meme/link propagation, like the Star Wars Kid video)
Interface issues in store self-checkout machines (brilliant and detailed breakdown, and how it relates to the web)
Popular bloggers borrow from less popular sites without attribution (I'm going to add a "via" field to my links sidebar someday)
Girl Watcher, vintage cheesecake scans (neat typography and clip art in 1959's precursor to Maxim)
The Clownsweater Project (via Mr. Pants)
March 4, 2004
John Kerry on Friendster (John Edwards too, and they're both real)
Yoshimi Battles the Hip Hop Robots (Flaming Lips remixes, here's boogah's mirror)
Ted Jesus Christ GOD (Ted thinks he's the next messiah and is spreading the word through spam)
Designing death in multiplayer online games (the NYT compares several different methods)
SounderCover, fake background noise for cell phones (simulate a traffic jam, dentist visit, incoming call, or thunderstorm)
Ask Jeeves buys Excite, IWon, MyWay (who knew Ask Jeeves had $150m cash to blow?)
Nice L.A. Times article about Mark Allen's Machine art gallery (my friend Mark does neat things)
Far Side cartoons made real (some of these are amazing)
History of the Penguin Yeti game (also: I didn't know Reinhold Messner was a real person)
Lessig on the piracy roots of media (film, music, radio, and cable TV all evaded copyright law)
SCO internal e-mail reveals Microsoft is funding their war against Linux/Unix (SCO would be at least $15m in debt today without Microsoft's $86m)
March 3, 2004
The Double Black Album (remixing Jay-Z's Black Album with Metallica's Black Album)
Typographic Illustrations set to music (I like Garamond the best)
LucasArts cancels Sam & Max sequel (first Full Throttle and now this!?)
Jay-Z Construction Set (make your own Black Album remix)
Flash: Demon Ball, simple mini-game (51 18 seconds is my current best)
Lookout search plugin for Outlook (like an integrated version of X1, but it comes highly recommended)
Gameboy Advance SP: Girls Edition (released in Spain only, with a list of Spanish games targeted at girls)
NYT op-ed makes a case for a Kerry/Clinton ticket (Bill, not Hillary)
Historical speech synthesis sound clips (would you like to play a game of chess?)
POV-Ray Short Code Contest 3 entries (amazing what POV-Ray can render with only 256 bytes)
Video: Innuendo episode from "Rainbow," an '80s UK kids' show
Ludicorp's ETCon presentation on Relationship-Based Computing
March 2, 2004
Friends or Enemies? (I wish there was an answer key, via Kottke)
The Truth for Youth (hilarious religious comic books on evolution, rock music, porn, and more)
Movie Alphabet Quiz (I have the full answers, if you want them)
Pete “Gizmodo” Rojas is now at Engadget (Om sums it up nicely)
Justin Hall freely publishes his Tokyo guidebook online (download and read the PDF)
Salon interview with arcade pioneer Eugene Jarvis (he talks about "Target: Terror," the modern version of "N.A.R.C.")
Passion of the Christ blooper reel
MTV's 120 Minutes playlist archive (sorely missed, via Cap'n Design)
XTC's Partridge did the theme to new Fox series (via Stereogum)
Microwaved $20 bills (the Slashdot comments are funny)
EV1 CEO responds to SCO licensing critics
March 1, 2004
EV1 Servers customers discuss the SCO licensing (all of us are rightfully upset)
Lessig recollects his Eldred loss ("How I Lost the Big One" is a sad story)
Lawrence Welk Fashion Police (from this oddball Welk fan page, with an 11 page scrapbook and fan fiction)
NYT: Report Raises Questions About Fighting Online Piracy ("bits are not the same as atoms")
Audio: Decemberists cover Bjork's "Human Behavior"
Social software in a box (start your own Friendster for $280, cheap)
iPod Battery Pack hack (two AA and two 9-volt batteries give about 10 hours of extra battery life)
GBA Time Machine preview (plug your old NES carts into your GBA)
EV1Servers agrees to license Linux from SCO (my ISP is making a really bad decision)
Tufte's Sparklines, intense word-size graphics (it took a second reading to understand the concept, but very practical and good)
Video: What if real life was like the Internet? (from Chappelle's Show)
The Kicker stops publishing (ex-Gawker Liz Spiers weblog for New York magazine is no more)