May 31, 2004

Sony shelving Fiona Apple's new album? — they don't know how to market the album, five years in the making #

Video: The Hitman, funny short film — more videos by Mary Lynn Rajskub, including Girls Guitar Club (via) #

Night vision goggles given to Harry Potter theater ushers — I guarantee it'll be available the same day of U.S. release, or before (via) #

Chankast 0.1 released, first working Dreamcast emulator — huge news, here's a compatibility list, screenshots, and FAQ #

Dale, "Meet You at the 7-11" — more found sound from Archive.org and Comfort Stand #

Paper arcade game models — the templates are at the bottom of the page (via) #

NYT on Microsoft's spam detectives (via) #

"Stairway to Stardom" Appreciation Page — video and audio from a long-running NYC cable access show #

May 30, 2004

Walken's "Gold Watch" monologue from Pulp Fiction #

NYT profile on Christopher Walken — he's an excellent cook #

Photos from the Mario vs DK ad shoot (via) #

Japanese collection of jazz album covers — also: vintage hi-fi magazines, mod interior design, and more (via) #

Photo gallery of Tokyo store window displays #

Flash video for the Beatles' "Come Together" — by the French geniuses at Melon Dezign #

Eye tracking videos — including tracking eye movements on Google results #

May 29, 2004

U.S. missiles in the 1960s had a default launch code of 00000000 — and everyone knew the password #

Lushe, search only the sites you like — build a list of sites, search within it (via) #

Mocky's "Mickey MMFRS," music video made entirely with Google Images (via) #

Colecovision emulator for the GBA released — download the beta (via) #

The Daibijin, Japanese PS2 game — defend Okinawa from a giant girl in a bikini #

Tutorial to searching and downloading files on IRC — using the IRCSpy search engine (via) #

Teen plots his own murder in chatroom — he created eight characters to convince an older boy to kill him (via) #

Interview with Will Harvey, founder of There.com #

CSS naming conventions on the websites of the pros — read the complete table (via) #

Audio tour of the Mac Plus #

Strawberry Saroyan on Apple Martin and other fruity name #

May 28, 2004

Image: Brandon Bird's "Lazy Sunday Afternoon" — my new Walken wallpaper, plus many more paintings #

Hasselhoff denies rap album rumors — Ice-T was joking about Hassel the Hoff #

Memory Hole website banned on U.S. Army PCs in Iraq #

Warren Spector leaves ION Storm — many laid off, and they're switching to PS2 only (via) #

Google responds to the Gmail privacy issues — Battelle says Google smartly gave Gmail accounts to a bunch of journalists (via) #

Alien Swarm, a top-down space shooter mod for Unreal 2004 — reminds me of the side-scroller Quake 3 mod (via) #

Java: The Ladybug Game — fun, but aggravating, tile game (via) #

Chalabi's ancestry and Chalabi numbers — he received degrees from MIT and the University of Chicago #

New version of Netscape based on Mozilla 1.7 — finally, they made the switch (via) #

Every Beatles Song in Alphabetical Order

Posted May 27, 2004 by Andy Baio

Five days after the assassination of John Lennon, radio engineer Rob Grayson compiled a montage of every Beatles song in alphabetical order and aired it following a ten minute period of silence.

• MP3: Rob Grayson’s “Beatles A-Z” (16 minutes, 9.1MB), from December 13, 1980.

The production effort involved is impressive, done entirely on tape. You can read more about it on the Rob Grayson Collection. Some of the comments are good, as well.

The Lennon tribute is a small part of Reel Radio, a massive archive of pre-1989 Top 40 Radio audio clips. Many are hour-long unedited radio broadcasts, like this Alan Freed broadcast from March 23, 1955, or these two Don Steele broadcasts from a couple months after I was born. Try using the search engine to find a clip from your year of birth.

Unfortunately, the clips are all in RealPlayer format, so be sure to install Real Alternative before you go, so you don’t have to deal with that bloated piece of crap.

May 27, 2004

Brooklyn Camera Stores — documenting the fly-by-night storefronts advertising online #

iTunes Alarm Clock — trigger MP3s or playlists at particular times #

Rodeohead, bluegrass medley of Radiohead songs — here's a much faster local mirror (via) #

California Senate approved anti-Gmail bill — read the text of the bill #

Pros and Cons of John Kerry's Top 20 Candidates — I'm looking forward to a Kerry/Kutcher ticket #

New Yahoo toolbar removes spyware — for Internet Explorer only, though (via) #

Wired's profile of Nick Denton and Gawker Media — they pay their writers $2000 per month and a pageview bonus #

May 26, 2004

MTV won't air "Supersize Me" ads — there's another side to the story, though #

Alexa's popularity rankings of top U.S. sites dropping across the board — Alexa responds, explaining it's because of global competition #

Dave finds Washingtonienne lied about college degree and age — small stuff, but is she lying about the big stuff too? #

NYT reporter Judith Miller led the flawed Iraq reporting — she wrote or co-wrote 10 of the 12 problem articles cited by the NYT #

Flash: Bush Game, very entertaining political propaganda (NSFW) — Hulk Hogan, Mr. T and He-Man vs. Bush, Rumsfeld and Voltron (via) #

Grand Theft Auto phone conversation leads to bomb threat evacuation — don't talk and play, or get a 2nd degree felony (via) #

News coverage of the NYT Iraq retraction — the Times makes the news with the broadest retraction I've ever seen #