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August 31, 2004
BBC on political commentary in video games [via]
MP3: Maciej's audioblogging manifesto (listen to this now, it's absolutely brilliant)
Disney's social software for vacation planning (Magical Gatherings is a Windows app with networking features) [via]
Brand mapping the presidential candidates (what brands do Bush/Kerry supporters associate with their candidates?) [via]
Mac sightings in the movies, with makes and models (obsessive "computers in media" lists are fun)
Fictional passwords and passcodes in movies (not a long list, but a nice idea)
BBC rereleasing Hitchhiker's Infocom game online with illustrations (you can play it online right now, with hints and a walkthrough) [via]
MovableType 3.1 released (also: the MT Contest Plugin Pack and the new Professional Network) [via]
GBA price drops to $80 (Nintendo DS will launch on November 11th at $179) [via]
Engadget's interview with Jack Valenti (also: Ed Felten's debunking of the former MPAA head) [via]
Apple says new iMac G5 will run Doom III (look for the last sentence under "A Place for Everything")
Amon Tobin making soundtrack for next Splinter Cell game (excellent choice for ambient gameplay) [via]
Adaptive Path's Extreme Usability series (a clever Burning Man parody by Mule Design) [via]
President Bush's nicknames for friends and foes [via]
Friendster fires Joyce Park for blogging (this is an unbelievably stupid move on their part) [via]
August 30, 2004
What if Simpsons characters mated? (surprisingly good fan drawings) [via]
Ask Mefi poster performs mystery guitar riff, gets song identified (neat trick, it's like a manual search engine for music)
Liberated Games launches (commercial games officially released for free by their creators) [via]
NYT on eBay promoting dropoff stores (great service, but 30% is a serious cut)
Collin Brooke on Wikipedia's reputation (a Syracuse professor's take on the controversy) [via]
Woman's skin grows over wedding ring (impressive, but it's no match for dad's kidneys) [via]
History of the Apple.com homepage (I linked to the 1995 version) [via]
Scalable headlines in Flash (here's a funny side effect of the technique) [via]
Wikipedia's List of fictional companies (also: fictional video games, brands, radio stations, and much more)
A Lesson Is Learned, a beautiful web comic (surreal, but very funny) [via]
Analysis of an artificial meme (tracking of a small meme through social groups) [via]
Kempa on palindromic music
August 29, 2004
Justice Dept. censors Supreme Court quote (the irony of the blacked-out quote is thick) [via]
Construction photos of the Chubu Airport in Nagoya (here's the Wikipedia entry)
Fimoculous is back! (Rex Sorgatz' site was a big inspiration for my own links blog)
Glassdog calls for nuanced anti-Bush bumper stickers (liberal, but not dogmatic)
August 28, 2004
GmailFS, badass Gmail hack (mountable Linux filesystem using Gmail for storage) [via]
Classic anti-piracy print ads [via]
August 27, 2004
Video: VH-1's profile on Randy Constan, the Peter Pan guy (he's unhappy with the portrayal)
Old Men Crying (Dan Rather tends to get weepy) [via]
McSweeney's E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone
Memespread Analyzer, track keyword popularity in Usenet over time (he was inspired by my old entry)
Acclaim files for bankruptcy (another classic game studio dies)
Verisign loses Sitefinder case against ICANN (lots of wonderfully thoughtful court rulings lately)
A morality tale of Spectrum ZX piracy and clones (like it or not, piracy and emulation serve to preserve culture)
NYT on the movement towards computerized sewing machines ("computers with needles and thread attached")
Stiki Wiki (WYSIWYG wiki with neat outgoing link previews) [via]
August 26, 2004
Half Life 2 preloading begins (the game is done!) [via]
Paul Pfeiffer from the "Wonder Years" is a lawyer (I bet he makes twice the yearly income of Fred Savage)
TiVo-like application for XM Radio under fire (his software was C&D'ed by XM and the RIAA) [via]
Video: Townsend's "Pour Some Sugar On Me," boy band take on Def Leppard (the worst thing I've ever seen, made worse by the presence of Smashmouth)
Blog Torrent tracker beta (the first PHP tracker that doesn't need MySQL, but still too hard for most)
Interview with Downhill Battle's Nicholas Reville (they renamed Battle Torrent to Blog Torrent)
Microsoft redesigns with standards (well, almost there) [via]
Video: Bjork's Olympic performance (without the annoying U.S. color commentary) [via]
Lia's roundup of Marvel Swimsuit Specials (the geekier precedent of Playboy's upcoming girls of gaming)
ASCII-mode TV goggles (distort an incoming video signal various neat ways) [via]
Dooce is having problems (get well soon Heather, the Internet loves you) [via]
Video: John Kerry on the Daily Show (not great quality, but it's the whole thing)
August 25, 2004
Tracking the "All Your Base" meme with Usenet (an old entry, now updated with 2004 data)
Coca-Cola's new net-enabled vending machines (buy drinks with your cellphone) [via]
Search engine belt buckle (I can recognize a Torrone project from a mile away) [via]
Distributed proofreaders posts 5,000th E-book (over 1100 active users in the last 24 hours)
Video game women featured in October Playboy pictorial (what's next, the Ladies of Marvel Comics?)
Screencap comparisons of Lucas alternations to new Star Wars trilogy (the cleanups look great, but what about the new Jedi ending?) [via]
Doom 3 Classic (full conversion of original Doom for the Doom 3 engine, screenshots) [via]
Librarian misunderstands Wikipedia (just because it's open doesn't make it unreliable) [via]
Video: Grayson, the Revenge of Robin (great trailer to a movie that doesn't exist) [via]
Glassdog on what's wrong with feed readers (are you reading this, Luke?)
SA photoshops UK anti-piracy campaign poster
JibJab wins "This Land" lawsuit (and the purported copyright owners lost the song to the public domain!)
Dozens charged in spam crackdown (only 200 spammers send 90% of spam, so this a good start) [via]
There.com changes name to Forterra (and someone gave them lots of money) [via]
List of great "material moments" in film (from an academic journal on materials science and engineering) [via]
Cancelling an AOL account is not easy (an entertaining account of one attempt) [via]
Quentin Tarantino's alleged weblog (update: Q's publicist says it's fake) [via]
Bjork on filesharing ("God bless the internet.")
August 24, 2004
Trevor visits the Berkeley "I Love Bees" GPS site (the viral game pointed to pay phones today, which could activate "axons" on the website)
Star Wars Galaxies users crash server with protest demonstrations
Olympic gold medals, adjusted per capita (adjusting for the population bias)
John Kerry chose the Daily Show over the news networks (he's interviewed on the show tonight) [via]
Good advice for record labels [via]
Pirate Bay's response to Dreamworks cease-and-desist (one benefit of living in Sweden)
"I found a digital camera in the woods" (like the Internet's version of the Blair Witch Project) [via]
Typewriter mod that sends e-mail (with detailed photos) [via]
Video: "Planet of the Apes" as a Twilight Zone episode (brilliant fan re-edit) [via]
Tricks of the Trade (great list of trade secrets, more on Mefi) [via]
Simoniker's last post on Slashdot Games (Simon Carless was the best editor of the best section of Slashdot)
How to make your own red-blue 3-D photos (the JPL tutorial is nice, too) [via]
August 23, 2004
Windows worm accesses webcams and microphones (not the first Trojan with a voyeur angle) [via]
NYT on the Trey Parker and Matt Stone's "Team America: World Police" (new marionette movie, with political themes and graphic puppet sex) [via]
Lycos launches Discussion Search (searches mish-mash of message boards, discussion lists, and blogs) [via]
Technorati gets $6.5 million in funding (Socialtext, too; it's the New Boom!) [via]
Banner Report, gallery of 15,000+ ad banners (Wired covered the site today) [via]
How to Be Rich and Famous (endlessly ridiculous comments, because of this) [via]
Halo 2's viral marketing campaign goes meatspace (massive real-life mystery event all over the map)
The Seven Deadly Harveys (the sins of Harvey Comics)
August 22, 2004
Taking a Closer Look at the War Medals of George W. Bush
MP3: Usher's "Dot Com" (horrible web-themed track, read the lyrics) [via]
August 21, 2004
Wheat allergy keeps 8-year-old girl out of heaven (the Catholic Church says her first Communion was invalid)
August 20, 2004
Isometric pixel map of Washington D.C. [via]
Dick van Dyke is a professional CG animator (who knew?) [via]
21% of people who hate their lives use Livejournal [via]
Mozilla.org's redesigned beta site (Steven has more info about the redesign) [via]
Real's "Freedom of Choice" print ad (note the fine print)
BugMeNot is back! (their new host is much more sympathetic to the cause)
Browse Happy, the anti-IE switch campaign (IMO, Firefox is the best of the bunch) [via]
From the Ground (a guy is blogging his walk from Nebraska to the East Coast) [via]
Flash: The Invisibility Game (don't miss the ending to level 12) [via]
Movie: Red vs Blue's primer on Real Life vs the Internet (funniest thing I've seen all month, from these guys) [via]
FoxyTunes, control your media player from Firefox (Mac support is in development) [via]
Surowiecki on the Google IPO (Wall Street retaliated from being removed from the process) [via]
Video: Interviews from FanimeCon 2004 (courtesy of Kwoon, an online Kung Fu series)
Cute... and Evil! (Glassdog on Six Apart conspiracy theories)
Radio Userland adds Atom support (very surprising; now Blogger should add RSS support) [via]
Detachable phonecam lenses (makes it possible to shoot good photos with crappy phonecams)
Time Travel Mutual Fund threatens Museum of Hoaxes (I'm upgrading them from "hoax" to "scam")
Build your own hoverboard (here are some design ideas) [via]
Closeup prop photos from Back to the Future trilogy (note the "Queen Diana" detail on the USA Today)
Vaporized alcohol comes to Manhattan bars (order yours today for only $2995) [via]
August 19, 2004
Mister Donut desktop wallpaper (the commercials are pretty damn cute, too)
Google Search: "hypertext links to this site, you must contact" (more stupid linking policies) [via]
Video: "The Life Aquatic" trailer (new Wes Anderson movie starring Bill Murray) [via]
Fox News billboard gets Photoshopped (worthy of the BLF)
Inquiry leads to Google Zeitgeist's removal of OS stats
Khoi Vinh's outstanding redesign contest mockups (his own site is amazing, highly recommended) [via]
MP3: NES-style cover of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" (using the Konami VRC6 sound chip extensions for the NES) [via]
Queso's review of his Dropcash campaign (he raised $450 in 13 hours, thanks to Metafilter)
Broadband users now the majority in the U.S. (63 million broadband vs. 61 million jealous dial-up users) [via]
Cringely's advice for the newly public Google
IPTA's great summary of the Grokster ruling (Corante rounds up all the discussion)
Cory Doctorow on the EFF's historic Grokster win (P2P developers aren't liable for copyright infringement on their networks)
Brad Choate joins Six Apart (they're hiring too many smart, clever people)
Mozilla Sunbird 0.2 released (the Mozilla Foundation is slowly rebuilding Outlook) [via]
LA Weekly profile on Elizabeth Loftus, repressed-memory skeptic [via]
Playing "Halo" on the big screen [via]
Olympic athletes biting their medals (the Yahoo search is currently broken in Firefox)
Donkey John (Australian political commentary in the form of a Nintendo Game & Watch)
RSS Auction, excellent eBay-to-RSS generator [via]
Consensual hugging in Second Life
Computer Chronicles episode on the Commodore 64 (including Skate or Die, the Koala Pad, and GEOS) [via]
Fitts' Law, designing navigation with large targets
Google shares up 18% [via]
Videogame TV commercials (someone get these on Archive.org!) [via]
Top 25 sites requested on Bugmenot (the biggest targets in the free registration wars)
Bugmenot creator responds to outage (their host pulled the plug, so they're moving soon) [via]
Nintendogs pet sim for the Nintendo DS (pet the dog with the touchscreen?) [via]
Wired sponsors Creative Commons benefit concert (with David Byrne and Gilberto Gil) [via]
August 18, 2004
Toogle, text converter of Google Image Search (takes the most popular image and converts it to ASCII art)
More details and screenshots of GTA San Andreas (hundreds of hours of gameplay? yikes.)
Slashdot's 10 millionth comment ("I don't get it.") [via]
MD5 algorithm proven insecure (Chinese team generates collisions in a matter of hours) [via]
Flickr launches the Organizr (built with the lovely new Flickr API)
Image: Yahoo News' horrific new skyscraper ads (IE users are graced with gigantor banners)
Indie band Dios forced to change name by Ronnie James Dio (will this affect Dio's presidential campaign?)
August 17, 2004
Jaws in 30 Seconds Re-Enacted by Bunnies [via]
Japanese children's books from the 1920s (if only the images were larger) [via]
RealNetwork launches anti-Apple blog, inspiring wrath (they removed comments from the petition, and all the blog comments are from Apple fans) [via]
Weboggle, DHTML Boggle game (I'm really late to this one, but I'm still catching up from downtime last week) [via]
Ann Arbor Library's 16-player Mario Kart tournament (eight Gamecubes running on a LAN)
Stopdesign on Blogger's new navbar (Doug Bowman designed it)
Image: Rowing machine diagram (related: the FileMatrix GUI screenshot) [via]
ljArchive, intense LiveJournal archive utility for Windows (including psychological profiles, archive printing, and exporting to MIDI!?) [via]
Dropcash, easy fundraising with Typekey and Paypal (Torrez and Kottke create a kick-ass app; read more about it)
The Google Face Game [via]
Flash: Pixelfield game (not for the impatient) [via]
Clueless security firm blocks BitTorrent usage (there are legitimate uses for BitTorrent too, asshat)
Children's Pimp & Ho costumes (you know, for kids!) [via]
Don't Copy That Floppy from 1992 (a classic, with a funny review and reliable video download) [via]
August 16, 2004
CSS Zen Garden Interface Tool (great way of browsing the designs on the site) [via]
TransGaming tagging downloads to prevent piracy (each download is watermarked with a unique ID)
Political debate in Second Life MMORPG (there are liberal and conservative areas of land in the virtual world)
Danah Boyd on I-Neighbors (social networking at the local neighborhood level) [via]
Bubblegum Alley in San Luis Obispo (44 years of discarded bubble gum) [via]
Costco begins test marketing caskets (they're cheap, but you need to buy enough for your whole family)
Video: Ali G's "Throw the Jew Down the Well" (now read about the fallout of the performance)
History of Isometric Game Engines [via]
Making tile-based games in Flash (one of the highest quality tutorials I've seen)
Slyck's roundup of illicit BitTorrent sites (most of these are account-based trackers)
Half-Life 2 dialogue accidentally leaked (including the game's surprise ending)
TimeTrax, convert XM Radio to MP3 [via]
Adbar for Firefox (the evil cousin of Adblock) [via]
Video: Jim Woodring's Frank (Woodring art goes 3D, to great effect) [via]
Stormtrooper Fairyland Wedding [via]
Piracy's Own Punishment (if mostly young people pirate, the industry will cater only to old people)
Netflix as social psychological experiment (people choose virtue over vice for simultaneous viewing) [via]
Washington Post profile on Washingtonienne (they're a little late to the story) [via]
Olympics shut down online streaming radio stations (distinguishing between online and offline radio licensing is dumb) [via]
Excel-based RSS reader (this is disturbing and wrong) [via]
Lord of the Rings My Little Pony (Dazzle Surprise of the Nazgul) [via]
Blogger adds search navigation bar to all unpaid Blogspot weblogs (and removed all of the ad banners) [via]
How to make a scale model of a city (next: how to make it into a Quake map?) [via]
Technorati cosmos spammers [via]
MP3: WWE wrestler John Cena freestyling about the NES (he's surprisingly well-versed in the subject) [via]
Fijuu, real-time performance environment using 3D objects as instruments (it boots from a standalone Linux CD) [via]
Nature magazine on the urban maze (or read the "Networks and Cities" paper) [via]
Mom helped five-year-old son smoke crack (from a homemade bong made from a baby food jar)
Top 10 Black Metal Publicity Photos (rule #1: don't be evil)
Suprnova Light mirror scripts (also: this Suprnova search engine is nice) [via]
Novelty shaved head designs (lightning bolt!) [via]
Wired Style no longer capitalizing "net," "internet," or "web" [via]
Food stamp recipients receive educational videogames instead of pamphlets [via]
Playboy's open source mirrors ("I read it for the source code")
NYT on Warner Brothers' marketing to MP3 bloggers [via]
Feedster prepares ads in RSS feeds (I actively dislike ads in RSS feeds)
2004 Olympics website's silly hyperlink policy (whoops, I just violated their Terms and Conditions) [via]
August 15, 2004
Paper Napkin, a rejection line for e-mail [via]
August 14, 2004
Retrozone, vintage console controllers modded to USB (for $24 each, these USB NES joypads are a steal) [via]
August 13, 2004
Mozilla team verifies Goat Cheese bug (the lighter side of browser programming) [via]
The Great Meatshake Experiment (one brave soul tries chicken, beef, and ham Meatshakes) [via]
Ask Mefi on emotional videogames (has a videogame ever made you cry?)
Aruze develops Linux-operated arcade machine (meanwhile, Taito's using Windows XP for their arcade games) [via]
August 12, 2004
Give it up for Pam! (she wrote about my Lost Friends page and Upcoming.org)
RIAA Toilet Paper [via]
Audio CD that plays an endless loop of random musical tones [via]
OJR on blog transparency and trust (plus, a nice graph of Technorati data) [via]
Bjork opening the Olympics ceremonies [via]
Bootleg RSS feeds for Pitchfork Media (finally, feeds for news and reviews) [via]
Light Speed, graphics app to simulate the effect of light speed on appearance (for example, a 1957 Chevy Bel-Air) [via]
RF shielding apparel (to prevent you from evil cell phone rays!) [via]
Microsoft shuts down SP2Torrent [via]
August 11, 2004
Den Sen, neat unreleased game for the PS2 (also, some videos of a very early version of "Rez") [via]
Advertising Plagiarism (side-by-side comparisons of pirated print designs) [via]
Beethoven's "Stairway to Heaven" (arrangements of Zep in the style of famous composers) [via]
Ubisoft's "Political Machine" game released (play the campaign manager for Bush or Kerry)
Mercury News profile on Brewster Kahle (he asked Google for a copy of their database) [via]
The TiVo LCD Project (hacking a show readout into your PVR) [via]
CirculaFloor, real-life holodeck floors (moving floors shift as you walk) [via]
Polystation, Panasoanic, Sonny, and Sanzyo (amusing Japanese knockoff electronics, like this fake PS1) [via]
TV listings in RSS (this might come in handy for a BitTorrent TV project) [via]
Business Software Alliance asks kids to help name their new copyright-crusader weasel mascot (don't miss their new promo videos) [via]
Augmented Reality's Smart Projecters (real-time texture and color correction to project onto arbitrary surfaces) [via]
Open Audiobooks Project (distributed effort to record "Pride and Prejudice") [via]
Inside Al-Qaeda's Hard Drive (remarkable research into documents recovered from an Al-Qaeda desktop PC) [via]
The Political Conspiracy BitTorrent Tracker (and one with politically-themed torrents) [via]
Ron Fedkiw's physics modeling videos (I can't wait for those water, mesh, and fire simulations in videogames) [via]
DVD Jon cracks Airport Express encryption (I love that guy)
Glassdog's complaints about BitTorrent (this is an essential companion piece to the BattleTorrent project)
Video: Mindgame trailer, new animated Japanese film (2D, 3D, and live-action faces composited on animated bodies) [via]
Salon on TiVo-to-Go and BitTorrent TV
Video: Huge Japanese landslide caught on video (here's a smaller version without the commentary) [via]
August 10, 2004
Video: "Alone in the Dark" trailer (I loved the game, but this is the worst trailer ever)
Fark photoshops "What if Microsoft owned Nintendo?" (my two favorites) [via]
Morning News roundtable chat with six MP3 bloggers (Oliver has a great idea for official label MP3 blogs) [via]
Protester technology at the RNC (radio hijacking, mobile Wifi, backpack pirate radio, and aerial crowd photography)
Long Chris Ware audio interview from 2001 (shortly after the release of the Jimmy Corrigan hardcover)
Police investigating Daryl Kabatoff, and his mom gives more detail (he indirectly threatened me last year because of my post)
Yann Bertrand's Aerial Photos (gorgeous photos from "Earth from Above")
Life-Size Mousetrap (photos from the giant recreation of the kid's game) [via]
Bookmarklet: Detect deleted Metafilter threads
August 9, 2004
Sprawl, experimental typeface based on Belgium maps (takes into account population density) [via]
Salon's feature on Six Apart and MovableType (strange, the word "cute" is nowhere to be found)
Stripe Snoop, free tools for analyzing magnetic stripe cards (what do your credit cards say about you?) [via]
TiVo saves Polyphonic Spree singer from airport arrest (microphone mistaken for pipe bomb, shutting down Dallas airport) [via]
Jason Scott on current geek documentaries [via]
Japanese "Alice in Wonderland" cosplay (including several from Disneyland Tokyo) [via]
Video: Qua's "Devil Eyes" (bizarre, 8-bit style music video) [via]
Nelson researches the S.F. guy behind the fake beheading video
Windows XP SP2 BitTorrent site (BitTorrent meets the demand that Microsoft can't fulfill)
Saskatoon paper's profile of Usenet kook Daryl Kabatoff (I wrote about him back in 2002)
August 6, 2004
Forbes thinks RSS is dumb (read the "Worst" section of the Standard review) [via]
Joggle Tellybot, UK TV listings over Jabber IM (can we get one for the U.S. now?) [via]
Close-up photos of ENIAC (one of the first computers, plus lovely desktop wallpaper) [via]
Yahoo mocks Google's employee party [via]
Americans blocked from online access to live Olympics coverage (another argument for pirating the Olympics)
Publisher buckles, renaming Katie.com book (the Internet wins!) [via]
Drew responds to Wired's Fark article (also: is Fark a blog? I say yes)
Video: Macromedia Shockwave press kit from 1995 (cue massive wave of nostalgia)
Excellent review of Fraggle Rock DVD (explains in loving detail why my 6-year-old self adored it) [via]
Review of Seth McFarlane's "American Dad" pilot (it's no Family Guy, local mirror here)
dbagg3, an Atom-powered feedreader (the first step in something very good) [via]
Unabashed racist wins GOP primary in Tennessee (his official website is beyond ignorant) [via]
Video: Rockwell Automation's Retro Encabulator (mine's on back order) [via]
How not to buy happiness
Insane bicycling videos ("Drag Race NYC" is a suicidal ride through NYC traffic)
Image: Status Quo tattoo (I'll bet Harv was there) [via]
MeatShake, shakes made of meat (nice jingle on this page) [via]
Vulnerability in PNG image format
August 5, 2004
25 Years of the Brown Sisters (reminds me of these family photos) [via]
Google Ads for pirating Doom 3 from Suprnova (there's no way Suprnova had anything to do with it)
Lunatic Christians debating whether Barack Obama is the Antichrist (they blocked access to the original, so here's the Google cache) [via]
First Doom 3 mod pack released (co-op single player mode and 32-player servers) [via]
Wired on anonymous onion routing networks (or download the code yourself)
Tartarus, a 3D shooter engine built within Second Life (a multiplayer game built inside a multiplayer virtual world)
MT-Blacklist 2.0 review and screenshots (moderating spam, auto updates, and much more) [via]
Can a Mac SE bypass modern Mac network security?
California Extreme classic arcade show is this weekend (the first time I'll miss it in five years, see the panorama)
Solar charge your iPod or GBA [via]
Sippey joins SixApart (they're building a serious brain trust there)
Video: Documentary on the Firefly Press (a vintage letterpress company in Portland) [via]
Engineering inscriptions in the catacombs of Paris (beautiful typography photos) [via]
Register UK on the Katie.com saga (lawyers are pressuring Katie Jones to give up the domain) [via]
LA Weekly on the history of IMDB [via]
Rumors that Sun may soon own PHP (unlikely, no more than IBM "owning" Linux)
PalmPSOne, handheld Playstation 1 mod (a cleaner version of the PSP1 mod) [via]
Longshot Presidential Candidates (including HRM Caesar St. Augustine de Buonaparte)
New version of Bugmenot Firefox extension auto-fills form fields (this is huge, and very cool)
August 4, 2004
Flash: Don't Let It Get Your Cursor (a final silly link for the day) [via]
Die-cast "Back to the Future" DeLoreans (including versions from all three films!)
Thai fuel cell converts carbs to electricity (it's like Mr. Fusion for Krispy Kreme donuts) [via]
IRC bots are handling Usenet binary reposts
MS Newsbot biased toward MSNBC articles (or: why Google News is a better news site)
File Sharing Purchase Database (retail purchases that resulted from illegal downloads) [via]
Carmack to open-source Quake III engine later this year (exciting news) [via]
Flash: Low Morale's "Creep" video (absolutely gorgeous Flash work)
Wikipedia entry on company name origins
Declan McCullagh on John Kerry's record on technology (in this Wired scorecard from 2000, he scored the same as John Ashcroft)
FCC approves TiVo's heavily-DRMed show-sharing
California banned most SUVs from city streets (but it's completely unenforced) [via]
Haughey on downloading the Olympics (the networks need to adapt to a BitTorrent world, fast)
Steven Seagal released an album in France? (more sound clips from Amazon France) [via]
Nitrate fertilizers are causing increased shark attacks (one of nature's stranger chain reactions)
Matt Webb announces "Brain Hacks" book for O'Reilly (a practical companion to Mind Wide Open) [via]
Video: TV Funhouse's banned primer on Media Monopoly (aired on "Saturday Night Live" only once and censored by CBS; complete transcript) [via]
Image: Doom 3 floppy install (in reality, it would take over 1,200 disks)
CIA Asks Bush to Discontinue Blog (hmm, it looks like Typepad)
August 3, 2004
Googling for credit card numbers (made possible by Google's number range operator) [via]
RSSCalendar, freeform calendars by RSS (if they had an API, I could tie it into Upcoming.org) [via]
James Harry's Week in Review (obsessively analog cousin of Newsmap) [via]
How Much Gold Is Inside Goldschlager? (here's the bootleg RSS feed for Cockeyed) [via]
Trixie's eight months of sleep pattern data (visualizing a newborn baby's sleep patterns)
BattleTorrent project proposal (Downhill Battle's pitch for a simpler BitTorrent experience)
Wired News on porn blog spamming (Blogspot is an unlimited resource for spammers) [via]
Beta Band breaks up (they never seemed to like their own music) [via]
TextCat language guesser (try the demo) [via]
Archive of '96 Election campaign websites (when will that Clinton guy stop flip-flopping?) [via]
NewsIsFree's News Map visualizations (requires Java, but here's a screenshot) [via]
Google News source statistics (top 10 sources account for 66% of all Google News stories) [via]
eBay's digital music auctions are a big failure [via]
Sega announces Shenmue Online (also, you can play Shenmue with the Chankast emulator) [via]
Fark.com secretly sells their homepage story links (Shirky has more thoughts on this fundamental violation of reader trust)
Sniper rifle modded into WiFi antenna (shoot packets up to ten miles away) [via]
phpBB Blog (blog add-on for phpBB forums)
August 2, 2004
DirecTV makes moves to drop TiVo (it'll be fun to compare the UIs of the NDS and TiVo)
Video: "Team America" trailer (Matt Parker and Trey Stone's political action/comedy with marionettes) [via]
Mario Paint Music Compo (make songs with Mario Paint for the SNES) [via]
Something Awful's Honest Album Titles (the best ones are toward the end) [via]
NYT on invention to walk on water
Video: "Thriller" music video in Second Life MMO (they used a pale woman for Michael Jackson's part) [via]
Jazz preservation difficult with iTunes (problems with performers, reissues, album art, liner notes, and more) [via]
Flash: Peasant Quest (Homestar retro adventure game in the style of King's Quest, plus a walkthrough) [via]
Wired News on Last.fm Internet Radio [via]
Life Lessons from the Super Mario Bros. Instruction Booklet (another great McSweeney's list) [via]
Subservient President (MoveOn's parody of Burger King's meme campaign) [via]
Snopes on sugar in the gas tank (it won't destroy your car)
Doom III leaked onto Usenet and BitTorrent networks
August 1, 2004
Guest on the "Ali G" show gets upset (watch the interview in question)
Spoofing the Firefox 0.9 UI (could be used by evildoers) [via]
Review of PS2 Curry House simulator (like the Beef Bowl simulator) [via]