September 30, 2004
Why I'm not posting many links
— their crappy rooms have no Internet access; light posting until Friday #
Top 10 Secrets about the Presidential Debates
— both parties are to blame for this comspiracy to suppress real debate (via) #
Cachelogic's survey of P2P network traffic
— BitTorrent by far the biggest; P2P traffic far outpaces web traffic #
The Internet's Most Accurate English-to-English Dictionary
— now with support for three new languages! (via) #
Ask Mefi on skitter scatters, ghosts, and auras
— very odd thread about a 6-year-old girl who sees strange things (via) #
HR 4077 bill passed the House
— bill proposes up to 5 years of jail for sharing 1,000 songs or one unreleased album #
Invisible Train, multiplayer augmented reality game for the PocketPC
— watch the video to see the virtual trains running on real tracks #
Bloglines announces web services, sync support for other feedreaders
— huge news; FeedDemon now supports it and NetNewsWire support is coming soon (via) #
Flickr slideshow of U2's "Vertigo"
— wait for the images and hold the spacebar to flipall the frames #
Evil JPEG virus in the wild
— tons of info, including the FTP site it connects to and the image itself #
MTV2's "Video Mods," music videos portrayed by video games
— machinima goes mainstream, watch the clips (via) #
Black Magic, virtual reality pop-up books
— the handheld viewers look like a modern take on stereoscopes (via) #
Dance Dance Revolution fan fiction
— the rest of the Games category at FanFiction.net is fascinating, too (via) #
Annenberg survey finds Daily Show viewers far more politically aware
— also: of the 83 jokes surveyed, he targeted Bush and Kerry equally (via) #
George draws parallels between the Kryptonite lock scandal and the DMCA
— this is an excellent read #
Technorati passes 4 million blogs
— I wonder how many of those are from Livejournal's 1.8M active sites #
Theo Jansen's Strandbeest, huge walking kinetic sculptures
— the videos are unbelievable, like a real-life Sodaplay (via) #
CBS adventure race contestant killed by 300-pound boulder
— the first reality show fatality? (via) #
Fable's first-week game sales beat Sky Captain's box office
— it sold 375,000 games for an $18.7 million gross (via) #
Fascinating article on Second Life's economy and entrepreneurs by a Linden Labs VP
— a must-read for both the uninitiated and experienced users (via) #
OJR on political coverage on Google News and Yahoo News
— they claim Google's system favors conservative sources (via) #
MetaVNC, a window-aware VNC client
— as in the screenshot, makes your remote Linux desktop transparent within Windows XP/2000 (via) #