November 30, 2006
NPR's Morning Edition on Vince Guaraldi's "Charlie Brown Christmas" soundtrack
— CBS hated the use of jazz, ordinary kids, and the central themes of materialism and faith #
Russia agrees to shutter AllofMP3.com at U.S. request
— frankly, I'm surprised they lasted this long #
Tristan Lewis on the relaunch of Boo.com
— he worked on the original site and has an interesting insider view of the original's failure #
Video: Children of Men trailer
— I guess that means a Y: The Last Man adaptation won't be happening soon #
Kubick audition Brian Atene returns, for real this time
— skip straight to 1:45; Atene claims the original audition was never actually sent in (via) #
Reports of Wii injuries rolling in
— Nintendo anticipated this by placing obvious warnings and reminders in the games #
Google Earth team asks Gaia team to shut down project
— finally, a human face behind the C&D, instead of nastygram lawyerbots #
'Pump-and-Dump' Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders
— behind the recent surge of Captcha-like image spam (via) #
Inside World of Warcraft gold farms
— new documentary explores the half million Chinese making their living earning virtual currency (via) #
Make's Open Source Gift Guide
— incredible resource; you could spend weeks exploring any one of these projects #
2006 Interactive Fiction Comp winners announced
— detailed reviews of every entry linked in the comments #
The Secret World of Lonelygirl
— Wired Magazine's late profile of the Lonelygirl fad is still an interesting read, with new details of the beginning #
Rex Sorgatz begins his 2006 List of Lists
— as always, this will become the ultimate source for year-end best-of lists over the next six weeks #
Using Amazon EC2 for on-demand multiplayer game servers
— EC2 enables all sorts of interesting niche businesses (via) #
Gamer breaks TV with Nintendo Wiimote
— sweaty hands and a faulty strap are hazardous to your living room #
"One Bank" U2 homage gets a cease-and-desist from Universal Music
— meanwhile, David Cross and Johnny Marr covered it live #
The Tokyopia Wedding Game
— friends create WarioWare-like game for newlywed gamers, with video! (via) #
A Coder in Courierland
— story of a computer programmer who dropped out of tech to be a bike courier (via) #
Wagner James Au on Second Life's copying controversy
— new tools let users clone any object or avatar without permission, creating clone wars in Second Life #
Leaked internal memo says Nick Douglas fired from Valleywag
— at least partly because of his 10 Zen Monkeys interview #
10 Zen Monkeys stalks ex-Valleywag Nick Douglas
— they obsessively track down Amanda Congdon, Rocketboom, Dave Winer, Nick Denton, and call Nick Douglas on his cellphone #
Amazon Earworm interviews XTC's Andy Partridge
— Alexa's Web Discovery and Amazon Earworm are two of the best corporate blogs #
The Silent Penultimate Panel Watch
— tracking abuses of the silent panel gag in the Sunday funnies (via) #
Nick Douglas leaving Valleywag
— the blog everyone here won't admit they read; also: 10 Zen Monkeys interview with Nick #
Convert an analog wall clock into a binary clock
— brilliant hack, with a printable pattern PDF (via) #
How I Was Duped by Ali G.
— another first person story of an unwitting victim; also, a look behind the scenes #
Humiliated frat boys sue Borat
— the inevitable followup to this Ask Metafilter question from a friend of one of the guys #
Slashdot runs out of comments
— they hit 16,777,216 comments, the upper limit for a mediumint in MySQL #
Unofficial FAQ for the Digg Algorithm
— good look at what gets stories to the Digg homepage, but doesn't cover everything #