2003

October

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October 31, 2003

Obsolete games exempt from copyright

— most ROMs are now legal?! #

Boing Boing's new IP address

— domain will start resolving correctly soon #

CEO Halloween Masks

— Forbes has the most annoying video ads #

And Microsoft wants to buy Google

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Friendster rejects Google's $30m buyout bid

— I can’t believe they turned it down #

October 30, 2003

Death notice of Gertrude M. Jones

— unusual obituary, more from Snopes #

Sonic Wire Sculpture

— 3D rotating sketchpad translates lines to sound #

New Kazaa beta attempts legitimacy

— download it from their site, if you don’t mind spyware #

Soda's Moovl

— like a very intuitive version of Sodaplay #

Entire contents of S.F. apartment stolen

— after cleaning it out, they cleaned it up #

Cory explains Boing Boing's downtime

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Kids Show

Posted October 30, 2003 by Andy Baio

The following 14-minute masterpiece is the pilot for “Kids Show,” a deranged version of Sesame Street developed by comedy writers Vernon Chatman and John Lee for USA Networks, but recently sold to MTV for a six-episode contract. The quality of this video isn’t very good, but it doesn’t matter. (Warning: Not for the easily offended.)

Watch the video: Windows Media, 24MB (mirror)

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Insanely great pumpkin carvings

— the best I’ve seen #

Pac-Man for Excel 97 and 2000

— also: a flight simulator for Excel #

Microsoft Wallop

— intelligent microcontent client for Longhorn #

Neat Expose/Ctrl-Tab idea

— Windows should adopt this, as well #

October 29, 2003

Lafayette Project renamed to Kinja

— supposed to go live in the next two months #

2600 on the White House robots.txt

— the excluded files were available elsewhere on the site #

Build your own tail

— sure, but is it prehensile? #

October 28, 2003

Microsoft temp fired for blogging

— the offending entry #

End of the World

— Flash, one potential scenario #

How not to advertise on the Internet

— via Michel #

Draft Wesley Crusher

— the other Wesley #

Feedroll javascript includes

— add arbitrary RSS feeds to your site via Javascript includes #

Google interested in creating a book database

— wants to compete with Amazon? #

Worst infographic ever

— you’d burn to death while trying to interpret this map #

TinyURL whacking

— someone there has a sense of humor #

October 27, 2003

Man's self-written obituary contains grandiose lies

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VH-1's "I Love 6 Months Ago"

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The White House's robots.txt

— why hide so much from Google? #

First-hand blogging of the SoCal fires

— another list of San Diego bloggers #

Your Own Dot Org

— Shannon’s tribute song to Ben & Mena #

Cher anonymously calls C-SPAN

— I’d love an audio clip of this #

Sidetalkin'

— mocking the Nokia N-Gage #

There.com officially launches online world

— with virtual Nike product tie-ins #

Fox News threatened Simpsons over parody

— Fox News vs. Fox Broadcasting #

Analog music library at MIT

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October 26, 2003

In-car device changes stoplights from red to green

— cause traffic accidents for only $300 #

Jack Valenti stepping down

— replaced by Billy Tauzin, who took $99k from the media industry last year #

MyTunes, cheat for Windows iTunes

— save shared music on your network to your hard drive #

October 25, 2003

Amazon's Book Search threatened by Author's Guild

— they bring up some great ideas, like searching cookbooks and reference materials #

Sand applet

— left-click to draw, right-click to erase #

Power Filesharer

— 23 200GB drives is 4.6 terabytes #

October 24, 2003

Toilets in video games

— Ignore the Russian text (via Kafkaesque) #

The Aeron wheelchair

— who needs a Segway? #

Dan Engor's GPS Tron

— run around with your friends and trap them in your path #

"Blogs: Fad or Goldmine?"

— Ciaran Buckley: clueless or inept? #

AOL software silently disables Windows Messenger service

— most people don’t use it, but it’s a dangerous precedent #

Highly addictive SnakeJump game

— old, but good Java applet #

What's the Diff: the MPAA's new anti-piracy curriculum for classrooms

— with fun activities like “Starving Artist” #