November 24, 2003

Amazon recommendations for Michael Jackson's "Number Ones" — screenshot, in case they fix it #

New Opus Comic

Posted November 24, 2003 by Andy Baio

Everyone’s been making a big deal about Berkeley Breathed’s new Opus comic, but the comic is completely unavailable online. So despite their magic DRM ink, I was able to scan in Sunday’s strip.

Some comics fans are upset about the removal of several long-running strips from local papers to make room for Opus, including Mary Worth, Prince Valiant, Herman, Marvin, Ziggy, and other desperately unfunny strips.

January 2, 2004: The Opus comics are available in a new archive. Here’s a backup archive.

April 6, 2004: I got a cease and desist from the Washington Post, and was forced to remove the Opus archive. I posted the PDF in the Opus archive directory.

February 27, 2006: The Opus comic is now published in digital form.

iPod's dirty secret — disgruntled iPod user takes it to the streets #

Last Words of Texas Executions — I'm haunted by all the pleas of innocence #

November 23, 2003

Leonard's roundup of Treo 600 blog compatibility — kottke.org reboots it, waxy.org looks a-okay! #

November 22, 2003

Right-Justified Fixed-Width Text — I used to format all my BBS posts like this, from 1989-1994 #

QTFairUse — attempt to circumvent iTunes DRM, download #

Toronto man charged with wardriving — pull over next time, perv #

Flip Flap — deceptively simple game #

November 21, 2003

Retooling Slashdot for Web Standards — the flawless redesign looks just as ugly as the original! #

BitTorrent distribution of Matrix Revolutions — 8500 simultaneous connections at its peak #

Cat in the Hat bad review revue — many, many more on Rotten Tomatoes #

LATimes on hacking culture — very hacker-positive #

The Periodic Table of Comic Books — references to every element in the comics #

Lazy Meadow, 1950s-style motel — created by B-52s singer Kate Pierson #

Atari 2600's Mind Maze — unreleased game, controlled by your thoughts #

Clichewatch: Phil Spector, Millionaire #

November 20, 2003

RIAA sues 15-year-old Seattle girl — $3,500 settlement, or $825,000 in court #

USC to offer a minor in video games — curriculum includes modeling, animation, programming, development and production #

Robot Wisdom takes a nap — hasn't updated since early October; is Jorn alive? #

Clay Aiken and Jessica Simpson at McDonald's — practicing for their future careers #

Bayesian categorization of weblog content — anyone want to make it an MT plugin? #

Fresh Air interview with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog — Terry Gross says "poop" #

Decoding the psychedelics in Kubrick's 2001 — determining the original images of the slit scans #

Lt. Gov. Novoselic — Nirvana bass player may run for office #

b3ta on the Victorian Internet #

Visual guide to navigating blog comments — plus nifty reply alerts by e-mail #

Amiga intros/demos in DHTML — IE-only, unfortunately. #

Gaming Open Market — virtual world currency exchange #

Amazon album cover finder #

November 19, 2003

PHP's clever autocomplete search form — try searching for something #

Barney's selling classic Mattel Football and Baseball — Mattel Football is one of the most boring games ever made #

Googlehouse, house built on Google Images — IE-only, I think #

Audio Lunchbox — DRM-free indie MP3 albums for sale #

Skinning in Seoul — I'd love to skin my GBA, or my car #

November 18, 2003

CBS News on Star Wars Kid — about six months too late, guys #

The Scannery investment search engine — searches 11,000 publicly traded companies #

World's oldest puzzle solved — Archimedes' box has 536 solutions #

Apple claims ownership of employee's freeware project — Netflix Fanatic manages your Netflix queue, mirrored here and here #

Automated news images — Google News, without the words #

November 17, 2003

Rumor Monger — Apple employee invents p2p messaging in 1990 #

Microsoft's Matrix parody at Comdex keynote — features Gates as Morpheus, Ballmer as Neo, and a Linux diss #

MSN Newsbot — Microsoft's answer to Google News #

Desiderata, lovely Flash piece — by the people who did Paper Sky and UFO #

Review roundup on MobiTV — TV-on-cellphones service isn't too useful #

Send Them Back — send your MP3s back to the RIAA, via Dave #

Martin Amis' awkward attempts at e-mail shorthand — u should go @ it 40ssimo #

Uberman's sleep schedule — sleeping only three hours a night, without Provigil #

Conditional probability — like the Monty Hall problem, it's mathemagic #

iPod/iBook refinishing kit — turns brushed metal back into shiny goodness #