November 12, 2003

CSS Vault — inspiring examples of CSS design #

November 11, 2003

First kiss in There.com #

Amazon's Best Albums of 2003 #

Bulleted search results — obnoxious, like eBay listings #

UK band schedules concert in online game world — Steadman performing in There.com #

Instant Message Question Answerer — I get random questions like hers every few days #

How children perceive TiVo — without it, TV is "broken" #

Mom Finds Out About Blog — the only thing scarier is when your mom starts her own blog #

N-Gage security cracked, games run on other phones — more details #

XGoogle, IRC search engine — search channel names, topics, and XDCC files #

Gameboy Advance programming with DevKit Advance — try GBA Dev for more news and info #

Underwear Boiling System — finally, an autoclave for undies #

Larry Flynt buys topless photos of Jessica Lynch #

First Galaxies Jedi confirmed, hunted #

November 10, 2003

Bender goes to Vegas — with blackjack and hookers #

Subversive Cross-Stitch — reminds me of indie sew kits #

Which Social Software are you? — it said I'm the Blogosphere, when I'm really Upcoming.org #

Postal Service ordered by government to change band name #

Gothamist Events, powered by Upcoming.org — the announcement gives more detail #

Fleshbot launches — Gawker Media's porn weblog #

Harv's Friend — the story behind Harv Was There #

Berklee Shares, free music lessons — learn to shred #

Slashdot on Disney's move away from hand-drawn 2D art — when are they going to learn it's about the story, not the medium? #

Anton Maiden, Dead

Posted November 9, 2003 by Andy Baio

Anton Maiden represented the ultimate in geek DIY culture. Using MIDI files of Iron Maiden songs cribbed off the Internet and a microphone plugged into his PC, 19-year-old Anton Gustafsson created energetic and excitable versions of his favorite band from his home in Sweden. His unusual recordings became a cult hit in the United States, mostly with college radio DJs and fans of “outsider music.”

Anton is dead at the age of 23, after being reported missing for over a week. His homepage remains unchanged, though this article has more information. ~~If you can confirm these reports, e-mail or IM me.~~ His death is confirmed (thanks Tomas), and it appears to be suicide.

High-quality MP3s of the Anton album (Allmusic.com review) are available, thanks to Dan H. Warning: negative comments about Anton’s music will be deleted.

November 9, 2003

Buddhist game — more fun than the Athiest game #

November 8, 2003

Entertaining review of There.com — don't miss the last screen grab #

Wired on Microsoft's Wallop #

November 7, 2003

Supposed anti-spammer spams weblog comments — he spammed my site a couple hours ago #

Conversation with a weblog spammer — everyone should start sending invoices #

McDonald's/iTunes story was a rumor #

RSS reader for the Hiptop #

Belle du Jour — weblog of a London call girl #

New version of SharpReader — faster startup and lower memory footprint #

Reading On A Dream — guerilla musical theatre #

Searching for BitTorrents with Google #

Cowardly senators duck Iraq funding vote — only six people showed up #

November 6, 2003

Democratic candidates prefer PCs over Mac — except Al Sharpton, go figure #

Web servers of presidential candidates — Sharpton on Solaris, Dean on FreeBSD #

Microsoft developing a "Flash-killer" — like Frontpage is a Dreamweaver-killer? #

Artificial evolution of walking motions — great video shows self-learning 3-D models #

McDonald's giving away a billion iTunes songs — too bad I'd rather go hungry than eat there #

Steve Ballmer's iPod — get on your feet #

November 5, 2003

It's A Man's World #

Rise and Fall of the BBS — sad but beautiful graph #

Upcoming.org in the NYT — the first mainstream press for the site #

Plugging the RSS usability hole — using XSLT to make XML/RSS buttons accessible for newbies #

NYC Marathon Course Simulator — pit Puffy against Maciej, then toss in Martin Lel for fun #

Flash borders with MovableType — click on the dark blue background #

iTunes install disables MusicMatch — they warn about it, but it's still bad form #

Beijing store caters to left-handed people — he's like the Chinese Ned Flanders #