January 25, 2004

Image: Prototype of the Nintendo DS — see also: the Nintendo BS #

Orkut quietly deleting posts — and users, too #

January 24, 2004

Hamsterball Beta for Windows — brilliant Marble Madness clone #

Ping-Pong Ball Avalanche Homepage — Japanese researchers drop 320,000 balls down a steep ramp, with videos #

Britney, Beyonce, Pink and Enrique Iglesias as Pepsi-wielding Gladiators — worst ad campaign ever? download the wallpaper #

OneLook reverse dictionary — 1980s arcade games, or #16 under geek #

More idiotic blog spammer discussion — they think Memepool used blog spam to get popular; even more in the newsgroup #

Kazaa to sue movie, record companies — for copyright infringement, no less #

Nice profile of Norah Jones and her new album #

TorrentReactor, another nice torrents site — these sites badly need RSS support #

Wacko "prayer visualizations" from former doomsday cult — don't miss Presidency and Drugs, from the Cult of Universal Triumphant folks #

January 23, 2004

Imaginary girlfriends for sale on eBay — it's a trend; there are some boyfriends too #

Top 100 Usenet groups, by bytes posted — 10 newsgroups compose 1/3 of all data posted to Usenet!? #

MP3: Howard Dean Megamix — by far the best Dean remix I've heard #

Video: Hey Ya, Charlie Brown — Outkast meets Peanuts #

My Best Friend Plank, RealVideo — gorgeous design and pun overload #

Amazon taking campaign donations for presidential candidates — Lieberman opted out, but you can donate ribs to Bush #

Pepsi's Superbowl ad features RIAA-targeted teens #

Great background on Johnny Ray Gasca, a big-time movie screener crook — with diary pages and details about his escape, (login: waxyorg/waxyorg) #

Tests suggest scientists have found Big Bang goo — mmm, quark-gluon plasma #

Huge collection of Howard Dean scream remixes #

Joule, Livejournal network visualization #

Illinois man arrested for selling Oscar screener copies — and Carmine Caridi is in big trouble #

January 22, 2004

Wonkette, Gawker Media's new Washington DC gossip blog — edited by Suck alum Ana Marie Cox, no less #

Google employee releases social networking service — currently invite-only, so e-mail me if you're a friend of mine who wants in #

Arcade game alphabet quiz — I have the answers, if you want it #

The President needs ribs — someone get that man some ribs! #

Congrats, Papa Gruber — with possibly the best birth photo I've ever seen #

Binary link collector from IRC channel topics — collecting file links from 26 IRC networks #

Subpop Records parodies Pitchfork — indie rock will eat itself #

Librarian stereotypes in eBay clothing auctions — more about the research project #

Yahoo closes Scandinavia operations — shutting down their local Norway, Denmark, and Sweden portals? #

A Garden of Cellular Automata — the header graphic evolves over time using data from Weather.com #

Suprnova.org traffic statistics — at 3am on a Sunday morning: 25k active torrents, over a million peers #

NASA loses contact with Mars Spirit rover #

Adam's angry at the New York Times — aka the blogger who didn't get hired at Google #

Wesley Clark on the cover of The Advocate — brave, but potentially more damaging than Dean's scream #

Male nipple removal, odd body modification — warning: this is pretty gross #

Waxy v2.0

Posted January 22, 2004 by Andy Baio

I’d like to give everyone a sneak preview of my newest and greatest project, currently 19 weeks in development… With a tentative release date of June 13, I’m proud to announce Waxy v2.0!

The doctors say he’s perfectly healthy, and my wife started to feel him move actively in the last week or so. (We’ve picked out a name, but we’re still working out the spelling.) I’m joyous and terrified and wistful and optimistic, often all at once.

Mostly, I’m just excited that I’ll have someone to play video games with!

January 21, 2004

Top 20 Male Reactions to Olive Oyl — from this obsessive Olive Oyl fanpage #

Magical Gadget — forgotten electronics of the '70s and '80s #

Interview with CTO of Kazaa/Sharman Networks — he seems much less shady than his evasive employer #

Torrentz, cleanly-designed BitTorrent site — nicely organized and popular enough to seed most torrents #

Disneyland's Tower of Terror opening event — hey Cory and Mena, tickets are only $1,595 each! #

Magnetlinks, link directly to P2P files — open standard developed by Kazaa folks #

Billy Joel is Shiite — separated at birth? #

Periodic table museum display, with element samples — gorgeous, and so very cool #

Rolling Stone's interview with Justin Frankel #

Radiohead, Pixies, Cure Flaming Lips slated for Coachella festival #