February 2004 - Page 3 of 5

February 19, 2004

Video game to help UK flood planners — FloodRanger, the SimCity clone for earth science geeks #

Grey Tuesday, Free the Grey Album — post the album on your site for 24 hours #

February 18, 2004

Ben and Mena on Yahoo News Photos — cute AND famous #

Traffic Island art project — a tiny house and garden built overnight in the middle of a busy freeway island #

Wedding proposal casemod — "will you do me the honor... of hot-swapping that RAID?" #

PocketSNES, first SNES emulator for the GBA released! — screenshots, confirmed working games and lots of discussion #

Hybrid, an insanely detailed role playing game — seems autogenerated, but only a real human could be this insane #

New Yahoo search returns RSS/XML feeds — and the option to add the feeds to My Yahoo! #

Autotrace, convert PNG bitmaps to vectors — output format can be AI, SVG, or more #

Lazy reporters lean on Google for meaningless statistics — it's the new Lexis-Nexis! #

How to find winning Pepsi iTunes bottles before buying — Gillmor calls it an analog hack #

Plink's "Photos of Andy Baio" — Plink apparently thinks I'm this young Asian girl #

Rubhub, the XHTML Friend Network search engine — the XFN counterpart to FOAF's Plink #

Kevin Fox on Yahoo's new search results — they're blending paid results with search results, a big no-no #

MP3: DJ Penfold remixes DJ Danger Mouse's remix — is this illegal too? probably, because IP law is broken #

February 17, 2004

Regional Baskin-Robbins flavors #

"@" Symbol Added to Morse Code — dot dash dash dot dash dot #

Orkut Density Map — truly incredible geospatial visualization of Orkut users #

State of the Arcade Industry 2004 — the shift to player communities is exciting #

Mediachest — personal media inventory management goes social #

Missing for 14 years, teen finds himself on Internet — found his own photo on a Missing Children website #

Chad Oakenfold's Stabbing Machine — more photos on his homepage #

Yahoo Switched to Inktomi — and Google's index grew 25% to 4.2 billion pages #

Paul Boutin's Webmonkey eulogy on Wired News #

Downhill Battle on the Grey Album — the best summary of the relevant copyright issues that I've seen #

February 16, 2004

WaPo's Future of Search feature #

Edson cover of The Darkness' "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" — an acoustic, heart-warming love song #

Hacking Social Networks, pt 2 — discovering or abusing Friendster by last name, ZIP, and e-mail addresses #

Using video games to market new cars — what, no Volvo station wagons? #

Akimbo, on-demand TV over the Net — instead of buying another set-top box, TiVo should be offering this #

XFire, instant messaging for online gamers — I'd rather have this as a Trillian plugin #

K5 analyzes the leaked Win2k source — also via Boing Boing #

Polaroid's Outkast FAQ — do not shake it like a Polaroid picture #

Gum Blondes — 100% chewed bubblegum portraits on plywood backing #

Reuters on the Grey Album — and it mentions my site #

Lindows uses BitTorrent for distribution #

February 15, 2004

Canadian RIAA to launch dozens of Kazaa lawsuits — the ISPs are fighting it #

February 14, 2004

Slice City, play Simcity within The Sims — meta-Sims, via Wired News #

Phony LinkedIn account gets real links — very few people turn down friend requests #

Book Reader for the GBA — see also: E-Book Advance #

Flash: Grow — solution: cube, ladder, egg, ball, mountain, pipe, propeller, wind, gear, dish, rocket, tv #

Disinformation: The Complete Series DVD — did you know disinfo.com had a TV show in the UK? #

February 13, 2004

Signup no longer required to make Paypal payment — simpler online payments are a good thing #

Ben Goodger on the road to Firefox 1.0 — "I am here...to steal as much market share from IE as possible" #

FireSomething plugin for Mozilla Firewaxy — don't like the new name? change it to whatever you want #

Story of the Webmonkey layoffs from their former editor #

Win2k and NT4 source code leaked online — confirmed by Microsoft #

February 12, 2004

Wargames Tic-Tac-Toe Screensaver — the only way to win is not to play #

iPodLounge tries to predict future iPod models — reasonably well-informed guesses #

The Magical Skillset of Elves — versatile pointy-eared little freaks #