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April 12, 2004

Airbag redesigns the White House intelligence briefs

— memos never looked so good #

Musicompass, Java visualizations for Audioscrobbler

— their artist recommendations get better every day via Delicious #

Wired on the Gopher underground

— before there was Google, there was Veronica via Boing Boing #

eBay Searches to RSS

— like my old PHP script, only it works via Delicious #
April 8, 2004

Wizard People, new audio track for Harry Potter film

— bizarre fan-made retelling of the Sorcerer’s Stone #

The Political Biases of Video Games

— good, long article with lots of ideas via Slashdot #

First Mac OS X trojan infects MP3s

— proof of concept, not yet found in the wild via Slashdot #

Gourmet's personal account of bribing NYC maitre d's

via Nelson Minar #

Wired on abandonware and the Underdogs

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Google founder Sergey Brin in Drag

— don’t be evil… be fabulous! via Delicious #

Weblog templates for every song on the White Album

via suckahs.org #

Yahoo hints at social networking service

— George predicted Yahoorkutster in February via airbag.ca #

MP3: Remix of two similar Nickelback singles

— one song in each channel via idly.org #

Cxbx, Xbox emulator

— it can play Turok via Nelson Minar #

Veen on ridiculous editorial-to-advertising ratios

— if you can find a worse ratio, I’d love to see it #

Crash Bonsai, totaled model cars

— I missed this the first time around via Things Magazine #
April 7, 2004

Thurston Moore's NYT editorial on Kurt Cobain

via Mat Honan #

The Worst Arcade in the World

via Game Tab #

Tandy Computer Whiz Kids Comics

— boogah jokes that Tandy predicted blogging via Jason Cosper #

Peep, the network auralizer

— audio representation of network activity via Delicious #

Torrentbot, BitTorrent meets IM

— get IMed when a new torrent appears, and start downloading automagically! #

Cin-o-Matic, like a configurable Metacritic

— boy, I feel like Kottke-filter today via Kottke #

Memespread Project

— I’ve been meaning to do this for the Star Wars Kid log data via Kottke #

Smart stoplights penalize speeders

— sounds a bit dangerous to me via Delicious #

Blog service pinger

— ping ’em all, let god sort ’em out via Anil Dash #

Atari 2600 Comic Books

— I never pictured Centipede quite like that #

John Woo working on Metroid movie?

via Game Tab #

Rock Academy, the French "School of Rock"

— I love seeing Jack Black speaking French #

Boston Globe on Infocombot and AIM gaming

— no mention of my website, though #
April 6, 2004

I got my second cease and desist order

— not surprising, since I’m the #1 result for opus comic #

Decapitated cat commercial backfires on Ford

— just an excuse to link to the video via David Ely #

Dodgeball Social, like Friendster for your mobile phone

— notifies you when your friends are within 10 blocks via Kottke #

Iconsurf, favicon.ico icon browser

— random 500 icons out of over 15,000 via Brett O'Connor #

Amazon's Red Light District

 #

PS2, Gamecube, Xbox wedding cakes

— what, no Atari 2600? #

There are 600 quintillion ways to spell Viagra

via Kottke #

Wired on Realplayer Suckfulness

— Tomas was interviewed for the article via jogin.com #

More Gmail beta testing

— including more screenshots #

Topographic page bookmarklet

— the deeper the element, the lighter it appears via Delicious #

Sony's wireless network plans for the PSP and PS3

— 802.11 instead of Bluetooth for both via evilavatar.com #

Kottke on GooOS, the Google operating system

— they said the same thing about Netscape, but this makes more sense #

Flash: Techno made from Windows default sounds

via Delicious #
April 5, 2004

8-bit BBSing over the Internet

— emulating a Hayes modem, no less via Slashdot #

Video Game Wedding Card

— designed by Jason and Meg via Delicious #

Boing Boing's paying too much for hosting

— why don’t they just switch to a dedicated server? #

Reason Magazine customizes new cover with each subscriber's name and satellite photo

— this sort of thing is considerably easier for online mags via Slashdot #

Sean Palmer's Gmail preview with new screenshots

— user-defined labels, “starred” messages, and filters #

Amazon generated 6% of their 2002 revenue from web services

— if so, why don’t more retailers offer them? via Paul Bausch #

Catty, the chatbot with a Google brain

— using Google Groups might be even more effective via itre.cis.upenn.edu #

Musical quadratic equations

— plus, other nerdy math singalongs #
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