April 4, 2004

Wonderfalls cancelled — all the good shows get cancelled (via) #

Brutal File Manager — 3D first person shooter/file manager, with screenshots (via) #

Tomas on unfounded Gmail paranoia — my thoughts exactly #

Lessig responds to a Forbes columnist's attacks — the columnist calls Larry a "moron" and "idiot" (via) #

Live Music Archive hits 10,000 free shows — highlights: Cowboy Junkies, Doughty, Soul Coughing, Tenacious D, Ben Lee, Ben Kweller (via) #

April 3, 2004

Short quiz to stop comment spam — the end of comment spam is nigh! (via) #

NewsDesigner — blog written by an anonymous insider at a metro newspaper (via) #

April 2, 2004

Webjay, listener-created playlists of web music — great idea, but hotlinking MP3s is usually frowned upon (via) #

Image: two full-size screenshots of Gmail — Sippey has some good notes on the UI #

txtkit, visual text mining tool for OS X (via) #

SphereXP, 3D desktop replacement for Windows XP — the screenshots and video are bizarre (via) #

Background of the Mezzoblue-StopDesign April Fool's swap (via) #

Image: First real Gmail screenshot — it supports threaded messages (via) #

Japanese emoticons — horizontal, instead of vertical (via) #

April 1, 2004

Google moves to block RSS scraping — if you don't release an API, the net routes around it (via) #

Man proposes to wife with Atari 2600 game — geekiest marriage proposal ever, download the ROM (via) #

PDTP, P2P directory mirroring — complicated concept, but very practical applications (via) #

Mogi, location-based multiplayer gaming in Tokyo — sounds like this is the first fun example of the genre (via) #

Quake 2 mod displays as "Magic Eye" stereograms — this is insane (via) #

David Bowie to perform inside Star Wars Galaxies? — it was an April Fool's joke after all #

Xanga is more popular and viral than Friendster — it's about to break Alexa's top 100 most trafficked websites #

Kinja's terms of service boo-boo — cribbed from Yahoo's TOS #

Visualizing Wikipedia changes over time (via) #

Nick Denton on Kinja launch — here's my public Kinja digest #

5.25" Disk Sleeve Archive — too bad the images are so small (via) #

Internet Jackass Day 2004

Posted April 1, 2004 by Andy Baio

Like last year, I’ll be keeping a running list of my favorite examples of the web’s April Fools Day (aka “Internet Jackass Day”) silliness. (There’s another much more thorough list being updated constantly.) Wired has a roundup of the bigger pranks, with a confirmation by Google that Gmail isn’t a hoax. Gizmodo added a gadget-oriented list.