May 7, 2004

iPod Lounge photo contest winners (via) #

Negativland's Mashin' of the Christ — distributed with BitTorrent (via) #

Metroid Cubed, isometric Shockwave remake of NES classic — someone should make an NES emulator that does this real-time (via) #

LA Weekly on the Erowid drug community (via) #

Convert RSS to the `fortune` file format — useless, but plugs my new archives #

Image: New Zealand parking ticket defense (via) #

Adventure Morality Fables for Boys #7 — sweet, delicious erasers #

Fake Tripadvisor reviews — try the Black Cock Inn cider (via) #

3 Mile wireless Gameboy Advance instant messaging — not too practical, but a cool idea #

Lovely Coachella 2004 photos — his work is much better than the media coverage of the event (via) #

Comcast fires TechTV staff — reporting from the blog front (via) #

May 6, 2004

Slashdot on pre-E3 highlights #

Infinite Cat Project — cats watching cats watching cats... (via) #

Gmail stress test — blocks sending mail after meeting quota, but continues to receive #

French anti-piracy group paying P2P users to distribute fake files #

Critiquing the design gurus' take on Greg Storey's PDB redesign — stemming from the WSJ story on the Better Tighty Whitey #

The Breedster conspiracy — the world is dying, so be the last bug standing (via) #

Flash: Badger Badger Bananaphone remix — it just gets better (via) #

Google Answers list of posthumously famous people — inlcuding the great Billy Tipton #

Google indexing TinyURLs — but only those that have been linked from elsewhere (via) #

I'll Kiss Asses for E3 Passes

Posted May 6, 2004 by Andy Baio

If anyone out there can get me a guest pass into E3 or wants to loan me their own badge for the third day, please let me know. I’ll happily take you out to lunch.

May 12, 2004: I’m all set for Friday! Thank you so much (you know who you are).

NYT on camcorder movie bootlegs as video art — I'm a big supporter of the arts (via) #

Pizza Party, order pizza from a Unix command line (via) #

The E3 Booth Babe-to-Sucky Game formula — they're hired to distract from the crappy gameplay and graphics #

Guardian UK pits Google against phone and library research — unlike the library, I can Google in my underwear (via) #

Breadcrumbs work, but not very well — some good research, including placement issues (via) #

NES controller belt buckle — nothing says geekcore like a spiked gamepad (via) #

Flash: Bananaphone Aftermath — have you been infected yet? (via) #

Uncensored text of Pat Tillman's brother's speech (via) #

Reforming the 50 states by equal population — born and raised in the state of Los Angeles (via) #

Flash: Hey Hey 16k — goofy tribute to the early computer era (via) #

Brains turn gorilla suits invisible — try the videos yourself (via) #

May 5, 2004

Vizster, nice social networks visualization — M2M has more info (via) #

My Karate Kid Shower — recreating Daniel-san's Halloween costume (via) #

Bootleg fan-made Star Wars Lego figures — nicely done, and for sale #

Google asks Mehack to stop using Adsense in their RSS — good, it's why I don't subscribe to Mehack's feed (via) #

Fred Durst's Xanga journal (via) #

Tribes 1 and 2 released for free download — there's a torrent for Tribes 2 #

TIAA-Cref criticizes Google's share structure (via) #

Wired on Newton moblogs #

Disney forbidding distribution of Michael Moore's anti-Bush film? — or was it a PR stunt? #

Japanese RIAA to start IMing pirates — they'll send over a million IMs this month #

May 4, 2004

Bricolage 1.8.0 screenshots — the most powerful open-source CMS gets better #

Tomas analyzes the Wblogs.com link spammer — wblogs.com copies entire Radio weblogs to promote porn sites #

SF Chronicle eulogizes Pat Tillman — he sounds like a genuinely interesting person (via) #

Image: Funny Oprah complaint e-mail — from the Smoking Gun's FCC e-mails #

The Shining in 30 seconds with bunnies — see also: The Exorcist with bunnies (via) #

Pew Musician Survey — 83% of musician provide free music online #

Gamespot's Doom 3 for Xbox preview — it will be playable at E3 #

Photos of women in scuba, space, and deep-sea diving suits — just when you thought you'd seen every fetish (via) #