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).

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NYT on camcorder movie bootlegs as video art

— I’m a big supporter of the arts via Eyebeam #

Pizza Party, order pizza from a Unix command line

via Eyebeam #

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 Slashdot #

Breadcrumbs work, but not very well

— some good research, including placement issues via David Ely #

NES controller belt buckle

— nothing says geekcore like a spiked gamepad via Brett O'Connor #

Flash: Bananaphone Aftermath

— have you been infected yet? via Brett O'Connor #

Uncensored text of Pat Tillman's brother's speech

via techlawadvisor.com #

Reforming the 50 states by equal population

— born and raised in the state of Los Angeles via John Walkenbach #

Flash: Hey Hey 16k

— goofy tribute to the early computer era via Michael Heilemann #

Brains turn gorilla suits invisible

— try the videos yourself via Boing Boing #

May 5, 2004

Vizster, nice social networks visualization

— M2M has more info via corante.com #

My Karate Kid Shower

— recreating Daniel-san’s Halloween costume via dooce.com #

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 Jason Cosper #

Fred Durst's Xanga journal

via stereogum.com #

Tribes 1 and 2 released for free download

— there’s a torrent for Tribes 2 #

TIAA-Cref criticizes Google's share structure

via Sippey #

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 idly.org #

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 MetaFilter #

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 muxway.org #