June 17, 2004

Ask Mefi on the best way to kill somebody — Scarabic's answer is a bit too detailed (via) #

Andy Pryke's detailed meeting with Nanniebots creator — he includes transcripts of his chats, some background on the story #

June 16, 2004

Joel on How Microsoft Lost the API War — still catching up on my links since Baby Day (via) #

Sony to ship new PS2/PVR models next month — now creates DVD-Rs with graphical menus (via) #

Paul Boutin reviews Starz's new movie downloading service — of course it sucks, it's Real #

Dave Winer Remix Contest

Posted June 16, 2004 by Andy Baio

Yesterday, Dave Winer shut down the free Weblogs.com, inciting the wrath of his many critics and attracting media attention from Wired, News.com, eWeek, and Slashdot. Dave redirected every one of the 3,000+ Weblogs.com sites to this entry, with a 9-minute MP3 explaining his motives. (Full transcript.)

Brian Dear remixed the audio into a catchy number that I call “People Just Love to Jump Up and Down” [.MP3, 1.95 MB]. It’s good, but I know you people can do much better.

So consider this a call for entries… Remix Dave’s speech and e-mail/IM me a link to your MP3 (or Dropload the entire file), and I’ll gladly host it for you. Three Gmail invites to the winner, and one each for the two runner-ups. Have fun!

Entries:

Dan Dickinson – I’m Sorry (Dave Winer Remix).mp3 (7.6 MB)

Matt Canale – This Is Not A Morning Coffee Note (rcade Deep House Mix).mp3 (5.7 MB)

Ralph Brandi – Smoking Weblogs.mp3 (5.3 MB)

Phil Ulrich – Audio Thing.mp3 (5.7 MB)

Scott Mulligan – Goofin’ On Dave Winer.mp3 (3.6 MB)

Exsend – Hi It’s Dave Here.mp3 (1.9 MB)

June 17, 2004: Greetings, Scripting.com readers!

June 18, 2004: Feel free to use Dave’s second audioblog posting [.MP3, 4.3MB], now dubbing the shutdown as a temporary outage, into your remixes. Here’s a transcript.

June 22, 2004: The winners!

Metafilter goes social with Mefi Contacts — here's my growing contacts page #

Build a 1.2 terabyte RAID file server for $1600 — $33,400 cheaper than January 2002 (via) #

New Scientist update on ChatNannies — still a hoax, Wightman showed off a modified copy of the Alice bot #

Retailers say Doom 3 for PC in late July — Xbox version following in October (via) #

Joystiq, new gaming blog by the Engadget folks — bringing the Weblogs, Inc. roster to 49 blogs #

3D FPS-style car navigation system in Japan — this is badass, but not a very practical visualization (via) #

RSS feed of Suprnova box sets — reminder: the RIAA monitors Suprnova #

Six Apart changes MT 3.0 licensing again — unlimited blogs is much, much better (via) #

Image: How not to check a diaper — if only someone had told me this four days ago (via) #

Pitchformula, crunching thousands of Pitchfork album review to write better songs — he includes all the Perl scripts he wrote for his BA project (via) #

Straight Dope on electricity failure after a zombie takeover — answer: scattered blackouts within 4-6 hours, complete failure in 24 hours (via) #

TuneTeller, MIDI search engine with a piano UI — focus the Java applet and play with your keyboard #

June 15, 2004

Boing Boing 2.0 — now with ads and a new layout #

Gmail scavenger hunt — find 15 items online, win a Gmail account #

Snopes on dollar store toothpaste — now with dangerously high levels of fluoride! #

Notlong, short URLs with subdomains — more readable alternative to TinyURL and their ilk (via) #

Disembodied hand in Victoria's Secret catalog — when Photoshop goes bad (via) #

Proof of concept Bluetooth virus — replicates on Nokia 60 phones (via) #

Transcript of Winer's Weblogs.com audio announcement — Wired News on the shutdown, and more (via) #

Cuckoo for Coco Cox, rant on celebrity baby names — hard to pull off, unless your dad is Frank Zappa (via) #

Second Life upgrade adds XML-RPC, in-world marriage — you can blog from within the world (via) #

Plain Layne, another Kaycee Nicole? — Kottke rounds up other recent fakes in his comments #

Construction of a sand mandala — David Hirmes made an excellent animation of the entire thing #

Firefox open to malicious spyware installers — but don't let that stop you from using today's Firefox 0.9 release #

Fox News raves about Fahrenheit 9/11 #

Winer shuts down Weblogs.com — leaves thousands of blogs offline without warning (via) #

June 14, 2004

Half-Life 2 moves to Autumn release? — seems unlikely that Vivendi would sit on it for a couple months #

June 13, 2004

Why WaxyLinks Isn't Updating — we had our baby! #

It's Baby Time

Posted June 13, 2004 by Andy Baio

If you’re wondering why I haven’t updated my site in the last five days, here’s why: the birth of my baby boy, Eliot Andrew Baio.

Updates will be sporadic while I learn the best ways to swaddle, the physical properties of meconium, and the complete works of Dr. Harvey Karp.

June 7, 2004

Snarkout on real-life superheroes and villains — not many wore costumes, though #

Image: Writers, Abandon Your Dreams #

Amateur online film reviews predict box office success — the MIT paper is online #

Nucleus, automated torrent downloading from RSS feeds (via) #

San Diego weekly publishes entire month of Brian Dear's weblogging — here's Brian's take on the $2000 check #

Mammatus Clouds Over Mexico — looks like a Kai's Power Tools texture #

US markets to close Friday for Reagan — yay, I get the day off! #

Pringles to print ads on individual chips (via) #

Wikis are the next frontier for link spammers — Slashdot has more on the story #

Untold story of the Nintendo's censorship of Maniac Mansion — the changes made the port substantially worse (via) #

Live blogging of Reagan's funeral arrangements — photos of the funeral home right outside her front door #

Movie: William Shatner's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" — ridiculous fan-made video, heavy on the Lucy (via) #

Thingster, geocoded content tool — it should integrate with Geocoder.us (via) #

Apple's Airport Express with AirTunes — standalone wireless adapter for any stereo (via) #

Apple iTunes Europe launch set for June 15 (via) #