June 7, 2004

A personal remembrance from Ronald Reagan's costar, Bonzo #

High-res photos of the retro NES-style GBA — I want this, bad (via) #

Sun introduces employee weblogs (via) #

June 6, 2004

Reagan's Raiders, the Ronald Reagan comic book — more info about the first issue #

Damask Wallpaper Patterns — inspired by damask weaves (via) #

Samsung's Olympic reminder #

Andrew Anker joins Six Apart — read about Andrew in Gary Wolf's Wired book #

How Copyright Law Changed Hip Hop — an interview with Public Enemy's Chuck D and Hank Shocklee (via) #

New default theme in Firefox 0.9 — people are getting worked up about it, for some reason #

Rebel Leader John Kerry action figure — face him off against the Bush action figure #

Google Answerer thoroughly debunks "stupid facts" e-mail — variations of the e-mail are all over the web (via) #

Super Mario War, deathmatch Mario for Windows — network play is in the works (via) #

Glassdog's "Worth Hating," a rant on criticism — don't miss Anil's excellent rebuttal #

Ronald Reagan's Body

Posted June 5, 2004 by Andy Baio

Reagan’s body is being prepared for burial at Gates, Kingley & Gates Funeral Home, about five blocks away from our house and less than a block from our hospital, where we’ll be delivering our baby in the next week or so.

When we walked by the area earlier today, four full blocks of Arizona were closed down, with news crews swarming the area since 2pm today. I’ve never heard so many helicopters.

June 13, 2004: An anonymous comment in this entry inspired the launch of the new Republican 2004 presidential ticket: Vote Bush/Zombie-Reagan.

June 5, 2004

Plague Cookies — mmm, boils (via) #

Geocoder.us, free US geocoder — with a great web services API (via) #

Virtual real estate boom in Second Life — this virtual island sold for US$900 (via) #

RIAA wants your fingerprints — biometric DRM for music is a truly awful idea (via) #

June 4, 2004

Yoshinoya restaurant game for the PS2 — the modern equivalent of Chase the Chuckwagon for the 2600 #

Anil gets in the Nigritude Ultramarine game — the contest has revealed the deepest secrets of the SEO scumbags #

Video: Spelling bee competitor faints, recovers — he went on to spell the word correctly and take second place #

Experiments in riding motorcycles while drunk — with a heroic .247 blood-alcohol level (via) #

Slashdot discussion on programmer parenting #

Story of getting mugged yesterday in Chicago — reminds me of Mat's similar story in SF (via) #

Seanbaby's Top 10 Internet Fads — memes, not trends #

2004 Spelling Bee scandal? — Coudal's research shows it's likely a coincidence #

First all-artificial feature film released — voices were synthesized, video was machinima #

Scientists delete huge chunks of mice DNA with no effect — they removed 2.4 million DNA bases (via) #

New Harry Potter Film Pirated Online

Posted June 4, 2004 by Andy Baio

As predicted, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban was camcorded and leaked online today, moments after the Friday matinees ended on the East coast. The NFO file released by UTi indicates that this may be their last release because of “not so recent but still evident events.” (Arrests? Increased security?)

The sample image distributed with the movie pokes fun at Warner Brothers’ attempt to thwart piracy by issuing military-style night-vision goggles to theater ushers. I guess it didn’t work very well.

June 5, 2004: Here’s a 50 second sample (MPG, 8.1 MB) of the bootleg video. As you can see, the video and audio aren’t very good, and the aspect ratio is bad.

Local Mirror of "Fahrenheit 9/11" Trailer

Posted June 4, 2004 by Andy Baio

High demand forced the official Fahrenheit 9/11 trailer offline, so I’m mirroring the high-quality Windows Media trailer right here.

• WMV: Fahrenheit 9/11 Trailer – High Quality (25 MB)

Update: Apple is hosting the Quicktime trailer, and the official site is hosting both trailers again.

Homebrew network-enabled washing machine — more details about his badass new controller hack (via) #

How it feels to get shot (via) #

Friendster appoints former NBC president as new CEO — Jon Abrams is just a mascot now (via) #

Bugmenot extension for Firefox — bypass obnoxious web registrations with one click (via) #

VisitorVille, bizarre SimCity-ish visualization for website traffic patterns (via) #

Defective Yeti on Amazon's "plogs" — he's on their strange blog list #

Insects in album cover art — more obsessive and obscure list making (via) #

Cliche watch: My name is * and I approve this * (via) #

Microsoft's "The Apprentice" E3 parody for the Xbox — starring Donald Trump and a cameo by Bill #

Simpsons torrents — nearly every episode, of varying quality (via) #

Gallery of movie copyright warnings — we'll be seeing these in the U.S. soon, I'm sure (via) #

June 3, 2004

Creed breaking up? — in other news: world rejoices #

Brainball, game controlled by alpha waves — the calmest person wins (via) #

Gawker Media available for contract work — they just launched a marketing blog for Nike #

Yoga training program for the Xbox — watch the video preview or visit the official site (via) #

Pine first-use statistics — nice charts showing steady adoption rates (via) #

PC World interviews the creators of VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program — Bricklin, Frankston, and Fylstra reminisce and make new predictions #

Angela from "Spellbound" has a blog — don't feel bad, Google can't spell heleoplankton either (via) #

Movie List classic trailers — very high-quality videos, like Goonies, Wargames, and Alien (via) #

People I've Slept With — Harpers-style personal list making (via) #