July 2004 - Page 4 of 8

July 21, 2004

Spamusement — cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines (via) #

Why did Microsoft buy Lookout? (via) #

Four inmates escape, go on two beer runs — and they came back to the prison, twice (via) #

July 20, 2004

Censorzilla, dirty words in the Netscape source tree (via) #

Platform Jumping, tiled animated GIFs — from the b3ta crew (via) #

BookMachine — kiosk to download and print books on demand #

Katamari Damacy coming to US! — September release and original soundtrack! #

Fast Company's excellent profile of Whole Foods (via) #

Anil on leaving New York — San Francisco is the perfect median between LA and NYC #

Camera fiends — the reactions to the first cameras and cameraphones are identical #

Infoworld's RSS traffic resembled DDOS attack — on the hour, every hour (via) #

Doom III minimum requirements — with these, you can see the Doom III Interactive Slideshow (via) #

Verizon announces home fiber pricing — 15Mbps for $50/month sounds good to me (via) #

Musical preferences of computer geeks — ridiculous study, but amusing (via) #

Trapped on a boat with Journey, REO Speedwagon, and Styx — what, no Hall & Oates? (via) #

Weblog Snapshots — with PyObjC and webkit, source code to follow #

All Music Guide Corrector extension for Firefox — brilliant, it fixes some of the crappy usability issues #

The Social Computing research lab list — interesting work coming out of these places (via) #

Eric's son was born 1 pound, 7 ounces — the brave man is posting daily updates (via) #

Silly pie charts — like the alphabet and empty supervillian threats (via) #

Lame hotel wifi uses censorware — and they're blocking my site! (via) #

July 19, 2004

Image: Google circa 1960 #

SharpReader 0.9.5 released — still my feed reader of choice #

Star Wars Galaxies expansion adds multiplayer space travel (via) #

Ringo Starr's Japanese leisure suit commercials from the mid-1970's — with backing vocals by Nilsson and Davy Jones #

MP3Blogs Aggregator — the full-text feed is brilliant, but brings up ethical issues of hotlinking (via) #

The Hundred Thousand Gallon Restaurant — also: water-ghost Pac-Man maze, poetic Braille, Lego Tape, and more #

Daryl proves you should never talk politics with your parents — heartfelt story of a mother-and-son argument (via) #

Coffee Cup Watermarks — yet another Half Bakery idea is fully baked (via) #

Flash: Megaman vs. Ghost n' Goblins — perfect fan-made mashup of the two classic NES games (via) #

BLT-scented candles — I'm hoping for bacon-scented perfume next (via) #

Dunstan redesigns 1976 Design — awe-inspiring attention to detail (via) #

Obsessive collection of prop and scenery photos from David Lynch's "Mulholland Dr." — from this impressive fan site, including location renderings (via) #

Engadget on the survival of Netflix — "open up or die" (via) #

MIT review of Japan and America as two "cultures of piracy" — you can rent CDs in Japan? (via) #

Flash: The Incredibly Evil Machine (via) #

1961 monster-movie trading cart set — also: monster flip movies, Weird-Ohs, and many others (via) #

New Yorker on government-funded cosemetic surgery for soldiers — 496 breast enlargements from 2000 to 2003 (via) #

July 18, 2004

NYT on Jeopardy master Ken Jennings — also: the Christian Science Monitor on Jeopardy and pub trivia (via) #

Background on the Pioneer 10 probe's plaque (via) #

Jon Haddock's "Cartoon Violence" resin figures — traumatic events rendered in the style of early 1930s cartoons (via) #

Doom 3 for the SNES — hmm, not as impressive as the preview screenshots (via) #

MMORPG subscriber growth stats — Final Fantasy XI is number one with a bullet (via) #

Video: Dance, Voldo, Dance — choreographed dance machinima performed with Soul Calibur (via) #

Eric Meyer on political parties — the flaws of a two-party, black-and-white nation (via) #

Artist paints giant Google screenshot — I like the idea of folding up web sites (via) #

The Chaos of English Spelling — or why voice synthesis is hard (via) #

Newsweek's profile of the new iPod — also: the companion puff piece on the iPod's success (via) #

July 17, 2004

Background on the immersive "A.I." movie net game — more information about the game (via) #

U.S. Orkut users upset at Brazilian takeover — there are nearly twice as many Brazilian users than American #