Skip to content
Waxy.org
Archives
About
2004

August

All Articles Links
Jan 239 Feb 212 Mar 298 Apr 277 May 317 Jun 275 Jul 401 Aug 347 Sep 221 Oct 224 Nov 179 Dec 250
August 31, 2004

BBC on political commentary in video games

via Joystiq #

MP3: Maciej's audioblogging manifesto

— listen to this now, it’s absolutely brilliant #

Disney's social software for vacation planning

— Magical Gatherings is a Windows app with networking features via Delicious #

Brand mapping the presidential candidates

— what brands do Bush/Kerry supporters associate with their candidates? via Delicious #

Mac sightings in the movies, with makes and models

— obsessive “computers in media” lists are fun #

Fictional passwords and passcodes in movies

— not a long list, but a nice idea #

BBC rereleasing Hitchhiker's Infocom game online with illustrations

— you can play it online right now, with hints and a walkthrough via Simon Carless #

MovableType 3.1 released

— also: the MT Contest Plugin Pack and the new Professional Network via q.queso.com #

GBA price drops to $80

— Nintendo DS will launch on November 11th at $179 via Game Tab #

Engadget's interview with Jack Valenti

— also: Ed Felten’s debunking of the former MPAA head via Boing Boing #

Apple says new iMac G5 will run Doom III

— look for the last sentence under “A Place for Everything” #

Amon Tobin making soundtrack for next Splinter Cell game

— excellent choice for ambient gameplay via Simon Carless #

Adaptive Path's Extreme Usability series

— a clever Burning Man parody by Mule Design via Jeff Veen #

President Bush's nicknames for friends and foes

via The Morning News #

Friendster fires Joyce Park for blogging

— this is an unbelievably stupid move on their part via Boing Boing #
August 30, 2004

What if Simpsons characters mated?

— surprisingly good fan drawings via MetaFilter #

Ask Mefi poster performs mystery guitar riff, gets song identified

— neat trick, it’s like a manual search engine for music #

Liberated Games launches

— commercial games officially released for free by their creators via Slashdot #

NYT on eBay promoting dropoff stores

— great service, but 30% is a serious cut #

Collin Brooke on Wikipedia's reputation

— a Syracuse professor’s take on the controversy via Delicious #

Woman's skin grows over wedding ring

— impressive, but it’s no match for dad’s kidneys via @bijou #

History of the Apple.com homepage

— I linked to the 1995 version via Airbag Industries #

Scalable headlines in Flash

— here’s a funny side effect of the technique via Anil Dash #

Wikipedia's List of fictional companies

— also: fictional video games, brands, radio stations, and much more #

A Lesson Is Learned, a beautiful web comic

— surreal, but very funny via Jason Cosper #

Analysis of an artificial meme

— tracking of a small meme through social groups via Alf Eaton #

Kempa on palindromic music

 #
August 29, 2004

Justice Dept. censors Supreme Court quote

— the irony of the blacked-out quote is thick via Boing Boing #

Construction photos of the Chubu Airport in Nagoya

— here’s the Wikipedia entry #

Fimoculous is back!

— Rex Sorgatz’ site was a big inspiration for my own links blog #

Glassdog calls for nuanced anti-Bush bumper stickers

— liberal, but not dogmatic #
August 28, 2004

GmailFS, badass Gmail hack

— mountable Linux filesystem using Gmail for storage via Jeremy Zawodny #

Classic anti-piracy print ads

via @ponderance #
August 27, 2004

Video: VH-1's profile on Randy Constan, the Peter Pan guy

— he’s unhappy with the portrayal #

Old Men Crying

— Dan Rather tends to get weepy via Nelson Minar #

McSweeney's E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone

 #

Memespread Analyzer, track keyword popularity in Usenet over time

— he was inspired by my old entry #

Acclaim files for bankruptcy

— another classic game studio dies #

Verisign loses Sitefinder case against ICANN

— lots of wonderfully thoughtful court rulings lately #

A morality tale of Spectrum ZX piracy and clones

— like it or not, piracy and emulation serve to preserve culture #

NYT on the movement towards computerized sewing machines

— “computers with needles and thread attached” #

Stiki Wiki

— WYSIWYG wiki with neat outgoing link previews via Leonard Lin #
August 26, 2004

Half Life 2 preloading begins

— the game is done! via Slashdot #

Paul Pfeiffer from the "Wonder Years" is a lawyer

— I bet he makes twice the yearly income of Fred Savage #

TiVo-like application for XM Radio under fire

— his software was C&D’ed by XM and the RIAA via Slashdot #

Video: Townsend's "Pour Some Sugar On Me," boy band take on Def Leppard

— the worst thing I’ve ever seen, made worse by the presence of Smashmouth #

Blog Torrent tracker beta

— the first PHP tracker that doesn’t need MySQL, but still too hard for most #

Interview with Downhill Battle's Nicholas Reville

— they renamed Battle Torrent to Blog Torrent #

Microsoft redesigns with standards

— well, almost there via David Ely #

Video: Bjork's Olympic performance

— without the annoying U.S. color commentary via adampsyche #
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • …
  • 7
  • →
Waxy.org
Archives About