August 26, 2004

Lia's roundup of Marvel Swimsuit Specials — the geekier precedent of Playboy's upcoming girls of gaming #

ASCII-mode TV goggles — distort an incoming video signal various neat ways (via) #

Dooce is having problems — get well soon Heather, the Internet loves you (via) #

Video: John Kerry on the Daily Show — not great quality, but it's the whole thing #

August 25, 2004

Tracking the "All Your Base" meme with Usenet — an old entry, now updated with 2004 data #

Coca-Cola's new net-enabled vending machines — buy drinks with your cellphone (via) #

Search engine belt buckle — I can recognize a Torrone project from a mile away (via) #

Distributed proofreaders posts 5,000th E-book — over 1100 active users in the last 24 hours #

Video game women featured in October Playboy pictorial — what's next, the Ladies of Marvel Comics? #

Screencap comparisons of Lucas alternations to new Star Wars trilogy — the cleanups look great, but what about the new Jedi ending? (via) #

Doom 3 Classic — full conversion of original Doom for the Doom 3 engine, screenshots (via) #

Librarian misunderstands Wikipedia — just because it's open doesn't make it unreliable (via) #

Video: Grayson, the Revenge of Robin — great trailer to a movie that doesn't exist (via) #

Glassdog on what's wrong with feed readers — are you reading this, Luke? #

SA photoshops UK anti-piracy campaign poster #

JibJab wins "This Land" lawsuit — and the purported copyright owners lost the song to the public domain! #

Dozens charged in spam crackdown — only 200 spammers send 90% of spam, so this a good start (via) #

There.com changes name to Forterra — and someone gave them lots of money (via) #

List of great "material moments" in film — from an academic journal on materials science and engineering (via) #

Cancelling an AOL account is not easy — an entertaining account of one attempt (via) #

Quentin Tarantino's alleged weblog — update: Q's publicist says it's fake (via) #

Bjork on filesharing — "God bless the internet." #

August 24, 2004

Trevor visits the Berkeley "I Love Bees" GPS site — the viral game pointed to pay phones today, which could activate "axons" on the website #

Star Wars Galaxies users crash server with protest demonstrations #

Olympic gold medals, adjusted per capita — adjusting for the population bias #

John Kerry chose the Daily Show over the news networks — he's interviewed on the show tonight (via) #

Good advice for record labels (via) #

Pirate Bay's response to Dreamworks cease-and-desist — one benefit of living in Sweden #

Olympics 2004 on Usenet

Posted August 24, 2004 by Andy Baio

As predicted, many of the Athens 2004 Olympics events are being digitized and uploaded to the Internet. The quality is good, often ripped from HDTV and international sources. (Many of the clips are from Brazilian television, with commentary in Portuguese. Those darn Brazilians again!)

To judge the video quality, here’s a sample clip of yesterday’s controversial judging of Russia’s Alexei Nemov, in which the audience’s vocal protests shut down the Men’s Gymnastics High Bar Finals for a full ten minutes.

Video: Alexei Nemov – Male Gymnastics High Bar Finals (Sample) (.MPG, 25MB)

Like Yahoo’s Most Popular, there’s an emphasis on women’s beach volleyball and women’s gymnastics. But many other events are represented, as well. Below is a list of every event posted to the alt.binaries.olympics Usenet newsgroup since the Olympics started on August 13.

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"I found a digital camera in the woods" — like the Internet's version of the Blair Witch Project (via) #

Typewriter mod that sends e-mail — with detailed photos (via) #

Video: "Planet of the Apes" as a Twilight Zone episode — brilliant fan re-edit (via) #

Tricks of the Trade — great list of trade secrets, more on Mefi (via) #

Simoniker's last post on Slashdot Games — Simon Carless was the best editor of the best section of Slashdot #

How to make your own red-blue 3-D photos — the JPL tutorial is nice, too (via) #

August 23, 2004

Windows worm accesses webcams and microphones — not the first Trojan with a voyeur angle (via) #

NYT on the Trey Parker and Matt Stone's "Team America: World Police" — new marionette movie, with political themes and graphic puppet sex (via) #

Lycos launches Discussion Search — searches mish-mash of message boards, discussion lists, and blogs (via) #

Technorati gets $6.5 million in funding — Socialtext, too; it's the New Boom! (via) #

Banner Report, gallery of 15,000+ ad banners — Wired covered the site today (via) #

How to Be Rich and Famous — endlessly ridiculous comments, because of this (via) #

Halo 2's viral marketing campaign goes meatspace — massive real-life mystery event all over the map #

The Seven Deadly Harveys — the sins of Harvey Comics #

August 22, 2004

Taking a Closer Look at the War Medals of George W. Bush #

MP3: Usher's "Dot Com" — horrible web-themed track, read the lyrics (via) #

August 21, 2004

Wheat allergy keeps 8-year-old girl out of heaven — the Catholic Church says her first Communion was invalid #

August 20, 2004

Isometric pixel map of Washington D.C. (via) #

Dick van Dyke is a professional CG animator — who knew? (via) #

21% of people who hate their lives use Livejournal (via) #

Mozilla.org's redesigned beta site — Steven has more info about the redesign (via) #