September 23, 2004

Video: C-Mon and Kypski, "Shitty Bum" — excellent music video, with great Space Invaders sequence #

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Infocom game, redesigned with graphics — here's some technical information about the redesign (via) #

Kleptones, "Night at the Hip-Hopera"

Posted September 23, 2004January 23, 2020 by Andy Baio

The Kleptones’ A Night at the Hip-Hopera is one of the the best mashup remixes I’ve ever heard, a fluid blend of classic and modern hip hop with Queen’s epic catalog. Please don’t miss the last track, Question.mp3. It’s like a plunderphonic call to arms against bad copyright law.

The official site is having bandwidth problems, so I’m mirroring the entire album, as individual songs and an uncut 110 MB MP3.

As far as I can tell, nobody has listed the sample origins online yet. I don’t have the time to locate the short samples, but here are most of the primary sources. If you can fill in any gaps (in bold) or have any corrections, leave a comment!

September 24, 2004: The sample list is almost complete, except for the source of the vocals in Stop.mp3. If you can identify the artist and song, please let me know. Found! Shane did some expert Googling and identified the sample as Looptroop w/Chords & Timbuktu, “Heads Day Off.” [MP3, 6.4MB]

Continue reading “Kleptones, "Night at the Hip-Hopera"” →

New California law requires disclosing valid e-mail address for filesharing — I'm absolutely furious about this MPAA-sponsored law, here's some of the reasons why (via) #

September 22, 2004

The Last Starfighter, the Musical — more information about this terrible idea #

Nick's update on Blog Torrent, and call for help — they need people with NSIS, ActiveX, and Moz plugin experience #

Commercial ultrasound services growing popular — we tried FetalFotos, and got our money's worth #

Sony to support MP3 on their portables — apparently, ATRAC never really took off (via) #

Record companies double royalties while online music sites lose money — Apple makes only $.04 per song, while the labels take $.62 or more (via) #

Brian's roundup of new social-network local listing services #

Video: Watermelon Love — seducing the online consumer #

SpamAssassin 3.0 released! — also: a new logo, better performance, and a better plugin model #

Star Wars DVD released on Usenet two weeks ago — here's the Star Wars NFO file from Sept. 11 #

Archive.org's Sabucat vintage movie trailers collection — not public yet, but here's the growing index (via) #

Navy sailor crushes son to death while playing Gameboy — reminiscent of the Everquest neglect death (via) #

Change Mac desktop images based on CPU load — reminds me of the Ambient Devices line of aware devices (via) #

Botball organizer buys 350 Gameboy Advances — $40 for a pre-owned (non-SP) GBA is dirt cheap (via) #

Guitar 101's cover songs forum — like karaoke for guitars, but with an extremely supportive audience (via) #

Us Weekly says Britney faked her wedding #

Dowser, interesting client-side search tool — privately tracks your local search history across multiple search engines (via) #

Flickr gets positive review in Sun-Times — they deserve all praise (via) #

September 21, 2004

Cat Stevens diverts DC-bound plane to Maine — he was on the federal watch list #

Nellie McKay is lying about her age — and the White Stripes weren't really siblings; does anyone care? (via) #

Life Lessons from Super Mario Bros. games — also: life lessons from the SMB1 instruction bookley #

Pongmechanik, outstanding mechanical tabletop version of Pong — check out the photos, or watch the video for gameplay #

Dave Chappelle reunites the Fugees in a massive Brooklyn block party — it was directed by Michel Gondry for a likely DVD release; Gothamist has first-person accounts (via) #

Changing page layout for different resolutions — check out the demo #

Gameboy DS set for $149 on Nov. 21 — also: the tiny PStwo set for $149 on Nov. 1 (via) #

September 20, 2004

First Nintendo DS commercial in Japan — also: nice wallpaper and a nice shot of the Developers Hardware (via) #

"I Found Some of Your Life" is gone — I suspect it's partly because of this excellent net research #

Emulation and the Video Game Industry, A White Paper (via) #

Wired on Kahle vs Ashcroft — saving orphaned works still under copyright (via) #

Projecting Middle-Earth onto a map of Europe (via) #

Slate dissects how Ali G keeps conning his famous guests — vague memos, fake websites, and fake companies (via) #

CoolGov — new blog of interesting info culled from official US government sites (via) #

September 19, 2004

Wikipedia hits 1 million articles — very impressive (via) #

Katamari Damacy for sale starting Tuesday — and at only $20, it's a steal #

Doom III demo released — 461 megs seems excessive for a trial version of anything #

September 18, 2004

The Kleptones, "A Night at the Hip-Hopera" — one of the best mashups ever created, local mirror (via) #

Visual history of one user's spam — excellent charts from 1997 to present (via) #

September 17, 2004

Jon Udell's badass bookmarklet to search library books via Amazon — Santa Monica people can use Sirsi and this base URL #

Paul Smith's Typewriter Art — some of the earliest ASCII art, I bet (via) #

Instant Replay Binocular — brilliant idea, if a flawed implementation (via) #

Video: Pepsi Can Fu — from this very good TV commercial blog (via) #

Google Answers on nerds in pop culture — from Woody Allen to Ken Jennings #

Torrone's howto on tagging photos with GPS coordinates — another step in documenting your every move #

Video: Willful Infringement, Mickey and Me — documentary of a video store owner's copyright battle against Disney, and many other similar stories (via) #

Screenshots of "Wanda and the Collossus," the Ico pseudo-sequel — IGN has more details about the game (via) #

Sony launching smaller PS2 next week (via) #

Spread Firefox campaign passes 720,000 downloads, with 7 days left — G4TechTV has the lead with over 17k referred downloads (via) #