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September 8, 2004

Gameboy Advance console mod

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Alt-Rock Karaoke 2004

Posted September 8, 2004 by Andy Baio

Last year, I wrote an entry about karaoke songs on Usenet, focusing on the oddball subgenre of indie and alt-rock karaoke. Well, a year later, not much has changed… Here are some of the recent hipster hits found in alt.binaries.sounds.karaoke:

Modest_Mouse_-_Float_On_[Karaoke_Version].mp3

Yeah_Yeah_Yeahs_-_Maps_[Karaoke_Version].mp3

Franz_Ferdinand_-_Matinee_[Karaoke_Version].mp3

The_Streets_-_Dry_Your_Eyes_[Karaoke_Version].mp3

The_Streets_-_Fit_But_You_Know_It_[Karaoke_Version].mp3

Snow_Patrol_-_Spitting_Games_[Karaoke_Version].mp3

Jet_-_Cold_Hard_Bitch_[Karaoke_Version].mp3

Badly_Drawn_Boy_-_Disillusion_[Karaoke_Version].mp3

Which raises the question, is there a big overlap between karaoke fans and indie-rock fans? I can understand requesting Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'” at a karaoke bar, but Franz Ferdinand?

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— this is a hugely geeky hack via Slashdot #

Huge Ken Jennings Jeopardy spoiler

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September 7, 2004

Flash: Not My Type IV

— animated typography, see the Flash storyboard way down the page via Greg Allen #

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— Bearshare adds voter registration to their P2P client #

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— update: this turned out to be false via Delicious #

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Joel on the social aspect of UI design

— as always, a great read via Delicious #

Obsessive collection of telephone book covers

— strangely, I remember this creepy 1984 phone book via John Walkenbach #

James Duncan is building a 3D chocolate printer

— here’s a video of it printing, sans chocolate #

Simon's new details of the Half-Life 2 code theft

— including the IRC log that led to an arrest #

Slashdot launches Politics section

— following the lead of Sensible Election via MetaFilter #

Wikialong, Wiki extension for Firefox

— collectively doodling in the margins of the web via Delicious #

Gallina, Gmail-based blogging tool

— a bizarre proof of concept via Delicious #

Turn your NES controller into a PC joystick

— yet another great Torrone hack #

College textbooks available on BitTorrent

via Leonard Lin #

September 6, 2004

Hot or Not's $200,000 voter drive contest

— a brilliant idea, and I get $100k if you sign up from that link and we win via Matt Haughey #

Why Adam doesn't recommend Firefox for normal users

— I commented about my uncle’s weekend upgrade experience via Simon Willison #

TargetAlert, Firefox extension to show icons next to non-HTML links

— PDF icons next to PDF links, and so on via Leonard Lin #

Japanese novelty and party goods store

— OD finds some of the best items in the store via Octopus Dropkick #

TiVo and Netflix team up to offer movie downloads

— more in the Newsweek article via Kottke #

Merlin Mann's 43 Folders

— Merlin’s new site full of nifty productivity and software hacks #

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— $20 gets you a lot on Google Answers #

September 5, 2004

A Livejournal Grammar Lesson

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Simon Carless on O'Reilly's Gaming Hacks

— I’ve read the draft, and it’s excellent #

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— cute book title via MetaFilter #

Data Fountain

— international currency rates displayed with a Net-enabled water fountain via @acidzebra #

Jish quits blogging

— now who will I get to mediate between me and Ghyslain? via Anil Dash #

New version of MyTunes, the easy iTunes copying software

— the nag screen is only shown once now; thanks, Bill! via Boing Boing #

September 4, 2004

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NYT on the World Rock Scissors Paper Championships

— their FAQ is very entertaining via Delicious #

PBS special on the Video Game Revolution

— plus a nice site supporting the show via Slashdot #

Grand Theft Auto for the GBA confirmed

— top-down perspective sounds more like the original via Game Tab #

Fraud Frond

— gallery of cellphone towers disguised as fake trees via Boing Boing #

Star Wars, the Not-So-Special edition

— sarcastic and informative! via Delicious #

Jesus was a Jedi

— a Christian journal’s unusual cover story #

Adam Kalsey's new license plate

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Titanic, the Animated Movie

— a musical, with a kid-friendly ending via hitormiss.org #

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— easy alternative to gmailFS via ntk.net #

September 3, 2004

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— with the Python source via Delicious #

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— 1970s comics adaptation of a religious tract #

Image: Google Blog Google?

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Waxy.org 'Via' Links Aggregator

— very meta! read his justification for the hack via Delicious #

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— with video and audio over Quicktime streaming server via pvr.blogs.com #

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— including the entry on himself #