Skip to content
Waxy.org
Archives
About
2004

October

All Articles Links
Jan 233 Feb 209 Mar 291 Apr 275 May 311 Jun 268 Jul 394 Aug 344 Sep 219 Oct 217 Nov 175 Dec 246
October 18, 2004

Effect of presidential election on the markets

— Table 5 talks about using the market to predict elections #

"Crossfire" downloads exceeds TV broadcast audience

— it’s been downloaded at least 500,000 times in three days #

P2P Politics

— Lessig’s new project freely hosts political videos on Archive.org via Leonard Lin #

Compare and contrast the Carlsons

— CNN’s Tucker Carlson vs WKRP’s Mr. Carlson via Ryan Gantz #

Nick Denton releasing rare Ed Wood porn film

— under the new “Fleshbot Films” title via The Morning News #
October 17, 2004

Urbz online promo uses indie comic stars

— James Kochalka, Peter Bagge, Evan Dorkin, and more via Simon Carless #

Game Tunnel Client Links Xbox, PS2, and GC Games

— free alternative to Xbox Live and PS2 online play #
October 15, 2004

GTA San Andreas is gold

— rumors say Half-Life 2 is gold, as well! #

Irony level high on Disney's Peter Pan lawsuit

— Disney wants to profit from the public domain, while keeping its own work from it #

Mobster, recommendation addon for iTunes

— uses the Musicmobs community to recommend music #

Neal Stephenson classic on Unix and the Hole Hawg drill

— remember that the next time you ‘rm -rf /’ #

Jon Stewart bitchslaps CNN's "Crossfire" show

— the CNN transcript is jaw-dropping, here’s the video #

Benchmarking 101 video cards on 14 games

— even my Radeom 9700 Pro is showing its age via Slashdot #

Found Item Clothing

— t-shirt reproductions from movies and TV, but mostly just Real Genius for now via Boing Boing #
October 14, 2004

Halo 2 leaked to Usenet

— French audio with English subtitles, you can read the release NFO here via Joystiq #

Tracing the Evolution of Social Software

— from the Memex and EIES to wikis and Del.icio.us via Slashdot #

Early T.Rex ancestor was furry

— happy fluffy dinosaurs via linkbunnies.org #

Poynter Institute's Eyetrack Heatmaps

— interactive maps of eye movements reading news webpages via Kottke #

Google announce Desktop Search!

— a huge announcement, many details in Rael Dornfest’s overview via George Hotelling #
October 13, 2004

Cherry OS may be a PearPC clone

— Slashdot and Wired News are convinced it’s real via Delicious #

Seven die in "Internet Suicide" pact

— just because they met online, that makes it an “Internet Suicide”? #

Brain controlled computing a reality

— he’s able to operate a PC with his brain with 70% accuracy via Slashdot #

Bloglines subscriber stats redux

— Richard crunches some numbers for A-list bloggers #

BBS Documentary in pre-sale

— the staggering history of the BBS is finally done #

Nick Nolte's Diary

— the archives are priceless #
October 12, 2004

Flash: Honda's Grrr Game

— surreal goodness, but does it sell cars? via Delicious #

City of Heroes players honor Christopher Reeve

— some good screenshots of the tribute #

Six Apart profile in the WSJ

— with hedcuts of Ben and Mena! via Delicious #

Cardhouse on odd Hawaiian food products

— everything looks like the Tiki Tiki Room via MetaFilter #

Hands-on with Nintendo DS games

— they look like low resolution N64 games via Joystiq #

Blogging the debate within Second Life

— they’re created a virtual stage for both candidates #

Wired magazine internships

— this would have been my dream job, in 1995 via Gizmodo #

New Yorker on the broadcast spectrum giveaway

— more information about the situation and McCain’s proposal via Delicious #

Network Solutions takes Gawker offline

— the domain expired a week ago #
October 11, 2004

The Perry Bible Fellowship

— a wonderfully surreal weekly comic, like so and so and so #

Migrating your link list from MT to Delicious

— a good howto, but I’d still like “via” support #

Alexa web services

— I’m sure someone can use this for something good via Jeremy Zawodny #

How to Torture Your Sims

— painfully funny via @crystaltips #

Background on the ABC News redesign

— tableless XHTML, expanded RSS, and Flash headlines via Airbag Industries #

Shakeskin Gallery

— all you need is a camera and some loose skin via Delicious #
October 10, 2004

Flash: Dad's Home!

via Brett O'Connor #
October 9, 2004

Tour of Ghostbuster locations in Spiderman 2's modeled NYC

— with photos of locations in real life and in-game #

Video: Instant Messenger Fight

— a little fresh air via Brett O'Connor #

Ask PVRBlog

— Matt launches a cousin to Ask Mefi via Delicious #

Goolery, a Gmail-based PHP photo gallery

— obviously, there’s a huge market for a hosted hard drive with a good API via Delicious #

Microsoft Word autosummarizes the second debate

— entire transcript summed up in 100 words #

John Kerry is losing the logo war

— the Bush team has a better visual identity via typographi.com #

Katamari Damacy comic

— has anyone done speed runs of the game yet? #

First look at Bioshock, the new System Shock sequel

via Nelson Minar #
October 8, 2004

Jay Allen joins Six Apart

— they managed to lure him out of Hungary #
  • ←
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • →
Waxy.org
Archives About