November 20, 2004

Mom's Cancer — excellent autobiographical graphic novel (via) #

Paper CD Case — instantly generate a PDF label or origami paper case for your CDs (via) #

Complete Criterion Collection gift set — 241 movies for $5,000, about $20 each #

November 19, 2004

Auto-generating a graphic novel from blog posts — this makes me miss Radio vox Populi (via) #

Flash: 12many, counting game — tonypa's other games are wonderful, too (via) #

Dave Winer on RSS advertising — also: George rounds up some of the current techniques #

November 18, 2004

Elvis Costello interviews Joni Mitchell — from the November Vanity Fair #

MPAA wants to monitor Internet2 traffic — this Slashdot comment sums it up for me (via) #

43 Things' Twinkler preview — when expanded to any topic, this will be very interesting (via) #

Blogging featured on the West Wing — the character may have been modeled after Wonkette (via) #

File Magazine's Screen Series — photos taken through screen doors (via) #

The Grey Video

Posted November 18, 2004 by Andy Baio

The Grey Video is the brilliant Jay-Z/Beatles music video mashup of DJ Dangermouse’s “Encore” off the infamous Grey Album.

The official site is down, likely a result of popularity or legality, and I don’t know if it’s coming back. Until then, I’m going to mirror the high-quality Quicktime version.

Download: grey_video.mov (Quicktime, 22 MB)

BitTorrent: grey.torrent (thanks, Kyle!)

Also, Matt Haughey is mirroring it.

Knork, the spork-like knife/fork — yet another Half Bakery idea finally baked (via) #

Metafilter turns on new user signups — membership has been closed for two years! #

Debate about Firefox not supporting image tooltips for ALT tags — someone wrote an extension to emulate IE's behavior #

2.5 gigapixel photo — a busy city scene would've been more interesting (via) #

November 17, 2004

Strongbad gets an e-mail virus — lots of clever stuff here, plus a Livejournal reference (via) #

Flash: EPIC, a prediction of the Google-enabled future — if this is the dystopian future, count me in (via) #

Vicepoker, free strip poker game for the Gameboy Advance — possibly the first porn for Nintendo's kid-friendly handheld? (via) #

Textfiles.com gets a threatening letter from a catheter manufacturer — they want him to remove enema references in years-old BBS text files (via) #

Mash the Planet — Philip Torrone's onto something here #

Mark Cuban fined by NBA for a blog entry (via) #

Library of Congress putting 30 million newspapers online — papers published from 1836 through 1922, and available by 2006 (via) #

2004 Interactive Fiction competition results — Dan Shiovitz and Andrew Plotkin posted their reviews of all the free games (via) #

Second Life citizens create Neverlend virtual theme park — they continually impress me (via) #

TiVo to add banner ads when fast forwarding — as Matt said in the article, this is a slippery slope (via) #

Disney Suppressing the Kleptones

Posted November 17, 2004January 23, 2020 by Andy Baio

I received a cease-and-desist from the Walt Disney Corporation for hosting the Kleptones’ Night at the Hip-Hopera mashup. (Disney owns Hollywood Records, who owns the rights to Queen’s catalog.)

The irony is that I’m not even hosting the files anymore… The links on my site are all redirected to someone else’s server, and have been for weeks. At any rate, I’ll be forced to remove the direct links by November 23.

As far as I know, I was the first person to put the DJ Dangermouse’s Grey Album on the Web. Now, I see the suppression of artistic freedom again with the Kleptones album, which has always been freely-distributable and never made a dime. It’s depressing to think that our horribly broken copyright law means that nobody can legally hear this album or create others like it.

The cease-and-desist is below. The album itself can still be downloaded from the mirrors on the official Kleptones site, but I’m not sure for how long. If anyone has any ideas for creative protest, now’s the time.

Update: I’ve compiled a list of active mirrors to download the album. If you want to be added to the list, e-mail me or add a comment.

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November 16, 2004

Gamespot's Half-Life 2 review — the only review so far that's not a complete gush #

The Grey Video — amazing Beatles/Jay-Z video mashup for DJ Dangermouse's "Encore" #

Edelman on Grokster's outrageous spyware package — no less than 15 bundled programs; some install even if you hit Cancel! #

PDF: Ben Edelman's economic analysis of Google Answers — many researchers answer questions at night, for around $8-10/hour #

November 15, 2004

The Sneeze interviews FedEx's logo creator — have you noticed the hidden arrow? #

Thoughts on BitTorrent usability — some interesting ideas, along with a nice mockup #

Bungie publishing RSS feeds for Halo 2 stats — get a feed to see all of your own games! #

MP3: Eddie Murphy's "Boogie in your Butt" — this should definitely be remixed on b3ta #

November 13, 2004

How to schedule TV downloads with BitTorrent and RSS — made possible by TVTorrents (via) #

US senator's portfolios beating the market by 12 percent — likely insider trading, but the SEC won't investigate (via) #

Did Clinton Gut the Military? — Gordon does some original historical research #

BBC's search engine shootout — not very scientific, but Google wins regardless (via) #

How It Works… The Computer — full scans of a computer primer from 1971 and 1979 (via) #

BusinessWeek piece on corporate blogging software — KnowNow is charging $50k to $100k for blog software? insane (via) #

November 12, 2004

RoboDump — immature, but funny (via) #

Gamespot's 25-page "behind the scenes" feature on Half-Life 2 — I preordered the game last week! #

PocketBeeb, a BBC Model "B" emulator for the GBA — the screenshots are very neat #

Eliot's Previously Owned Vessels

Posted November 12, 2004 by Andy Baio

This morning, Eliot was constantly flailing his arms around while lying in his playpen. It reminded me of Stan, the used-boat salesman from the Secret of Monkey Island:

Yeah, I’m a geek.

November 11, 2004

Halo 2 sales break all entertainment records — between GTA, Halo 2 and HL2, it's a good year for games #

EB breaks Half-Life 2's street date — I'm sure it'll be on Usenet by tomorrow (via) #

Sex in Second Life — the adult clubs are the most popular locations in the virtual world (via) #

The Venn diagram of "getting it" — no relation to Getting It (via) #

Rich nutcase trying to collect an MP3 of every song ever recorded — I posted some thoughts in the Mefi thread (via) #