December 20, 2004
Scott McMullan's thoughts on semantic event aggregation
— sums up all the current work, with ideas for the future #
Legal threats against The Pirate Bay, another torrent tracker
— the Suprnova admins were wimps compared to these guys #
Traffic conditions added to Yahoo Maps
— now, can they modify Driving Directions to take traffic into account? (via) #
Spam Karma plugin for WordPress
— MT badly needs something like this; the battery of tests is impressive #
Video: Honda's Asimo robot can now run!
— bringing the uncanny valley into the real world; more videos and info (via) #
Creative Commons' CCMixter
— project to support remixing, with contests to appear on the new Chuck D album #
AllofMP3 doubles rates to $.02/MB
— still a ridiculous steal, at around $1 for an entire album (via) #
Excerpts from Game Developer's post-mortem on Katamari Damacy
— also, there's a nice 8-bit Katamari mockup for download #
Greg Storey knew the Crystal Cathedral gunman
— the nine-hour standoff ended in suicide; Greg provides some background #
Mozilla Firefox two-page ad in today's New York Times
— paid for entirely by donations, unprecedented for an open-source project #
Too much of a good thing?
— supply exceeds attention demand for digital photos, music, and movies (via) #
Japanese anime studio threatens fansub creators
— they're suing their biggest fans, even though they only translate unlicensed videos #
NYT Crossword Puzzle from Election Day 1996
— predicted Clinton's win before polls opened, or did it? #
NFL sells exclusive gaming rights to EA Games
— basically kills all competition in football video games (via) #