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December 31, 2004
— the screenshots are amusing #
— “giant head” photo cliche on Yahoo News via Jeremy Zawodny #
— they’ve registered a company offshore #
December 30, 2004
— every blog needs a theme song via Ev Williams #
— completely inexplicable via adampsyche #
— they lost Monster in October; eBay was their last big supporter via Nelson Minar #
— don’t miss the states, also via misterpants.com #
— “naturally stoned on Jesus” via misterpants.com #
— for extreme Disney nerds only #
— get used to it, Jennings via Boing Boing #
— completely new, from the homebrew 2600 scene via Simon Carless #
— they’re setting up a legal defense fund #
— MaTinE posted a public response #
December 29, 2004
— also, how much money each country chose to pay for music on Magnatune #
— designed to further lure PC owners who were tempted with iPods via blogsnow.com #
— vog, vlog, and vidblog all sound awkward to me, but so did “blog” via paidcontent.org #
— promote open sharing of information in the academic world via Slashdot #
— I also liked this wordless comic via Delicious #
— “Alicia” found the site and contacted Rob #
— temporary signs usually indicate larger usability problems via Matt Haughey #
— Matt Groening is a big fan of The Office via Jason Cosper #
— mixes 40 different Beatles songs, well worth the download #
December 28, 2004
— with previous year’s rankings in parentheses #
— the end times are near #
— long overview, with some good quotes from Bram #
— some compelling points on both sides of the issue via Simon Carless #
— smart use of the Flickr API, discussed by Clay via Flickr #
— the concept art is nice, but the screenshots look like Leisure Suit Larry via Delicious #
— fun prediction of the day: video rental stores will be gone in ten years #
— note that CNN is the only outlet to use that headline for the AP wire article #
— funny, I liked the Kleptones album better via deadparrots.net #
— excellent primer for cleaning and securing any tainted Windows box via askbjoernhansen.com #
— probably announcing the first Exeem release #
— new games and picture viewing, and it supports Ogg at 80% speed via Hackaday #
December 27, 2004
— stops comment spam by requiring Javascript to send back a computed MD5 hash via Matt Mullenweg #
— the article doesn’t mention the web-based game rewards link spamming via paidcontent.org #
— search only the text of sponsored links via Philipp Lenssen #
— comic books, old men, and other random fun via Simon Willison #
— this would be a good one to pitch to Google Answers #
— feature requests in the style of 43things #
— CC license your work and optionally upload it to the Internet Archive! #
— mentions the fake Mazda blog that I helped unravel #
— decentralized .torrent file distribution via p2p.weblogsinc.com #
— leaving nice notes to good parkers in Houston via Rob Cockerham #
— what’s wrong with this picture? via Delicious #
— generally positive comments, but they’re stunned by the lack of porn/spam #
