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October 7, 2004

Help me identify the "Afro Ninja"

— if you know who he is, e-mail me and I’ll give you $50 #

JotSpot Flash demo

— a walkthrough of the newly announced enterprise wiki #
October 6, 2004

37 Signals' Intro to Using Patterns in Web Design

— a simple guide for laying out usable sites #

Video: Extreme Unicycling

— they manage to make unicycles look cool via buzz.bazooka.se #

I Am Learn, blog written by a Perl script

— a cousin of R Robot, created by Peter Cooper via MetaFilter #

Luxology's Modo

— very innovative new 3D modeling app for Mac and Windows via themaxx.com #

How MP3.com identified unknown bands based on user data

— fascinating analysis with insights into music marketing via Delicious #

A Mario Sprite History

— excellent evolution of 2D Mario characters via Delicious #

Ask Mefi on concepts that don't exist in the English language

— this thread developed nicely via Delicious #

Video: Simon Robson's "What Barry Says"

— best animation winner at the 2004 Brooklyn Film Festival via Ryan Gantz #

Image: AOL's new brand identity?

— triangles everywhere! via Jason Cosper #

Plink.org creator taking FOAF app offline

— because there’s no way to opt out of FOAF via Delicious #

How Six Apart got their funding

— hmm, smells like a scam via Delicious #

Image: Best Team Portrait Ever

— warning: this is a bit gross via Jason Cosper #

Insane console collection on eBay

— games sold separately via Delicious #

Six Apart gets second round of VC funding

— from August Capital, Andrew Anker’s former firm #

Cheney mixes up .com with .org, hilarity ensues

— he meant to say this, but actually said this via The Morning News #

Budweiser's new caffeinated beer

— with the awful name “B to the E” via Fimoculous #

New Meetup.com much more flexible

— no more restrictions on venues, dates, or topics #
October 5, 2004

Cameron's VP debate analysis

— Edwards’ “american people” and Cheney’s “fact of the matter” #

Snap.com, new search engine with sortable results

— the live refined queries are nice, but a stupid linking policy via Boing Boing #

Flash: Zoom Quilt

— it’s also available as a slideshow and movie via MetaFilter #

Installing OS X on the Xbox

— using PearPC, of course via Delicious #

Wired on "The Long Tail" of the economics of scarcity

— the biggest money is in the smallest sales via Anil Dash #

Flickr, "So Meta It Hurts"

— photos of Flickr on Flickr, like this one #

Image: Eruption in Progress

— new activity on Mount St. Halen #

DropCash via C# and .NET

— drop-in Dropcash support for your Windows apps #
October 4, 2004

Evan Williams leaves Blogger

— maybe he’ll become a chef, too #

Graphic Novel Review

— a promising new journal that takes graphic novels seriously via longstoryshortpier.com #

The Effect of Country Music on Suicide

— the Medicine winner of the 2004 Ig Nobel Prize via raygirvan.co.uk #

SpaceShipOne wins the $10 million X Prize

— commercial space travel just got much closer via Kottke #

Red Blue, mobile GPS utility that shows you nearby campaign contributions

— like a Geiger counter for local political bias via Eyebeam #

Gmail adds Atom notifications, Drafts, and Contacts

via @acidzebra #

Google needs to retain newly-rich employees

— 60% of their workforce are new millionaires via Jeremy Zawodny #

Kotaku, Gawker's new gaming blog

— also: they launched Screenhead and Jalopnik, which is sponsored by Audi #
October 3, 2004

Mirrordot, automatic Slashdot mirroring

— attempting to dilute the Slashdot effect via Delicious #

Spaceballs sequel in development

via adampsyche #

Jeopardy's "Blogs" category

— links to the questions for all five answers via Fimoculous #

Image: NYT's excellent map of Iraq attacks in September

— Tufte would be proud via Matt Haughey #

Nintendo DS final packaging

— with the stylus, can you use the DS as your PDA? via adampsyche #
October 2, 2004

Disneyland souvenir book from 1960

— check out the pre-Mansion “Haunted House” sketch and the park map #

GNUmobile, a modded Oldsmobile

— you can drive it from the commandline #

Shirky on the essential elements of all social software

— groups and conversation are the very basics via Delicious #

Washington Post may buy Slate from Microsoft

— the NYT should buy Salon and get rid of subscriptions via Kottke #

Penny Arcade on Katamari Damacy

— the game completely sold out across the country! #

US Census shows recorded music replaced by other media

— piracy is only part of the story via Eyebeam #

The Strangerhood, machinima sitcom using the Sims 2 engine

— from the people that created Red vs Blue via Eyebeam #

Alan announces Amazon Light 4

— he ties Amazon web services into Delicious, Gmail, Dropcash, Blogger, Netflix, iTunes, and more #

Cameron's Presidential Debate Analysis

— crunch your own stats with his Debate Spotter tool #

Peter Molyneux apologizes for features cut from Fable

via Nelson Minar #
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