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October 6, 2004

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 #

FPGameRunner, a treadmill for first-person games

— get a workout while playing Doom 3 via Simon Carless #

Sam and Max 2 team form new studio

— they may be releasing the cancelled sequel on their own #

Half Life 2 release set for November 23

— it’s about time #
September 30, 2004

Mount St. Helens' insect overloads

— mmm, underground sugar caves #

Why I'm not posting many links

— their crappy rooms have no Internet access; light posting until Friday #

Top 10 Secrets about the Presidential Debates

— both parties are to blame for this comspiracy to suppress real debate via Delicious #

Tribe.net goes local

— for example, here’s Los Angeles #
September 29, 2004

Cachelogic's survey of P2P network traffic

— BitTorrent by far the biggest; P2P traffic far outpaces web traffic #
September 28, 2004

Girlhacker has a baby!

— welcome, little Babyhacker via snarkout.org #

Cockeyed's TGI Fridays menu prank

— one Bacon Churner and an Atkinz Soda, please #

The Internet's Most Accurate English-to-English Dictionary

— now with support for three new languages! via adampsyche #

Ask Mefi on skitter scatters, ghosts, and auras

— very odd thread about a 6-year-old girl who sees strange things via John Walkenbach #

University professors gathering students in Second Life

— I highly recommend the free trial #

Boogah interviews Eric Kleptone

— the Waxy shout-out left me blushing #

HR 4077 bill passed the House

— bill proposes up to 5 years of jail for sharing 1,000 songs or one unreleased album #
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