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September 28, 2004

Invisible Train, multiplayer augmented reality game for the PocketPC

— watch the video to see the virtual trains running on real tracks #

Bloglines announces web services, sync support for other feedreaders

— huge news; FeedDemon now supports it and NetNewsWire support is coming soon via Delicious #

Sony PSP to retail for $349?

— update: it was a hoax #

Flickr slideshow of U2's "Vertigo"

— wait for the images and hold the spacebar to flipall the frames #

Escher for Real

— 3D printed models of Escher artwork via Boing Boing #

Tomas on the crazy juice in his hometown

— take me to the river, drop me in the water #

Evil JPEG virus in the wild

— tons of info, including the FTP site it connects to and the image itself #
September 27, 2004

Jeremy on new My Yahoo beta

— very well designed, with RSS everywhere via Battelle Media #

Flash charts with PHP

— easier than working with GD::Graph, and sexier too via Matt Mullenweg #

Audio: Engadget has the breast-enhancing ringtone MP3

— it sounds very butt rock via Brett O'Connor #

Bontago, multiplayer Jenga-ish strategy game

— it was a winner in last year’s IGF via Slashdot #

Conan to replace Leno on The Tonight Show

— …in the year 2009 via Fimoculous #

Lindows office building letters on eBay

— looks like a job for the Anagram Server via Delicious #

Cornelius is Joi Ito's second cousin

— lovely photo of them on Flickr #

Rex's thoughts on game culture intersecting with other media

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MTV2's "Video Mods," music videos portrayed by video games

— machinima goes mainstream, watch the clips via Fimoculous #

Black Magic, virtual reality pop-up books

— the handheld viewers look like a modern take on stereoscopes via Slashdot #
September 26, 2004

Dance Dance Revolution fan fiction

— the rest of the Games category at FanFiction.net is fascinating, too via Simon Carless #

Image: Star Wars Battlefront game lets you kill Jar-Jar Binks

— and the Ewoks, too #
September 25, 2004

Annotated recipes on Flickr

— like Cooking for Engineers, a new approach to an old genre via Delicious #

Del.icio.us extension for Firefox

— two great tastes that go great together via Delicious #

Annenberg survey finds Daily Show viewers far more politically aware

— also: of the 83 jokes surveyed, he targeted Bush and Kerry equally via Airbag Industries #

George draws parallels between the Kryptonite lock scandal and the DMCA

— this is an excellent read #

Esther Dyson invests in Flickr

— great to see them get the support via Nelson Minar #

Technorati passes 4 million blogs

— I wonder how many of those are from Livejournal’s 1.8M active sites #
September 24, 2004

First screenshots of Wario Ware 2

via Nelson Minar #

Theo Jansen's Strandbeest, huge walking kinetic sculptures

— the videos are unbelievable, like a real-life Sodaplay via Eyebeam #

CBS adventure race contestant killed by 300-pound boulder

— the first reality show fatality? via Simon Carless #

Bootable Goatse rescue floppy

— make copies and put them in Best Buy PCs via MetaFilter #

Fable's first-week game sales beat Sky Captain's box office

— it sold 375,000 games for an $18.7 million gross via Joystiq #

Fascinating article on Second Life's economy and entrepreneurs by a Linden Labs VP

— a must-read for both the uninitiated and experienced users via secretlair.com #

TiddlyWiki

— neat UI, but a novelty until saving changes is fixed via Kottke #

MIT creating a spinach-powered computer

via adampsyche #

OJR on political coverage on Google News and Yahoo News

— they claim Google’s system favors conservative sources via webmasterworld.com #
September 23, 2004

Image: Sim playing "The Sims" in "The Sims 2"

— very meta via @ponderance #

MetaVNC, a window-aware VNC client

— as in the screenshot, makes your remote Linux desktop transparent within Windows XP/2000 via Delicious #

Image: Nice hat!

— Google Images is great for serendipity #

Emusic relaunches

— $9.99/month for 40 DRM-free MP3s via Slashdot #

Video: C-Mon and Kypski, "Shitty Bum"

— excellent music video, with great Space Invaders sequence #

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Infocom game, redesigned with graphics

— here’s some technical information about the redesign via Simon Carless #

New California law requires disclosing valid e-mail address for filesharing

— I’m absolutely furious about this MPAA-sponsored law, here’s some of the reasons why via Boing Boing #
September 22, 2004

The Last Starfighter, the Musical

— more information about this terrible idea #

Nick's update on Blog Torrent, and call for help

— they need people with NSIS, ActiveX, and Moz plugin experience #

Commercial ultrasound services growing popular

— we tried FetalFotos, and got our money’s worth #

Sony to support MP3 on their portables

— apparently, ATRAC never really took off via Glassdog #

Record companies double royalties while online music sites lose money

— Apple makes only $.04 per song, while the labels take $.62 or more via Mat Honan #

Brian's roundup of new social-network local listing services

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Video: Watermelon Love

— seducing the online consumer #

SpamAssassin 3.0 released!

— also: a new logo, better performance, and a better plugin model #

Star Wars DVD released on Usenet two weeks ago

— here’s the Star Wars NFO file from Sept. 11 #
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