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August 26, 2004

Paul Pfeiffer from the "Wonder Years" is a lawyer

— I bet he makes twice the yearly income of Fred Savage #

TiVo-like application for XM Radio under fire

— his software was C&D’ed by XM and the RIAA via Slashdot #

Video: Townsend's "Pour Some Sugar On Me," boy band take on Def Leppard

— the worst thing I’ve ever seen, made worse by the presence of Smashmouth #

Blog Torrent tracker beta

— the first PHP tracker that doesn’t need MySQL, but still too hard for most #

Interview with Downhill Battle's Nicholas Reville

— they renamed Battle Torrent to Blog Torrent #

Microsoft redesigns with standards

— well, almost there via David Ely #

Video: Bjork's Olympic performance

— without the annoying U.S. color commentary via adampsyche #

Lia's roundup of Marvel Swimsuit Specials

— the geekier precedent of Playboy’s upcoming girls of gaming #

ASCII-mode TV goggles

— distort an incoming video signal various neat ways via Eyebeam #

Dooce is having problems

— get well soon Heather, the Internet loves you via q.queso.com #

Video: John Kerry on the Daily Show

— not great quality, but it’s the whole thing #
August 25, 2004

Tracking the "All Your Base" meme with Usenet

— an old entry, now updated with 2004 data #

Coca-Cola's new net-enabled vending machines

— buy drinks with your cellphone via futurismic.com #

Search engine belt buckle

— I can recognize a Torrone project from a mile away via Nelson Minar #

Distributed proofreaders posts 5,000th E-book

— over 1100 active users in the last 24 hours #

Video game women featured in October Playboy pictorial

— what’s next, the Ladies of Marvel Comics? #

Screencap comparisons of Lucas alternations to new Star Wars trilogy

— the cleanups look great, but what about the new Jedi ending? via adampsyche #

Doom 3 Classic

— full conversion of original Doom for the Doom 3 engine, screenshots via doom3.filefront.com #

Librarian misunderstands Wikipedia

— just because it’s open doesn’t make it unreliable via Delicious #

Video: Grayson, the Revenge of Robin

— great trailer to a movie that doesn’t exist via MetaFilter #

Glassdog on what's wrong with feed readers

— are you reading this, Luke? #

SA photoshops UK anti-piracy campaign poster

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JibJab wins "This Land" lawsuit

— and the purported copyright owners lost the song to the public domain! #

Dozens charged in spam crackdown

— only 200 spammers send 90% of spam, so this a good start via Slashdot #

There.com changes name to Forterra

— and someone gave them lots of money via Nelson Minar #

List of great "material moments" in film

— from an academic journal on materials science and engineering via raygirvan.co.uk #

Cancelling an AOL account is not easy

— an entertaining account of one attempt via Ev Williams #

Quentin Tarantino's alleged weblog

— update: Q’s publicist says it’s fake via museumofhoaxes.com #

Bjork on filesharing

— “God bless the internet.” #
August 24, 2004

Trevor visits the Berkeley "I Love Bees" GPS site

— the viral game pointed to pay phones today, which could activate “axons” on the website #

Star Wars Galaxies users crash server with protest demonstrations

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Olympic gold medals, adjusted per capita

— adjusting for the population bias #

John Kerry chose the Daily Show over the news networks

— he’s interviewed on the show tonight via marchdesign.com #

Good advice for record labels

via andrewraff.com #

Pirate Bay's response to Dreamworks cease-and-desist

— one benefit of living in Sweden #

"I found a digital camera in the woods"

— like the Internet’s version of the Blair Witch Project via adampsyche #

Typewriter mod that sends e-mail

— with detailed photos via we-make-money-not-art.com #

Video: "Planet of the Apes" as a Twilight Zone episode

— brilliant fan re-edit via Boing Boing #

Tricks of the Trade

— great list of trade secrets, more on Mefi via Matthew Baldwin #

Simoniker's last post on Slashdot Games

— Simon Carless was the best editor of the best section of Slashdot #

How to make your own red-blue 3-D photos

— the JPL tutorial is nice, too via Boing Boing #
August 23, 2004

Windows worm accesses webcams and microphones

— not the first Trojan with a voyeur angle via @acidzebra #

NYT on the Trey Parker and Matt Stone's "Team America: World Police"

— new marionette movie, with political themes and graphic puppet sex via scrubbles.net #

Lycos launches Discussion Search

— searches mish-mash of message boards, discussion lists, and blogs via Battelle Media #

Technorati gets $6.5 million in funding

— Socialtext, too; it’s the New Boom! via Battelle Media #

Banner Report, gallery of 15,000+ ad banners

— Wired covered the site today via Anil Dash #

How to Be Rich and Famous

— endlessly ridiculous comments, because of this via Graham Leuschke #

Halo 2's viral marketing campaign goes meatspace

— massive real-life mystery event all over the map #

The Seven Deadly Harveys

— the sins of Harvey Comics #
August 22, 2004

Taking a Closer Look at the War Medals of George W. Bush

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