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August 19, 2004

IPTA's great summary of the Grokster ruling

— Corante rounds up all the discussion #

Cory Doctorow on the EFF's historic Grokster win

— P2P developers aren’t liable for copyright infringement on their networks #

Brad Choate joins Six Apart

— they’re hiring too many smart, clever people #

Mozilla Sunbird 0.2 released

— the Mozilla Foundation is slowly rebuilding Outlook via mike.steinbaugh.com #

LA Weekly profile on Elizabeth Loftus, repressed-memory skeptic

via MetaFilter #

Playing "Halo" on the big screen

via Engadget #

Olympic athletes biting their medals

— the Yahoo search is currently broken in Firefox #

Donkey John

— Australian political commentary in the form of a Nintendo Game & Watch #

RSS Auction, excellent eBay-to-RSS generator

via Boing Boing #

Consensual hugging in Second Life

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Computer Chronicles episode on the Commodore 64

— including Skate or Die, the Koala Pad, and GEOS via Simon Carless #

Fitts' Law, designing navigation with large targets

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Google shares up 18%

via Battelle Media #

Videogame TV commercials

— someone get these on Archive.org! via Joystiq #

Top 25 sites requested on Bugmenot

— the biggest targets in the free registration wars #

Bugmenot creator responds to outage

— their host pulled the plug, so they’re moving soon via Boing Boing #

Nintendogs pet sim for the Nintendo DS

— pet the dog with the touchscreen? via Simon Carless #

Wired sponsors Creative Commons benefit concert

— with David Byrne and Gilberto Gil via Matt Haughey #
August 18, 2004

Toogle, text converter of Google Image Search

— takes the most popular image and converts it to ASCII art #

More details and screenshots of GTA San Andreas

— hundreds of hours of gameplay? yikes. #

Slashdot's 10 millionth comment

— “I don’t get it.” via Simon Carless #

MD5 algorithm proven insecure

— Chinese team generates collisions in a matter of hours via snarkout.org #

Flickr launches the Organizr

— built with the lovely new Flickr API #

Image: Yahoo News' horrific new skyscraper ads

— IE users are graced with gigantor banners #

Indie band Dios forced to change name by Ronnie James Dio

— will this affect Dio’s presidential campaign? #
August 17, 2004

Jaws in 30 Seconds Re-Enacted by Bunnies

via @ponderance #

Japanese children's books from the 1920s

— if only the images were larger via marchdesign.com #

RealNetwork launches anti-Apple blog, inspiring wrath

— they removed comments from the petition, and all the blog comments are from Apple fans via Darren Barefoot #

Weboggle, DHTML Boggle game

— I’m really late to this one, but I’m still catching up from downtime last week via MetaFilter #

Ann Arbor Library's 16-player Mario Kart tournament

— eight Gamecubes running on a LAN #

Stopdesign on Blogger's new navbar

— Doug Bowman designed it #

Image: Rowing machine diagram

— related: the FileMatrix GUI screenshot via assembleme.com #

ljArchive, intense LiveJournal archive utility for Windows

— including psychological profiles, archive printing, and exporting to MIDI!? via Delicious #

Dropcash, easy fundraising with Typekey and Paypal

— Torrez and Kottke create a kick-ass app; read more about it #

The Google Face Game

via Philipp Lenssen #

Flash: Pixelfield game

— not for the impatient via MetaFilter #

Clueless security firm blocks BitTorrent usage

— there are legitimate uses for BitTorrent too, asshat #

Children's Pimp & Ho costumes

— you know, for kids! via Nelson Minar #

Don't Copy That Floppy from 1992

— a classic, with a funny review and reliable video download via Nelson Minar #
August 16, 2004

CSS Zen Garden Interface Tool

— great way of browsing the designs on the site via Dave Shea #

TransGaming tagging downloads to prevent piracy

— each download is watermarked with a unique ID #

Political debate in Second Life MMORPG

— there are liberal and conservative areas of land in the virtual world #

Danah Boyd on I-Neighbors

— social networking at the local neighborhood level via corante.com #

Bubblegum Alley in San Luis Obispo

— 44 years of discarded bubble gum via John Walkenbach #

Costco begins test marketing caskets

— they’re cheap, but you need to buy enough for your whole family #

Video: Ali G's "Throw the Jew Down the Well"

— now read about the fallout of the performance #

History of Isometric Game Engines

via Delicious #

Making tile-based games in Flash

— one of the highest quality tutorials I’ve seen #

Slyck's roundup of illicit BitTorrent sites

— most of these are account-based trackers #

Half-Life 2 dialogue accidentally leaked

— including the game’s surprise ending #
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