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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 #

TimeTrax, convert XM Radio to MP3

via Delicious #

Adbar for Firefox

— the evil cousin of Adblock via Delicious #

Video: Jim Woodring's Frank

— Woodring art goes 3D, to great effect via MetaFilter #

Stormtrooper Fairyland Wedding

via Boing Boing #

Piracy's Own Punishment

— if mostly young people pirate, the industry will cater only to old people #

Netflix as social psychological experiment

— people choose virtue over vice for simultaneous viewing via Delicious #

Washington Post profile on Washingtonienne

— they’re a little late to the story via MetaFilter #

Olympics shut down online streaming radio stations

— distinguishing between online and offline radio licensing is dumb via David Bisset #

Excel-based RSS reader

— this is disturbing and wrong via David Bisset #

Lord of the Rings My Little Pony

— Dazzle Surprise of the Nazgul via David Bisset #

Blogger adds search navigation bar to all unpaid Blogspot weblogs

— and removed all of the ad banners via @feelinglistless #

How to make a scale model of a city

— next: how to make it into a Quake map? via Delicious #

Technorati cosmos spammers

via Jason Cosper #

MP3: WWE wrestler John Cena freestyling about the NES

— he’s surprisingly well-versed in the subject via Simon Carless #

Fijuu, real-time performance environment using 3D objects as instruments

— it boots from a standalone Linux CD via Simon Carless #

Nature magazine on the urban maze

— or read the “Networks and Cities” paper via Delicious #

Mom helped five-year-old son smoke crack

— from a homemade bong made from a baby food jar #

Top 10 Black Metal Publicity Photos

— rule #1: don’t be evil #
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