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July 24, 2004

Tapping on soda cans actually works?

— shocking, I always thought it was an urban myth via scattered.org #

Mystery reader censoring swear words in public library books

— to be specific, the “Murder, She Wrote” series via Jake Ortman #

GPS Coke can x-rays

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Flash: Wordcount

— English words, scaled to reflect popularity #

Fox News on Exxon gas pumps

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Ballance, gorgeous marble game for Windows

— try the demo, or at least watch the movies via Nelson Minar #

Image: Ken Jennings' name variations

— he writes his name differently on every Jeopardy episode #

Image: The Internet Has Spoken

— nonsensical CNN quiz #

Bugmenot's mandatory registration form

— don’t worry, they’re not serious #
July 23, 2004

Java: BitTorrent simulator visualization

— add some seeds and peers to watch the bits fly #

Lot of 50 Plastic Fetuses

via John Walkenbach #

Profanities made from corporate logotypes

via typographi.com #

Microsoft selling Slate.com

— will it go the way of Suck, Stim, and Spiv? #

Halo 2's subliminal trailer and web game

— from the people who made the AI Game #

A great story of racial harmony in the DC subway

via Anil Dash #

Total Asshole Compression

— reverse compression, makes all your files much much bigger via Eyebeam #

Audio: William Shatner's "The Common People," Pulp cover

via MetaFilter #

Brooklyn Superhero Supply

— Dave Eggers’ new East Coast counterpart to 826 Valencia via Airbag Industries #

KoalaRainbow, visualization engine for MovableType 3.0

— lovely examples via simiandesign.com #

Oxymoron dictionary

via MetaFilter #

MovableType 3.0 Plugin Contest winners

— congratulations, Jay! some of the others sound excellent via Boing Boing #

Snopes on the NOPLATE and MISSING license plate owners

— they should just leave the field blank #

The KITT Dashboard Project

— obsessive 20-year project to draw the Knight Rider dash via Things Magazine #
July 22, 2004

Dagwood on Detournement (1981)

— also: Terry and the Situationists and more weirdness #

"Mortal Kombat: Deception" preview

— it can’t decide if it wants to be a fighting, adventure, chess or puzzle game via Joystiq #

Guardian UK on Guerilla Gigs

— flash mobs with a purpose via Eyebeam #

Industry group says pirate CD sales hit record 1.1 billion

— as P2P usage increases in Taiwan, pirated CD sales have decreased via iptablog.org #

.htaccess Generator

via Anil Dash #

You Have Bad Taste in Music

— personally, I wouldn’t lump in JT with the others via snarkout.org #

Dancing with Myself, profile of Kansas City's DDR subculture

— read the community’s reaction to the article via deadparrots.net #

MP3: Of Montreal's "Know Your Onion" Shins cover

— many more on their official site via stereogum.com #

Kottke's HTML version of the 9/11 Commission's report

— or download the lovely PDF #

Vintage video game commercials

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Video: Iron & Wine, "Naked As We Came"

— whoops, I think I took Todd’s server offline via Todd Dominey #

Verizon to introduce Net-based phone service

— competing with Vonage #

Small California newspaper gives control over content to local residents

— this is a brilliant experiment #

eBay auction for an original KITT car from Knight Rider

via sixdifferentways.com #

GD graphics library supports GIF again

— because the awful Unisys patent expired via Delicious #

List of sites with a Pagerank 10

— i.e. Google’s highest-ranked websites via Philipp Lenssen #

Retired carpenter rediscovers how the pyramids were built

— with photos and video via simiandesign.com #

Snopes on the five-year-old Peruvian mother

— she gave birth in May 1939 #

MPAA and NFL team up against TiVo's TV-to-PC plans

— PVRBlog has good comments on the story #
July 21, 2004

Official Doom 3 benchmarks

— I’ll shut up about this game on August 3 via Slashdot #

Vintage 1960s TV clips about the hippie movement

— highlights: discussions of the future and an unknown Joni Mitchell #

Monkey turns bipedal after near-death experience

via Boing Boing #

Technorati teaming up with CNN for on-air coverage of the Democratic Convention

— the CNN press release has more info #

UK High Court rules modchips illegal

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Krisky Kreme announces glazed donut-flavored drink

via Boing Boing #

Image: Waxy.org blocked by crappy SiteFilter proxy

— Matt has a roundup of other blocked sites, including Blogger.com #

Spamusement

— cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines via Delicious #
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