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May 27, 2004

Rodeohead, bluegrass medley of Radiohead songs

— here’s a much faster local mirror via Boing Boing #

California Senate approved anti-Gmail bill

— read the text of the bill #

Pros and Cons of John Kerry's Top 20 Candidates

— I’m looking forward to a Kerry/Kutcher ticket #

New Yahoo toolbar removes spyware

— for Internet Explorer only, though via Mark Pilgrim #

Wired's profile of Nick Denton and Gawker Media

— they pay their writers $2000 per month and a pageview bonus #
May 26, 2004

MTV won't air "Supersize Me" ads

— there’s another side to the story, though #

Alexa's popularity rankings of top U.S. sites dropping across the board

— Alexa responds, explaining it’s because of global competition #

Dave finds Washingtonienne lied about college degree and age

— small stuff, but is she lying about the big stuff too? #

NYT reporter Judith Miller led the flawed Iraq reporting

— she wrote or co-wrote 10 of the 12 problem articles cited by the NYT #

Flash: Bush Game, very entertaining political propaganda (NSFW)

— Hulk Hogan, Mr. T and He-Man vs. Bush, Rumsfeld and Voltron via Todd Dominey #

Grand Theft Auto phone conversation leads to bomb threat evacuation

— don’t talk and play, or get a 2nd degree felony via Slashdot #

News coverage of the NYT Iraq retraction

— the Times makes the news with the broadest retraction I’ve ever seen #

Ex-Nickelodean stars relate horrors of Green Slime Syndrome

— punished for having the courage to say “I don’t know” via David Ely #

OJR on bloggers influencing mainstream newspapers

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Gish, original Windows platform game

— watch the gameplay video and try the demo #

Rezedents Rights & Rispansabilities

— withdrawn 1999 pamphlet by U.S. Department of Housing #

Why "American Idol" is always oldies night

— because of royalties and clearance, of course via The Morning News #
May 25, 2004

Gmail to POP3 converter

— check your Gmail account with your e-mail app of choice #

Breedster Symposium

— charts and animation analyzing trends in the unusual game community via MetaFilter #

Creative Commons 2.0 licenses released

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Thursday's Frontline on the death of the music business

via Creative Commons #

Strongbad Themepark

— wait a few seconds at the end for the Jungle Cruise parody via Jason Cosper #

MP3s of dental surgery sounds

via sharpeworld.com #

Jason Gulledge needs a job in Little Rock

— he’s a smart guy, go hire him #

Did Rumsfeld really ban cameraphones?

— original source may be a news satire site #

Iraq Authority website hijacked from think tank's design

— compare and contrast #

List of all popular googlebombs

via Eyebeam #

Video: Cooking and eating cicadas

— the poor guy can only eat every 17 years via andrewsullivan.com #

Die Duckomenta, German art gallery of Disney-centered pastiche art

— mock historical artwork centered around Donald Duck #

P is for Programming Your Kid

— from Greg Allen’s blog for new dads via The Morning News #

Trixie Tracker

— hosted version of the baby analytics software powering Trixie Update via daddytypes.com #
May 24, 2004

Gilligan's Island, the reality show

— I wish this was a joke #

Flash: Spiral Motion Aftereffect

— good explanation of the effect via John Walkenbach #

McDonalds tries out DVD rental kiosks

— they tried this before, but it didn’t catch on via Gizmodo #

Book agent seeking out bloggers

via Anil Dash #

European P2P users unfazed by lawsuits

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Downhill Battle Labs

— the software arm of the copyright activism group #
May 23, 2004

Ringtones and Torture Pictures Want to Be Free

— Jeff Veen weaves a common thread between two weekend stories #

Futurama Panoramas

— stitching still frames together, like robot porn #

Simpsons finale pokes fun at blogs, indirectly

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Dave on the Washingtonienne

via Mat Honan #

GeekMan action figures

— where’s GeekGirl? via Slashdot #

Rumsfeld bans cameraphones in Iraq

— fighting weapons of mass photography via joi.ito.com #

Maniac Mansion Deluxe

— Windows 256-color remake of the classic Lucasarts game #

O'Reilly's Inside the Atari 2600 Homebrew Scene

— the second page has interviews with five 2600 gods via Nelson Minar #
May 22, 2004

Abandoned japanese island of Gunkanjima

— many interesting photos via Boing Boing #

Windows 95/98 emulated on Pocket PC

via Slashdot #

PS2 device adds MP3, DivX, CD-R and emulation support

— unapproved by Sony, but sounds like an essential add-on via Slashdot #

WordPress 1.2 released

— tons of new changes, fueled in part by the MT licensing changes via Mark Pilgrim #

There.com scaling back consumer service, ending updates

— I wrote about them six months before their beta launch via Nelson Minar #
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