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December 6, 2004

Flash: Visual explanation of Coltrane's "Giant Steps"

— look at all the pretty lights! #

Introduction to the Becker-Posner Blog

— first blog authored by either a Nobel Prize winner and a federal judge via Larry Lessig #

Sony's terrible PR commenting on Sony v. Kottke

— one journalist posts her phone conversation via Glassdog #

Salon's success story with gated content and day passes

— they’re making $2m/year in subscriptions and $.5m/year in ad sales via Delicious #

NYT Magazine cover story on viral marketing

— a good companion piece to watching The Persuaders via Fimoculous #

Woody Allen puts Mickey Mouse on the witness stand

— silly fan fiction for the New Yorker via The Morning News #

Adrian's Links via Feedster extension for Firefox

— some innovative, but potentially litigious, new work #
December 5, 2004

Skeletal systems for cartoon characters

— his other work is very good, as well; temporary local mirror #

Small firmware requests for the Nintendo DS

— someone should send this great list to Nintendo #
December 4, 2004

NetZero parodies AOL's obnoxious new ad campaign

— compare the AOL ads and NetZero’s parodies via collisiondetection.net #

Red Herring on Sony's legal threats against Jason Kottke

— Calacanis is calling for a Sony boycott via Anil Dash #

Le Monde offers blogs to their readers

— one of the first newspapers to do so via Delicious #

Startup company paying prominent bloggers $800/month to blog about them

— impressive roster organized by Marc Canter, but not everyone thinks this is a good idea #

eBay adds "Want It Now" feature to request items to buy

— they buried it on their site, but here it is via Delicious #

Nintendo DS hackers tunnel Pictochat over the Internet

— they managed to tunnel the Metroid DS demo, too! via Delicious #

Correction: Bill Gates gets 4 million spams per year, not per day

— Ballmer got it wrong via freecherrypy.org #

The Spread of Weighted Lists

— interesting visualization, but readability suffers in some cases via Delicious #

fi5e's Graf Analysis Project

— I’d love to see an entire site dedicated to this effort via octomoto.com #

Rands interviews Joshua Schachter about Del.icio.us

— not surprisingly, this is on the Delicious Most Popular via Delicious #

Google CFO calls ad click fraud the biggest threat to the Internet economy

— it seems nearly impossible to stop completely via theyblinked.com #

Guardian UK critics attack the musical greats

— it’s like the Knee-Jerk Contrarian Game for pretentious critics; they take on the movies, too #

Leonard's Flickrer, automatic Flickr uploading with Perl

— made possible by the excellent Flickr API #

Search engines for handwritten documents

— there’s an explanation and demo on the UMass site via Slashdot #

The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time

— I like “A Canadian Christmas with David Cronenberg” via MetaFilter #

Video: Japanese demo of Band Brothers, multiplayer music game for the Nintendo DS

— jam with up to 8 people, one person per instrument via Simon Carless #
December 3, 2004

Boing Boing's web stats

— 13 million pageviews last month #

Smash Up Derby, live mashup cover band

— clever idea, but the vocals sound too karaoke via Jason Cosper #

First-hand account of a NYC subway fire

— a blogger citizen journalist was actually on the train yesterday via unmediated.org #

The correlation between politics and OS/browser choice

— visitors to liberal blogs more likely to use non-Microsoft products #

Dot-com instigator Henry Blodget writes about himself

— he calls himself a short-sighted moron #
December 2, 2004

Metafilter Stats updated through Nov 2004

— November was a huge month for Mefi’s growth #

Slashdot users review Flickr

— and spectacularly miss the point, in endless ways #

Wired on the open-source metaverse projects

— they’re trying to develop an open equivalent to Second Life via Delicious #

"Exploding Mouse" t-shirt

— can Disney sue for a deconstructed Mickey Mouse image? via Delicious #

Froogle wishlists added to Blogger profiles

— that’s synergy, people! #

Costco selling Ultracade arcade emulator cocktail tables

— 35 games for $2300, a lovely Christmas gift #

Abandonia, abandonware games for DOS

— very well-designed site, with an RSS feed and list of most popular games via MetaFilter #

Google Blog removed an entry about Google Groups beta

— possibly because someone posted a link to Yahoo Groups? #

Val Kilmer Tagging Caper

— someone else figured out who’s behind it via adampsyche #

Lexis-Nexis's new AlaCarte search

— excellent for research, pay only for articles retrieved via Delicious #

Microsoft launches Spaces, their blogging tool

— here’s a video demo of it via Fimoculous #

Google Groups 2 goes live

— I prefer the old interface, but I’ll get used to it via Ev Williams #
December 1, 2004

Suprnova moves towards decentralization

— they’re trying to create a network of torrent trackers #

Early Coachella 2005 lineup listing

— Billboard says it’s too good to be true via Ryan Gantz #

Largehearted Boy's Best Albums of 2004

— a great list, with legal MP3 downloads for each via Fimoculous #

Media Mammon

— a stock market simulation for key words and phrases culled from Yahoo News #
November 30, 2004

Jonathan Franzen on "Peanuts"

— also: the Peanuts box set is gorgeous via robotjohnny.com #

Screenshots of the new Netscape prototype based on Firefox

— truly ugly, and forces users to choose between IE and Firefox rendering engines via Jason Cosper #

Chris Ware and Ira Glass collaborated on a DVD/book

— Lost Buildings is only available to public radio supporters #

Sony TV forces Jason Kottke to remove Jeopardy spoiler audio and transcript

— even though the Washington Post ran the whole thing! #
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