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January 25, 2004

Orkut quietly deleting posts

— and users, too #
January 24, 2004

Hamsterball Beta for Windows

— brilliant Marble Madness clone #

Ping-Pong Ball Avalanche Homepage

— Japanese researchers drop 320,000 balls down a steep ramp, with videos #

Linux booted on Gamecube

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Britney, Beyonce, Pink and Enrique Iglesias as Pepsi-wielding Gladiators

— worst ad campaign ever? download the wallpaper #

OneLook reverse dictionary

— 1980s arcade games, or #16 under geek #

More idiotic blog spammer discussion

— they think Memepool used blog spam to get popular; even more in the newsgroup #

Kazaa to sue movie, record companies

— for copyright infringement, no less #

Nice profile of Norah Jones and her new album

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TorrentReactor, another nice torrents site

— these sites badly need RSS support #

Wacko "prayer visualizations" from former doomsday cult

— don’t miss Presidency and Drugs, from the Cult of Universal Triumphant folks #
January 23, 2004

Imaginary girlfriends for sale on eBay

— it’s a trend; there are some boyfriends too #

Top 100 Usenet groups, by bytes posted

— 10 newsgroups compose 1/3 of all data posted to Usenet!? #

MP3: Howard Dean Megamix

— by far the best Dean remix I’ve heard #

Video: Hey Ya, Charlie Brown

— Outkast meets Peanuts #

My Best Friend Plank, RealVideo

— gorgeous design and pun overload #

Amazon taking campaign donations for presidential candidates

— Lieberman opted out, but you can donate ribs to Bush #

Pepsi's Superbowl ad features RIAA-targeted teens

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Great background on Johnny Ray Gasca, a big-time movie screener crook

— with diary pages and details about his escape, (login: waxyorg/waxyorg) #

Tests suggest scientists have found Big Bang goo

— mmm, quark-gluon plasma #

Huge collection of Howard Dean scream remixes

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Joule, Livejournal network visualization

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Illinois man arrested for selling Oscar screener copies

— and Carmine Caridi is in big trouble #
January 22, 2004

Wonkette, Gawker Media's new Washington DC gossip blog

— edited by Suck alum Ana Marie Cox, no less #

Google employee releases social networking service

— currently invite-only, so e-mail me if you’re a friend of mine who wants in #

Arcade game alphabet quiz

— I have the answers, if you want it #

The President needs ribs

— someone get that man some ribs! #

Congrats, Papa Gruber

— with possibly the best birth photo I’ve ever seen #

Binary link collector from IRC channel topics

— collecting file links from 26 IRC networks #

Subpop Records parodies Pitchfork

— indie rock will eat itself #

Librarian stereotypes in eBay clothing auctions

— more about the research project #

Yahoo closes Scandinavia operations

— shutting down their local Norway, Denmark, and Sweden portals? #

A Garden of Cellular Automata

— the header graphic evolves over time using data from Weather.com #

Suprnova.org traffic statistics

— at 3am on a Sunday morning: 25k active torrents, over a million peers #

NASA loses contact with Mars Spirit rover

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Adam's angry at the New York Times

— aka the blogger who didn’t get hired at Google #

Wesley Clark on the cover of The Advocate

— brave, but potentially more damaging than Dean’s scream #

Male nipple removal, odd body modification

— warning: this is pretty gross #
January 21, 2004

Top 20 Male Reactions to Olive Oyl

— from this obsessive Olive Oyl fanpage #

Magical Gadget

— forgotten electronics of the ’70s and ’80s #

Interview with CTO of Kazaa/Sharman Networks

— he seems much less shady than his evasive employer #

Torrentz, cleanly-designed BitTorrent site

— nicely organized and popular enough to seed most torrents #

Disneyland's Tower of Terror opening event

— hey Cory and Mena, tickets are only $1,595 each! #

Magnetlinks, link directly to P2P files

— open standard developed by Kazaa folks #

Billy Joel is Shiite

— separated at birth? #

Periodic table museum display, with element samples

— gorgeous, and so very cool #

Rolling Stone's interview with Justin Frankel

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Radiohead, Pixies, Cure Flaming Lips slated for Coachella festival

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Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron," dystopian sci-fi about mandated equality

— via Matt Jones #
January 20, 2004

Anna Maltz's One Size Fits All

— hand-knit mohair naked bodysuits for the whole family #
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