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January 31, 2005

Coachella 2005 lineup announced

— strange that bands like Sloan and Spoon are buried in the lineup via Jason Cosper #

Charting the sharing frequency of Del.icio.us links

— raises the question of researching Del.icio.us point of entry via Delicious #

Video: Mashup of "Paperback Writer" and "I'm a Believer"

— fan-made music video matched to GHP’s flawless mashup #

Register UK's interview with a comment spammer

— nothing new here, but it’s good to know thy enemy via Delicious #

TiVo launches Home Media Engine SDK

— PVRBlog is hosting a gallery of apps, and TiVo is running a programming contest #

Make a Life Poster with iPhoto

— a 20″x30″ collage of 98 photos, printed by Kodak for $29 via David Ely #

Video: Gene Kelly breakdancing in VW Golf commercial

— great editing, but crass exploitation of the dead via Ben Hammersley #

Digg, community-moderated link blog

— like Metafilter meets K5; how it works via Delicious #

Video: IBM's The Information Machine

— animated film directed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1958, with an Elmer Bernstein score via Things Magazine #

Steven Johnson's semantic research system

— desktop and web search tools need this functionality via Ethan Marcotte #

Hands-on preview of Katamari Damacy 2

— with two videos of gameplay from the classroom demo via Delicious #

Del tha Funkee Homosapien performs at the Dreamcast launch party in 1999

— don’t miss the video of Del performing the gaming-focused song “Proto Culture” via Delicious #

Angie Hart on the bitter breakup and new reunion of Frente!

— there’s a new song up on Myspace, but it just doesn’t have the same sense of wonder #

Matt Biddulph made two new Del.icio.us hacks

— a tool that detects similarly-named tags, and a Firefox extension that embeds Del.icio.us into the BBC website via Delicious #
January 29, 2005

To Protect and to Rock

— painting of Steve Perry as Robocop #

Image: Cigarro & Cerveja's Cookieright

— cute independent comic strip on copyright via accordionguy.blogware.com #

A9 CEO denies they paid for getting mentioned on The OC

— does anyone really believe that? #
January 28, 2005

Pokemon causes cancer, literally

— POK Erythroid Myeloid Ontogenic proteins via Delicious #

Livejournal circa 1945

— round-robin letter writing during WWII via Delicious #

Mikel Maron's A9 panorama tool

— enter a Block Search URL, get photos of the entire street #

Credit card statement drawings

— drawing each one until they’re paid off via The Morning News #
January 27, 2005

Amazon pays for A9 reference on The OC

— it sounds awkward, but here I am talking about it; anyone have a clip? #

Flicker slideshow of A9 photos down Melrose

— set the speed to high; thanks, Jonah #

Smoking Mickey Mouse t-shirt

— order one before they’re served a C&D via preshrunk.info #

Adwords API launches

— web services for managing, deploying, and tuning Adwords campaigns; congrats, Nelson! #

Homebrew code now running on the Nintendo DS

— graphic demos will probably be next, as programmers learn how to code for it #

Interesting images found on A9 Local

— Alan has more information; also, finding yourself in a photo #

New IE security newsgroup launches

— the first comment made me laugh via beakspeak.com #

Ben Folds releasing new album in April

— Weird Al singing backup on one song? #

Panoramas with A9's Block View

— anyone want to write a tool to automate this to get an entire block or street? #

Russell Beattie on A9's block photos

— it’s been done before in Spain and France via Alf Eaton #

Image: MSN's new math

— 6 divided by 3 is…? #
January 26, 2005

Amazon/A9's amazing new Yellow Pages

— with photos of 14 million storefronts across ten cities, like this one; walk up the block #

Yahoo moving up to 1,000 employees into new Santa Monica office

— about six blocks away from my house via Jeremy Zawodny #

Craig's List traffic stats

— 1.7 billion pageviews per month, and 7 million uniques! via David Bisset #

Why Your Pointy Haired Boss Is A Mathematical Certainty

— three cheers for the middle manager! #

Downhill Battle's Eyes on the Screen campaign

— excellent campaign to rescue the classic civil-rights documentary from copyright hell via Boing Boing #

Steve Martin's letter to Johnny Carson

— very sincere via Kottke #
January 25, 2005

Turn your Mac Mini into a home media center

— great howto by Engadget via Hackaday #

AOL stops offering newsgroup access

— the endless September finally ends! via Jeremy Zawodny #

New Google employee blogging about work

— update: he took it down for a short time, but Dave cached the homepage before he did via Philipp Lenssen #

CastleZZT's mirror-image Garfield

— the most interesting Garfield strips in two decades; see also, the rest of the site via MetaFilter #

Flickr coincidence

— it’s not the only uncanny coincidence on Flickr via Kottke #

Ashlee Simpson's spamming message boards

— maybe not her, but someone involved with her PR effort via Nelson Minar #

Christie's The Origins of Cyberspace auction

— historical documents galore; BUY IT NOW! NO RESERVE! #
January 24, 2005

Real-life tribute to Calvin & Hobbes' snowmen

— here’s one more example #

Audio: Staccato Music 7

— featuring an interview with Magnatune Records creator John Buckman via grumet.net #

Google Video launched

— search major networks, but no video clips are available! via Jeremy Zawodny #

Today, Some McSweeney's Lists

— Olivia Newton-Tron via Delicious #

Unusual articles on Wikipedia

— heavy metal umlaut is on there via timemachinego.com #
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