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January 24, 2005

Kottke on the maximum Starbucks density

— current winner is downtown NYC with 169 stores in a 5-mile radius #

Bugs Bunny in drag

— for those who were worried about Spongebob’s pro-gay agenda via Boing Boing #

Long-lost video of Steve Jobs introducing the Mac in 1984

— taped off public TV, finally available online #

Google Video Search coming soon?

— the directory and subdomain now temporarily redirect to the homepage #

Firefox's lead engineer Ben Goodger hired by Google

— this suggests that the Google Browser is definitely a reality via Philipp Lenssen #

Insecure vs. confident weatherman videos

— both are painful to watch #

Street art in Counterstrike Source

— anyone can make custom graffiti in CS:Source via Joystiq #

Just A Plant, a children's story of marijuana

— the next book should be “Poppies Are Pretty: A Children’s Guide to Opiates” via Mat Honan #

2005 Bloggies nominations

— the Bloggies need a “Best Linkblog” category via Philipp Lenssen #

CD Baby rewrite in Postgres and Ruby

— one developer’s move away from PHP and MySQL via Delicious #

Hurricane Electric ISP adds automatic BitTorrent hosting for clients

— drop a file in a directory, and it’s automatically tracked and seeded locally; wonderful! via Delicious #

Non-desktop uses for a Mac mini

— some great ideas here for DIY projects via Delicious #

Google rumored to offer voice-over-IP phone service

— a bold move, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Google buy a Skype competitor via webmasterworld.com #

Collaborative fiction writing with SubEthaEdit

— I’ll bet it would work great for screenplays and sketch comedy, too via Slashdot #

Snarkout essay on Will Eisner

— tons of great links about Eisner and the Spirit #

Are design contests worth the time and effort?

— B. Adam Howell asks contest winners if they got any business after winning #

Washington school district bans Halo 2 tsunami fundraiser

— they cited violent games and the Columbine shootings via Slashdot #
January 23, 2005

Habbo Hotel gets $23m in funding

— one of the most successful and profitable multiplayer worlds, despite its lo-fi approach via Simon Carless #

Flash: Jon Udell's Wikipedia case study on the heavy metal umlaut

— this is essential viewing for anyone with any interest in Wikipedia via Delicious #

Darwinia demo released

— a real-time strategy game with a completely unique look, independently published via Delicious #

Phrack to publish its last issue

— publishing since 1985, I used to read the hacker e-zine religiously in my BBS days #

Google raises word limit to 32

— before, you were limited to 10 words in a single query #

MP3: Ben Folds and Rufus Wainwright duet on Wham's "Careless Whisper"

— the live version of Philosophy is nice, too #

Drivey, monochrome driving sim for Windows

— also: history of driving games via emptybottle.org #

Five terrible fake Livejournal memes

— from Merlin Mann’s 5ives via Delicious #

MoonEdit, multiplatform collaborative text editor

— like SubEthaEdit, but for both Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD via Delicious #

Ivan Brunetti's Doodle-A-Day

— his galleries of vintage postcards and art are good, too #

Wired cover story on Firefox

— it’s tempting for the media to put one face on a much larger project #

Target selling Mac mini

— but only on their website, I believe via ned.suckahs.org #

Johnny Carson passes away

— even to the end, he was writing jokes and secretly sending them to Letterman via Jake Ortman #
January 22, 2005

NYC radio station skit mocking tsunami victims

— you’d think as New Yorkers, they’d empathize with the disaster via adampsyche #
January 21, 2005

Exeem open beta released

— yeah, but it has spyware with no opt-out; better wait for an updated ExeemLite via MetaFilter #

Google to provide AdWords API to advertisers

— I could imagine uses for an AdSense API for publishers, as well #

Paul Ford's Three Favorite Computer Games of 2004

— the Will Oldham MMORPG should be called “Palace” #

A post about Sally Forth, the main character in Sally Forth

via Delicious #

Video: Innernet, parody of Justin Hall's breakdown

— some context; created by this guy #

Convert Tivo-to-Go to MPEG files

— DRM, be gone! via Delicious #

Jacob Weinstein on the movie industry's screener DVDs

— they’re hassling award voters, or not sending out screening copies at all via q.queso.com #
January 20, 2005

Justin Foster signs up for free trade magazines

— you, too, can get free subscriptions to Pig International, Aqua, Firehouse, and Tissue World #
January 19, 2005

Image: Sega's next football game

— with EA’s monopoly on NFL or ESPN rights, Sega doesn’t have much left via Delicious #

mp3Blog Toplist, gauging popularity by multiplying Del.icio.us users by Technorati inbound links

— Alf also made toplists for blogresearch and games #

Sparklines for representing Wikipedia activity

— a brilliant idea they should try to reproduce as soon as possible via Simon Willison #

NYT journalist's followup on two girls he freed from Cambodian sex trade

— he purchased them for $450 in 2003, turning journalism into activism via MetaFilter #

Photographs of Signs Enforcing Racial Discrimination

— boy, I’m glad nobody cares about race anymore via Delicious #

Ourmedia launching this weekend

— platform for free hosting of personal video content, partnered with Archive.org via Delicious #

PubSub tracking over 8 million blogs/feeds

— wow, that easily trumps Technorati’s 6.2 million blogs via Delicious #

Geocities 1996

— the best CSS Zen Garden theme ever via Delicious #

Ta-Da Lists

— 37signal’s free shared to-do lists; I’ve already set one up for Upcoming.org #

Metafilter Tags, 24 hours later

— unbelievable explosion as Mefi users tag all their old posts #

Justice Dept. gets first two convictions in P2P piracy case

— “felony copyright infringement” is an upsetting phrase #
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