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January 13, 2005

Google Mini

— hopping on the “mini” bandwagon with a $5k Google search appliance via Delicious #

Video: Bizarro iPod World

— very, very weird via Gizmodo #

First issues of JPG Magazine released

— Derek and Heather go print and bring Flickr users with them via Flickr #
January 12, 2005

Harvard Crimson interviews Think Secret's Nick Ciarelli about Apple lawsuit

— Apple is suing the formerly-anonymous 19-year-old Harvard freshman via Delicious #

TKPal plugin for MovableType

— easy micropayments at the post level with MT, Paypal, Typekey, and PHP via Andre Torrez #

Wired's Top 10 Vaporware of 2004

— topping the list is Longhorn, CherryOS, and the Phantom console #

Comic: Derek Kirk Kim's "Same Difference"

— All Things Considered just interviewed him #

Making ASCII stereograms with Javascript

— my eyes hurt via Delicious #

Video: The Uncle Liam Show

— Liam Lynch’s music video for his nephew Arlo’s first birthday #

Beatles Anomalies

— obsessive list of Beatles oddness; see also, background noises in Led Zeppelin songs via John Walkenbach #

Del.icio.us Inbox is back

— one of my primary sources of linkage is back via Delicious #

Hacker penetrates T-Mobile systems, fails to notify customers

— he monitored Secret Service e-mails, and took cam photos from Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, and Paris Hilton via Delicious #

Guardian Angel bags

— handbags built with the outline of a gun or knife; laptop bags with the outline of groceries via Eyebeam #
January 11, 2005

Justin Frankel's Assniffer for Windows and Linux

— network sniffer that automatically saves files of transferred data #

Early '90s Predictions Database

— 4,200 predictions made between 1990-1995; also, some new predictions via Delicious #

Justin Hall stops publishing Links.net?

— this was his last entry, also found in the source code of his homepage via Kottke #

OJR on tsunami video hosting on blogs

— organized mirroring is great, but isn’t BitTorrent a better long-term solution? #

iPod shuffle differences between US and UK

— apparently, we eat gum in the US, while the Brits chew it #

Decentralized BitTorrent with Kenosis

— more information in the Slashdot thread via Slashdot #

Verizon blocking e-mail from the UK

— as an ISP, Verizon has a responsibility not to have any false positives via tomalak.org #

The Words of Albert Spamus

— spam poetry for the ages #

Mac mini, official homepage

— do not taunt Mac mini #

iPod shuffle, official homepage

— “do not eat iPod shuffle” #

Video: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians on Archive.org

— also: most popular feature films for download on Archive.org via Delicious #

New iPod Shuffle, the Flash-based iPod

— really tiny, no screen, weighs under an ounce; $99 for 512MB, $149 for 1GB; shipping today; photo #

Mac Mini, 2" tall headless Mac for $499

— Think Secret was right! more details coming; photos of box and product #

SQL Injection Attacks by Example

— a great starting point to securing your own code via Delicious #

Rodeo in Salem gets unexpected song rendition

— Ali G strikes again via Delicious #

TowerSeek

— a prototype BitTorrent search crawler, with estimated speeds and file listings via monkeymethods.org #

An analysis of BitTorrent distribution and centralization

— the long tail is very long; 87% of trackers have less than 100 torrents #
January 10, 2005

The Unicorns break up

— looks like Mclusky broke up, too #

eBay: Sub Pop Singles Club

— over 125 records; the complete collection, worth seeing just for historical value via stereogum.com #

Audio: Inside look at NPR's audio editing practices

— removing “um” and “uh,” ambient audio, and off-site interviews via MetaFilter #

Ming's page of Googleable webcams

— he performed geo-lookups of the IP addresses, and made a nice UI for browsing via Boing Boing #

Face Transformer Java applet

— excellent and bizarre algorithmic morphing #

Second Life's changing culture

— the shift from innovation to 200 strip clubs #

Feedburner's list of the top 20 RSS readers

— may be skewed by default feeds that ship with readers via ReadWriteWeb #

Think Secret's top Macworld Expo rumors

— even Cringely thinks the sub-$500 Mac is going to happen via David Ely #

Snopes on anti-seat belt law advocate killed in car accident

— he wasn’t wearing a seat belt, while two other passengers were and survived via Delicious #

TKPal implemented for Grouphug comments

— interesting to see how it’s getting used #
January 9, 2005

CodeCon 2005 Program

— all sorts of interesting new projects via LiveJournal #

Salon feature on the death of the payola system for radio

— Eliot Spitzer started cracking down in October via downhillbattle.org #

McDonald's Israeli "Pulp Fiction" commercial

— very surreal, with dead-on impersonations of Travolta and Jackson #

Taggregator

— combined display of Flickr and Del.icio.us tags; try apple, disneyland, and, of course, mathowie via Delicious #

Matt Haughey reports from CES on TiVo's new features

— they’re opening it up to developers, and linking it to portables #

Mathowie Lookalike group on Flickr

— it’s Matt Haughey day on Waxy.org! #

Matt Haughey on Bill Gates's anti-copyright comments

— plus, he rounds up Microsoft’s Internet-related failures #

Penny Arcade rips into "Non Sequitur" artist Wiley Miller's attack on web publishing

— more background on the ongoing feud between Wiley and PvP’s Scott Kurtz via Simon Carless #

Matt Haughey on Internet-wide comment tracking

— Andre has a similar idea involving Typekey #

Leslie Orchard on General Motors' new blog

— a major corporate blog, with comments and Trackback #
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