February 18, 2005

First image posted to the web — found from this Ask Mefi thread #

Video: Dan Castellaneta and Harry Shearer on Conan o' Brien — from November 2002; also, here's the entire Inside the Actor's Studio episode with the Simpsons cast #

Google e-mails webmasters of sites blocked by robots.txt? — funny, nobody ever created the Forbidden Search Engine #

How I Saved the World from Armageddon — amazing two-year art project targets a random gamer; more info by the artists toward the bottom of the gallery page (via) #

Video: Lejo DJ (via) #

Libsyn, cheap podcasting hosting — charge only for storage, not bandwidth usage (via) #

EA blanks the word "Sega" from House of Pain's "Jump Around" — removed from the NBA Street V3 soundtrack (via) #

February 17, 2005

Flickr License Searcher — great tool for finding legal stock photos in Flickr #

NYT buying About.com for $410 million — seems overvalued to me (via) #

Python programmer catches burglar on webcam — the BBC covered the story (via) #

Sony sends a cease-and-desist to Beatallica — I'm hosting their torrents, and I won't take them down even if Sony tells me to; they're perfectly legal cover songs #

Daily Show slash fiction — I love the Internet (via) #

Hasbro releases light-up basketball hoop "with Firewire technology" — I love that they claim a trademark on Firewire #

Video: Daily Show segment on blogger journalism — brilliant coverage, here's a partial transcript #

Spid.ero.us — social bookmark comparisons, including Japanese Delicious clones! (via) #

Today Show covers the Numa Numa video — Matt Lauer dubs him the new Star Wars Kid #

Typographica's favorite fonts of 2004 — Galaxie Polaris is lovely #

Katamari Damacy hand puppet — they should make vinyl action figures, too (via) #

Parent's guide to computer slang by Microsoft — darn those "online videogame bullies"! (via) #

The return of the Kottke webcam — wait, where's the monkey? #

Video: Thundercats — fan-made short film, complete with CGI effects and leather pants (via) #

February 16, 2005

Sleater-Kinney begs people to stop pirating their new unreleased album — the release date is three months away?! your biggest fans are pirating it because there's no legal alternative (via) #

MPAA cracking down on fan fiction sites — for using movie-style ratings to grade mature content in fanfic #

Acme Novelty Toy gallery — the Chris Ware cutouts actually work (via) #

American Idol blocking fast-forwards on Comcast DVRs — get ready to hear more of this #

They Might Be Giants releases second kids' album, Here Come the ABC's — buy direct online from the band, or watch the videos #

Interview with Mark Jen, the fired Google blogger — Mark confirms Google has no blogging policy (via) #

MSNFound, MSN Search's new viral web game — no matter how good the game may be, it still forces you to use MSN (via) #

NY Daily News on the "Numa Numa" lip-synching teen — the video is sent to me by e-mail and IM several times a day #

Buffington updates his asbestos blog experiment — he doesn't mention any numbers, but it was very profitable #

Hitchhiker's Guide Trailer

Posted February 16, 2005 by Andy Baio

The new trailer for the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is available on Amazon, but it’s low quality and streaming Flash. For me, it’s buffering constantly and basically unwatchable.

I found this much higher-quality Quicktime trailer, that seems to be a copy of the internal workprint with time signatures and “Do Not Duplicate” warning. Oh, well!

hhgttg_high.mov (7.8MB, Quicktime)

My bandwidth was already hammered this month, so you can thank Greg Knauss for hosting the video.

February 18, 2004: Here’s a much better copy of the official trailer, available for download.

eBay prototype for the TiVo HME — "buy this TV show now, no reserve!" (via) #

Jamie Zawinski on the Hula project — make software for users, not for managers (via) #

February 15, 2005

43 Folders' Five fast e-mail productivity tips — I'm following this advice too late, cleaning out 590 messages from my inbox #

Boxer on NBC's 'The Contender' kills self — though not the first reality show suicide #

Crunching the stats on 8 years of e-mail — Slashdotted, but the Google cache works (via) #

Mapping iPod sightings in a stroll through NYC — 32 iPods in a 30 minute walk #

Great study of weblog tools market share — Richard's summary of the findings are excellent; Six Apart has 40% of the market with their three tools #

Internet Explorer 7 beta due out this summer — for some reason, this reminds me of Netscape Communicator (via) #

Audio of Robin Williams ranting on Disney, Pixar, and the iPod — "don't have to work for The Mouse no more" #

Fark buys 1-day rights to rename the Fleet Center — the winner, in typical Fark style #

Museum of Comic Art's Now Then! — 25 comic artists compare modern works to childhood drawings (via) #

Todd Dominey's SlideShowPro — Flash slideshow works with Flickr, $20 cheep #

New popular sites in Del.icio.us — basically, Blogdex for Del.icio.us (via) #

Hula Project — nice looking open-source calendar and mail server built in PHP, initiated by Novell (via) #

Everything Tori — the best-designed official artist website I've ever seen; includes the complete songs from every album, RSS feeds, and it's valid XHTML! #

Mule Design redesigns Six Apart — looks great, runs on MovableType (via) #

Goatse t-shirt from Threadless — safe for work (via) #

Atari Cosmos for sale on eBay — prototype of a hologram-based Atari handheld from 1981 (via) #

February 14, 2005

MSN searches for pizza in Redmond — the MSN marketing team should try the searches before putting them on ads #