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March 24, 2005

Doogie Howser, the first blogger

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March 23, 2005

Video: Sims-style anti-pregnancy commercial for teen girls

— accurate look and feel from the Belgian public health dept. via Darren Barefoot #

Flickr photoset of RFID hand self-implant

— insane, if true via Boing Boing #

Adam Mathes on playing Harvest Moon

— I love this kind of writing about games; also, part 2 and 3 #

Transparent Screens

— very clever fun with desktop wallpaper #

UK guerilla artist Banksy installs own pictures in four museums

— it took them several days to notice and remove the beautiful works #

Sony PSP 101

— excellent roundup of info about the PSP #

Anil Dash's tribute to Suck.com

— I wrote Suck their first fan letter, almost ten years ago (as “Flyp Doink”) #

Fun with high powered projectors

— “weiter” means next via Delicious #

Video: House of Cosbys

— I’m Curiosity Cosby, you see #

Robocop logos

— obsessive fandom; the entire site is very thorough via misterpants.com #

Wired on the Decemberists use of BitTorrent for new video

— here’s the torrent #
March 22, 2005

Backpack, 37signal's new app

— but what does it do? Writeboard is still brewing, too #

"White pride" news site in Google News

— news sources are still hand-picked by Google Editors, right? #

Nazi forum posts by Minnesota school shooter Jeff Weise

— he killed nine yesterday before killing himself; here’s his Livejournal, too via Nelson Minar #

New version of Ruby on Rails supports Ajax natively

— don’t miss Curt Hibbs’ beginner’s tutorials #

iPod Shuffle knock-off was a publicity stunt

— Apple and the blog world fell for it, too #

Coudal's Crash Ballet 2 winners

— Joshua Allen’s entry is my favorite #

Friendster movie in development

— Harold Ramis directing, so it can’t be all bad via Fimoculous #
March 21, 2005

Video: Darkon, a documentary about LARPers

— live action role-players, that is via Delicious #

The PC Forum Long Tail drinking game

— I would’ve slipped into an alcohol-induced coma by day 2 of ETech #

Video: Grandaddy on "The Secret to Songwriting"

— very enlightening #

Nintendo DS charging dock built from Legos

— including game and stylus storage via Digg #

Jon Udell's inspiring comments on Upcoming.org

— read my response; I’ve committed to making some big changes by next Monday #

Using the Powerbook motion sensor to control Neverball and Google Maps

— an extension of this article, don’t miss the three videos via Kottke #

Rejected e-mails from the Snopes inbox

— extremely gullible people ask Snopes to verify the truthfulness of jokes #

Slashdot redesigning with XHTML and CSS

— don’t worry, it’ll still be just as ugly to look at via Ethan Marcotte #

The Rhys-Davies Episode III Hoax

— how a prank e-mail became fact, reported in the online and offline media via Delicious #

Flash: Kristan Horton remade Dr. Strangelove with household objects

— here’s an interview with the artist; warning, audio #

PSP Video 9

— download, convert and copy video to your PSP using BitTorrent and RSS via gigaom.com #

Ourmedia alpha launches

— partnered with Archive.org, free tool to host and discuss grassroots media #

Image: No One Is Thirsty

— courtesy of the new PBF homepage #
March 20, 2005

Video: The Secret of Bananas

— a better-kept secret than the Yahoo/Flickr deal #

Barry Diller's Interactive Corp. buying Ask Jeeves for $2 billion

— ridiculously overpriced #

PBS.org quietly enables trackback

— but appears to only be using the ping info internally #

Yahoo buys Flickr!

— it’s official! more thoughts from Caterina and Jeremy #

Katamari Damacy coming to the Nintendo DS!

— yay! #

How many 5-year-olds could you fight at once?

— I love the Internet #
March 19, 2005

Gmail going public on April 1

— also: people have been exchanging Gmail invites for positive feedback on eBay via Digg #

Video: Firefox TV commercial

— gorgeous, but should probably mention the URL and what Firefox is via Digg #

Hacking Google Desktop Search

— remotely monitor other computers on your LAN via thetechdomain.com #

Audio: Google Autolink debate with Doctorow, Scoble, and Schwimmer

— I’m still siding with Google on this issue via Boing Boing #

Livejournal added tags, too

— update: it’s just a new view of a very old feature via Jeremy Zawodny #

GoogleX mirrors

— still no word on why Google removed it from their site #

French news agency sues Google News for infringement

— in response, Google should change their pagerank to zero via Slashdot #

Wikipedia hits 500,000 articles

— and that doesn’t count the multilingual editions or the other Wikimedia projects via Slashdot #

Experimental Gameplay Project

— Tower of Goo and Darwin Hill are great via Simon Carless #

Bla-Bla List recodes Ta-Da Lists in Java

— it’s devolving into a language war, but an entertaining one #

The Online Video Game Atlas

— huge combined screenshots of video game maps via Delicious #
March 18, 2005

Livejournal adds podcasting support

— this could be huge #
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