March 11, 2005

Kasparov retires from chess — tired of getting beat by computers, maybe #

Japanese gallery of art in psychiatric advertisements — the surreal Serenace ads are the best (via) #

Flickr to add photo printing through EZ Prints — Ofoto and Shutterfly, watch your backs (via) #

March 10, 2005

The long tail of software — not just search engines, books, and music; also, user-written software (via) #

Flash: A New Bunny — very offensive language, but very funny commentary on the new Bugs Bunny (via) #

Luxpro Super Shuffle — or: how to get sued by Apple in five minutes flat #

Paul Graham on how to start a startup — only five references to Lisp this time #

Firefox extension uses phone numbers to find driving directions in Google Maps — clever hack (via) #

Microsoft buys Groove Network — Ray Ozzie becomes Microsoft's new CTO (via) #

Blockland — massively multiplayer Lego building game (via) #

March 9, 2005

PVRBlog interview with Lanovision's creator — already getting popular in the Yale dorms #

Start.com, Microsoft's web-based feed reader — a very early sandbox version, with no Firefox support (via) #

Video: Wonder Showzen teaser — remember the Kids Show pilot? this is the final product airing on MTV2 #

Video: Spike Jonze commercial for Adidas — dreamy (via) #

Algorithmic colorization of photos and videos — amazing and elegant technique (via) #

German Spiegel plagiarizes Wikipedia article — I hope they catch Encarta next #

Linus Torvalds switches to Apple — not what you think; he's still running Linux, but now on a dual G5 (via) #

MP3: Ted Leo covering Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" — don't miss the acoustic performance videos on UGO, as well #

Tim Bray on why blogging is good for your career — counteracting the trend of fired for blogging stories (via) #

Make a portable NES for under $75 — using those crazy bootleg NES joysticks from mall kiosks (via) #

College Trustees Kill Campus Papers

Posted March 9, 2005 by Andy Baio

An update to yesterday’s entry… In a 3-2 vote, the college trustees decided to eliminate the journalism programs for both Ventura College and Oxnard College for the upcoming school year. The two campus newspapers, the Ventura College Press and Campus Observer, will be closed. (This will be the first time VC hasn’t had a paper since 1925.) Finally, my mom will be laid off.

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March 8, 2005

Dot-Con Job — Seattle Times' amazing expose on the lies behind Infospace.com (via) #

Technical analysis of Google Print — has anyone made software to crawl Amazon's Search Inside? (via) #

Gamespy reveals details of the Xbox Next — three 3.0 GHz PowerPC CPUs and standard DVD media (via) #

Lan-o-Vision Beta — stream video to anyone on your LAN; like iTunes for video (via) #

Yahoo! Publisher Network — eh, I was pretty close (via) #

Arizona teen first to be convicted under state laws for illegal downloading — in the last sentence, they mention he sold the downloaded movies; that's a huge distinction #

Video: Katamari Damacy speedruns — the first ones ever, AFAIK; they're at the bottom of the page #

Zopa, like eBay for loans — UK only and a fascinating market experiment (via) #

BitTorrent 4.0 released — here's a list of the recent changes #

My mom fights to save community college journalism — in case you don't read my main weblog, a free speech issue that hits home #

My Mom Fights to Save Community College Journalism

Posted March 8, 2005 by Andy Baio

My mom, Toni Allen, is the head of the journalism department for Oxnard College. Like me, she’s never afraid of stirring up controversy in the face of stupidity. For me, it’s usually bad copyright laws and misguided corporations; for her, it’s censorship of the student press and ignorant college administrators.

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March 7, 2005

Mac Genius Livejournal deleted — anyone know why? the entries are still cached on Bloglines #

Blogspot being systematically exploited by spammers — I'm sure they're working on this as we speak #

Technorati censoring employee blogs — they want to review individual entries? #

White House approves daily pass for blogger — reading about the experience is better than the briefing itself #

Blog Torrent adds support for server-side seeding — guarantees your torrents will always be available, at a bandwidth cost (via) #

Fiona Apple's new album leaked online in its entirety — you'd think Sony would learn from the recent past #

How to snatch an expiring domain — a small glimpse into the expiration process and the services competing for drops (via) #

Wall-sized whiteboards for $13 — this is a steal (via) #

Jon Udell screencast on the on-demand blogosphere — the inevitable future of RSS requires tools for managing a social network of feeds #

MP3: We Built This Starbucks — terrible Starbucks corporate version of "We Built This City"; other corporate anthems #

AllofMP3.com escapes criminal lawsuit with legal loophole — Russian criminal law only applies to physical goods (via) #

Video: Bram Cohen lecture at Stanford — covers benchmarking BitTorrent with an Internet simulation (via) #

Video: Still Seeing Breen — a Half-Life 2 machinima music video with a lip-syncing G-man (via) #

SXSW on your iPod — 2.6GB torrent of free songs by showcasing bands at SXSW (via) #

Video: Robot dinosaurs — life-size walking robot dinosaurs built for World Expo 2005 (via) #

Veerle's lovely CSS calendars — expect to see this on Upcoming.org very soon; also for reference, PHP Calendar (via) #

MPAA tracks a DVD pirate to a Shanghai penthouse — exactly what they should be doing, instead of suing their fans (via) #

March 6, 2005

Build your own PBX with Asterisk — $13 for a complete PBX, minus the phones (via) #