April 2005 - Page 3 of 5

April 17, 2005

Freetag, an open-source tagging/folksonomy framework for PHP/MySQL — we use it on Upcoming.org, and I designed the logo; read more about its creation #

Rojo feedreader goes out of beta — I'd been beta-testing it, but their features aren't notably better than Bloglines (via) #

April 16, 2005

Skinning Del.icio.us with Safari's PithHelmet extension — kinda like Greasemonkey for Safari #

April 15, 2005

Marc Hedlund's notes on building CodeZoo — essential read with great advice for building a web app with a small team (via) #

The Freesound Project — like Flickr for audio clips, all with waveforms and CC licenses #

FM Publishing, John Battelle's new blog publishing company — Boing Boing will be its first property (via) #

Yankees' Gary Sheffield scuffles with Boston fan — even better: first-person cameraphone photos of the fight, from the guy in this photo #

HTTP in tha House — generate a freestyle flow from the text of any webpage (via) #

April 14, 2005

Metafilter user passes away — Matt comments that Eric Osterhoudt is the first death he's aware of #

Video: Frogger-themed Jeep commercial — very clever (via) #

Binary Search Engine tracking — unusual visualization of search engine crawling; compare to their original approach for URIs #

MP3: NWA's "Straight Outta Compton," with everything except profanities removed — also: the edited version of Fuck Tha Police is a long 42 seconds (via) #

Michael Buffington working on a secret project with Adaptive Path — using Ruby on Rails, too; this should be interesting (via) #

MP3: Kleptones, "Bo Rhap" — from last Christmas, their massive mashup of Bohemian Rhapsody covers #

Great tutorial to wirelessly load homebrew code onto your Nintendo DS — requires a GBA flash cart and specific wireless cart; this is the start of the homebrew DS scene (via) #

Amazon adds keyword frequency and text stats for books — someone at Amazon has tag-envy #

April 13, 2005

NYT on Amazon's expansion into on-demand book printing — not true on-demand like the Bookmobile, though #

Downhill Battle's new DTV and Broadcast Machine projects — they're trying to develop an open-source platform for painlessly distributing and watching high-quality video online, built on Blog Torrent (via) #

Google Video Upload Program — just launched minutes ago; read more about the video program and Windows uploader (via) #

Robot Co-Op adds Upcoming.org support on 43 Things — also, Whedonesque just switched to Upcoming because of Meetup's new fees #

Fingerprint Maze — art installation that scans your fingerprint and turns it into a 3D maze (via) #

April 12, 2005

MFX's Aether, amazing PC graphic demo — if you have a fast PC and a good video card, try this; it just blew my mind #

Meetup to begin charging monthly fee — event organizers will pay $19/month to arrange meetups (via) #

Britney Spears pregnant — Stereogum offers up some composite predictions #

Sproutliner — sharable online outlines, like OmniOutliner for the web (via) #

Chris Anderson on the mainstream media meltdown — music, TV, radio, newspaper sales all down; movies, videogames, web all up (via) #

Ben Heckendorn's homebrew N64 portable — cute comparison between the N64p and the DS (via) #

Buzztracker — visualizing frequency and relationships between locations in Google News international (via) #

Greasemonkey User Script Repository — it's getting massive; read Jeremy's long update about moving it to Userscript.org #

Archive.org's public domain Superman cartoons — from their vintage cartoons collection (via) #

JSimpleton, a Z-machine bot for the Idle Thumbs message boards — I'd love to see someone adapt this to phpBB #

Psychonauts demo released — from the creator of Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, and co-creator of Day of the Tentacle #

April 11, 2005

Perl on Rails — I'd love to see a language-agnostic Rails, but this feels wrong (via) #

Maciej quit his job, too — working on a secretive startup, which should be interesting #

MetaWishlist — is it just me, or are all new web apps borrowing heavily from Flickr? #

Idaho passes resolution praising Napolean Dynamite — unanimously, too (via) #

1UP's feature on cartoons based on video games — tons of obscure ones I've never heard of (via) #

Embedding images in HTML source — I had no idea this was possible (via) #

Video: Tiger Woods' mind-blowing shot at the 16th hole of the US Masters — this is not fake; I have the video mirrored locally #

Overlapping satellite images in Google Maps — very weird; is Keyhole stitching together images by intelligently cutting around buildings? #

Googlest, top paying Adsense keywords — a curious list of search terms, but mind the ads and popups (via) #

DS hacker built wireless multiboot hack — send a wi-fi signal from your PC to the DS to trick it into running homebrew code off the GBA slot #

Del.icio.us investors — it's a VC dream team and Joshua maintains a majority stake, to boot! (via) #

Grove Street memory maps — Grand Theft Auto-inspired silliness (via) #

Eyebeam's Contagious Media Showdown — design a virulent meme website, win thousands of dollars #

Meme tracking with Greasemonkey — listing Bloglines and Del.icio.us citations inline on every page; brilliant, but raises some questions on etiquette #

April 10, 2005

Long Line mosaics on Flickr — including these lovely cube printouts (via) #

Jason Kottke's micropatron followup — it worked well enough this year, but it's a difficult road #

StorTroopers returns — I made one a couple years ago (via) #

L.A. Times's long profile of Xeni Jardin — when I dined with the Boing Boing crew at ETech, Xeni's embedded reporter came with us #