April 2005 - Page 4 of 5

April 10, 2005

"Luecke" in Google Maps — the scale is insane, try zooming in to see the Texas landmark (via) #

April 9, 2005

Lickr, Flickr without the Flash — Greasemonkey add-on gives a DHTML and Javascript equivalent for viewing and annotating photos (via) #

Douglas Adams fan site reviews hates on new Hitchhiker's film — in a very detailed review, they tear it to shreds (via) #

Upload progress with Ruby on Rails and Ajax — I'm sure adding on a visual progress bar would be trivial (via) #

Review of Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS — it's a playful music and performance toy; IGN has several videos (via) #

April 8, 2005

Paul Rademacher's fusion of Google Maps and Craiglist rentals — ingenious use of both sites, though strictly unofficial scraping (via) #

Code snippets for implementing tags with SQL — this will come in handy for Upcoming's tag support #

April 7, 2005

How many Flickr users does it take to change a lightbulb? — a novel use of the site, but it worked (via) #

Paul Boutin profiles Brewster Kahle in Slate — one of my heroes (via) #

Brad Choate's SpamLookup plugin for MovableType — I'll be installing this and MT-Moderate soon #

43things adds web services API — I feel like 43things is the spiritual cousin to Upcoming, for reasons I can't define (via) #

Columbus weekly cover story on cult web artist Drew — if you haven't seen Drew's art, you're missing out #

Google Sightseeing — blog tracking neat things spotted in Google Maps' satellite view (via) #

Wired on Blogger's recent problems — some outages and buggy behavior, but they're working on it (via) #

Best Buy customer arrested for paying with $2 bills — "it's a sign we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world" (via) #

Google launches Q&A feature — a direct response to Ask Jeeves? #

Check out those display options! — option overkill as Excel, Word, PDF, Palm, e-mail, fax, and more (via) #

VideoLAN open-source video player threatened by European patents — Mplayer, Freevo, and MythTV are all built on top of VLC (via) #

Yahoo supports Wikipedia with hardware and resources — plus, Wikipedia results will show inline on Yahoo searches (via) #

Image: Google Maps, real-world remix — very funny #

April 6, 2005

Pure data noise — don't miss the wonderful audio samples buried in the Flash site #

Migrant Mother sheds her wrinkles — angry readers write in over "Popular Photography" April 1 prank #

Matt explains the amazing colored pools in Google Maps — he has a master's in soil chemistry!? #

Video: Mad Hot Ballroom trailer — adorable documentary about a children's ballroom dancing competition (via) #

Wired News on the therapeutic and educational uses of Second Life — some very interesting social experiments in the game world (via) #

EasyTree BitTorrent site shut down — unlike Suprnova and its ilk, this one hosted only commercially unavailable bootleg concerts #

Henry Blodget buys bootleg DVDs in Shanghai — a brief story about a DVD shop pretending to be a restaurant (via) #

Sploid — Gawker's new tabloid-style blog; in your face, Drudge! (via) #

Amazon redesigns book detail pages — also: Alan's much larger annotated screenshot on Flickr (via) #

Tasting Music — table that plays CDs without even opening the case (via) #

Defective Yeti reviews Doom board game — surprisingly positive review (via) #

Image: Flickrland — play "Where's Waldo" with 74,000 Flickr buddy icons #

April 5, 2005

Prodigem begins offering paid BitTorrent service — pick a price, upload your torrent, and buyers pay with Paypal to download #

Star Wars fans won't move line in protest — even though they're standing in front of a theater that won't play Episode III #

Burning Man camp on Google Maps — also: Dave! (via) #

Matt Haughey's annotated Google Map on Flickr — it inspired a new Memory Maps group #

Upcoming.org adds search, e-mail invites, and more — we've been cranking on the site; go check it out #

Maciej on Paul Graham and other blowhards — I love a spirited rant #

April 4, 2005

The Erotic Diary of George Wendt — an inspired part of TeeVee's brilliant April 1 prank, if you missed it #

Google Maps adds satellite photos! — insanely cool to switch back and forth (via) #

The Annotated New York Times — tracking NYT stories with real-time reactions from blogs (via) #

Implausible Claims Made by Vanilla Ice in "Ice Ice Baby" — "Turn off the lights and I'll glow." (via) #

Thurston Moore on the power of mix tapes — don't miss the last graf; "trying to control music sharing ... is like trying to control an affair of the heart" #

Joe vs. the Volcano creator wins Pulitzer Prize — strangely, AP doesn't mention "Joe" at all #

IRC on the PSP — cute on-screen keyboard; coming soon, PSP AIM (via) #

Stereogum on Pretty in Pink sequel — John Hughes directing; will the very depressing Breakfast Club 2 be next? #

Yahoo API adds term extraction from documents — wow, I could imagine using this on many projects unrelated to Yahoo (via) #

Video: DJ Format, "3 Feet Deep" — music video inspired by Konami's rhythm games (via) #

Independent developers claim wireless DS tunneling by April 11 — hard to believe, but here's an interview with them (via) #

The Thumb-sized Heart of TK the Cat — Paul Ford is a great writer, and this made me sad (via) #