May 10, 2005
Platypus, Firefox extension for inline editing of Greasemonkey'd sites
— edit the content and layout of websites, and save the changes as a Greasemonkey script; here's the correct location of the broken link (via) #
Wired News releases internal source review
— Gelf Magazine, who originally broke the story of a Wired News reporter fabricating sources, follows up with an Adam Penenburg interview (via) #
Yahoo News tag soup
— automatic tagging of Yahoo News feeds, using the content analysis web service #
Hilary Rosen complains about iTunes DRM
— completely hypocritical, to the point of Bizarro-world surrealism (via) #
Apple insider posting regularly to Slashdot?
— see their interesting comments on the iTunes Store selling video; other recent comments (via) #
SAT writing test rewards length and ignores errors
— the longer the essay, the higher the score (via) #
L.A. Times redesigns to 1024 pixel fixed width
— unlike WaPo and IHT, they're putting more than just ads on the far right; also, CalendarLive is free again #
Official Mr. Clean forums
— a strange community of cleaning product fans, with their own trolls, in-jokes, fanfic, and more (via) #
Geotagging Flickr with Greasemonkey and Google Maps
— amazing hack! sets the bar for how manual geotagging should be done online (via) #
Binary Bonsai's Live Archives
— intelligent ways of browsing blog archives, powered by a new Wordpress plugin #
Greasemonkey blows up business models
— some great thoughts on why Greasemonkey is important, and a great idea for a Netflix-BitTorrent script (via) #
Image: Episode III merchandising goes too far
— if you thought the lawn sprinkler was bad; from the SA goons (via) #
Apple Widget of Mass Destruction
— blueprint for auto-installing spyware widget you can't remove; very dangerous #
HySpace, Hyrule's online friend community
— brilliant Zelda-themed MySpace parody, with profiles for each character (via) #
Nintendo DS ads in Stuff Magazine
— overtly sexual ads conflict with Nintendo's family-friendly image (via) #
Video: Working Title
— animation of 3,100+ movie title screens, spliced together and set to audio (via) #
Upcoming.org gets a wiki
— not much there yet, but I'd love some help fleshing it out; feel free to add your feature requests #
Google Web Accelerator wreaks havoc on web applications
— since it follows every link on the page, it can cause a huge mess; I should block it on Upcoming.org #
The Onion A.V. Club interviews Ben Folds
— the new album is more understated than Rockin' the Suburbs, and it's grown on me (via) #
Broadcast Flag struck down by Appeals Court!
— "nothing has changed to give the FCC the authority it now claims" #
Tristan Lewis on Google Web Accelerator
— the utility may help Google mine the Deep Web, pages that aren't already getting indexed #
Google Web Accelerator showing other people's pages
— SomethingAwful forums users snapped screenshots of being magically logged in as other users (via) #
"The Internet" t-shirt on Threadless
— references to Goatse, Tubgirl, Domokun kittens, Badger Badger, John Titor, All Your Base, and more #
Soderbergh and Cuban closing the theater-to-DVD release gap
— I mentioned this idea in my old entry on the future of movie theaters #
First homebrew code running on the PSP
— a Hello World program, and a huge first step in opening up the platform #
iPod shuffle captures 58 percent of Flash MP3 player market in six months
— and Apple owns 90 percent of the hard drive-based market (via) #
PSP UMD format cracked, game ISOs appear online
— don't hold your breath for an emulator any time soon (via) #