May 2005 - Page 4 of 5

May 10, 2005

Google Content Blocker — block everything except ads; remember to read the privacy policy (via) #

Flickr moving from Flash to Ajax — also: if you want it now, there's always Lickr (via) #

Omnipelagos — find connections between any two Wikipedia entries, like here to there (via) #

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) #

Dive Into Greasemonkey — Mark Pilgrim's free book on Greasemonkey hacking; an essential resource #

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) #

Gameboy emulator released for PSP! — the PSP homebrew scene is getting huge (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 #

JotSpot inaugural hackathon — brilliant idea for practically any company (via) #

Official Mr. Clean forums — a strange community of cleaning product fans, with their own trolls, in-jokes, fanfic, and more (via) #

May 9, 2005

Flash: Radial visualizations of Upcoming.org events — one of the coolest uses of the API so far #

Comparing Gawker's blogger pay rates to mainstream journalism — about $30,000/year #

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) #

May 8, 2005

ScrappyGoo — hosted RSS feeds of Google News search results (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 #

May 7, 2005

HySpace, Hyrule's online friend community — brilliant Zelda-themed MySpace parody, with profiles for each character (via) #

Google outage — DNS for several Google domains goes down; Google News still inaccessible #

Nintendo DS ads in Stuff Magazine — overtly sexual ads conflict with Nintendo's family-friendly image (via) #

May 6, 2005

Tiny Mix Tapes reviews the new Nine Inch Nails album — best album review ever (via) #

Video: Working Title — animation of 3,100+ movie title screens, spliced together and set to audio (via) #

Barbie USB Drive — disturbing and funny (via) #

What I Would Be Thinking About If I Were Billy Joel Driving Toward a Holiday Party Where I Knew There Was Going to Be a Piano — written by The State's Michael Ian Black (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) #

Flags as infographics — clever and funny (via) #

Greasemonkey: Boing Boing Quiz — the Greasemonkey script game? (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 #

Blogger Mobile — post blog entries and photos with MMS (via) #

May 5, 2005

Google Web Accelerator showing other people's pages — SomethingAwful forums users snapped screenshots of being magically logged in as other users (via) #

Image: Institute of Eastern Studies — excellent logo; see also: SQL Fairy (via) #

New Movie Idea: E.T. — brilliant, it might catch on (via) #

"The Internet" t-shirt on Threadless — references to Goatse, Tubgirl, Domokun kittens, Badger Badger, John Titor, All Your Base, and more #

Creative Commons ends BzzAgent partnership — Lessig has much more commentary on the decision #

Adam Mathes hired by Google — congrats! but does that affect the future of Consumating? #

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 #

Polish circus posters — gorgeous illustration from the late '60s and '70s (via) #

Kronos Projector — scrub parts of video forward and backward in time; don't miss the video (via) #

Linux for the DS working — the kernel's booting and a SASH shell is working (via) #

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) #