Universal adapting American McGee's Alice game to the screen
— starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as the goth Alice in Wonderland, this could be awful (via) #
Ilya's thoughts on his involvement with the LA Times wiki project
— though it failed, this kind of media experimentation should be commended instead of ridiculed #
Movie industry cracks down on copyrighted pinatas
— fasinating article about L.A.'s homebrew pinata cottage industry (via) #
Snopes on the Ketchup Trousers e-mail
— he's rumored to have resigned because of the notorious e-mail forward #
GoDaddy president condones military torture tactics
— it's linked from the front page of GoDaddy, too (via) #
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
— Cory Doctorow's new book, licensed for reuse and available in multiple formats (via) #
Interview with creator of Gametap
— with tons of high-res screenshots of Turner Broadcasting's upcoming on-demand gaming service; lots of emulated old games (via) #
Deconstructing Roy Lichtenstein is back online
— hopefully, this will be a bit more permanent mirror (via) #
Xoc's full album of Super Mario World covers
— made with diverse instruments; highly recommended (via) #
Yahoo closes user-created chat rooms
— related to a lawsuit surrounding ad-sponsored pedophilia chat rooms (via) #
Google to launch Paypal alternative
— it'll be hard for Google to compete with Paypal's ubiquity, unless they drop fees (via) #
Eclipse, free and gorgeous Half-Life 2 full conversion
— third-person mod built by students in five months of spare time (via) #
Video: Ural 13 Diktators' "Name Of The Game"
— excellent 8-bit music video, reminiscent of Junior Senior's Move Your Feet (via) #
Jorn Barger debates with a misguided Wikipedian about the definition of "weblog"
— this kind of debate is part of what makes Wikipedia so entertaining #
Onion A.V. Club's roundup of video game-related songs
— the Pixies covered the theme song from NARC?! (via) #
Video: Triumph vs. the Michael Jackson supporters
— incidentally, iFilm's weekly top 100 is an good mish-mash of viral video #
TiVo demos beta of on-demand video downloading
— also, appears to be playing videos from the local network #
Flickr to add photo book printing
— though from a different company than their photo printing announcement (via) #
House subcommittee votes to eliminate funding for PBS, NPR
— Sesame Street is on the chopping block; an ironic update to this classic e-mail petition (via) #
MyBlogLog adds support for multiple blogs and referral program
— I've been using this on Waxy Links for months and I love it; a simple app designed to do one thing perfectly #
mp3act, streaming MP3 jukebox
— free and Ajax-enabled, but not as feature rich as Zina; requires PHP and MySQL (via) #
Anarchist Cookbook author disowns book on Amazon
— but can't pull it out of print because of copyright quirks (via) #
Sony PSP 1.50 firmware swap trick
— works fine, but requires two memory sticks; a good step, but not ideal (via) #
Target phases out VHS
— a nail in the coffin of analog video; update: Wal-Mart still in the VHS game (via) #