June 2005 - Page 3 of 6

June 21, 2005

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) #

Video: Tom Cruise Kills Oprah — he's coming after your children next #

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 #

Bram Cohen slams Microsoft's BitTorrent clone — an entertaining read #

June 20, 2005

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 #

Real Simple's list of product expiration dates — very handy; honey lasts forever (via) #

MIT Weblog Survey real-time results — fill out the survey to view all the lovely charts (via) #

GoDaddy president condones military torture tactics — it's linked from the front page of GoDaddy, too (via) #

AOL blocking all e-mails with Metafilter.com links — part of AOL's antispam blacklist, apparently #

Website Payments Pro — accept website payments without ever redirecting to Paypal (via) #

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town — Cory Doctorow's new book, licensed for reuse and available in multiple formats (via) #

Flash: 3wish — short and lovely adventure games without words #

Howto: Watch BeyondTV video on your PSP — great tutorial for moving any video to the device (via) #

Alcoholix, social software for drunks — and it uses the Upcoming.org API, too #

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) #

CommonTunes — a directory of organized, freely-available music #

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) #

LA Times removes Wikitorials — they weren't prepared for wiki abuse, apparently (via) #

June 19, 2005

Yahoo closes user-created chat rooms — related to a lawsuit surrounding ad-sponsored pedophilia chat rooms (via) #

June 18, 2005

Google to launch Paypal alternative — it'll be hard for Google to compete with Paypal's ubiquity, unless they drop fees (via) #

Roundup of sexy podcasts — every new technology finds an application in porn #

Zellestyle — jewelry made from electronics and computer components (via) #

Eclipse, free and gorgeous Half-Life 2 full conversion — third-person mod built by students in five months of spare time (via) #

Fail Math's Video Game Quiz — fun with the cliche of gritty realism (via) #

June 17, 2005

Video: Ural 13 Diktators' "Name Of The Game" — excellent 8-bit music video, reminiscent of Junior Senior's Move Your Feet (via) #

June 16, 2005

Video: Surprise — I won't ruin the ending for you #

Jorn Barger debates with a misguided Wikipedian about the definition of "weblog" — this kind of debate is part of what makes Wikipedia so entertaining #

Microsoft readies BitTorrent alternative — yeah, but BitTorrent is a protocol, not an application #

Clay Shirky on copyrighted cakes — the chilling effect hits a Brooklyn bakery #

Brian Dear on more non-sequiter blog spam — Technorati is inundated with garbage blogs #

Wikipedia Animation bounty up to $150 — code a useful app, make a decent chunk of change #

Livejournal adds tags — the LJ community seems to like it, too (via) #

Onion A.V. Club's roundup of video game-related songs — the Pixies covered the theme song from NARC?! (via) #

June 15, 2005

Odeo beta screenshots — I got an invite, and the site is nicely done #

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) #

Casino carpet gallery — obsessive collection of bad carpeting from casinos (via) #

Phillip Torrone's excellent HOWTO on running homebrew code on the PSP — the best tutorial, by far #

Yahoo Change Map — heatmaps of Yahoo homepage changes over time #

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) #

Andre Torrez joins John Battelle's FM Publishing — welcome to the Boing Boing empire! #

June 14, 2005

$100,000 Poker Bot Tournament — finding the Deep Blue of Texas hold-em (via) #