July 25, 2005
Glamestris, AI algorithm for Tetris for Windows
— I have this running at 370 rows per second right now #
Video: Max Fleischer's "Now You're Talking" from 1927
— education film about the telephone mixes live action and classic Fleischer Brothers animation (via) #
WFMU's American Song Poem MP3s
— two outstanding albums worth of vintage songs-for-hire, ready for download with cover art #
Japanese bank adds slots game to ATMs
— if you win, you get cash or your withdrawal fee waived (via) #
Sony updates PSP to surf web, download TV shows
— and, incidentally, lock out all homebrew code again (via) #
Help test the new Greasemonkey security release
— I can't imagine browsing the web without Greasemonkey again #
Design the winning UI for Internet TV, get $1000
— help the next-gen video player powered by BitTorrent #
How a Seattle Times reporter handled a bestiality death story
— Washington man died while having sex with a horse (via) #
John Dvorak rants on Creative Commons
— here's one debunking of his moronic column; I love this Slashdot comment #
Associated Press misrepresents BitTorrent in Opera article
— Corante is blaming bias, but I think it's just deeper problems with public perception #
Terrible security hole found in Greasemonkey 0.4
— a malicious website could retrieve any local file and send it to any other server; uninstall or downgrade ASAP! #
Domains by Proxy reveals whistleblower's personal information
— Jason Levine found the clause that lets them revoke anonymity if you're trying to embarrass someone #
Bootleg Harry Potter NES game review
— it's as bad as they say, but I'm mirroring the ROM anyway (via) #
New Harry Potter scanned and OCRed by e-book pirates
— a distributed effort ended up in a text and audiobook release within 12 hours (via) #
Daddy Types on parents reading their nanny's blog in the NYT
— with a link to a long response by the nanny in question #