July 2005 - Page 4 of 4

July 7, 2005

New BASIC compiler for the Atari 2600 released — make new games for a decades-old console (via) #

Podcasting Juice, Japanese podcasts — I like Better English with Catherine; "I'm choking!" #

Google Extensions for Firefox — an official Google Toolbar, Google Suggest, and a neat way to send webpage text to phones (via) #

Greasemonkey script to add My Web 2.0 links to Google — I'm sure Google will love that one #

PSPKick — homebrew drum machine for the PSP #

Livejournal mood tracker — spikes in "sad" and "angry" since the London attacks (via) #

Onion AV Club interviews Negativland — on copyright, process, and trying to make money from illegal art (via) #

Wikipedia article on London bombings — as always, they're doing an excellent job of tracking news and links #

London Bomb Blasts pool on Flickr — mostly TV screen caps, but some original photos are coming in #

Dear Annie Dish — in response to Anil's letter to PR flaks #

Jason Scott on the death of a Teletype art collector — "we stand on crumbling sand" #

July 6, 2005

Video: The Chalets' "Feel the Machine" — plays with the idea of GUI elements interacting with real-life (via) #

1UP editor discusses walking off CNBC show on gaming violence — common in confrontational talk shows, they lied to him about the show's subject (via) #

Crates and Barrels — user contributed game screenshots of the inescapable gaming cliche (via) #

Channel 101 fights the "House of Cosbys" cease and desist! — also, this is a good writeup of how Channel 101 works and their recent shows #

Join the Eyebeam Open Lab — they'll pay you $30k/year to contribute whatever you want to the public domain #

Bad Day LA — bizarre game by American McGee with art by Kozyndan (via) #

Video: Voltron Gets Served — from Adult Swim's Robot Chicken #

NYT's Judith Miller jailed for refusing to reveal source — a federal shield law would be handy in times like these #

1UP's feature on MMORPG sweatshop farms — dirt-cheap overseas workers hired to earn in-game credits #

Dreamhost adds Ruby on Rails support — possibly the first big host to support it officially #

Wikipedia's history of the Goomba — did I mention I love Wikipedia? (via) #

Google Video, search playable videos only — filtering Google Video to find the good stuff; why isn't this an option yet? (via) #

RSSContact, simple contact sharing — from the creator of RSSCalendar (via) #

Gmaps Pedometer — great Google Maps hack to track traveling distance or creating custom routes (via) #

Opera embeds BitTorrent client — great news; every browser should support the BitTorrent protocol natively, as they do with FTP #

July 5, 2005

Fiona Apple rerecording Extraordinary Machine — rumors that she was unhappy with Jon Brion's production? (via) #

Halfbakery idea for McAmbulances — Starbucks Medical would work, too #

Google releasing toolbar for Firefox — the Googlebar extension is still far more flexible #

Blake Ross on the new Firefox tagline — an anecdote about his grandfather (via) #

Van Gogh's Starry Night photomosaic — composed of 210,000 photos in a 1.5 gigapixel image #

GUIdebook's new history of the Photoshop GUI — over 1000 screenshots from versions 1.0 to CS2 (via) #

Yahoo News mapped onto Yahoo Maps — using the new maps API (via) #

Lord of the Bings — one bing to rule the mall (via) #

Video: World of Warcraft Coke commercial from China — awesome #

File-sharing defender fired over TV show appearance — he's publishing more info on his own site (via) #

July 4, 2005

Rails Day 2005 winners announced — impressive work for an overnight hackathon (via) #

Ricky Gervais' Live 8 videos — Phil Collins in a catapult to NYC (via) #

Chris Anderson compares pre-filters and post-filters — publish it all, let the filters sort it out #

Lost Kozmo.com memorabilia — I think someone will do Kozmo again someday in big cities, and it'll be a huge hit (via) #

The Online Life of Joseph Duncan — convicted sexual predator and accused kidnapper was a blogger; this is insane #

CNet launches Shoebox photo sharing app — I'd link to the actual site, but they don't explain well what they do #

Online retailers using blogs to bring back customers — I predict advertising sideblogs on popular sites by the end of the year #

Paul Boutin reports Robot Wisdom's Jorn Barger living homeless in SF — Jorn responded on Wikipedia, saying the Wired piece was complete fiction (via) #

July 1, 2005

Sparkler fun on Flickr — perfect for the 4th of July; Pac-Man is my favorite (via) #

PSP HTTPD — web server running on the Sony PSP (via) #

c|net turns ten years old — funny, I won a copy of OS/2 Warp in their launch contest (via) #

Unreleased "Destroy All Humans" viral videos — including a Star Wars Kid remix; I doubt Lucas was involved, though (via) #

Video: Harlan McCraney, Presidential Speechalist — Comedy Central on the President's secret speech writer (via) #

MP3: 3-year-old covers Van Halen's "Get Me A Doctor" — this made me laugh #