September 21, 2005

Mini-Microsoft — anonymous blogger dishes dirt from within Microsoft as they try to reinvent themselves #

Video: Grandaddy's "Jed's Other Poem" — don't miss this one; fan-made video programmed on an Apple ][+ #

September 20, 2005

Loomia, podcast and videocast search engine — another Odeo competitor #

Populicious is back — yay! #

Google Secure Access beta — Windows client for secure wifi through a Google VPN; privacy issues ahoy (via) #

September 19, 2005

Plague strikes World of Warcraft — contagious disease infects players, leading to quarantines and panic #

Flash: JCB Song — from the brilliant animator of Low Morale's Creep video (via) #

Adam Kempa obsesses on comic artist Jason Shiga — great collection of links, with original video #

September 18, 2005

Lost Garden on the Nintendo Revolution — long and fascinating read about genre specificity and casual gaming #

Video: Nintendo Revolution controller teaser — huge gameplay possibilities #

September 17, 2005

How We Got Engaged — Dave and Raina's adorable collaborative comic (via) #

Onlife for OS X — fascinating tool to visualize and search all your computer activity #

ETech 2006 Call for Participation

Posted September 17, 2005 by Andy Baio

The last chance to submit proposals for the Emerging Technology 2006 conference is this Monday, September 19. The overall theme of the conference is the progressive trend toward making technology useful, helping us rediscover what’s meaningful instead of overwhelming us with information. But it’s just a theme, so don’t let it hold you back if you have a great idea.

This year, I’m honored to be sitting on the program committee with such geek luminaries as Clay Shirky, Tom Coates, Cory Doctorow, and Rael Dornfest. (I’m not sure how that happened, but I suspect a bug in Rael’s committee nomination code.)

Anyway, get those proposals in! I promise to selfishly try to design a conference that I’d want to go to.

Video: Fabulous Secret Powers — nice retro homepage, too #

NetVibes — well-designed all-Ajax personalized launch page, with a nice built-in feed reader #

September 16, 2005

Computer programmer uses Google Maps to discover Roman ruins — next, finding Jimmy Hoffa's body (via) #

Indie bands move closer to mainstream — AP news takes on Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes, and Arcade Fire #

Nintendo Revolution controller revealed — a motion-sensitive remote control device, instead of a gamepad!? (via) #

September 15, 2005

Tech Memeorandum — it's grown on me since the redesign launched earlier this week #

Meebo.com — very neat multi-service Ajax instant messaging (via) #

Video clips of The Simpsons for the blind — the sight gags are still funny, but in a very different way #

Flickr Framer — instantly add a frame for your Flickr photos #

Populicious closes up shop — one of my favorite link sources! fortunately, the Delicious New Popular is pretty good #

Japanese magazine scan of Katamari Damacy for PSP — wifi battle mode! #

Video: Bill Gates goes to college — shakycam footage of the Napoleon Dynamite skit at Microsoft's PDC conference; local mirror #

September 14, 2005

Wells Fargo buys island in Second Life — cheesy edutainment, but innovative and weird use of the game world #

Gillette unveils 5-bladed razor — notable only for this Onion parody article from 2004 #

Image: George Bush asks Condi Rice for permission to pee — best Reuters photo ever; zoomed out view of the same moment #

Audioscrobbler web services — tons of fun potential uses for this data (via) #

X-Wing papercraft from a Paris Metro ticket — step-by-step photo tutorial #

Weblogs Inc reviews Google Blog Search — partial text for many blogs, and blogs without feeds aren't represented at all #

llor.nu — oddball social Monopoly-ish game with Ajax goodness #

September 13, 2005

Tommy Westphall and the Multiverse of TV — or: why Jack Tripper and Maxwell Smart live in the same universe (via) #

Google Blog Search — here's the FAQ, and Technorati CEO Dave Sifry's thoughts #

Documentary about deaf musicians released without closed captioning — movies about the deaf, not for the deaf (via) #

The Work Blind curtain — "wow, he's barely moved since February!" #

TiVo adds copyright protection, blocks transfers, and auto-deletes some shows — a glitch, but a foreboding one; I'm upset this functionality even exists in the OS #

Building a Smarter To-Do List — an essential two-part article #

Wired News on the Summer Founders Program — Y Combinator's Summer Camp for young geek entrepreneurs; no mention of Kiko, though #

Video: Fifth graders perform Devo's "Whip It" — including homebrew energy domes (via) #

September 12, 2005

Leo Burnett — abnormally clever corporate Flash site #

Liberal Comedian Sues Blogger — Garrison Keiller vs. my friend Rex in a clear-cut case of parody #

September 11, 2005

Pocketmod — great UI for creating a disposable one-page organizer (via) #

eBay to buy Skype for $2.6 billion — holy cow #

The Ten Stupidest Utopias — a great read, from Plato's Republic to the Internet (via) #

NYT on Gap.com's Ajax redesign — I don't care how much the backend changed, that's no excuse for shuttering a site for two weeks #

Video: Yahoo! goes hard gay — oddball Japanese variety show visits Yahoo's Tokyo offices #

Ben Goldacre on bad science in the media — coverage of authority figures, instead of tangible evidence (via) #

Firefox 1.5 developer highlights — not just making the best browser around, but setting the tech agenda #

September 10, 2005

Java: Cyboman 2 — classic PC demo from 1999 ported to Java; all effects are real-time 3D, not pre-rendered #