November 15, 2005

Wall Street Journal on the Interactive Fiction competition — this year's IF Comp winners should be announced tomorrow (via) #

eBay stops charging for API use — good move! I complained about their API charges back in 2003 (via) #

November 14, 2005

King Kong, business monkey — Alan rounds up the merchandising from Peter Jackson's Kong #

AOL launching online TV service — 3,400 hours of ad-supported video (via) #

Video: David Cross on Fox's mishandling of Arrested Development — from the Season 2 blooper reel, but very relevant #

Amazon tries tagging — also, they have a "Tags Team" #

Google Analytics — free, gorgeous web stats package, with site overlays; so that's why they bought Urchin #

November 12, 2005

Fan-made films from Lionhead Software's The Movies — Peter Molyneux's new RPG has a built-in machinima engine with export options #

House of Cosbys, Mirrored

Posted November 12, 2005 by Andy Baio

So, I moved to Palo Alto and finally started at Yahoo last week. (Summary: Fascinating place to work, brilliant people, kooky corporate culture, boatloads of potential.) Things are finally starting to settle down, which means the dry spell on Waxy will be ending very soon.

In the meantime, I’ve been meaning to post this for the last couple weeks… The House of Cosbys, which I wrote about recently, was finally taken offline by Bill Cosby’s lawyers. In its place, the videos have been replaced with this message. The original videos are now very difficult (if impossible) to find online.

I’ve decided to archive them on Waxy for as long as I possibly can. They deserve to be seen, so watch them, mirror them, torrent them, and don’t let them disappear again. March 14, 2006: See below for news!

House of Cosbys: Episode 01 HD from Justin Roiland on Vimeo.

House of Cosbys #1 – High Quality Quicktime

House of Cosbys #2

House of Cosbys #3

House of Cosbys #4

House of Cosbys #5 (warning: offensive content; unofficial, fan-made response to cease-and-desist)

Listen Up, Theo (House of Cosbys music video, not safe for work)

Curiosity Cosby Blooper Reel

If you have any other House of Cosbys-related videos, please e-mail me. Feel free to post links to mirrors in the comments.

November 13: CommonFlix is hosting BitTorrent downloads of each video. Also, thanks to Alex for the music video!

November 16: Thanks again to Alex, I think I have the complete collection online for posterity.

January 22, 2006: Temporarily redirecting to the Google Video mirrors to alleviate some bandwidth limitations.

March 14, 2006: I got cease-and-desisted for mirroring these videos. Please use a mirror below to watch or download them and stay tuned to the main posting for news and updates.

* Google Video

* YouTube

* Download.com

* CommonFlix (BitTorrent, formatted for iPod)

* EOD.com (thanks, Greg!)

* Watching Paint Dry (thanks, Alek!)

* Stroeck.com (thanks, Michael!)

* Nonstuff.com (thanks, Robert!)

* I’m Just Sayin’ (thanks, Krup!)

* 1hug.com (thanks, David!)

Video: Harry Potter and the Hogwarts Dance Team — sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion #

November 11, 2005

Fox cancels Arrested Development — officially, this time; I hate Fox (via) #

Watching all six Star Wars films simultaneously — reminds me of Jason Salavon's work (via) #

Digg vs Dot — comparing cross-posting between Slashdot and Digg, with a running tally (via) #

Blogger catches SF Chronicle plagiarizing New Yorker — nicely handled without an angry mob, giving them the chance to fix it and respond #

Say So — like an anonymous, lo-fi version of Ask Metafilter #

SF Gate web designers get snarky in alt tags (via) #

November 10, 2005

Katamari creator dreams of playgrounds — ok, misread this story; he doesn't see a long career in gaming #

Katamari Sushi — nope, not sick of katamari yet #

Replica of Charlie Brown's Christmas tree — isn't the whole idea of this contrary to the moral of A Charlie Brown Christmas? (via) #

November 9, 2005

Ning.com's Anytown Marketplace — Jon Aquino's genericized Craig's List, cloneable for any city (via) #

Florida judge rules online discussion can apoint public figures — interesting precedent in a defamation case #

NYT on leaked Microsoft memos panicking about the "Internet services" era — Winer has the full text of Gates' and Ozzie's e-mails #

Flash: eBaum's World Sucks — it may be flamebait, but at least it's entertaining #

November 8, 2005

Digg.com set to overtake Slashdot in Alexa traffic rankings — pretty amazing, especially considering the timeframe (via) #

Yahoo Pirate Maps and Radar — using Flash filters and transforms to make a new look and feel (via) #

November 7, 2005

Mainstream Media Meltdown II — Chris Anderson updates his media stats #

Grokster shuts down network — the final chapter in the settlement, if not for the ongoing aftermath #

FlickrFS — Linux virtual filesystem that ties to Flickr for grabbing and posting photos (via) #

MySpace threats shuts down San Antonio high school — the school's reaction is puzzling; shouldn't they be grateful the information spread so quickly? #

Risk on Google Maps — the next version will attempt multiplayer (via) #

Aimi.cn — a Chinese 43things clone; this goal made me laugh #

November 6, 2005

Google adds Creative Commons license search — like Flickr, the ability to filter website by usage rights is wonderful #

Kottke on My Dirty iPod — I'll let him link to it, since it's explicit NSFW #

NYT tech columnist on the future of Yahoo — whoa, with a mention of Upcoming #

November 5, 2005

Dave Cassel's 100 Greatest Internet Moments — some serious nostalgia, mining the early web for memes and culture #

Something Awful on honest game titles — the first one is brilliant, but they're all good #

November 4, 2005

Best privacy policy ever — the Malevole text generator slips into production #

Japanese blogger poisons mother in homage to killer — with translated excerpts from her blog #

White Stripes cover Tegan and Sara on new EP — nice homage, but the original is much better; judge for yourself (via) #

November 3, 2005

MySpace starts record label — sounds like a natural extension of the buyout (via) #

Rasmus Lerdorf's PHP tutorial on the new Yahoo geocoder — for me, the geocoding platform is just as important as the new maps UI (via) #

Google Desktop 2 launches — with support for user-created plugins (via) #

Alisa Viejo teen murderer posted on Something Awful, Anandtech, others — he was about shotguns on SA, then killed his neighbors and himself three days later #

Amazon Mechanical Turk — develop questions that can only be answered by humans, make money answering them #

Fark makes violent videogames friendly — my favorites are Duck Hunt, Pac-Man and Postal (via) #

Cafepress copyright police shut down parody t-shirts for non-existent drug — the Panexa site is great, too (via) #

November 2, 2005

Yahoo! Maps beta — developers have already built some neat apps, including the outstanding MashUpcoming #

November 1, 2005

BitTorrent for Dummies — it doesn't get much more mainstream than this (via) #