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May 16, 2005

Halfbakery idea for Google Minus Button

— badly needed, and would also provide aggregate stats to Google for removing spam #

SNES9x emulator ported to the PSP

— all these hacks require the Japanese 1.0 firmware, which Sony is quickly forcing out via themodgods.com #

Ariel Atom 2

— don’t miss the video review (full-screen torrent); I’ve never lusted after a car before this via Delicious #
May 15, 2005

Adam Kempa's roundup of vinyl video

— video encoded on grooved albums and neat zoetrope animations on records #

Elizabeth Gilbert on the worst wedding toast ever

— just finishing up a toast for my mom’s wedding tonight via MetaFilter #
May 13, 2005

Flickr switches from Flash to Ajax

— that was quick! the notes work well with heavily annotated photos #

Nintendo DS demos to be distributed wirelessly at E3

— exciting use of the technology via Slashdot #
May 12, 2005

Why Lichtenstein sucks

— I posted a refutation with some research in the comments #

Outfoxed, Firefox extension to socially annotate the web

— extensively documented and clever thesis project; read the nutshell intro via Populicio.us #

Flash Is Ajax at the Ajax Summit

— the Flash-Javascript graphing demo is nice #

UFOs on Google Maps

— a commenter posted link to several other identical UFOs, all in a grid via Delicious #

Scientology losing ground to new Fictionology

— “we offer our preclear followers procedures to erase overts in the reactive mind” via The Morning News #

Xbox 360 to debut on MTV tonight

— here’s the TiVo link via Slashdot #

Photos of 28 course, 7.5 hour tasting menu at Alinea restaurant

— read more about this remarkable new restaurant via Ryan Gantz #

Broadcast Machine preview released

— publish RSS video channels, distributing the bandwidth with Blog Torrent #

Google ponders Blogger, Gmail integration

— also: privacy options and native photo uploading via Delicious #
May 11, 2005

OpenStreetMap

— a wiki world map, created and hand-drawn by users via Delicious #

E3's "I Love Katamari" ball

— a giant ball of stuff to be contributed by E3 attendees; should be fun via Simon Carless #

Del.icio.us starts a blog

— I wish every corporate blog posted cat photos via Populicio.us #

Fundable launches

— like Dropcash for groups; if the goal isn’t met, everyone gets refunds #

Google buys Dodgeball

— some interesting possibilities with Blogger and Google Maps via David Galbraith #

Video: Chronicles of Narnia trailer

— also: Zathura, aka “Jumanji in Space,” could be good too #

Monkeywire mailing list

— since October 2000, the #1 source for monkey-related news online #

Frank Zappa's Proposal For A System To Replace Ordinary Record Merchandising

— from 1983, he saw the future of streaming digital audio distribution from the network; as seen in the Frank Zappa Book via Delicious #

BBC Backstage

— open API, feeds, and tools for remixing BBC content; if only all media was this open via Boing Boing #
May 10, 2005

Video: Katamari Damacy creator's lecture from Game Developers Conference 2005

— hour-long discussion of the game design, with hand puppets! via Simon Carless #

Thoughts on Apple's video plans

— spurred by the insightful Apple insider’s Slashdot comments #

Apple granted patent for Mac touchscreen tablet

— with simple illustrations via Slashdot #

Google Content Blocker

— block everything except ads; remember to read the privacy policy via Philipp Lenssen #

Flickr moving from Flash to Ajax

— also: if you want it now, there’s always Lickr via Jason Cosper #

Omnipelagos

— find connections between any two Wikipedia entries, like here to there via MetaFilter #

Platypus, Firefox extension for inline editing of Greasemonkey'd sites

— edit the content and layout of websites, and save the changes as a Greasemonkey script; here’s the correct location of the broken link via Delicious #

Wired News releases internal source review

— Gelf Magazine, who originally broke the story of a Wired News reporter fabricating sources, follows up with an Adam Penenburg interview via Delicious #

Dive Into Greasemonkey

— Mark Pilgrim’s free book on Greasemonkey hacking; an essential resource #

Yahoo News tag soup

— automatic tagging of Yahoo News feeds, using the content analysis web service #

Hilary Rosen complains about iTunes DRM

— completely hypocritical, to the point of Bizarro-world surrealism via Boing Boing #

Apple insider posting regularly to Slashdot?

— see their interesting comments on the iTunes Store selling video; other recent comments via Gizmodo #

Gameboy emulator released for PSP!

— the PSP homebrew scene is getting huge via Octopus Dropkick #

SAT writing test rewards length and ignores errors

— the longer the essay, the higher the score via snarkout.org #

L.A. Times redesigns to 1024 pixel fixed width

— unlike WaPo and IHT, they’re putting more than just ads on the far right; also, CalendarLive is free again #

JotSpot inaugural hackathon

— brilliant idea for practically any company via Leonard Lin #

Official Mr. Clean forums

— a strange community of cleaning product fans, with their own trolls, in-jokes, fanfic, and more via Simon Carless #
May 9, 2005

Flash: Radial visualizations of Upcoming.org events

— one of the coolest uses of the API so far #

Comparing Gawker's blogger pay rates to mainstream journalism

— about $30,000/year #

Geotagging Flickr with Greasemonkey and Google Maps

— amazing hack! sets the bar for how manual geotagging should be done online via Populicio.us #

Binary Bonsai's Live Archives

— intelligent ways of browsing blog archives, powered by a new WordPress plugin #

Greasemonkey blows up business models

— some great thoughts on why Greasemonkey is important, and a great idea for a Netflix-BitTorrent script via Populicio.us #
May 8, 2005

ScrappyGoo

— hosted RSS feeds of Google News search results via Populicio.us #

Image: Episode III merchandising goes too far

— if you thought the lawn sprinkler was bad; from the SA goons via Simon Carless #

Apple Widget of Mass Destruction

— blueprint for auto-installing spyware widget you can’t remove; very dangerous #
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