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May 11, 2005
— a wiki world map, created and hand-drawn by users via Delicious #
— a giant ball of stuff to be contributed by E3 attendees; should be fun via Simon Carless #
— I wish every corporate blog posted cat photos via Populicio.us #
— like Dropcash for groups; if the goal isn’t met, everyone gets refunds #
— some interesting possibilities with Blogger and Google Maps via David Galbraith #
— also: Zathura, aka “Jumanji in Space,” could be good too #
— since October 2000, the #1 source for monkey-related news online #
— from 1983, he saw the future of streaming digital audio distribution from the network; as seen in the Frank Zappa Book via Delicious #
— open API, feeds, and tools for remixing BBC content; if only all media was this open via Boing Boing #
May 10, 2005
— hour-long discussion of the game design, with hand puppets! via Simon Carless #
— spurred by the insightful Apple insider’s Slashdot comments #
— with simple illustrations via Slashdot #
— block everything except ads; remember to read the privacy policy via Philipp Lenssen #
— also: if you want it now, there’s always Lickr via Jason Cosper #
— find connections between any two Wikipedia entries, like here to there via MetaFilter #
— 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 #
— Gelf Magazine, who originally broke the story of a Wired News reporter fabricating sources, follows up with an Adam Penenburg interview via Delicious #
— Mark Pilgrim’s free book on Greasemonkey hacking; an essential resource #
— automatic tagging of Yahoo News feeds, using the content analysis web service #
— completely hypocritical, to the point of Bizarro-world surrealism via Boing Boing #
— see their interesting comments on the iTunes Store selling video; other recent comments via Gizmodo #
— the PSP homebrew scene is getting huge via Octopus Dropkick #
— the longer the essay, the higher the score via snarkout.org #
— unlike WaPo and IHT, they’re putting more than just ads on the far right; also, CalendarLive is free again #
— brilliant idea for practically any company via Leonard Lin #
— a strange community of cleaning product fans, with their own trolls, in-jokes, fanfic, and more via Simon Carless #
May 9, 2005
— one of the coolest uses of the API so far #
— amazing hack! sets the bar for how manual geotagging should be done online via Populicio.us #
— intelligent ways of browsing blog archives, powered by a new WordPress plugin #
— some great thoughts on why Greasemonkey is important, and a great idea for a Netflix-BitTorrent script via Populicio.us #
May 8, 2005
— hosted RSS feeds of Google News search results via Populicio.us #
— if you thought the lawn sprinkler was bad; from the SA goons via Simon Carless #
— blueprint for auto-installing spyware widget you can’t remove; very dangerous #
May 7, 2005
— brilliant Zelda-themed MySpace parody, with profiles for each character via MetaFilter #
— DNS for several Google domains goes down; Google News still inaccessible #
— overtly sexual ads conflict with Nintendo’s family-friendly image via Delicious #
May 6, 2005
— best album review ever via Delicious #
— animation of 3,100+ movie title screens, spliced together and set to audio via b3ta #
— disturbing and funny via b3ta #
— written by The State’s Michael Ian Black via stereogum.com #
— not much there yet, but I’d love some help fleshing it out; feel free to add your feature requests #
— since it follows every link on the page, it can cause a huge mess; I should block it on Upcoming.org #
— the new album is more understated than Rockin’ the Suburbs, and it’s grown on me via Matt Jacobs #
— clever and funny via The Morning News #
— the Greasemonkey script game? via Boing Boing #
— “nothing has changed to give the FCC the authority it now claims” #
— the utility may help Google mine the Deep Web, pages that aren’t already getting indexed #
— post blog entries and photos with MMS via google-blog.dirson.com #
May 5, 2005
— SomethingAwful forums users snapped screenshots of being magically logged in as other users via Philipp Lenssen #
