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April 22, 2005
— “we obtained your personal data without consent, now give us $4,500 or we’ll sue you!” #
— convert Amazon’s MP3 links to direct downloads via Delicious #
— things are getting exciting again; also, I’m honored Upcoming.org made the short list of highlighted examples #
April 21, 2005
— one of the best, but hardest, games they ever made via Simon Carless #
— a small collection of “last post” messages written by fed-up project maintainers via Simon Carless #
— brilliant and funny, especially the ending #
— brilliant early hack, with an innovative use of the touchscreen via Engadget #
— works surprisingly well, though only for words in its dictionary; plastic returns results, but not blog via anarchogeek.com #
— if you don’t know why this is hilarious, read the comments via Ev Williams #
— nice HME hack by the founder/CTO of Strangeberry #
— very neat programming language for designers and artists via Kottke #
— are the O’Reilly folks big M*A*S*H fans? via Delicious #
— for some perspective, try Fast Company’s article on Wal-Mart’s business practices via Delicious #
— 4.5% of Massachusetts has a LiveJournal account via Leonard Lin #
April 20, 2005
— $15,000 each from Apple, Sony, HP, Epson, and Creative via Mike Elgan #
— Congress approved bill allowing three years of prison for sharing one prerelease movie, program, or song #
— Y Combinator is funding startups over a summer period #
— online meeting scheduler, but some screenshots would be nice via Delicious #
— silly, but a surprisingly good way to think of API remix ideas via Simon Willison #
— overlay of Hitchcock’s shower scene with Gus van Sant’s remake via LiveJournal #
— here’s a great transcript from last year discussing some of the trends they observe via O'Reilly Radar #
— a very strange comment, considering most lawyers and judges do the same #
— I’m sure this will raise the paranoia flag with the usual suspects #
— the best home arcade I’ve ever seen #
— open-source Google code for monitoring and analyzing MySQL servers via Delicious #
— Wired has more details #
April 19, 2005
— he hedged his bets by buying six domains, and guessed correctly #
— they should do the tour on kids’ BMX bikes #
— redundant trackers all aware of peers participating in the download via Leonard Lin #
— they’re extremely transparent, listing their revenue, advertisers, and more via Nelson Minar #
— I’m convinced there are better ways of displaying top tags than this #
— scroll down to view them all via Phil Fibiger #
— sounds promising via playgroundblues.com #
— hopefully, this will slow the mass creation of spam blogs via Delicious #
— $7,000, cheap! via Delicious #
— there are even more McCafe photos on Flickr; here’s a review of the first store in 2003 via Delicious #
— and they gave me another year of Pro service and two extra Pro invites for free #
— some great thoughts from Om Malik, Dave Shea, and others #
— a brilliant hack; I’d love to see this for all major metros #
— “What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple? The Holocaust.” #
April 18, 2005
— a big point release with hundreds of bug fixes and tweaks, including removing the nav-commenters.gif #
— also: 43 Things’ neat Upcoming integration, and some groups switching from Meetup #
— very drool-worthy playspace for gamers with a God complex via Leonard Lin #
— I had this idea years ago, glad it’s finally baked via Simon Carless #
— maybe for recording web-based video searches, but also some buyout rumors via pvrblog.com #
— another huge merger, for $1.4 billion in cash and stock via Nelson Minar #
— all-stock buyout for $3.4 billion #
April 17, 2005
— what we know, so far, about each upcoming console via Simon Carless #
