Anti-videogame lawyer Jack Thompson disbarred from Alabama courts
— good, because that guy is a huge ass #Gordon gets his traffic ticket dismissed
— Gordon doesn’t do anything casually, and I love that about him #Bram Cohen agrees to remove pirated torrents from BitTorrent.com search results
— about time; I said back in May that drawing attention to infringing uses was a big mistake #WSJ interviews the Million Dollar Homepage creator
— Philipp has great before and after screenshots #BitTorrent and MPAA to make major announcement today?
— Bram Cohen and Dan Glickman are holding a joint press conference at 2pm PST #VisitorVille 3D released
— oddball visualization of your website traffic as people and vehicles roaming a city #8-bit NES covers of hit songs
— not bad, but Virt’s covers of Hot in Herre and Thriller reign supreme via Joystiq #TiVo adding iPod/PSP support to TiVoToGo
— this is a surprising move, but wonderful for TiVo owners via pvrblog.com #Influential guitarist Link Wray, dead at 76
— the news is spreading on blogs and message boards, with nothing in the US media yet; MP3s here of the guy who arguably invented guitar distortion and the power chord #Tom Coates on Space Cadets, the real-life Truman Show
— I agree, it sounds cruel regardless of the execution #Video: Dying Fetus, "Kill Your Mother, Rape Your Dog"
— death metal music video using clips from Disney and Nickeloden kid’s shows via blog.wfmu.org #DVD Jon's GPL code in Sony rootkit?
— this story continues to get weirder; Cory’s coverage has been outstanding #Peter Callesen's Paperworks gallery
— amazing cutout art from sheets of A4 paper; more on his official site #Meg Hourihan and Jason Kottke get engaged
— five years after You’ve Got Blog; a warm and wonderful congrats, you two via Tom Coates #Video: Rumble Strip's "Motorcycle"
— one take music video for a good song, with very good timing via Pete Ashton #Interactive Fiction Competition 2005 winners announced
— reviews are coming in; an excellent chance to play wonderful games created by a single passionate author #Wall Street Journal on the Interactive Fiction competition
— this year’s IF Comp winners should be announced tomorrow via Slashdot #eBay stops charging for API use
— good move! I complained about their API charges back in 2003 via Slashdot #Video: David Cross on Fox's mishandling of Arrested Development
— from the Season 2 blooper reel, but very relevant #Google Analytics
— free, gorgeous web stats package, with site overlays; so that’s why they bought Urchin #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
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 #5 (warning: offensive content; unofficial, fan-made response to cease-and-desist)
Listen Up, Theo (House of Cosbys music video, not safe for work)
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.
* YouTube
* 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!)