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January 27, 2005

Flicker slideshow of A9 photos down Melrose

— set the speed to high; thanks, Jonah #

Smoking Mickey Mouse t-shirt

— order one before they’re served a C&D via preshrunk.info #

Adwords API launches

— web services for managing, deploying, and tuning Adwords campaigns; congrats, Nelson! #

Homebrew code now running on the Nintendo DS

— graphic demos will probably be next, as programmers learn how to code for it #

Interesting images found on A9 Local

— Alan has more information; also, finding yourself in a photo #

New IE security newsgroup launches

— the first comment made me laugh via beakspeak.com #

Ben Folds releasing new album in April

— Weird Al singing backup on one song? #

Panoramas with A9's Block View

— anyone want to write a tool to automate this to get an entire block or street? #

Russell Beattie on A9's block photos

— it’s been done before in Spain and France via Alf Eaton #

Image: MSN's new math

— 6 divided by 3 is…? #
January 26, 2005

Amazon/A9's amazing new Yellow Pages

— with photos of 14 million storefronts across ten cities, like this one; walk up the block #

Yahoo moving up to 1,000 employees into new Santa Monica office

— about six blocks away from my house via Jeremy Zawodny #

Craig's List traffic stats

— 1.7 billion pageviews per month, and 7 million uniques! via David Bisset #

Why Your Pointy Haired Boss Is A Mathematical Certainty

— three cheers for the middle manager! #

Downhill Battle's Eyes on the Screen campaign

— excellent campaign to rescue the classic civil-rights documentary from copyright hell via Boing Boing #

Steve Martin's letter to Johnny Carson

— very sincere via Kottke #
January 25, 2005

Turn your Mac Mini into a home media center

— great howto by Engadget via Hackaday #

AOL stops offering newsgroup access

— the endless September finally ends! via Jeremy Zawodny #

New Google employee blogging about work

— update: he took it down for a short time, but Dave cached the homepage before he did via Philipp Lenssen #

CastleZZT's mirror-image Garfield

— the most interesting Garfield strips in two decades; see also, the rest of the site via MetaFilter #

Flickr coincidence

— it’s not the only uncanny coincidence on Flickr via Kottke #

Ashlee Simpson's spamming message boards

— maybe not her, but someone involved with her PR effort via Nelson Minar #

Christie's The Origins of Cyberspace auction

— historical documents galore; BUY IT NOW! NO RESERVE! #
January 24, 2005

Real-life tribute to Calvin & Hobbes' snowmen

— here’s one more example #

Audio: Staccato Music 7

— featuring an interview with Magnatune Records creator John Buckman via grumet.net #

Google Video launched

— search major networks, but no video clips are available! via Jeremy Zawodny #

Today, Some McSweeney's Lists

— Olivia Newton-Tron via Delicious #

Unusual articles on Wikipedia

— heavy metal umlaut is on there via timemachinego.com #

Kottke on the maximum Starbucks density

— current winner is downtown NYC with 169 stores in a 5-mile radius #

Bugs Bunny in drag

— for those who were worried about Spongebob’s pro-gay agenda via Boing Boing #

Long-lost video of Steve Jobs introducing the Mac in 1984

— taped off public TV, finally available online #

Google Video Search coming soon?

— the directory and subdomain now temporarily redirect to the homepage #

Firefox's lead engineer Ben Goodger hired by Google

— this suggests that the Google Browser is definitely a reality via Philipp Lenssen #

Insecure vs. confident weatherman videos

— both are painful to watch #

Street art in Counterstrike Source

— anyone can make custom graffiti in CS:Source via Joystiq #

Just A Plant, a children's story of marijuana

— the next book should be “Poppies Are Pretty: A Children’s Guide to Opiates” via Mat Honan #

2005 Bloggies nominations

— the Bloggies need a “Best Linkblog” category via Philipp Lenssen #

CD Baby rewrite in Postgres and Ruby

— one developer’s move away from PHP and MySQL via Delicious #

Hurricane Electric ISP adds automatic BitTorrent hosting for clients

— drop a file in a directory, and it’s automatically tracked and seeded locally; wonderful! via Delicious #

Non-desktop uses for a Mac mini

— some great ideas here for DIY projects via Delicious #

Google rumored to offer voice-over-IP phone service

— a bold move, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Google buy a Skype competitor via webmasterworld.com #

Collaborative fiction writing with SubEthaEdit

— I’ll bet it would work great for screenplays and sketch comedy, too via Slashdot #

Snarkout essay on Will Eisner

— tons of great links about Eisner and the Spirit #

Are design contests worth the time and effort?

— B. Adam Howell asks contest winners if they got any business after winning #

Washington school district bans Halo 2 tsunami fundraiser

— they cited violent games and the Columbine shootings via Slashdot #
January 23, 2005

Habbo Hotel gets $23m in funding

— one of the most successful and profitable multiplayer worlds, despite its lo-fi approach via Simon Carless #

Flash: Jon Udell's Wikipedia case study on the heavy metal umlaut

— this is essential viewing for anyone with any interest in Wikipedia via Delicious #

Darwinia demo released

— a real-time strategy game with a completely unique look, independently published via Delicious #

Phrack to publish its last issue

— publishing since 1985, I used to read the hacker e-zine religiously in my BBS days #

Google raises word limit to 32

— before, you were limited to 10 words in a single query #
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