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 #Kottke on the maximum Starbucks density
— current winner is downtown NYC with 169 stores in a 5-mile radius #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #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 #MP3: Ben Folds and Rufus Wainwright duet on Wham's "Careless Whisper"
— the live version of Philosophy is nice, too #MoonEdit, multiplatform collaborative text editor
— like SubEthaEdit, but for both Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD via Delicious #Wired cover story on Firefox
— it’s tempting for the media to put one face on a much larger project #Johnny Carson passes away
— even to the end, he was writing jokes and secretly sending them to Letterman via Jake Ortman #NYC radio station skit mocking tsunami victims
— you’d think as New Yorkers, they’d empathize with the disaster via adampsyche #Exeem open beta released
— yeah, but it has spyware with no opt-out; better wait for an updated ExeemLite via MetaFilter #Google to provide AdWords API to advertisers
— I could imagine uses for an AdSense API for publishers, as well #Paul Ford's Three Favorite Computer Games of 2004
— the Will Oldham MMORPG should be called “Palace” #Jacob Weinstein on the movie industry's screener DVDs
— they’re hassling award voters, or not sending out screening copies at all via q.queso.com #Boing Boing Statistics
Today is the fifth anniversary of Boing Boing’s relaunch, the day they switched from a traditional webzine to uber-blog.
To commemorate the birthday, the gang released a complete dump of every Boing Boing entry for free download. I’m hosting the torrent on my tracker, and I pulled together some statistics. (Is anyone surprised?)
Try my new Boing Boing Statistics. Most notably, use the keyword tracker to search the popularity of keywords over time, broken down by author. This is outstanding for looking at trends, or the uniquely quirky obsessions of each author.
Let me know if you have any suggestions, or have found other uses for the data dump.
January 22, 2005: By request, here’s a direct download of the 5-year archive.