2005

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September 14, 2005

llor.nu

— oddball social Monopoly-ish game with Ajax goodness #

September 13, 2005

Tommy Westphall and the Multiverse of TV

— or: why Jack Tripper and Maxwell Smart live in the same universe via simiandesign.com #

Google Blog Search

— here’s the FAQ, and Technorati CEO Dave Sifry’s thoughts #

Documentary about deaf musicians released without closed captioning

— movies about the deaf, not for the deaf via Boing Boing #

The Work Blind curtain

— “wow, he’s barely moved since February!” #

TiVo adds copyright protection, blocks transfers, and auto-deletes some shows

— a glitch, but a foreboding one; I’m upset this functionality even exists in the OS #

Building a Smarter To-Do List

— an essential two-part article #

Wired News on the Summer Founders Program

— Y Combinator’s Summer Camp for young geek entrepreneurs; no mention of Kiko, though #

Video: Fifth graders perform Devo's "Whip It"

— including homebrew energy domes via Eyebeam #

September 12, 2005

Leo Burnett

— abnormally clever corporate Flash site #

Liberal Comedian Sues Blogger

— Garrison Keiller vs. my friend Rex in a clear-cut case of parody #

September 11, 2005

Pocketmod

— great UI for creating a disposable one-page organizer via MetaFilter #

eBay to buy Skype for $2.6 billion

— holy cow #

The Ten Stupidest Utopias

— a great read, from Plato’s Republic to the Internet via Fimoculous #

NYT on Gap.com's Ajax redesign

— I don’t care how much the backend changed, that’s no excuse for shuttering a site for two weeks #

Video: Yahoo! goes hard gay

— oddball Japanese variety show visits Yahoo’s Tokyo offices #

Ben Goldacre on bad science in the media

— coverage of authority figures, instead of tangible evidence via Tom Coates #

Firefox 1.5 developer highlights

— not just making the best browser around, but setting the tech agenda #

September 10, 2005

Java: Cyboman 2

— classic PC demo from 1999 ported to Java; all effects are real-time 3D, not pre-rendered #

Neja

— insane Javascript graphic demo from Assembly ’05; runs in Firefox! #

NeighborNode uses wifi to build local community

— redirects free wifi users to neighborhood homepage on first connection via socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com #

Digital camera turns 30

— how Kodak buried their prototype camera in 1975 via therawfeed.com #

Google Maps with 2000 Census data

— very well done; the average income in Malibu is over $200k/year! #

Five days with Katrina

— amazing slideshow and story from a survivor #

Ado's ultimate weblog API primer

— long, but surprisingly readable #

September 9, 2005

Second Life membership now free

— brilliant move on their part #

Microsoft tries to recruit Eric S. Raymond

— hilarity ensues via businessweek.com #

Huffington Post has a 15,000 comment backlog

— the downside of comment moderation via Kottke #

Super Mario Bros. clone in Javascript

— insane Japanese hack, fully playable or with a speed run demo via @hello #

Official U.S. site for We Love Katamari

— including some nice new wallpaper; release on Sept. 20! via Simon Carless #

Wolfram Tones

— fun with generative music, but actually listenable #

Gametap full launch game listing

— subscription retro gaming service for $10/month via Simon Carless #

Common Bits video roundup of Daily Show's Katrina coverage

— tons of essential commentary #

Upcoming.org adds badges

— post your events on your own site; here’s an example #

September 8, 2005

Rolling Stone publishes Hunter S. Thompson's suicide note

— along with a strange eulogy #

Upcoming.org Badges

Posted September 8, 2005 by Andy Baio

We added badges over at Upcoming.org! This is something I’ve wanted to do since the site launched, but didn’t have the time or resources to pull off until now. Read more about the change, along with Gordon’s formal introduction to the community.

Upcoming.org Events

More of waxpancake’s events

Neat, huh?

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NYT on News Corp's buyout of IGN and MySpace

— $1.5 billion on three Internet companies in the last two months #

Katrina conspiracy theories

— plenty of great stuff on Snopes news page recently, too #

Evil Interiors

— Unreal 2003 recontructions of classic movie sets; don’t miss the screenshots via @crystaltips #

Sploid redesigns

— like The Onion’s redesign, very busy but somehow fitting; more info via Delicious #

Vinton Cerf joins Google

— though I’m sure people will balk at him remaining ICANN chairman via Delicious #

Kanye West remix, "George Bush Don't Like Black People"

— very professionally done #

Wired on the Paypal vs. Something Awful fundraiser controversy

— Paypal locked SA’s account, but I can’t really blame them for vetting suspicious fundraisers #

Astrodome radio station blocked by local officials

— meanwhile, FEMA is blocking pancakes, milk, and jailbreaks #

ROKR iTunes phone limiting song uploads with bad DRM

— limited to 100 songs, whether they fill up the storage or not via Boing Boing #

National Geographic article predicts Louisiana disaster in October 2004

— yet another example of extremely accurate predictions in the mainstream media #

September 7, 2005

Apple announces iPod nano, iPod Phone

— pencil thin, color display and 80% smaller than the 5GB iPod #

Alex Chilton found and other music-related Katrina news

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Robert Cringely's NerdTV

— weekly one-hour geek interviews licensed under CC #

Paypal offers micropayments pricing

— five cents plus five percent for transactions under $2; not completely micro, but a nice effort via Slashdot #