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December 30, 2006
— the artists ended up in court for sampling popular songs in their novelty break-in record #
December 28, 2006
— shortly before the introduction of Macintosh, lovingly scanned by Jason Scott #
— incredible 10-part expose of an insanely overpriced chocolate seller via Boing Boing #
December 27, 2006
— tastes are splintering as music discovery and distribution gets easier #
— Gamelab is among the best of the small independent studios; every game is great via GameSetWatch #
— the full series, including this real-life meme mashup with Lonelygirl15 via Kottke #
— Dana Carvey covered his death in 1996 #
December 26, 2006
— incredible collection of the year’s best web games and toys, many which I’d never seen before #
December 24, 2006
— from the interesting Wii Hacks blog via Leonard Lin #
— one of my E3 2006 underdogs, it’s still the only intriguing game on the 360 #
December 21, 2006
— pseudo-3D isometric style, from the creator of Jagged Peak Adventure via Digg #
— with appearances by Henry Kissinger, Eliot Spitzer, Rick Neilsen, Robert Schneider, and Peter Frampton! #
— a very personal list and my current favorite of this year’s batch; I’ll be using his definition of the genre from now on #
December 20, 2006
— my favorite of the examples: Beastie Boys structure using words from a linguistics textbook #
— I just read that she passed away in August; very sad #
— rigging an obscure spherical Etch-a-Sketch toy to drafting software via halfbakery.com #
— top album lists from 30+ musicians, from Beck to Mastodon #
— 31 writers pick their favorite songs of the year, then interview each artist about them via Kottke #
December 19, 2006
— “no, owls can’t type” #
December 18, 2006
— including their 2-year-old daughter’s recording debut #
— he’s owned the domain since 1998 #
— I bought this wonderful puzzle game when it was new; you can download Mac and PC versions here #
— not a book critic, but someone who questioned his global warming denial #
— using the microformats support we pushed in Upcoming and Y! Local as examples, too #
— ghastly! via Adam Kempa #
December 17, 2006
December 16, 2006
— Viral Factory explains how they arrived at 900 million views #
December 15, 2006
— they handled it very well #
December 14, 2006
— with thebest answer by Adam Savage from Mythbusters! via Matt Haughey #
December 13, 2006
— can you imagine if the MTV VMAs were like this? #
— beats the crap out of the official patent search via Boing Boing #
— plot yourself on the map! #
— refreshing via Mike Migurski #
December 12, 2006
— try adding a “ho ho ho hat/beard” note to any of your photos via Matt Haughey #
— then again, the original article cited was by Orlowski #
— Leslie founded Smug and Hoopla, among other, writings; Zeldman interviewed her in 2001, which only hints at the depth of her contributions online #
— Leslie Harpold, one of the web’s most influential and interesting writers and designers, is gone; memories from Merlin, Kevin, Brad, Emily, Robert, Lia, Chris, Lance, Dan and more #
— the results are non-intuitive #
December 11, 2006
— worth it just for the Charlie Brown Christmas alternate ending #
— here’s the Nature article with some interesting info vis #
— customer service reps try to learn the difference between dollars and cents #
— with all new dialogue read by the actual actors; some backstory #
December 10, 2006
— using your webcam to instantly create videos for YouTube via Fimoculous #
December 9, 2006
— don’t miss the very bizarre accompanying video #
December 8, 2006
— here’s a NSFW screenshot of the blog posting #
December 7, 2006
— soon to be seen everywhere #
