The Cost of A La Carte Television
— how much would it cost to replace cable TV with iTunes downloads? #
MP3: Kevin Long covers Fiona Apple's "I Know"
— pure serendipity; from Hype Machine's most popular to this MP3 blog to his MySpace #
Congressional staffers authorized to change Wikipedia biographies
— but lots of other trolling edits are coming from the House IP address (via) #
Jason Scott discusses an idea for a hackathon TV pilot
— dubbed "Hardcoded," he's outlined a show I would easily watch every week online or off #
Long WaPo profile on the Great Zucchini
— witty and moving profile of a kids' entertainer; don't miss the followup with the writer (via) #
Blizzard blocks GLBT guild in World of Warcraft
— by being openly gay, Blizzard claims they'd incite harassment by other users #
A Comics Panel with Chris Ware, Seth and Ivan Brunetti
— illustrated by Gordon McAlpin, who recounts comic-related events in comic form (via) #
Google removes help entry on censorship
— it's one thing to censor to comply with local laws, just be open and honest about it #
Averaging Gradius
— overlaying 15 game runs of Gradius into a single video; I want Pac-Man next! (via) #
eBaum's World gets TV show on USA Network
— the controversial viral video site has some enemies (via) #
Reddit looking for investors as seed money runs out
— one of Y Combinator's eight startups is still growing #
Video: Wintergreen's "When I Wake Up"
— music video about the true story of E.T. for the Atari 2600; also, a great interview with the game designer #
Google Code's Web Authoring Statistics
— popular elements and attributes across a billion webpage sample set (via) #
OGLE, the OpenGL Extractor
— grab 3D models from games or apps for reuse, mashup, or 3D printing; badass! (via) #
The Most Downloaded Konfabulator Widgets
— unofficial, created by Jon Aquino by scraping the official Konfabulator gallery (via) #
The Waxy Cloud
— Waxy Links tag cloud visualized using Ajax, the PHP5 XML DOM, and Yahoo Term
Extraction API #
House of Cosbys Soundboard
— still popular; I've served 215 GB of the House of Cosbys pilot this month #
Andy Samberg responds to Nick and Amelia's "Lazy Sunday"
— Nick's response was "I'm exploding inside" #
Disney may buy Pixar for $6.8 billion
— Steve Jobs would sit on the board and be a major shareholder #
What technology will be like in 2001
— tech predictions from the October 1989 issue of Compute! magazine (via) #
Patriot Search
— sly commentary on the US Government asking search engines for private search queries #
Jason DeFillippo leaves Technorati to work on Metroblogging full-time
— with Mumbai, they're up to 40 local blogs #
Ted, torrent episode downloaders
— Windows utility automates TV episode downloads from public trackers (via) #
Nick and Amelia's Lazy Sunday
My 9-year-old nephew and 7-year old niece perform “Lazy Sunday.” (Watch the original.) Need I say more?
Download: Nick and Amelia’s Lazy Sunday.mp3
January 21 Update: I just received an e-mail from NY Daily News reporter Julian Kesner, who wrote a profile on Andy Samberg and “Lazy Sunday” last month. Julian heard about Nick and Amelia’s MP3 and sent it to Andy Samberg. Andy wrote back and said, “That might be my favorite thing of all time ever.”
January 22: ADM of the excellent Amy’s Robot blog remixed the original video with Nick and Amelia’s audio. The results are surreal, and iPod-compatible!
January 24: Two 11-year-old boys recreated the video, with the help of their dad. Apparently, there’s a market for SNL Kids.
Kottke on the Digg vs. Slashdot effects
— Slashdot still wields enormous traffic, even as Digg's influence grows #
Video: Live Action Punch-Out
— not great, but I've been humming the Punch Out theme since I saw this last week #