February 15, 2006
New York magazine's cover story on blogging
— the issue includes a Ben Fry infographic PDF and some other fluff (via) #
WSJ on web parodies and copyright enforcement
— with a very high-profile mention of House of Cosbys! #
Video: She Hit Me
— motorcyclist records video of Honda Civic losing control and hitting her, posts video online #
Review of Firewall movie, a big-budget computer thriller
— Harrison Ford just hacked your bank account with an iPod; the trailer (via) #
SiteAdvisor Preview
— Firefox/IE plugin detects unsafe websites and warns you in search results; Waxy is safe, but try looking for divx #
Dave Winer responds to Steve Kirks, former Userland evangelist and developer
— I knew Dave could be difficult, but this is ridiculous #
LA Times on creationism being taught to young children
— most depressing are the two curious kids crushed by their parents' dogma (via) #
The Song Tapper
— overloaded the last time I tried to visit, it's working now and found "Since U Been Gone" on the first try (via) #
Video: Top Gear trashes a Toyota Hilux
— increasingly insane tests of strength; also: Top Gear Turismo and more #
The Hall of Best Knowledge
— weekly comic on Flickr combining hand-drawn typography and prose (via) #
PowerGlove Mouse
— brilliant hack to control your mouse with a Nintendo PowerGlove; it's so bad (via) #
EFF issues Google Desktop warning
— I'd prefer a Hamachi-like virtual network instead of sending everything to Google, but it's a tradeoff of privacy and convenience #
Who Is Harry Nilsson?
— new documentary about one of the most underrated songwriters of all time; also: production notes (via) #
Alone together in World of Warcraft
— the MMO players favor loose, indirect forms of social contact (via) #
Reclusive Sly Stone surprises Grammys
— sporting a huge mohawk, he wandered off after a couple minutes #
Boing Boing interviews Rob Lord on Songbird
— the open-source iTunes clone launched today, though the site is totally crushed #
Canadian customs censoring adult DVDs at the border
— the list reads as both bizarre and arbitrary #
WINE running on Intel iMacs?
— if true, the ability to run Windows apps in a natural way could be huge (via) #
Clearbits, free CSS icon set
— looks uncannily similar to Dan Cederholm's Chameleon; is it plagiarism? (via) #
Visualizing relationships and geographies of New York Times articles
— Aaron dumps the RDF daily, so you can hack on it yourself; mashups, please! #
Ben Goodger on the history of Firefox
— a must read; it also cites Greg Knauss' pan of Netscape's themes #
The Art of De-Touch
— Eyebeam's Processing utility lets you scrub through before and after retouches (via) #