April 17, 2006
"Ante Dominum" by Traction
— lovely graphic demo available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, stuffed into only 64k bytes #
Alleged cannibal blogged about plans
— Mefi has a link roundup, including his Blogger blog, Myspace, and profiles on Blogger, Yahoo, eBay, (via) #
Video: Saturday TV Funhouse's "The Disney Vault"
— shocking Disney parody uses the image of Mickey Mouse and clips from "Song of the South" #
"Barn" by the Digital Artists
— Windows-only graphic demo that transcends the cliches of the demoscene, with music by The Wailers; other mirrors #
Market share of TV release groups
— ripping the new "Lost" episode isn't as hard as leaking pre-release software, but it's neat to see the diversity (via) #
1UP feature on Second Life call girls
— interviews with two virtual escorts and the guy who reviews them publicly (NSFW) #
Google integrates Calendar with Gmail
— detection of events in e-mails with a link to quick-add to calendar #
Video: Where to Attack Next
— enough with the geography lessons, let's blow up Australia already! (via) #
hCalendar and Google Calendar reminders
— Greasemonkey script adds reminder links for any hCal formatted page, like all of Upcoming #
High-res remake of "Another World" game to be released tomorrow
— one of the best games ever made (via) #
Beatles to sell catalog through online music services
— would selling it through iTunes affect the Apple vs. Apple litigation? #
Audio: The Great Failure of Wikipedia
— though I disagree with his conclusions, this is a fascinating listen covering the rarely discussed internal politics and cover-ups; also: full transcript #
News.com profile of "age play" in Second Life
— is virtual sex play between adults using child-like avatars more like infantilism or pedophilia? (via) #
Duke Nukem Forever may finally be released by year-end
— if not, 3D Realms sacrifices half a million dollars (via) #
Bumbershoot announces partial lineup
— Feist, Mates of State, Metric, Of Montreal, Kanye West, and more #
Video: Incredible Machines
— more Japanese Rube Goldberg fun; also: cooking ramen, the hard way (via) #
Forbes on the MySpace cottage industry
— countless small startups creating utilities and add-ons for MySpace users #
Video: 1986 World Series Game Six recreated on the NES
— lovingly crafted in RBI Baseball, itself released in 1987 (via) #
Rex Sorgatz revisits Microserfs
— he's now working at Microsoft, 12 years after Coupland's novel was published; see also: jPod #
Cabspotting Cab Tracker
— averaged and real-time visualization of taxis moving around San Francisco #
Park Place, an Amazon S3 clone in Ruby
— also, how Adrian Holovaty is using S3 as a media server at 35 cents per month (via) #
"Star Wars Kid" settles out of court with schoolmates
— new details emerge as the trial come to a close #
Jon Gruber on Apple's strategy with Boot Camp
— dead on, from the inevitable reaction of PC enthusiasts to the future direction of the OS #
Seven Songs With Factual Or Logical Mistakes In The Lyrics
— also, there's no colloquial "East California" as mentioned in "Kids in America" (via) #
Apple's Boot Camp public beta
— the stock market loves Apple's new official support of Windows XP dual boot #