May 2006 - Page 3 of 4

May 9, 2006

Video: Daily Show on Bush's Hayden/Goss deja vu — he used the same phrase to describe his new CIA director nominee as he did two years ago with Goss #

Video: Uwe Boll's Pac-Man, the Movie — "he appears to be some sort of man..." (via) #

Nintendo E3 press conference live video stream — just started; liveblogged on Kotaku #

MP3s: Feist, Live at the Park West in Chicago — great sound quality, great set #

E3 2006 Hidden Gems to Watch Out For — I'm attending Friday, and I'll post my yearly roundup of great underdogs #

May 8, 2006

Warner Bros. to distribute movies and TV over BitTorrent — no word on the DRM scheme yet (via) #

EV1 merges with The Planet — my current host and the old host for Upcoming, now one happy family (via) #

Video: Stairway To Heaven Sung Backwards, The Forwards Version — yes! I was hoping someone would reverse the reversed video (via) #

Scoble on Croquet, multiuser P2P 3D space — looks strikingly like the VRML cybermalls of the 1990s, but P2P and cross-platform are both good (via) #

E3 Buzz — E3-specific niche news aggregator (via) #

How to cure asthma or hayfever by infecting yourself with hookworm — simply go to Cameroon and walk barefoot in the toilets of the local residents, and pray you don't catch dengue (via) #

Time's five-page exclusive preview of the Nintendo Wii — the controller is aware of position, velocity, and tilt (via) #

Dogs trained to sniff out counterfeit DVDs — sure, but can they smell the difference between letterbox and pan-and-scan? (via) #

Beatles lose Apple court battle — now, kiss and make up #

May 7, 2006

GameLife's E3 predictions — if you can spare an E3 pass or two for Friday only, GET IN TOUCH #

Video: Journalist rides with the Blue Angels — he passes out three times, making this very entertaining (via) #

May 6, 2006

Bearshare shut down by $30m RIAA settlement — whack a mole #

Kottke on IndieKarma micropayment gifting — penny per visit, but only works well if everyone's using (and not reading feeds) (via) #

Jim Woodring started a blog — one of my favorite illustrators posting unreleased art regularly (via) #

Annalee Newitz on the RFID Hacking Underground — also: RFDump reveal the data stored on RFID tags (via) #

Breakout, Donkey Kong, and Frogger polo shirts — still waiting for a product line of 8-bit neckties (via) #

Zen Bondage — also, this Something Awful review highlights some other good indie games (via) #

Waxxi offers moderated group podcasts at scheduled times — neat idea, but the name's gotta go #

May 5, 2006

Jason Scott announces Arcade documentary — along with Get Lamp, these are the two movies I'm most looking forward to in the next couple years #

May 4, 2006

Pre-E3 MMO roundup — orcs, Hello Kitty, and cartoon sex; sadly, no orc sex MMOs yet (via) #

"Piece of My Heart" cover songs with MP3 — great version by Dusty Springfield and the less famous original by Aretha's sister, Erma Franklin (via) #

Original Star Wars to be released on DVD — finally, I can replace my bootleg Laserdisc rips with bootleg DVDs (via) #

John Gruber digs up the real story on the Apple Aperture firings — the only people fired were the terrible managers #

Myspace blocks Buzznet — you think they would've learned from the YouTube PR disaster #

The Day The Lawn Wasn't Mowed — it looks like the local paper for this large Chicago suburb changed their headline #

On Bots — analysis and great visualizations of Yahoo, Google, and MSN crawler activity for a year #

May 3, 2006

Soda distributors to end most school sales — I fully expect high school students to riot to get their Coke machines back (via) #

IRC on the Nintendo DS — l33t (via) #

Apple cease and desists Something Awful — for a service manual they're not even hosting; the thermal grease thread is great, too #

Six Apart's downtime and Blue Security, the idiots that spam spammers — a great post sums up how these two stories from yesterday are related #

Quitting YouTube — they're cracking down on copyrighted videos, their biggest attraction by far (via) #

The A.V. Club's 2006 Summer Movie Preview — the headline sums it up as "Why Bother?" #

Wired profile of chef Grant Achatz and Alinea restaurant — scientific foodies pioneering molecular gastronomy (via) #

Guitar Hero tablature — also, this video of the hidden track is insane #

Skypecasts — like free party lines, but without the phreaking (via) #

Can I use velcro on the Shabbat? — also: Shabbat elevators, glow in the dark toys, and no origami! (via) #

May 2, 2006

Flashmob recreates banned Xbox 360 commercial — bang! (via) #

Daedalus, N64 emulator for the PSP — not enough buttons on the PSP, but badass anyway (via) #

ASCII Maps — silly ASCII art proxy for Google Maps, with map and satellite options (via) #

WSJ on Hollywood's goofy portrayal of the Internet — with a great gallery of movie clips (via) #

Vectorama — old, but good; multiplayer vector illustration playground #

The Saddest Thing I Own — epic and destroying; see My Firstborn, Daddy, and Mom's Ring (via) #

The Web Design Trend Obituary and Death Clock — what, no drop shadows or rounded corners? (via) #

The Whole Night Sky — great 365 Tomorrows entry on the future of music (via) #

An analysis of 8,468 Pitchfork Media reviews — the followup pokes into individual author biases (via) #