October 6, 2006
Google Code Search
— extremely useful search for open source code; for fun, search for profanities #
Google Groups redesigns
— first change since their last design in December 2004; this one is a big improvement #
Ask Metafilter on Steve Wozniak, and Woz responds!
— he signed up for Mefi just to respond, which makes me love him all the more #
WFMU's The Reel Night John Lennon Died
— nice followup with the unedited NYC FM radio dial scans from the night of December 8, 1980 #
What Is This Creepy Site Advertising?
— Ask Metafilter investigates a viral marketing campaign; great read #
Who Killed TivoToGo in the TiVo Series 3 HD?
— the EFF explains how CableLabs and Hollywood are deciding for us (via) #
Tasty Drive, using Del.icio.us as a filesystem
— brilliantly evil hack uses data: URLs and blind redirectors to store raw data as bookmarks #
Colliding With Death at 37,000 Feet, and Living
— harrowing first-person tale of surviving a mid-air collision #
Texas dad wants Fahrenheit 451 banned
— he demands a book about book burning be banned during Banned Books week #
Jonathan Keller's 8 Years of Daily Photos
— the most extensive I've seen in this recent trend of self documentation #
The A:F6 fad on YouTube
— Dane Cook lazywebs YouTube in an SNL joke, and hundreds of people respond #
US bill to ban online gambling
— offshore gambling companies were hit hard, as the bill is expected to be signed into law in two weeks #
vNES, web-based NES emulator in Java
— this is excellent lawsuit bait, especially since the Wii will be reissuing NES games #