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January 18, 2006

Top 65 Music Videos of 2005

— outstanding annotated list #

January 17, 2006

Google Robot FAQ from 2030

— sounds familiar #

Washington DC schools target Facebook, MySpace

— won’t somebody think of the children? #

Ted, torrent episode downloaders

— Windows utility automates TV episode downloads from public trackers via Digg #

Video: Dev2.0, "Whip It"

— directed by Gerald Casale of DEVO for Disney Records via Andre Torrez #

Iraqi Invasion: A Text Misadventure

— Zork meets the Washington Post #

Disaffected

— videogame parody of working at a Kinko’s store, sounds like Root Beer Tapper #

Nick and Amelia's Lazy Sunday

Posted January 17, 2006 by Andy Baio

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.

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January 12, 2006

Kottke on the Digg vs. Slashdot effects

— Slashdot still wields enormous traffic, even as Digg’s influence grows #

January 11, 2006

Video: Live Action Punch-Out

— not great, but I’ve been humming the Punch Out theme since I saw this last week #

The Prejudice World Map

— silly fun with Google wildcards #

January 10, 2006

Apple's stock price closed at $80.86 today

— cute coincidence via Airbag Industries #

Steve Jobs announces Intel-based iMacs and new MacBook Pro laptop

— MacBook 4-5x faster than Powerbook G4; new iMacs 2-3x faster #

Chuck Norris responds to the Random Facts

— for some context, see the popular web meme #

Flickr's firstgoatse tag

— not even Ron Jeremy could handle it #

Slashdot's CmdrTaco on their story moderation process

— an uncharacteristic rant posted to the Slashdot homepage; some users want /. to be more Digg-like #

Mac Rumors Live

— live coverage of the Macworld keynote, now with Ajax! #

January 9, 2006

Student Life on the Facebook

— wow, incredible analysis of UNC’s freshman class Facebook usage, including demographics and information sharing #

Nat Torkington on the Steve Mallette vs. Digg controversy

— O’Reilly contributor accused of stealing templates for Digg clones, turns out to be unfounded #

Package Mappers

— map the routes of UPS, Fedex, and USPS packages via hitormiss.org #

The Aargh Page

— tracking the popularity of various spelling permutations on the web via Delicious #

Video: Nintendo's holodeck prototype

— a neat interactive floor display #

November 2005 social networking statistics

— also: MySpace growing by 160,000 new users per day! #

Morning Becomes Eclectic to start video podcasting

— great in-studio live performances #

Internet feud escalates between Ebaumsworld and its detractors

— this time around a borrowed Lindsay Lohan animated GIF via Digg #

Learn reverse engineering by hacking Windows Pinball

— if nothing else, worth it for playing around with the backdoor cheat via Delicious #

Yahoo! acquires Webjay

— if you haven’t played with the playlist sharing community, try it out #

Create an e-annoyance, go to jail

— “annoying” someone anonymously online is now a federal crime? Boing Boing readers say this isn’t new via Boing Boing #

Google testing contextual ads in print newspapers

— they’re filling unsold ad space in the Sun-Times #

January 6, 2006

Newsvine beta released

— I’ve been playing with this, and it’s very well-designed; the story-specific live chat is great #

3D Japanese Google Maps

— tech demo, only works in Firefox 1.5 via @nipponkan #

January 5, 2006

Mike Elgan on the Push Music project

— automatic wireless sharing of music with strangers based on recommendations #

TiVo adds transcoding video to PSP, iPod

— also: TiVo Central gets Ajaxified and a peek at the HD TiVo Series 3 #

Crazy Del.icio.us

— it’s like a web geek litmus test; if you get it, you’re a lost cause #

Bounty County

— blog listing cash bounties for open-source projects #

January 4, 2006

Fark's best Photoshops of 2005

— some of these are brilliant, like The Temptation of Jedi and I Want to Make Believe #

Extra Tasty

— Drinking 2.0 from the Threadless crew #

January 3, 2006

TechCrunch on AllPeers

— outstanding looking Firefox extension for sharing files privately with BitTorrent #

The Decade the Music Blockbuster Died

— crunching the numbers on best-selling albums by decade via simonwaldman.net #

Massively Multiplayer Personal Productivity

— there’s a seed of a brilliant idea in here via cheesedip.com #

Second Life's virtual prison

— they send you to The Cornfield #

Retrievr

— search Flickr by sketching; impressive examples on Mefi via Kottke #

January 2, 2006

What's your dangerous idea?

— The Edge’s annual question for 2006 with answers from 116 professional thinkers and a real live Monkee via Delicious #

Windows WMF vulnerability hotfix

— possibly the worst Windows hole ever, affects all versions, and spreading fast; install this now, as even viewing an image can infect you #

Horse sex story was online hit

— because of web traffic, arguably the most popular story in the Seattle Times’ 109-year history via Delicious #

January 1, 2006

Clive Thompson on the last days of Asheron's Call 2

— how do people behave when a game world is about to end permanently? #

Cory Doctorow leaves EFF to write and blog full-time

— more Cory on Boing Boing is a good thing #