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December 31, 2007
— Matt Haughey finds out the returns for day trading AAPL during the last ten keynotes #
December 30, 2007
— free documentary about history of piracy interviews Pirate Bay, Mininova, EFF, MPAA, and others via thepiratebay.org #
— some interesting trends, including the bits about low-income blogging #
December 29, 2007
— massive brain dump that extends beyond tech into sociology, ecology, marketing, drugs, and genetics #
December 28, 2007
— “Dress and drive to impress!” #
— video art project retells the biblical and scientific creation stories, with the prose and tone reversed #
— funny satire of conference cliches via GameSetWatch #
— some good Archive.org dumpster diving #
— the support tech insisted she was Palm’s CEO; contrast with Apple’s personal touch #
December 25, 2007
— after a full year since his last post, Steve returns with a whirlwind history from Holiday Inn to Black Christmas; merry xmas, everybody! #
December 23, 2007
— memeorific and sacrilicious “tale of three nerds turning a nativity scene into a LARP battle”; don’t miss the video responses via @areasofmyexpertise #
— 1964 adaptation of Richard Matheson’s “I Am Legend” starring Vincent Price as Dr. Will Smith #
December 22, 2007
— Christmas card from Aperture Science and the Portal team via Delicious #
— Straight Dope member waterboards himself and writes about the experience via Delicious #
— used often here, it also supports searching Yahoo, Live.com, Google Groups, Google Blog Search, and Gigablast #
— update: the references to Tony Clifton and Kaufman are a sly confession #
— it’s a troll’s paradise #
— these things are so irritating, it’s nice to see someone find a good use for them #
December 21, 2007
— turns any MP3 into Christmas music with beat-matched sleigh and jingle bells (and Santa!) via MetaFilter #
— pretends to reach out to victims of Nigerian scams, with a convenient $1M payment via Delicious #
— there should be a special name for this time of year, when Oscar screeners flood the net #
— including an appearance by Donald Knuth and an impromptu stick figure Google logo #
— photos from two different stories showed the same man painting a storefront and stealing a wallet #
— stop harshing my delusion via the-inbetween.com #
— Rogers Cadenhead finds that while blogs beat the NYT, Wikipedia crushed them both via techmeme.com #
December 20, 2007
— take that, Arrington! #
— Rex’s brilliantly-curated list of new, underrated blogs #
December 19, 2007
— apparently pretty old, but made me laugh; the original thread on Yahoo! Answers #
— a wonderfully addictive Flash game, it also acted as a trailhead for a month-long ARG for CBS’s Numb3rs via GameSetWatch #
— I’m most excited about Benjamin Buttons, The Box, Be Kind Rewind, Where the Wild Things Are, and Wall-E via Kottke #
— running the free service to build up a corpus of voices? neat idea, but seems inefficient #
— they include some fan-made videos and this charming cover from a high school trio #
— still catching up from my NYC trip, this was the best writeup I’ve seen so far #
— I had dinner with Anil on my first night in NYC last week, and he made me eat pig tails and cow glands; yum! #
— insanely detailed with some odd photo collage bits; try the highest zoom level via Tom Coates #
December 17, 2007
— for me, “personally compelling” is the only one that matters, since I can’t build something I won’t use myself #
December 14, 2007
— even if you don’t travel, it’s worth signing up just to experience all the brilliant UI touches #
December 9, 2007
— mostly genre browsing, but suggesting torrents based on your listening habits is now feasible #
— neat, it supports passing addresses in the querystring; the methodology, for the curious #
— with 192 subscribers via MetaFilter #
— gorgeous underwater side-scroller won the grand prize at IGF; watch the movies via Rock Paper Shotgun #
— NYT reporters tell their own stories in the comments #
December 8, 2007
December 7, 2007
— taken on the set of the final episode by the actor who played Benjamin Horne via MetaFilter #
— multiviews, moving towards REST over SOAP, and better native security and performance #
— he’s been drawing a comic nearly every day since May 2002; highly recommended via John Martz #
