Brad Bird's tribute to Ollie Johnston
— after Ollie retired, Brad took his desk the following Monday #
Metafilter comment relays a conversation about the origins of man with a 5-year-old
— some more great stories in this thread, like this story about a 5am walk in Vancouver #
Oregon state sends cease-and-desists for republishing statutes
— they claim copyright on the typesetting and numbering of the documents, not the text of the statutes themselves #
Defamer investigates the Marilyn Monroe sex tape, claims hoax
— no real evidence supporting hoax theory, but undermines credibility of the seller (via) #
Michael Arrington loves the Twitter "block" button
— though I'm pretty sure the New York Times doesn't killfile people who correct them (via) #
Heroes & Villains
— portraits of artists in the graffiti, alt-comic, and underground art worlds (via) #
Photorealistic 3D buildings in the new Google Earth
— very impressive, includes sunlight and shading #
Django-MMO, open-source clone of Game Neverending
— is this the first open-source web-based MMO? (via) #
Ollie Johnston, the last of Disney's Nine Old Men, passes away at 95
— loving tributes in the updates and comments (via) #
Fring, a simple Skype/IM/Twitter client for the iPhone
— Skype support appears to be wifi-only (via) #
Time-lapse security cam of Nick White, a man trapped 41 hours in a NYC elevator
— from brilliant New Yorker article about the lives of elevators; the ordeal changed him forever (via) #
I Hate Drake
— animated rendition of an 11-year-old's diary; see also: 500 Miles to Hollywood (via) #
Jason Scott analyzes how an Atari Age thread devolves
— for anyone interested in online group dynamics and/or the current Atari 2600 scene #
Excelsior 1968
— John Martz drew cartoon versions of every student from his mom's 1968 yearbook; see also: The Liner (via) #
Amazon adds persistent storage to EC2
— a massive upgrade, allowing snapshots with a single API call #
Disney shutting down its Virtual Magic Kingdom MMO
— read the comments to see players and parents absolutely devastated by its closure (via) #
Numbers Station Bingo
— clever idea, builds a game using the mysterious shortwave radio broadcasts #
Download YouTube videos as MP4 files
— higher quality and better sound than the FLV versions (via) #
Cartoon Brew on the aborted Yoshifumi Kondo pilot for Little Nemo
— Brad Bird responds in the comments! see also: longer version of the pilot and the 1992 feature film for comparison (via) #
Eric Schwartz' animated Amiga tribute
— created on an Amiga 4000T to the tune of "Still Alive," it's very faithful to Amiga history #
Martijn Hendriks' "Give Us Today Our Daily Terror"
— Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" with every bird digitally removed (via) #
Ironic Sans' idea for tactile feedback while driving
— Rumble Pak on the steering wheel to sense cars in your blind spot #
Chuck Jones' Isolation Studies
— brilliant supercuts created by a Chicago artist; the Loveline montages are amazing #
Yahoo! Pipes feed of YouTube channel subscriptions for a user
— YouTube doesn't provide any subscription feeds, but this works perfectly (via) #
Freakonomics guys on the Metafilter vs. YouTube commenters
— it's worth noting that the NYT is cultivating a high level of discourse in their own blog comments (via) #
Winners of Jay Is Games' Casual Gameplay Comp 5
— like always, incredible quality from the vibrant community (via) #
Defective Yeti researches the LOST screenplay profanity
— I thought this was a joke, but I verified it; JJ Abrams has a potty mouth #
IFC/Nerve's Top 50 Comedy Sketches
— there goes my afternoon; strange how it switches between IFC and Nerve on every page (via) #
RSS 2.0 guid is broken by default
— or: why my links were still pointing to Waxy.org until this morning; sorry! #
Hulu posts all three seasons of Arrested Development
— I've really been enjoying Hulu lately; popular episodes today and newly-added feature films (via) #
No Photos on Flickr!
— perfect response to the crybabies, with confused comments from some of them #
Can singing death metal ruin your voice?
— bizarre endoscope footage of people singing, screaming, grunting, and talking like Barry White #
Black & Blue, Quicktime 1.0 sample video from 1992
— the Quicktime development team gets silly, in a decision that still haunts them 15 years later #
Seeing some weirdness in the Waxy.org RSS feed?
— I fixed the bug causing links to point to Waxy.org, but your feedreader needs to refresh the feed first #
Huddle Chat taken offline after cries of plagiarism
— people complained the UI ripped off 37 Signals' Campfire; here's an official response #