Catbirdseat's Handy Music-Blogger "Best Of 2006" List Cheat Sheet
— it'll be fun to compare this to the actual lists in December #
Video: Gumbasia
— Art Clokey's Gumby ancestor from 1955, abstract and set to a frenetic jazz soundtrack #
Six Apart acquires Rojo to get their founder and CTO
— buying companies to get to the juicy people inside #
Tucows was Kiko's auction winner
— glad to know it wasn't just a domain spammer, but a good company #
In-game developer commentary in Half Life 2
— I captured video of the best examples of this interesting glimpse into the videogame design process #
Video: Everyday
— Noah Kalina has shot a photo of himself every day for six years; see also, every day for three years #
When What We Love And Who We Love Are At Odds
— Greg Allen wonders whether our dangerous passions can, or should, change after becoming a parent (via) #
MP3: Mathowie's Community Blog
— 22-minute epic parody of Alice's Restaurant, chocked full with Metafilter in-jokes (via) #
Aaron Swartz asks, who writes Wikipedia?
— most Wikipedia edits are by core users, but Aaron finds the most important contributions are by infrequent or anonymous users (via) #
100 Acre Deadwood
— very offensive (and mostly unfunny) Disney meets Deadwood parody, banned from the new Cracked magazine #
Video: 1K Project, videogame cars as fluids
— 1,000 virtual cars overlayed in a single Trackmania run; also, the 3K Project and the full game for free download (via) #
iTunes disabling CD burning for some albums
— update: false alarm! it appears that the unburnable tracks are the bonus videos #
Fox trying to bury Mike Judge's Idiocracy
— by all accounts, his followup to Office Space is an instant cult classic, but Fox released it this weekend without a trailer or website into only 130 theaters #
Game|Life's exclusive details on the new Sam and Max game
— also, the original game's a steal at $25 with Day of the Tentacle, and runs on any modern OS with ScummVM #
Video of the bootleg Super Mario World on the NES
— insane port of an SNES game to NES; looks surprisingly playable #
Warrick, tool to reconstruct lost websites
— uses Internet Archive and web caches to store website on your local filesystem #
Animatus, realistic resin sculptures of cartoon character skeletons
— a physical manifestation of Michael Paulus's drawings #
Pirated jazz albums etched on recycled X-ray films
— in the the '30s and '40s, vinyl was hard to come by in the USSR and Eastern Europe (via) #
Google Image Labeler, the Google Images multiplayer game
— Luis von Ahn's ESP Game now officially part of Image Search; see also, his excellent Tech Talk at Google #
Video: Nigerian authorities bust 419 scammers
— fascinating glimpse into the origin of Nigerian scam e-mails #
Video: Frank Lloyd Wright's Kaufmann House modeled in Half-Life 2
— deathmatches in famous architecture; download it here (via) #
Video: 49 Up trailer
— the ongoing UK documentary series interviews the same group of adults every 7 years since age 7 #
Comcast blacklists e-mail from The WELL
— at my last job, dealing with mistaken Comcast and Verizon blacklists were the norm #
Queen's Brian May slams Myspace for "pirated identity"
— he doesn't want to do the Myspace salute; won't somebody think of the children #
The Dial-Up BBS Revisited
— amazing story of calling ghost BBSes, and a great tip for using Vonage for dialup (via) #
Business Week on the LonelyGirl15 conspiracy
— here's a good overview;s is YouTube's biggest star a viral marketing effort or just kids havnig fun? (via) #
Jeremy Bogan irritates telemarketers with random recorded responses
— this is brilliant and cruel; what else can you tell me about this offer? (via) #
Evhead on why pageviews are an obsolete metric
— part of Myspace's big numbers are attributable to terrible site design (via) #
Flickr adds extensive geotagging and maps support
— and, surprise! two-way integration with Upcoming #
Upcoming.org adds Flickr and Yahoo! Local integration
— increasing the number of events by 3000% overnight, plus pretty pictures and nicer event pages #
NYT tracks down "Canon Rock" YouTube star
— the original video, and its many, many imitators (via) #
Video: Ricky Gervais at Microsoft UK
— shut down by Microsoft on Youtube, now living on Google Video for the moment #
Review of Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud
— create and destroy a virtual server farm in seconds with an API call; Amazon is doing the most innovative work in the entire industry #
L.A. Weekly on the gentrification of Los Angeles
— also, five warning signs; most interesting are gelato and the flight patterns of visual artists (via) #
Nintendo Wii to limit wifi for third party titles
— no non-Nintendo launch titles will have online play? #
Stephen Colbert rips off Ze Frank joke?
— hard to believe it's a coincidence; maybe a staff writer watches The Show (via) #
Dev-Scene Nintendo DS homebrew portal
— outstanding index of available homebrew apps and games for the NDS (via) #
Long New Yorker article on the recent Poincare Conjecture battle
— a fascinating story of two very different mathematic personalities; more from Kottke (via) #
The Evolution of Speech Balloons
— from scroll-like "labels" in 12th century paintings to modern comic strips; also: the Early Comics Archive (via) #