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January 3, 2007

Google Reader adds personalized charts

— the best feedreader around keeps getting better #

Celebrity Patents

— Eddie Van Halen has the best patent illustration ever created #

Chip & PIN terminal playing Tetris

— the video is mirrored on YouTube via Hackaday #

Video: Joel Veitch vs. Coca-Cola Argentina

— they ripped off his song and dancing kitten video for their ad #

Wired Science, the Wired/PBS collaboration, debuts tonight

— it took ten years, but they finally launched Wired TV #
January 2, 2007

Video: Fionn Regan's "Be Good or Be Gone"

— using ambient audio from diverse locations, creativity on zero budget #

Danah Boyd on ephemeral profiles

— it always amazed me that my little sister created a new IM screenname every couple months #
January 1, 2007

Top 12 Appearances by Bands in Films

— also: ’60s garage band cameos in TV & film #

The Edge annual question, "What are you optimistic about?"

— funny, everyone from Boing Boing was a contributor except Mark via Fimoculous #

Kongregate

— nicely designed community for sharing Flash games via GameSetWatch #

Sci-Fi Channel's "The Lost Room" as adventure game

— sounds intriguing; the Wikipedia entry has more spoilers via GameSetWatch #
December 30, 2006

The Flying Saucer, early mashup from 1956

— the artists ended up in court for sampling popular songs in their novelty break-in record #
December 28, 2006

Steve Wozniak interviewed by Compuserve members in 1983

— shortly before the introduction of Macintosh, lovingly scanned by Jason Scott #

What's Noka worth?

— incredible 10-part expose of an insanely overpriced chocolate seller via Boing Boing #
December 27, 2006

This year's best selling album sold less than 4 million copies

— tastes are splintering as music discovery and distribution gets easier #

Henry Jenkins interviews Gamelab's Eric Zimmerman

— Gamelab is among the best of the small independent studios; every game is great via GameSetWatch #

Noah K's everyday/celebrity project for VH-1

— the full series, including this real-life meme mashup with Lonelygirl15 via Kottke #

Gerald Ford, dies at 93

— Dana Carvey covered his death in 1996 #
December 26, 2006

Jay's Best of Casual Gameplay 2006

— incredible collection of the year’s best web games and toys, many which I’d never seen before #
December 24, 2006

Nintendo Wii Controlled Smarthome

— from the interesting Wii Hacks blog via Leonard Lin #

Why Viva Pinata Is The Most Underrated Game Of 2006

— one of my E3 2006 underdogs, it’s still the only intriguing game on the 360 #
December 21, 2006

Line Rider Urban Run

— pseudo-3D isometric style, from the creator of Jagged Peak Adventure via Digg #

The Decemberists Vs. Stephen Colbert: Countdown To Guitarmageddon

— with appearances by Henry Kissinger, Eliot Spitzer, Rick Neilsen, Robert Schneider, and Peter Frampton! #

PopMatters Best Indie-Pop of 2006

— a very personal list and my current favorite of this year’s batch; I’ll be using his definition of the genre from now on #
December 20, 2006

Sam Wintermute's Universal Text Imitator

— my favorite of the examples: Beastie Boys structure using words from a linguistics textbook #

Bristolz' Half Bakery Illustrations

— I just read that she passed away in August; very sad #

Digitized Doodle Dome

— rigging an obscure spherical Etch-a-Sketch toy to drafting software via halfbakery.com #

Pitchfork's Guest List Best of 2006

— top album lists from 30+ musicians, from Beck to Mastodon #

Paper Thin Walls' incredible 2006 Mixtape

— 31 writers pick their favorite songs of the year, then interview each artist about them via Kottke #
December 19, 2006

Six Apart's Holiday Video

— “no, owls can’t type” #
December 18, 2006

Mates of State record a session with Daytrotter

— including their 2-year-old daughter’s recording debut #

Rogers Cadenhead battling MGM over Wargames.com

— he’s owned the domain since 1998 #

GameSetWatch reviews "Heaven and Earth" from 1992

— I bought this wonderful puzzle game when it was new; you can download Mac and PC versions here #

Michael Crichton writes critic in as a child molestor in new novel

— not a book critic, but someone who questioned his global warming denial #

Mozilla launches Operator microformats parser

— using the microformats support we pushed in Upcoming and Y! Local as examples, too #

Archie comics getting a realistic redesign

— ghastly! via Adam Kempa #
December 17, 2006

FCC drops morse code testing for all ham radio licenses

— end of an era #
December 16, 2006

How big of an Internet star was the Star Wars Kid?

— Viral Factory explains how they arrived at 900 million views #
December 15, 2006

Threadless Deals With Plagiarism

— they handled it very well #
December 14, 2006

Ask Mefi on cooling a warm Coke in two minutes

— with thebest answer by Adam Savage from Mythbusters! via Matt Haughey #
December 13, 2006

Turning a full-size Fender into a Guitar Hero controller

— awesome mod #

Antville Music Video Awards 2006

— can you imagine if the MTV VMAs were like this? #

Google Patent Search

— beats the crap out of the official patent search via Boing Boing #

xkcd's hand-drawn Map of the Internet

— plot yourself on the map! #

Craigslist Meets the Capitalists

— refreshing via Mike Migurski #

ABC News launches Amanda Congdon's new show

— here’s a mildly positive review from the NYT via Fimoculous #
December 12, 2006

Flickr's Ho Ho Ho easter egg

— try adding a “ho ho ho hat/beard” note to any of your photos via Matt Haughey #

Honan fact-checks the supposed iTunes collapse

— then again, the original article cited was by Orlowski #

i'm going to live forever

— Leslie founded Smug and Hoopla, among other, writings; Zeldman interviewed her in 2001, which only hints at the depth of her contributions online #

Thank you, Leslie.

— Leslie Harpold, one of the web’s most influential and interesting writers and designers, is gone; memories from Merlin, Kevin, Brad, Emily, Robert, Lia, Chris, Lance, Dan and more #
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