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September 9, 2006
September 8, 2006
— griefer republishes personal ad responses publicly, ruining lives in the process #
September 7, 2006
— quite possibly the best conference presentation I’ve ever seen #
— the official site is down, but Danah has the best analysis #
— I was waiting for her to chime in; the big issue is not privacy, but too much transparency #
— they care about their record label partners much more than you or the Internet #
September 6, 2006
— brilliantly meta explanation of how to write a fugue based on Britney Spears’ “Oops, I Did It Again” #
— close networks of friends have the end result of gaming Digg, even if they’re not trying to via Digg #
— bands that sound exactly like their influences; don’t miss Scott Wilk, the Elvis Costello clone via Delicious #
— it’ll be fun to compare this to the actual lists in December #
— Art Clokey’s Gumby ancestor from 1955, abstract and set to a frenetic jazz soundtrack #
— buying companies to get to the juicy people inside #
September 5, 2006
— glad to know it wasn’t just a domain spammer, but a good company #
— I captured video of the best examples of this interesting glimpse into the videogame design process #
— Noah Kalina has shot a photo of himself every day for six years; see also, every day for three years #
— Greg Allen wonders whether our dangerous passions can, or should, change after becoming a parent via Matt Haughey #
September 4, 2006
— 22-minute epic parody of Alice’s Restaurant, chocked full with Metafilter in-jokes via Delicious #
— most Wikipedia edits are by core users, but Aaron finds the most important contributions are by infrequent or anonymous users via Boing Boing #
September 3, 2006
— died doing what he loved #
September 2, 2006
— very offensive (and mostly unfunny) Disney meets Deadwood parody, banned from the new Cracked magazine #
— 1,000 virtual cars overlayed in a single Trackmania run; also, the 3K Project and the full game for free download via GameSetWatch #
— update: false alarm! it appears that the unburnable tracks are the bonus videos #
— 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 #
— also, the original game’s a steal at $25 with Day of the Tentacle, and runs on any modern OS with ScummVM #
— like Nelson says, “TV never got any better than this” via Nelson Minar #
— I can’t wait until November 1 #
September 1, 2006
— insane port of an SNES game to NES; looks surprisingly playable #
— uses Internet Archive and web caches to store website on your local filesystem #
— a physical manifestation of Michael Paulus’s drawings #
— in the the ’30s and ’40s, vinyl was hard to come by in the USSR and Eastern Europe via sharpeworld.com #
— Luis von Ahn’s ESP Game now officially part of Image Search; see also, his excellent Tech Talk at Google #
— fascinating glimpse into the origin of Nigerian scam e-mails #
August 31, 2006
— and post all the photos to Flickr via Matt Haughey #
— deathmatches in famous architecture; download it here via Todd Dominey #
— the ongoing UK documentary series interviews the same group of adults every 7 years since age 7 #
— at my last job, dealing with mistaken Comcast and Verizon blacklists were the norm #
— he doesn’t want to do the Myspace salute; won’t somebody think of the children #
August 30, 2006
— amazing story of calling ghost BBSes, and a great tip for using Vonage for dialup via Boing Boing #
— here’s a good overview;s is YouTube’s biggest star a viral marketing effort or just kids havnig fun? via Fimoculous #
August 29, 2006
— this is brilliant and cruel; what else can you tell me about this offer? via Delicious #
August 28, 2006
— part of Myspace’s big numbers are attributable to terrible site design via Boing Boing #
— and, surprise! two-way integration with Upcoming #
— increasing the number of events by 3000% overnight, plus pretty pictures and nicer event pages #
August 25, 2006
— shut down by Microsoft on Youtube, now living on Google Video for the moment #
— create and destroy a virtual server farm in seconds with an API call; Amazon is doing the most innovative work in the entire industry #
— also, five warning signs; most interesting are gelato and the flight patterns of visual artists via Delicious #
— no non-Nintendo launch titles will have online play? #
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