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September 13, 2006
— constructing a psychological profile of the man behind the Craigslist sex baiting based on his online writings #
September 12, 2006
— after FairUse4WM defeated Microsoft’s patch within days, my insider sources say some major media companies will be pulling their DRM content within days #
— not quite a fond farewell #
— 19-year-old actress Jessica Rose from New Zealand; the producers were very good about covering up the original photos #
— “fitting words for an epitaph”; them’s fighting words! #
— $13 for new releases, $10 all others; also, they bought Cover Flow #
— fullscreen mashup of Flash video sites; the transitions are outstanding #
September 11, 2006
— pre-web BBC documentary on hypertext and multimedia; interviews Ted Nelson (among others) and stars Dr. Who’s Tom Baker as the software agent #
— unreleased 30-minute home video captured from 500 yards away; Revver is crushed, so use the torrent #
— as advertised, 59 foods on a stick; Scotch Egg on a Stick gets my vote via Kottke #
— over 300 versions of the obnoxious song made famous by Hot Butter in 1972 #
— “chadster1991?” “1,991 is my favorite number” #
September 10, 2006
— for an Orange County-based hip hop artist? #
— frenetic and full of fascinating random trivia, like Dave himself; most recent episode is all Disney secrets and urban legends #
September 9, 2006
— self-conscious and unfunny, it proves once again that creating a meme is practically impossible #
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 #
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