April 7, 2006
Cabspotting Cab Tracker
— averaged and real-time visualization of taxis moving around San Francisco #
Park Place, an Amazon S3 clone in Ruby
— also, how Adrian Holovaty is using S3 as a media server at 35 cents per month (via) #
"Star Wars Kid" settles out of court with schoolmates
— new details emerge as the trial come to a close #
Jon Gruber on Apple's strategy with Boot Camp
— dead on, from the inevitable reaction of PC enthusiasts to the future direction of the OS #
Seven Songs With Factual Or Logical Mistakes In The Lyrics
— also, there's no colloquial "East California" as mentioned in "Kids in America" (via) #
Apple's Boot Camp public beta
— the stock market loves Apple's new official support of Windows XP dual boot #
Scene.org Awards 2005 nominees announced
— the best of real-time, algorithmic art from the PC demoscene #
Interview with an ex-exployee of adware creator 180 Solutions
— insider details about employee adware usage and dealing with public perceptions (via) #
Video: Steve Jobs demos NeXTSTEP Release 3 in 1992
— keep in mind, Windows 3.1 was released the same year #
Interview with the head of the Swedish Pirate Party
— contrary to previous reports, it's not formally connected with the Pirate Bay #
Gnarls Barkley single becomes first Internet-only single to hit #1 UK charts
— I see why; the Danger Mouse/Cee-Lo joint is catchy as hell #
Ohio town calls in bomb squad over Super Mario power-up cubes
— an April 1 prank takes a turn for the surreal #
URLFan, top 100 sites linked in RSS feeds
— a surprisingly good alternative to Icerocket and Technorati #
Anti-SUV Chevy Tahoe commercial contest entries
— they don't seem to be moderating the entries; two more #
Video: O'Reilly Factor on Myspace
— features the brilliant Danah Boyd; he's surprisingly reasonable (via) #
Myspace removes 200,000 objectionable profiles
— sounds like a lot, until you realize it's less than one day of new signups (via) #
Zug's Michael Jackson prank
— I've been reading John Hargrave since the dawn of time, and he's still entertaining #
Interesting Facts About Domain Names
— now that I'm at Yahoo, I should try to score the complete domain list to rerun my dictionary domains (via) #
Birdy Namnam
— four French DJs that treat each turntable as a discrete instrument and play as a band; watch the videos #
YouTube adds 10 minute duration limit to prevent piracy
— expect people to start splitting large videos into multiple parts #
Star Wars Kid case goes to court on April 10?
— interesting news buried in 10th paragraph; anyone have more info? #
Batman onomatopoeia
— screen grabs of the visual sound balloons from Batman's campy fight scenes (via) #
Steve Ballmer "brainwashed" his kids to avoid Google and iPods
— and I'm sure they use MSN Spaces instead of Myspace or Livejournal? (via) #
Kotaku finds sponsored editorial previews on Gamespot and Gamespy
— yay, investigative game journalism! (via) #
The Great Outdoor Fight
— unbelievably elaborate fan-written backstory to this excellent Achewood story arc #
Plaxo apologizes for contact spam
— he links to the Techcrunch entry on Jigsaw for his contact info, which is cute #
Brandon Hardesty's Re-Enactment Series
— remaking scenes from classic movies with a camcorder and himself in every role (via) #
The Last Record Shop
— Austin music collectors buy Ohio record store that closed in 1970, frozen in time; don't miss the photos #
37 Signals responds to Caterina Fake
— David says it's a great time to start a business, as long as you're not playing the Web 2.0 Lottery #