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May 30, 2006
— next, there needs to be a way to upload Second Life screenshots to Flickr while in-game via Tom Coates #
— quite a bit can happen in six years #
May 29, 2006
— the game has a life of its own, with a retail GBA release via MetaFilter #
— Flash infoviz of World Development Indicators from The World Bank via Philipp Lenssen #
May 28, 2006
— I’m grateful that Amazon hasn’t tried to change it via Fimoculous #
— also, some very vague comments on his new project via Digg #
May 27, 2006
May 26, 2006
— by encouraging ubiquity of the “Web 2.0” meme, O’Reilly diluted the proprietary meaning of the mark #
— electric performance; could they have been honoring Towel Day a day early? #
— or try the visualization yourself with any site #
— fan-made Scumm game in the style of the old Lucasarts games; start the countdown to C&D via MetaFilter #
— disgruntled buyer gets elaborate revenge by posting photos from seller’s laptop hard drive via Delicious #
— nice implementation built on top of Upcoming and Dodgeball #
— Mat uses Dashcode to built a complete Dashboard widget pulling my remote feed in nine minutes #
— don’t miss Kotaku’s coverage, including interviews with a Columbine survivor and the game’s creator #
— found audio goodness via Robot Wisdom, who I’ve really enjoyed lately via robotwisdom.com #
May 25, 2006
— Last.fm destroys the competition, with Pandora next in line via Digg #
— I won’t be satisfied until all my appliances can play the Super Mario theme songs #
— they were called out by Arrington and others for cease and desisting an Irish Web 2.0-branded conference #
— Google’s paper suggests ways to recommend interesting new pages based on a user’s search history #
— the WWW 2006 paper is interesting stuff, though a bit over my head via infosthetics.com #
— new method to benchmark relative sizes of search engines; only about 45% of Yahoo’s index is in Google, and vice-versa #
— instead of playing the Army-sponsored shooter, he’s typing the name of every American killed in the war #
— you can almost feel the disgust emanating from the page; the DVD will finally be released in August #
— long name for a good list of links via Delicious #
— they claim he was asked to steal internal Torrentspy documents by any means necessary #
May 24, 2006
— the first in the episodic gaming series will be released on June 1 via Digg #
— redesigned homepage highlighs fresh popular links, and a minimum threshold for the recent page #
— Nick and Jimbo Wales wage battle in the comments via Delicious #
— here’s an MP3 of the Mosquito sound and a clip of just the tone via Delicious #
— some screenshots of user-created rooms #
— since launch, they’ve resisted blending ads with content; an interesting switch #
— switch virtual desktops by smacking the side of the laptop via Delicious #
May 23, 2006
— 10,000 sheep drawings created by Amazon Mturk workers for $0.69/hour via infosthetics.com #
— like the Half-Life 2 mousetrap, but using the Oblivion engine #
— tax preparers lobby to make California taxes more difficult to prepare via Delicious #
— MP3 bloggers collect songs with better live performances than the recorded original #
May 22, 2006
— the original judged your vocal performance by analyzing pitch and duration #
— I’d also toss in Seth’s It’s A Good Life #
— essential watching, this guy was a hero; plus, he could breakdance via Ryan Gantz #
— my, Earth really is full of things! #
— I always heard about him, but never saw him in my four years on campus via MetaFilter #
May 21, 2006
— funny, doesn’t affect the readability of the original via MetaFilter #
May 20, 2006
— worth it for ScummVM alone #
May 19, 2006
— a weekend-long contest to build a “money making machine,” with Paypal revenue determining the winners #
May 18, 2006
— don’t miss John Higgins’ lucky shot at around 6:40 in this video #
— at E3, I saw that the Spore team was 3D printing their character creations from corn starch via Airbag Industries #
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