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May 6, 2006
— still waiting for a product line of 8-bit neckties via @crystaltips #
— also, this Something Awful review highlights some other good indie games via Delicious #
— neat idea, but the name’s gotta go #
May 5, 2006
— along with Get Lamp, these are the two movies I’m most looking forward to in the next couple years #
May 4, 2006
— orcs, Hello Kitty, and cartoon sex; sadly, no orc sex MMOs yet via robotwisdom.com #
— great version by Dusty Springfield and the less famous original by Aretha’s sister, Erma Franklin via robotwisdom.com #
— finally, I can replace my bootleg Laserdisc rips with bootleg DVDs via Delicious #
— the only people fired were the terrible managers #
— you think they would’ve learned from the YouTube PR disaster #
— it looks like the local paper for this large Chicago suburb changed their headline #
— analysis and great visualizations of Yahoo, Google, and MSN crawler activity for a year #
May 3, 2006
— I fully expect high school students to riot to get their Coke machines back via Delicious #
— for a service manual they’re not even hosting; the thermal grease thread is great, too #
— a great post sums up how these two stories from yesterday are related #
— they’re cracking down on copyrighted videos, their biggest attraction by far via Philipp Lenssen #
— the headline sums it up as “Why Bother?” #
— scientific foodies pioneering molecular gastronomy via Kottke #
— also, this video of the hidden track is insane #
— like free party lines, but without the phreaking via Delicious #
May 2, 2006
— not enough buttons on the PSP, but badass anyway via Digg #
— silly ASCII art proxy for Google Maps, with map and satellite options via O'Reilly Radar #
— with a great gallery of movie clips via The Morning News #
— old, but good; multiplayer vector illustration playground #
— epic and destroying; see My Firstborn, Daddy, and Mom’s Ring via Eyebeam #
— what, no drop shadows or rounded corners? via Eyebeam #
— great 365 Tomorrows entry on the future of music via Delicious #
— the followup pokes into individual author biases via Delicious #
— good quality Flash video with commercial breaks via Delicious #
— completely bizarre, but entertaining, form of historical activity in natural language via feeds.feedburner.com #
— a good alternative to Technorati and Icerocket, but has the same spam problems #
— good introduction to the interactive fiction natural language via Delicious #
— their new “Switch” campaign is funny and biting, but playing up the youth angle might be too limiting #
May 1, 2006
— great rumor has users getting download credit for sharing video and audio #
— the original blogger returns after a five year break! I was reading Greg’s writing in 1994 #
— amazing couture cakes, like the Jamba Juice cups made entirely of cake #
— jaw-dropping approach to both programming and IF; check out the examples and download it via MetaFilter #
April 30, 2006
— bizarre Japanese-only anime version of Powerpuff Girls via Cal Henderson #
— Ryland tweaks his Church Sign Generator to thwart white supremacists via Andre Torrez #
— download embedded media, including Myspace, Youtube, and Google Video; see the screencast via Boing Boing #
— don’t bother with the torrent, use these YouTube videos instead via Philipp Lenssen #
April 29, 2006
— 200 terabytes per day of mostly illegal goodness #
April 27, 2006
— bicycle built for two #
— making the rounds, and well worth watching; lower-res streaming version via MetaFilter #
— multiplayer game (?) where you control a deer in a forest of other players, but with only non-verbal communication via MetaFilter #
— the most intuitive 3D modeling app now free, and with a shared repository of models via Matt Haughey #
— visualization of turntable scratching with Max/MSP and Processing #
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