Reclusive Sly Stone surprises Grammys
— sporting a huge mohawk, he wandered off after a couple minutes #
Boing Boing interviews Rob Lord on Songbird
— the open-source iTunes clone launched today, though the site is totally crushed #
Canadian customs censoring adult DVDs at the border
— the list reads as both bizarre and arbitrary #
WINE running on Intel iMacs?
— if true, the ability to run Windows apps in a natural way could be huge (via) #
Clearbits, free CSS icon set
— looks uncannily similar to Dan Cederholm's Chameleon; is it plagiarism? (via) #
Visualizing relationships and geographies of New York Times articles
— Aaron dumps the RDF daily, so you can hack on it yourself; mashups, please! #
Ben Goodger on the history of Firefox
— a must read; it also cites Greg Knauss' pan of Netscape's themes #
The Art of De-Touch
— Eyebeam's Processing utility lets you scrub through before and after retouches (via) #
Sifry's State of the Blogosphere, Feb 2006
— 75k new blogs per day, though unclear how many are automated spam blogs #
Anil responds to SFBG editor's rant on Craig Newmark
— the editorial compared Craig's List to Wal-Mart (via) #
Jason Robida's Myspace journal
— the teen wanted in the gay bar rampage was caught today in a bloody shootout #
playsh, the playful shell
— Matt Webb and Ben Cerveny's Etech session sounds so intriguing that it hurts #
London Underground as a music map
— surprisingly good and accurate, and available as a poster (via) #
Legal firms cold-calling artists appearing on P2P networks
— Jason Scott gets a call from a paralegal looking for witnesses in a new P2P lawsuit #
Valleywag, Silicon Valley gossip blog
— it's like The National Enquirer meets Fucked Company (via) #
Thomas Hawk reviews 30 Boxes, a new calendaring startup
— I was at this private demo last night and I agree, it's the best web-based calendar ever #
The GNE Mystery, a pre-Flickr interactive fiction game by Cal Henderson
— Cal said I'm the first person to ever beat the game without hints #
Comparative review of Pandora vs. Last.fm music recommenders
— the big difference is that Last.fm gets better as more people use it at no additional expense #
The Cost of A La Carte Television
— how much would it cost to replace cable TV with iTunes downloads? #
MP3: Kevin Long covers Fiona Apple's "I Know"
— pure serendipity; from Hype Machine's most popular to this MP3 blog to his MySpace #
Congressional staffers authorized to change Wikipedia biographies
— but lots of other trolling edits are coming from the House IP address (via) #
Jason Scott discusses an idea for a hackathon TV pilot
— dubbed "Hardcoded," he's outlined a show I would easily watch every week online or off #
Long WaPo profile on the Great Zucchini
— witty and moving profile of a kids' entertainer; don't miss the followup with the writer (via) #
Blizzard blocks GLBT guild in World of Warcraft
— by being openly gay, Blizzard claims they'd incite harassment by other users #
A Comics Panel with Chris Ware, Seth and Ivan Brunetti
— illustrated by Gordon McAlpin, who recounts comic-related events in comic form (via) #
Google removes help entry on censorship
— it's one thing to censor to comply with local laws, just be open and honest about it #