January 26, 2006
Averaging Gradius
— overlaying 15 game runs of Gradius into a single video; I want Pac-Man next! (via) #
eBaum's World gets TV show on USA Network
— the controversial viral video site has some enemies (via) #
Reddit looking for investors as seed money runs out
— one of Y Combinator's eight startups is still growing #
Video: Wintergreen's "When I Wake Up"
— music video about the true story of E.T. for the Atari 2600; also, a great interview with the game designer #
Google Code's Web Authoring Statistics
— popular elements and attributes across a billion webpage sample set (via) #
OGLE, the OpenGL Extractor
— grab 3D models from games or apps for reuse, mashup, or 3D printing; badass! (via) #
The Most Downloaded Konfabulator Widgets
— unofficial, created by Jon Aquino by scraping the official Konfabulator gallery (via) #
The Waxy Cloud
— Waxy Links tag cloud visualized using Ajax, the PHP5 XML DOM, and Yahoo Term
Extraction API #
House of Cosbys Soundboard
— still popular; I've served 215 GB of the House of Cosbys pilot this month #
Andy Samberg responds to Nick and Amelia's "Lazy Sunday"
— Nick's response was "I'm exploding inside" #
Disney may buy Pixar for $6.8 billion
— Steve Jobs would sit on the board and be a major shareholder #
What technology will be like in 2001
— tech predictions from the October 1989 issue of Compute! magazine (via) #
Patriot Search
— sly commentary on the US Government asking search engines for private search queries #
Jason DeFillippo leaves Technorati to work on Metroblogging full-time
— with Mumbai, they're up to 40 local blogs #
Ted, torrent episode downloaders
— Windows utility automates TV episode downloads from public trackers (via) #
Kottke on the Digg vs. Slashdot effects
— Slashdot still wields enormous traffic, even as Digg's influence grows #
Video: Live Action Punch-Out
— not great, but I've been humming the Punch Out theme since I saw this last week #
Steve Jobs announces Intel-based iMacs and new MacBook Pro laptop
— MacBook 4-5x faster than Powerbook G4; new iMacs 2-3x faster #
Slashdot's CmdrTaco on their story moderation process
— an uncharacteristic rant posted to the Slashdot homepage; some users want /. to be more Digg-like #
Student Life on the Facebook
— wow, incredible analysis of UNC's freshman class Facebook usage, including demographics and information sharing #
Nat Torkington on the Steve Mallette vs. Digg controversy
— O'Reilly contributor accused of stealing templates for Digg clones, turns out to be unfounded #
Internet feud escalates between Ebaumsworld and its detractors
— this time around a borrowed Lindsay Lohan animated GIF (via) #