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March 6, 2006
— I skipped my Oscar bootleg roundup this year, but run it yourself on VCD Quality #
— they’re also releasing an Open Bots program soon #
March 5, 2006
— any article that mentions “Data Analysis Cosby” is a good one #
— they’ve found a niche; update: NBC gets them all removed from YouTube, but posted an official version #
— Keira Knightley as Dorothy, posing with artists like Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, and Chuck Close #
March 4, 2006
— amazing attention to detail #
March 3, 2006
— followup from sad November 2005 story via Ryan Gantz #
— rips music from Shoutcast streams into individual MP3 files; yikes! #
— I’m going to fight it; House of Cosbys deserves to be seen, far and wide #
— spoiled brats (I’m just jealous) #
— Fred von Lohmann nails it; when they get profitable, there will be big problems #
March 2, 2006
— let it never be said that juggling can’t rock via pennfans.net #
— I love their criteria for forcing standardized tagging #
— don’t miss the article-specific chat rooms via Todd Dominey #
— for example, Jimbo’s been busy editing lately #
— he talked about the game in today’s podcast; I posted the MP3 clip #
March 1, 2006
— Myspace was blamed, but now that they’re back home, nobody’s correcting the story #
— the Slashdot thread is classic, too; “No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.” #
— Squidoo came very close to getting a ton of free publicity via Slashdot #
— created by Microsoft marketing for an internal meeting, as confirmed by Scoble #
— 800MB snapshot of Wikipedia for the iPod via Boing Boing #
— moral: speed limits should be a guideline, not a ticketable offense via Delicious #
— I’m expecting a Napster-like battle as these sites grow in popularity #
— squish the tomato without missing any dominoes #
— brilliant online version of this classic hive mind experiment #
— full albums from her label; more albums here via Todd Dominey #
February 28, 2006
— undoubtedly why they blocked YouTube until Myspace users rebelled #
— parody of the bouncy balls ad #
— the maps arms race escalates with this crazy driving mode #
— I just found my new stereo #
February 26, 2006
— neat hack for Series 60 phones, uses cell tower IDs to infer location #
February 24, 2006
— treat web apps like Windows programs, with desktop, tray, and quickstart icons and startup launching #
— a breath of fresh air to hear this; Ian Rogers agrees #
February 23, 2006
— looks like NZB indexes and forums instead of Usenet feeds #
— blogger flunks job interview because of daily fan letters to Star Jones via Tom Coates #
— grinding and the time commitment are two big reasons why I can’t get into current MMOs via Simon Carless #
— silly 2002 April Fool’s article predicts the future #
— the parallel universe Kottke #
February 22, 2006
— Google’s Geocities 2.0 offers a simple CMS, free hosting, and 100 MB storage #
— 1,450 people donated a total of $39,900, but almost entirely in the first three weeks #
— with ground photos of the farm at the default center of Google Maps #
— they have serious momentum #
February 21, 2006
— full album of heart-breaking rarities via hype.non-standard.net #
— with new vocals by Ben Gibbard; also, the cover of Nina Simone’s “See-Line Woman” (local copy) is worth hearing via hype.non-standard.net #
— an RSS reader that never mentions RSS #
— making it drop-dead easy to subscribe, watch, and share video channels online; like a BitTorrent PVR community via Boing Boing #
— anyone familiar with the Church knows it’s religious parody and performance art #
— the Excitebike scene is lovely via Boing Boing #
February 20, 2006
— like Zillow, blows up industries by making hard-to-find information widely available #
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