July 20, 2005
Design the winning UI for Internet TV, get $1000
— help the next-gen video player powered by BitTorrent #
How a Seattle Times reporter handled a bestiality death story
— Washington man died while having sex with a horse (via) #
John Dvorak rants on Creative Commons
— here's one debunking of his moronic column; I love this Slashdot comment #
Associated Press misrepresents BitTorrent in Opera article
— Corante is blaming bias, but I think it's just deeper problems with public perception #
Terrible security hole found in Greasemonkey 0.4
— a malicious website could retrieve any local file and send it to any other server; uninstall or downgrade ASAP! #
Domains by Proxy reveals whistleblower's personal information
— Jason Levine found the clause that lets them revoke anonymity if you're trying to embarrass someone #
Bootleg Harry Potter NES game review
— it's as bad as they say, but I'm mirroring the ROM anyway (via) #
New Harry Potter scanned and OCRed by e-book pirates
— a distributed effort ended up in a text and audiobook release within 12 hours (via) #
Daddy Types on parents reading their nanny's blog in the NYT
— with a link to a long response by the nanny in question #
Django, like Rails for Python
— outstanding new web framework by Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison; read the overview #
Vintage arcade photos on Flickr
— rescued from the trash bin; also, see the same photographer's arcade tokens and electronic games #
Secure RSS syndication with Greasemonkey and Bloglines
— very neat hack for encrypting your feeds (via) #
JD Lasica asks movie studios for permission to use movie clips for personal, non-commercial home video projects
— out of seven requests, only one agreed, kinda (via) #
Google Video adds "playable video" filter
— using it, I found these guys plugging Waxy Links at the 7 minute mark (via) #
Google Answers on the history of the laugh track
— shows still use laughter taped from the Red Skelton Show in the late 1950s #
Video: A Few Good G-Men
— machinima remake of "A Few Good Men" courtroom scene with Half-Life 2 engine #
Defective Yeti's excellent primer of the Valerie Plame scandal
— I hereby demand that Matthew summarize all major news stories for me #
Hyperlinks in Print, part 3
— ongoing look at visual representation of hypertext in print; parts one and two (via) #
Internet Archive sued for archiving copyrighted content
— raises all sorts of depressing intellectual property issues; nice debunking (via) #
"Real-life" VR inside Second Life
— very meta; visiting a busy SF city street from within Second Life #