Fake screenshots of a Google OS
— amusing predictions from Future Feeds, but the UI is ugly enough to be real #
Big Star's Alex Chilton missing in New Orleans
— Fats Domino was reported missing, but found today #
Bandnews.org
— a nicely-designed niche news aggregator for musician news; crawls tons of band sites #
8 million UMD movies sold for the PSP
— this is surprising to me; pretty great for a DRMed format that can only be watched on a PSP #
Cash donations relicense Eyes on the Prize
— this actually just makes the copyright problem worse, as Stay Free points out #
NYC subway flasher caught
— Flickr cameraphone photo that made NY Post front page leads to his capture #
The Onion redesigns, opens complete archives to all
— Khoi Vinh comments on his top-notch work on the redesign; the new archives go back to 1996 #
Lego Factory
— create and share digital Lego models, then buy custom-made kits of your designs (via) #
Credible rumors on the IM war
— Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL may be conspiring against Google Talk in the IM space (via) #
Matt Haughey writing reviews for the New York Times
— I've always wanted to see my name in all-caps Times New Roman #
Last Stand for First Sale
— sewing software publisher threatens woman who tries to sell her legal copy on eBay (via) #
Is MySpace deliberately ugly?
— also, could crappy visual design have contributed to eBay's success? (via) #
I am not responsible for making Google better
— concise counterpoint in the search engine spam debate with some good thoughts in the comments #
China tries to remove Internet icon from Web
— like always, Wikipedia's coverage of Sister Furong is essential #
Bricolage adds support for PHP templating
— the open-source CMS we use at work keeps getting better #
Chris Anderson on "just enough piracy"
— piracy can be useful, and there may be optimal piracy rates for different industries #
Tim O'Reilly responds to accusations of supporting search engine spammers
— thoughtful reply; this is a subtle issue that people are only now becoming aware of #
Leaked info on logging into Google's new Instant Messenger service
— using their Jabber-based IM with your Gmail username #
Dateline tracks down a porn spammer
— odd bit of investigative journalism turns up the owner, web host, and spammer of a bestiality site; Joey has more (via) #
O'Reilly's search engine spam
— read about this on my last day at Foo Camp, but couldn't get a quote from anyone there (via) #
Google running Jabber server, fueling rumors of IM tool announcement on Wednesday
— the talk.google.com domain resolves, too (via) #
Quake III source code released under GPL
— Slashdot thread on the quality of the code with comments by Carmack himself (via) #
Phone pirates in seek and steal mission
— thieves using Bluetooth phones near locked cars to find laptops to steal (via) #