August 16, 2005
Linux and Windows running on the PSP
— a healthy homebrew community keeps the platform alive, despite the lack of good games (via) #
Om Malik says Google building massive broadband network
— he speculates they could one day offer country-wide free wifi (via) #
Fiona Apple album to be released in October
— apparently, she wasn't happy with Jon Brion's production; stream a new track (via) #
BBS Documentary Video Collection on Archive.org
— as promised, Jason started uploading the raw interviews from his excellent documentary (via) #
Waxy goes on Vacation
— I'm taking the week off; in the meantime, try Populicious or my favorite sources for links #
Amazon's long tail shorter than previous estimates
— the original Wired article said 57%; new research shows closer to 25% #
Video: OS X running on generic Intel hardware?
— OSx86 project claims it's not fake, but it's currently slow and unstable #
"Phil Collins Minus One" and other radio station promo scams
— MP3s of a fake interview album and some good station identifiers #
Complete scan of Mickey Mouse vs the Air Pirates
— the infringing comic book that launched Disney's copyright war (via) #
Wikipedia to tighten editorial controls?
— the Wikimedia board says Jimmy Wales was misquoted (via) #
Video of the San Francisco bouncy balls
— the photos of the Sony commercial shoot made the rounds last week; high-res video here (via) #
JJG interviews Eric Costello on the history of Flickr
— they've influenced the entire industry with their ability to adapt quickly to user wants and needs #
Google blacklists CNet reporters
— because of information about CEO Eric Schmidt in this previous article? #
Jason Scott partnering with Archive.org to host raw interviews from BBS Documentary
— all under a CC license; over time, this is even more important than the documentary itself #
A Rocket to Nowhere
— Maciej Ceglowski's excellent article on the problems with NASA's manned space flight program #
Ask Mefi on porn in the woods
— growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I'd never encountered this phenomenon #
Assembly 2005 awards and releases
— the PC demoscene continues to amaze; don't miss the Che Guevara and Fiat Homo 64k demos #
Wired News interviews Mike Lynn on Cisco security flaw
— bizarre story; ISS asked him to do it and wanted to release it to hurt Cisco? #
WFMU's answer songs roundup with MP3s
— also: don't miss their MP3 Download Dinner Bell for August #
Follow-up on the Aristocrats conspiracy theory
— that settles it; definitely not a Penn Jillette hoax #
Greasemonkey 0.5 beta released
— closes those nasty security holes, and adds some new features too #
Flickr Explore!
— holy crap, this is cool; also, interesting photos in the last 24 hours and clustering for all tags #
Technorati's State of the Blogosphere, August 2005
— 80,000 blogs created daily, blogosphere still doubling every five months #
Mercury News on Bram Cohen and the future of BitTorrent
— evolving from a protocol to a company, they recently met with the MPAA in Burbank #
How many punch cards would it take to fit a 3-minute MP3?
— answer: without error checking, 36,864 cards reading 206 cards per second (via) #
Cory Doctorow on Apple's apparent switch to "Trusted Computing" CPU DRM
— for everything Apple does right, a huge step in the wrong direction #
ScummVM emulator ported to Nintendo DS
— it plays all the classic Lucasarts adventures, like Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle #
Did Penn Jillette invent the Aristocrats joke?
— fun conspiracy theory; the earliest I could find was in a Jackie Martling book from 1998 (via) #