June 26, 2005
Insanely great history of Suck.com
— interviews with nearly everyone involved; so very good, read this now #
NYT profile of Party Poker
— online gambling is technically illegal in the U.S., but nobody seems to mind their $600m earnings in 2004 #
NY Times promotes Bugmenot
— very strange; refers to "newspaper marketers" and "those annoying site registrations" #
Jason Scott's update on his podcast collection project
— he's collected about 700GB of podcasts so far #
Another World homebrew port for the GBA
— free conversion by the original author; found on 1UP's great feature on console emulation (via) #
Hacking the flag-burning amendment
— using legal loopholes to make a statement; you can't keep a good dissident down (via) #
Report finds most people don't consider downloading digital media as theft
— technically, it's not theft; it's illegal duplication (via) #
eBay launches open-source Community Codebase effort
— more importantly, they're allowing 10,000 API calls monthly for individuals (via) #
Crying While Eating creator discusses the rise of the meme
— they say that I linked to it first; go me! #
Gizmodo's history of the Scientology E-Meter
— never trust a religion that hooks you up to lie detectors #
Annalee Newitz on stringent new porn recordkeeping laws
— won't somebody think of the children? (via) #
Mad Hot Ballroom documentary markers encounter with the music copyright cartel
— egregious examples of copyright hell; one publisher asked for $10k to clear a ringtone #
Google Sightseeing points out new highlights to Google Maps
— finding the neat stuff in their newly expanded global satellite photos #
First look at Apple's Intel Macs
— Windows XP installs fine on them, but OS X for Intel won't install on generic PCs (via) #
Neopets sold to Viacom for $160 million
— the kids' gaming site is one of social software's biggest successes, but nobody's paying attention (via) #
PSP no-swap homebrew loader released
— no more swapping memory sticks! huge news for the PSP homebrew scene; more mirrors; how it works (via) #
Google not competing with Paypal
— Eric Schmidt said it won't involve direct user-to-user payments (via) #
Flickr Montager
— automated photo mosaics using Flickr; it must be hammering their servers, though (via) #
YubNub's most popular commands
— quite a community has popped up around the Rails Day contest entry #
Foxit, freeware Windows alternative to Acrobat Reader
— Acrobat sucks so bad, nearly anything else is better (via) #
Reblg, universal "Blog This" button generator
— not to be confused with the outstandingly awesome reBlog project (via) #
Playlist Magazine interviews Evan Williams about Odeo
— recording in the browser is the best feature, I think #
Lonely Google searchers form ad hoc community
— where people that type "i am lonely" into Google find solace (via) #
Tristan compares how Yahoo and Google index the blogosphere
— surprising results: Yahoo is indexing blogs better than Google #
Universal adapting American McGee's Alice game to the screen
— starring Sarah Michelle Gellar as the goth Alice in Wonderland, this could be awful (via) #
Ilya's thoughts on his involvement with the LA Times wiki project
— though it failed, this kind of media experimentation should be commended instead of ridiculed #
Movie industry cracks down on copyrighted pinatas
— fasinating article about L.A.'s homebrew pinata cottage industry (via) #
Snopes on the Ketchup Trousers e-mail
— he's rumored to have resigned because of the notorious e-mail forward #