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June 15, 2005
Video: Triumph vs. the Michael Jackson supporters — incidentally, iFilm's weekly top 100 is an good mish-mash of viral video #
TiVo demos beta of on-demand video downloading — also, appears to be playing videos from the local network #
Flickr to add photo book printing — though from a different company than their photo printing announcement (via) #
House subcommittee votes to eliminate funding for PBS, NPR — Sesame Street is on the chopping block; an ironic update to this classic e-mail petition (via) #
Casino carpet gallery — obsessive collection of bad carpeting from casinos (via) #
Phillip Torrone's excellent HOWTO on running homebrew code on the PSP — the best tutorial, by far #
Yahoo Change Map — heatmaps of Yahoo homepage changes over time #
MyBlogLog adds support for multiple blogs and referral program — I've been using this on Waxy Links for months and I love it; a simple app designed to do one thing perfectly #
mp3act, streaming MP3 jukebox — free and Ajax-enabled, but not as feature rich as Zina; requires PHP and MySQL (via) #
Anarchist Cookbook author disowns book on Amazon — but can't pull it out of print because of copyright quirks (via) #
Sony PSP 1.50 firmware swap trick — works fine, but requires two memory sticks; a good step, but not ideal (via) #
Target phases out VHS — a nail in the coffin of analog video; update: Wal-Mart still in the VHS game (via) #
Andre Torrez joins John Battelle's FM Publishing — welcome to the Boing Boing empire! #
June 14, 2005
$100,000 Poker Bot Tournament — finding the Deep Blue of Texas hold-em (via) #
PDF: Continental Airlines complaint — Snopes has more info about it #
MyScreencast — growing collection of screencast software demos (via) #
First thoughts on Odeo private beta — I have a good feeling about it (via) #
jwz switches from Linux to Mac — the Slashdot comments are entertaining, as usual #
Top Three Things Q*bert Is Pissed About Today — what a mouth on that guy (via) #
Flickr photos lead to Secret Service investigation — collage apparently isn't art, especially if you're a sysadmin (via) #
Yahoo acquires Blo.gs — a good deal for everyone involved #
Yahoo News beats Google News on Michael Jackson trial — Google could solve this with a single employee devoted to picking featured news stories (via) #
MIT Weblog Survey — aka: Help Cameron Marlow graduate #
Financial Times website using link spam — this is getting ridiculous #
Drug traffickers hiding drugs in printer cartridges — ironically, they still cost more when purchased retail (via) #
Homebrew cassette tape DJ — DJ Aptem from Russia built his own custom mixing deck #
YouTube — like Vimeo, wants to be Flickr for video (via) #
L.A. Times to introduce "wikitorials" — strangely, for their editorial page; oh well, there's always Wikinews (via) #
Video: Live-action Tetris — a lonely L block tries to find a fit; silliness from the Mega64 crew (via) #
Katie Holmes embraces Scientology — "she digs it," says Tom "Level 6 Alien Destroyer" Cruise (via) #
Wikipedia and the social construction of knowledge — also: I'm offering $50 to anyone able to automate the animation of Wikipedia revision history (via) #
Rumor: Latest PSP firmware cracked — PS2NFO has more info; they're saying the hack works on 1.50, but not 1.51 or 1.52 firmware (via) #
Video: Andrew Raff's commentary on an Arrested Development indecency complaint — great use of video for online commentary (via) #
Gamepal — rent leveled-up MMO characters, but the terms of service are bizarre (via) #
Technorati beta launched — no longer ugly! nice work, Derek and company (via) #
June 13, 2005
Ian Rogers on Yahoo Music Unlimited's "Mojo Filter" test — I've heard great things about this service, despite the limitations (via) #
EFF's Legal Guide for Bloggers — I could've used this at least five times last year (via) #
Contagious Media Showdown winners — 6 million pageviews to all the entries; I look forward to this again next year #
Lost Garden explains why Nintendogs is so innovative — the game's driving DS sales in Japan, and should be a huge hit here (via) #
Del.icio.us adds MP3, podcast support — a brilliant, built-in extension of Eric Rice's DIY podcasting tutorial (via) #
gCensus — Google Maps hack with US Census data down to the city block; how it works #
Tristan Lewis on the relationship between Technorati Top 100 and Google inbound links — Tristan's been doing some fantastic research lately #
June 9, 2005
Cringely thinks Apple and Intel are merging — wild speculation that they'll try to dethrone Microsoft (via) #
FeedLounge alpha announced — tagging feeds is brilliant and the UI looks like it blows away Bloglines and Rojo; I can't wait to try it (via) #
MP3s of ice cream truck music — keep an eye out for special treats this summer (via) #
Video: New "We Love Katamari" trailer — very entertaining Japanese trailer; here's the box art (via) #
Lego concept models on Flickr — I love this one, but they're all great #
OC Register on Jason Cosper and Preshrunk — boogah is one of my favorite blogger underdogs #
The RU Sirius Show — my old boss gets the podcasting bug #
Axing corporate graffiti — don't miss the building owner's rant in the comments #
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