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July 16, 2005

Daddy Types on parents reading their nanny's blog in the NYT

— with a link to a long response by the nanny in question #

Review of Japanese PSP porn title

— the game mode is very Mystique via Delicious #

Video: 7 Words You Can't Say in Kindergarden

— man, Nat’s kids are adorable #
July 15, 2005

Video: Something Awful interview on G4 TV

— read the backstory and watch the video; a must see #

Django, like Rails for Python

— outstanding new web framework by Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison; read the overview #

Tripods, a multiplayer Google Maps game

— not too fun to play, but a great concept #
July 14, 2005

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 Populicio.us #

TorrentFlux

— server-side BitTorrent download manager in PHP via Populicio.us #

Optimus keyboard

— jaw-dropping keyboard concept with each key as an LCD display via Populicio.us #

Flash: le Pate a Son

— ethereal interactive music maker via Boing Boing #

MovableType 3.2 beta released

— tons of good stuff in this release #

Forbes' 10th anniversary profile of Netscape

— also: MP3 turns 10 years old today via Slashdot #
July 13, 2005

Justin Frankel releases Ninjam

— real-time music jamming over the Internet via Nelson Minar #

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 iptablog.org #

Google Video adds "playable video" filter

— using it, I found these guys plugging Waxy Links at the 7 minute mark via @googleblog #

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 #

Replacement Docs

— over 2,700 game manuals, scanned and archived for posterity via Delicious #

Hyperlinks in Print, part 3

— ongoing look at visual representation of hypertext in print; parts one and two via Eyebeam #

tag(1), Del.icio.us-style file tagging in Unix

— this is weird, but could be a useful view via Populicio.us #
July 12, 2005

This Spartan Life

— live talk show using the Halo engine via Fimoculous #

Internet Archive sued for archiving copyrighted content

— raises all sorts of depressing intellectual property issues; nice debunking via Delicious #

"Real-life" VR inside Second Life

— very meta; visiting a busy SF city street from within Second Life #

Audio: Teller reviews a magic biography on NPR

— the smaller, quieter half of Penn and Teller speaks! via Delicious #

Classical labels attacking BBC for free Beethoven downloads

— they’re in the public domain, so it’s fair game via Larry Lessig #

XHTML quick start templates

— brilliant set of bare-bones templates to get a design off the ground via Populicio.us #

Image: Love Your Job

— just one of those days; more by the same author #
July 11, 2005

Glitch exposes Netflix Player

— glimpse into downloadable movies through Netflix? via Jeremy Zawodny #

Paul's Personalized Google News

— Google News circa 2031 via Kottke #

VNC for the PSP

— control your desktop remotely from your PSP via Gizmodo #

Wikipedia list of Price Is Right minigame

— includes a link to this collection of game screenshots via Delicious #
July 10, 2005

Flash: Planarity game

— for people who detangle Christmas tree lights for fun; I got to level 9 via Delicious #

Nat rounds up new map hacks

— the legal geocoding extension to Google News is interesting #

Flash: Chaos Theory

— addictive and simply chain reaction game via Delicious #

2005 Web Cartoonist's Awards winners announced

— lots of good work here via Simon Carless #

Newsweek reveals Karl Rove was Matt Cooper's source

— is it selfish to be excited that Upcoming.org is mentioned in the same issue? #

Battlefield 2 player statistics

— the average player has 30 deaths/hour; download the Python code #

Flickr plugin for Xbox Media Center

— you’ll need to chip your Xbox, but it’s worth it via Populicio.us #

Namco kills Pac-Man dashboard widget

— it’s available here, so get it quick #
July 9, 2005

Tim O'Reilly on Perl's relevancy

— his trend analysis of the programming book market from last month is a great read via O'Reilly Radar #

ESPN reporter tracks down infamous Cubs fan Steve Bartman

— I tracked the the Cubs Fan meme back in 2003, but most of the links are dead #
July 8, 2005

Does A Duck Have A Soul?

— the controversy over delicious, but extremely cruel, foie gras via Tom Coates #

First-hand account of the London train bombing

— don’t miss the followup #

London Tube logo reworked as protest image

— striking design #

Yahoo testing blog/RSS searching

— ideally, I want to filter on blog-only posts with a date sorting option #

Research shows lab-grown meat possible on an industrial scale

— Stem Cell Steak, here we come via MetaFilter #

Yahoo Video Search out of beta

— unlike Google Video, crawling the web and Archive.org for video #

Psychedelic Christian Radio MP3s from 1967

— these are ridiculously good; a genre I never knew existed #
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