May 31, 2005
Concerned, a comic made with the Half-Life 2 engine
— if you've played the game, this is funny (via) #
Ex-FBI official states he's Deep Throat
— he denied it to Slate back in 1999, but he's been the likely culprit for years #
Videocrab's E3travaganza
— entertaining photos and stories from E3 2005, including the classic gaming exhibit #
Phrack publishes final issue
— end of an era; I've been reading the hacking e-zine since 1991 (via) #
Ringtone beats Coldplay to top of UK charts
— it's a dance remix of a ringtone mixed with Axel F; the video #
All Consuming joins the Robot Co-op
— how did I miss this last week? a natural move for Erik and company (via) #
JWZ on the Royal de Luxe parade
— massive French marionettes with beautiful backstory; see the insanely cool photos and video #
Fabricating video game objects in real life
— uses HijackGL; I'd love to see sets of videogame object miniatures like this #
Blake Ross's roundup of college newspapers link farms
— including, sadly, my alma mater's daily newspaper #
MP3: Interview with Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair
— they cover the history of Boing Boing, from zine to Xeni #
Blake Ross digs up link spam on the Stanford Daily site
— there are many spam blog entries linking to Stanford Daily with the "diet pills" keyword, too #
Yahoo! Mindset
— brilliant idea, a slider moving from commercial to non-commercial web results (via) #
Wikitrivia adds categories and images
— a little quirky, but I got 8 out of 10 in the Blogs category #
NYT on falling box office attendance
— they blame DVD sales, PVRs, video-on-demand, video games, and the Internet #
Mike Doughty busks outside his own Seattle concert
— one of my favorite live performers, this should be a good EP #
Andrew Leonard commentary on Star Wars BitTorrent busts
— hit this link after viewing the page to read the whole story #
Podcasting Star Wars: Winer vs. Curry
— silly little drama, but don't miss Winer's MP3 response; he sounds heavily stoned #
All Threadless shirts $10 until June 6
— three of my all-time fav are in stocks: Goatse (safe for work), The Internet, Pirate #
Worst web application you've ever seen
— unbelievably bad UI scraped from a mainframe terminal app (via) #
Homeland Security busts Elite Torrents
— they say it's the first criminal action in the US against a BitTorrent tracker #
Abusing Amazon images
— every image on the page is generated dynamically from Amazon's server (via) #
Analysis of posting activity by popular blog
— around 30 entries per day, with less than 150 words per entry #
FOX issuing takedown notices to Star Wars downloaders
— is anyone surprised? if you used BitTorrent, you're an uploader too (via) #
reFeed 1.3 released
— web-based feedreader designed for high-volume feeds and linkblog integration; try the demo #