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 #
Eric Meyer on hCalendar and Upcoming.org
— we haven't announced it yet, but there's full hCal support on Upcoming #
Matt Haughey on the problem with ads in RSS feeds
— exactly why I don't show ads to logged-in users on Upcoming.org #
Video: SMS vs. Morse Code speed contest on Leno
— one of the Morse guys comments several times in this thread (via) #
Alice's roundup of geeky cakes
— also: iPod mini, iPod shuffle, Playstation, PSP, Xbox, and Blackberry cakes #
Piggy Bank extension turns Firefox into a semantic web browser
— deep and interesting app; read more from one of the developers (via) #
Feedication, collect your data from other web services
— pull from services like Flickr and Delicious, but doesn't displaying ads on Flickr photos violate their non-commercial clause? (via) #
Xbox 360 dashboard screenshots
— nice IM and game downloads, but the tabs look a little confusing and ugly (via) #
Nick Bradbury on RSS spam and spyware
— the EXE enclosures are fixable, but RSS blog spam is harder #
Bram Cohen to launch BitTorrent search engine
— drawing attention to infringing uses of BT is a hugely bad idea #
Upcoming.org users create MovableType plugin and Python, Java, Ruby libraries
— plus, we added related tags like on the "apple" page #