Halfbakery idea for Google Minus Button
— badly needed, and would also provide aggregate stats to Google for removing spam #
SNES9x emulator ported to the PSP
— all these hacks require the Japanese 1.0 firmware, which Sony is quickly forcing out (via) #
Ariel Atom 2
— don't miss the video review (full-screen torrent); I've never lusted after a car before this (via) #
Adam Kempa's roundup of vinyl video
— video encoded on grooved albums and neat zoetrope animations on records #
Elizabeth Gilbert on the worst wedding toast ever
— just finishing up a toast for my mom's wedding tonight (via) #
Flickr switches from Flash to Ajax
— that was quick! the notes work well with heavily annotated photos #
Outfoxed, Firefox extension to socially annotate the web
— extensively documented and clever thesis project; read the nutshell intro (via) #
UFOs on Google Maps
— a commenter posted link to several other identical UFOs, all in a grid (via) #
Scientology losing ground to new Fictionology
— "we offer our preclear followers procedures to erase overts in the reactive mind" (via) #
Photos of 28 course, 7.5 hour tasting menu at Alinea restaurant
— read more about this remarkable new restaurant (via) #
Broadcast Machine preview released
— publish RSS video channels, distributing the bandwidth with Blog Torrent #
Google ponders Blogger, Gmail integration
— also: privacy options and native photo uploading (via) #
E3's "I Love Katamari" ball
— a giant ball of stuff to be contributed by E3 attendees; should be fun (via) #
Frank Zappa's Proposal For A System To Replace Ordinary Record Merchandising
— from 1983, he saw the future of streaming digital audio distribution from the network; as seen in the Frank Zappa Book (via) #
BBC Backstage
— open API, feeds, and tools for remixing BBC content; if only all media was this open (via) #
Video: Katamari Damacy creator's lecture from Game Developers Conference 2005
— hour-long discussion of the game design, with hand puppets! (via) #
Platypus, Firefox extension for inline editing of Greasemonkey'd sites
— edit the content and layout of websites, and save the changes as a Greasemonkey script; here's the correct location of the broken link (via) #
Wired News releases internal source review
— Gelf Magazine, who originally broke the story of a Wired News reporter fabricating sources, follows up with an Adam Penenburg interview (via) #
Yahoo News tag soup
— automatic tagging of Yahoo News feeds, using the content analysis web service #
Hilary Rosen complains about iTunes DRM
— completely hypocritical, to the point of Bizarro-world surrealism (via) #
Apple insider posting regularly to Slashdot?
— see their interesting comments on the iTunes Store selling video; other recent comments (via) #
SAT writing test rewards length and ignores errors
— the longer the essay, the higher the score (via) #
L.A. Times redesigns to 1024 pixel fixed width
— unlike WaPo and IHT, they're putting more than just ads on the far right; also, CalendarLive is free again #
Official Mr. Clean forums
— a strange community of cleaning product fans, with their own trolls, in-jokes, fanfic, and more (via) #
Geotagging Flickr with Greasemonkey and Google Maps
— amazing hack! sets the bar for how manual geotagging should be done online (via) #
Binary Bonsai's Live Archives
— intelligent ways of browsing blog archives, powered by a new Wordpress plugin #
Greasemonkey blows up business models
— some great thoughts on why Greasemonkey is important, and a great idea for a Netflix-BitTorrent script (via) #
Image: Episode III merchandising goes too far
— if you thought the lawn sprinkler was bad; from the SA goons (via) #
Apple Widget of Mass Destruction
— blueprint for auto-installing spyware widget you can't remove; very dangerous #