May 5, 2005
iPod shuffle captures 58 percent of Flash MP3 player market in six months
— and Apple owns 90 percent of the hard drive-based market (via) #
PSP UMD format cracked, game ISOs appear online
— don't hold your breath for an emulator any time soon (via) #
SEO Inc. sends a cease and desist to Google Blogoscoped
— they have no case, but it's hard to fight even groundless lawsuits; read the Google cached story before it's gone #
Video: Montage of clips from Rosie O'Donnell's TV melodrama
— the funniest thing I've seen all year; more details #
Long article on DDoS extortion in the online gambling industry
— Eastern European hackers using zombie networks to shut down gambling sites that won't pay (via) #
Loews Theaters to publish actual movie start times
— "10 to 15 minutes"? on Sunday, I waited through 20 minutes of commercials and trailers #
Mashup of Google Maps and Yahoo Traffic feeds
— even though Yahoo was first, it functions better on Google Maps (via) #
Metababy back online with Typekey logins
— launched in November 1998, Metababy was an early cousin to modern wikis but recently taken offline by rampant vandalism #
Roger Ebert and Daniel Woodburn on the derogatory use of "midget"
— The Station Agent's Peter Dinklage doesn't agree (via) #
Oberkampf, Flickr-powered PHP photo gallery
— very customizable, with nice utility functions (via) #
Protected Storage PassView
— Windows freeware utility to decrypt all saved passwords from Internet Explorer and Outlook Express #
Google Web Accelerator for Windows
— a Google proxy cache, but like other proxies, will muck with website stats and ad reporting (via) #
NY Observer article on Bob Saget's dirty mind
— mentions the Aristocrats joke; I'm still hosting the South Park version (extremely offensive) (via) #
Video: Bright Eyes performs "When the President Talks to God" on Jay Leno
— Leno: "great job, buddy!" #
flickRate, enchanced ratings for Flickr photos
— the Greasemonkey script integrates the rating function inline #
Tumbleweed Dispenser on Halfbakery
— some other recent favs: Arrggh!, Puzzle Prison, Airplane Seat Guestbooks, Pincushion Ceiling/Floors, and Pedagotchi #
Tear-Away Pringles Canister
— Halfbakery is a great source for half-insane ideas; here's my personal view of the last month's top ideas #
37signals' Backpack goes live
— brilliant and very flexible web-based PIM, with adding data by e-mail, RSS changes, and a very loose wiki style #
Video: Jon Udell explains simple single sign-ons
— using this Javascript MD5 bookmarklet, which could also be a Firefox extension #
Backfence, local community sites
— only in two areas of Virginia for now, but I like the community-edited approach #
Jeremy Keith's Adactio Elsewhere
— pulling together personal information from disparate sources is a theme this year #
1UP's hands-on preview of Katamari sequel
— the Prince is controlled by Katamari fans; warning: audio on first page (via) #
Abandoned Japanese amusement park photos
— much more urban decay on the same site, including this odd Gulliver attraction; see also, Defunct Parks (via) #
Kottke roundup of bad Tiger headlines
— I'm hoping cute headlines die off completely in an RSS-enabled news landscape #
Gamespot's hands-on preview of Shadow of the Colossus
— the new PS2 game by the team that made ICO (via) #
Der Spiegel grills Tom Cruise about his Scientology beliefs
— Steven Spielberg catches some heat, too (via) #
Designline, design timeline
— animated GIF of every step of the contruction of a new CSS-based blog design (via) #