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April 7, 2005
— Mplayer, Freevo, and MythTV are all built on top of VLC via joi.ito.com #
— plus, Wikipedia results will show inline on Yahoo searches via joi.ito.com #
April 6, 2005
— don’t miss the wonderful audio samples buried in the Flash site #
— angry readers write in over “Popular Photography” April 1 prank #
— he has a master’s in soil chemistry!? #
— adorable documentary about a children’s ballroom dancing competition via MetaFilter #
— some very interesting social experiments in the game world via futurismic.com #
— unlike Suprnova and its ilk, this one hosted only commercially unavailable bootleg concerts #
— a brief story about a DVD shop pretending to be a restaurant via iptablog.org #
— Gawker’s new tabloid-style blog; in your face, Drudge! via Matt Haughey #
— also: Alan’s much larger annotated screenshot on Flickr via Kottke #
— table that plays CDs without even opening the case via Eyebeam #
— surprisingly positive review via Delicious #
— play “Where’s Waldo” with 74,000 Flickr buddy icons #
April 5, 2005
— pick a price, upload your torrent, and buyers pay with Paypal to download #
— even though they’re standing in front of a theater that won’t play Episode III #
— it inspired a new Memory Maps group #
— we’ve been cranking on the site; go check it out #
— I love a spirited rant #
April 4, 2005
— an inspired part of TeeVee’s brilliant April 1 prank, if you missed it #
— insanely cool to switch back and forth via Fimoculous #
— tracking NYT stories with real-time reactions from blogs via Fimoculous #
— “Turn off the lights and I’ll glow.” via punkassbitch.com #
— don’t miss the last graf; “trying to control music sharing … is like trying to control an affair of the heart” #
— strangely, AP doesn’t mention “Joe” at all #
— John Hughes directing; will the very depressing Breakfast Club 2 be next? #
— wow, I could imagine using this on many projects unrelated to Yahoo via Philipp Lenssen #
— hard to believe, but here’s an interview with them via Delicious #
— Paul Ford is a great writer, and this made me sad via Delicious #
April 3, 2005
— the finished product was one of my favorite April 1 gags #
— persistance of vision with quickly rotating LEDs via Hackaday #
— nothing new here, but the most mainstream coverage so far via Delicious #
— here’s a small gallery of inspired artwork via MetaFilter #
— Circuit City and CompUSA to follow via Delicious #
— a great guide to finding free stock photos online via Populicio.us #
April 1, 2005
— try refreshing a few times for tributes to Kottke, Cederholm, Dominey, and Santa Maria #
— Andy Serkis, as Son of Kong, will fight the Nazis in WWII; a brilliant and convincing prank #
— The Rock signed on to play the Prince of All Cosmos #
— looks like the merger rumors were true #
— looks like those big VC bucks are already paying off #
— this is terribly sad, he was one of the best teachers I’ve ever had via MetaFilter #
— I think he has a chance #
— Grohl is pushing the envelope with their new sound #
— Nintendo DS emulator for the Tapwave Zodiac #
— Bloggy’s blog is more interesting than 80% of human blogs #
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