February 4, 2005
Fighting crime with Photoshop
— Toronto police posted altered versions of crime scene photographs found in Usenet, leading to a positive ID #
Video: Make Mine Shoebox
— sarcastic internal corporate video made for Hallmark Cards with a great 1950s feel (via) #
Why social software makes poor recommendations
— short answer: your real-world friends have bad taste #
Rob Schneider buys full-page L.A. Times ad to defend Deuce Bigalow 2
— attacks a film critic over a snide comment (via) #
The Measure of All Things
— short fiction about bioengineered living dinosaur toys; more info (via) #
College basketball player shoots 87 foot winning shot
— then does it again for the local news; video clips viewable for both #
The Onion interviews Will Wright and Howard Scott Warshaw
— this launches the Onion's new weekly coverage of gaming (via) #
Behind the scenes with Alone in the Dark's original screenwriter
— quotes e-mails by Uwe Boll, but consider the source (via) #
Dave argues against combining feeds
— or: why you'll never find daily links or Flickr photos in my main feed #
Spam zombies to trigger e-mail meltdown
— the infected PCs send mail as infected users through major ISPs, bypassing all blacklists #
MSN search's retarded copyright policy for RSS feeds
— you can't use them anywhere but in a personal RSS reader #
Del.icio.us top gatherers of the month
— wonderful analysis of who posts the most interesting links before anyone else #
Nintendo DS, dissected and annotated
— Lik-Sang posted another dissection last year with many more photos (via) #
Virginia school district's screening of Eyes on the Prize shut down
— the copyright holder is as clueless as the copyright laws preventing its distribution #
Wired News on folksonomies
— yet another in a long line of Terdiman articles quoting people I know #
Coachella 2005 lineup announced
— strange that bands like Sloan and Spoon are buried in the lineup (via) #
Charting the sharing frequency of Del.icio.us links
— raises the question of researching Del.icio.us point of entry (via) #
Video: Mashup of "Paperback Writer" and "I'm a Believer"
— fan-made music video matched to GHP's flawless mashup #
Register UK's interview with a comment spammer
— nothing new here, but it's good to know thy enemy (via) #
TiVo launches Home Media Engine SDK
— PVRBlog is hosting a gallery of apps, and TiVo is running a programming contest #
Video: Gene Kelly breakdancing in VW Golf commercial
— great editing, but crass exploitation of the dead (via) #
Video: IBM's The Information Machine
— animated film directed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1958, with an Elmer Bernstein score (via) #
Steven Johnson's semantic research system
— desktop and web search tools need this functionality (via) #
Del tha Funkee Homosapien performs at the Dreamcast launch party in 1999
— don't miss the video of Del performing the gaming-focused song "Proto Culture" (via) #
Angie Hart on the bitter breakup and new reunion of Frente!
— there's a new song up on Myspace, but it just doesn't have the same sense of wonder #
Matt Biddulph made two new Del.icio.us hacks
— a tool that detects similarly-named tags, and a Firefox extension that embeds Del.icio.us into the BBC website (via) #