November 22, 2004
Google sets up shop next to Microsoft
— it's fun watching the Google VP tapdance around their obvious motives (via) #
Origins of the Hopkin Green Frog meme
— Mike tracks down the frog's owner; I love this kind of thing (via) #
Radiohead, fair use, and the evils of copyright
— an author's tale of meeting Radiohead and licensing their songs for his book #
Album: People Like Us's "Abridged Too Far"
— remixed audio plundered from the Prelinger Archives, among other sources (via) #
Debate about Firefox not supporting image tooltips for ALT tags
— someone wrote an extension to emulate IE's behavior #
Flash: EPIC, a prediction of the Google-enabled future
— if this is the dystopian future, count me in (via) #
Vicepoker, free strip poker game for the Gameboy Advance
— possibly the first porn for Nintendo's kid-friendly handheld? (via) #
Textfiles.com gets a threatening letter from a catheter manufacturer
— they want him to remove enema references in years-old BBS text files (via) #
Library of Congress putting 30 million newspapers online
— papers published from 1836 through 1922, and available by 2006 (via) #
2004 Interactive Fiction competition results
— Dan Shiovitz and Andrew Plotkin posted their reviews of all the free games (via) #
TiVo to add banner ads when fast forwarding
— as Matt said in the article, this is a slippery slope (via) #
Edelman on Grokster's outrageous spyware package
— no less than 15 bundled programs; some install even if you hit Cancel! #
PDF: Ben Edelman's economic analysis of Google Answers
— many researchers answer questions at night, for around $8-10/hour #
US senator's portfolios beating the market by 12 percent
— likely insider trading, but the SEC won't investigate (via) #
BusinessWeek piece on corporate blogging software
— KnowNow is charging $50k to $100k for blog software? insane (via) #