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November 9, 2004
How to play flipbook videos on the iPod Photo — it's like a $600 digital Mutoscope! #
Google hosting the new Firefox 1.0 start page — interesting move for Google #
Mozilla Firefox 1.0 released — the best consumer product out of the open-source movement #
November 8, 2004
Koders, a search engine for source code — search the source of thousands of open-source projects (via) #
Microsoft's Bedlam DL3 mailing list ordeal — 15,000,000 internal "me too!" e-mails consumed 195GB in less than two days (via) #
Vintage snapshots from the '50s, '60s and early '70s — from the always-good Imaginary World #
Strongbad E-Mail DVD — the first 100 e-mails on three discs with lots of extras, buy it now (via) #
Imitating Flickr's annotations in DHTML — very impressive (via) #
Google Answers on the economics of coffeehouse wifi — plus, a good discussion of the free vs. fee debate #
DJ Riko's MP3 mashup mixes — the longer mixes, like "Latter Day Taints," are excellent #
Terrible "Six Feet Under" headlines — headline writers have a pun field day #
Celebrity candids on Flickr — nice recent shots of Peter Jackson #
Gmail snooping for illegal attachments? — rumor: one user's account cancelled for keygens and cracks in his inbox (via) #
IMSmarter, free IM enhancement proxy — I've been using the beta for months, very cool (via) #
Pricenoia, on-the-fly comparison of Amazon's global sites — with real-time currency conversion and estimated shipping (via) #
Adrian Tomine's New Yorker cover — Seth's cover was nice, too #
November 7, 2004
404 error in a textbook — common Microsoft Word error slips into print (via) #
Movie: Jon Udell demonstratesvoice dictation software — hypnotic demo of this software (via) #
November 6, 2004
Real-life landmarks in GTA San Andreas — I wonder if they modeled my office building (via) #
42 Entertainment — the company behind ILoveBees finally revealed (via) #
Reuters overview of BitTorrent — surprisingly, with links to legal torrent sites! yay! #
When web designers retaliate — the site was originally designed by this guy #
November 5, 2004
10×10, hourly snapshot of 100 words and pictures from the current news — well designed, by the Wordcount guy (via) #
Half-Life 2 SDK released — would someone please make a Disneyland mod for me? (via) #
Our Traditional Non-Traditional Wedding — Wired's Steve Silberman on being a married gay man (via) #
Tivo adds show permalinks — they coincidentally added it the same day George requested it #
Capture the Map — a strategic game using the Google API (via) #
Furdlog on the MPAA's new anti-piracy campaign — don't miss their delusional glossary #
Obesity raising airline fuel costs (via) #
Blendie, the scream-controlled blender — also: ScreamBody, the wearable scream recorder (via) #
Cringely on TV2ME — is there an open-source howto for doing this? #
November 4, 2004
Improv Anywhere's Best Gig Ever — the guerilla improv troupe's other conquests are amazing, like The Hypnotist, Ted's Birthday, and Writers Against Piracy (via) #
How many cookies are inside Cookie Dough Ice Cream? — answer: two not very good cookies (via) #
2004 county election map, with proportional colors — a very different picture than this (via) #
Video: New Star Wars teaser trailer — currently "members only" on Starwars.com #
Gamestop stop Nintendo DS preorders — also: DS games will be $30, cheaper than GBA games (via) #
More details on the MPAA's pending lawsuits against movie filesharers — they posted several press releases about the actions #
Sales in virtual goods top $100 million — Castranova added up auction sales to get the lowball estimate #
Postal Service agrees to cross-promotion with USPS — bizarre terms of the band name's settlement #
Fox reporting that Ashcroft is resigning — also, they're saying Colin Powell may be leaving too #
November 3, 2004
Mario Quilt  #
Canada 2.0 — this made me laugh #
Mikester's background on today's Boondocks strip — their long lead times cause them to sidestep timely news #
Electing to Leave — a reader's guide to expatriating on November 3 (via) #
November 2, 2004
Visualizations of five years of Plasticbag blog postings — looks like Processing is a good environment for infoviz (via) #
Cartoon Network airing same Harvey Birdman episode 24 times tonight — to encourage people to watch something more important (via) #
Andy Baio hates Slurpees — he's referring to my very first entry; you should read the rest of Otto's site #
Eagle Scout shoots, kills atheist — don't miss the last sentence of the article (via) #
An hour-by-hour guide to election results — also: what to watch for on election night #
Eminem's Mosh video is hammering the Internet Archive's gigabit connection — it's been downloaded about a million times from them alone (via) #
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