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October 27, 2004

Secret Service visits a Livejournal user

— blog rule #36: never say you’re going to kill the president via Jeremy Zawodny #

Milner's Descriptive Atlas from 1850

— fascinating and pioneering information design via wherethreadscomeloose.com #

I'm Not That Adam Levine

— phone messages meant for the lead singer of Maroon 5 #

Ashlee Simpson-branded iPod

— the karaoke edition #

GTA San Andreas to beat game sales record

— at $225m, it would be the biggest opening week across all media; Spider-Man 2 was only $192m #

Wil Wheaton plays a news reporter in GTA San Andreas

— the rest of the voice talent includes George Clinton, Chuck D, Ice-T, James Woods, David Cross, Axl Rose, and Charlie Murphy! via Simon Carless #

Video: Super Mario Ice Capades from 1989

— starring Jason Bateman, Alyssa Milano, and Mr. Belvedere as Koopa; more info via Boing Boing #

President Bush election site blocking non-US visitors

— banning his overseas supporters seems like a bad move via Boing Boing #
October 26, 2004

Kaki King's Playing with Pink Noise

— very good acoustic guitar noise #

Billboard debuts Top Ringtone charts

— the global ringtone market was $3.5 billion in 2003!? #

Howard Stern drops in on FCC head Michael Powell's radio interview

— it’s at 32:20 in the heated and excellent MP3 #

Glucoboy

— children’s glucose meter for the Gameboy Advance via Boing Boing #

Super Mario-playing Lego robot

— man, Engadget is finding really great stuff lately via Engadget #

XM MyFi, portable XM Radio receiver

— at $350, it’s way too expensive via Engadget #

iPod Photo

— 60 GB of music and photo storage for $600, plus AV out via Engadget #

Guns return to Disneyland's Jungle Cruise

— the guns even had their own urban legends via John Walkenbach #

Sony PSP on the cover of Newsweek

— the cover headline is “Saving Sony” via Joystiq #

Sim Horror, a massive haunted house in Second Life

— the game world continually rewards creativity #

NYT's unfocused article on web memes

— it feels like it was thrown together overnight #

Republican insider e-mails accidentally sent to georgewbush.org

— his real site is .com, not .org via The Morning News #

TextArc, Java applet visualization of large texts

via Ethan Marcotte #

Legendary DJ John Peel, RIP

— sad day; this site has MP3s of songs he played #
October 25, 2004

MP3: Wired Magazine's Creative Commons CD

— download the free and legal torrent, here’s a track list via Simon Carless #

The Web's Favorite Words

— googling “my favorite word is *” #

Spinalcat, amazing DIY optical turntable made with a CueCat

— don’t miss the photos and the 83-page thesis PDF via Jason Cosper #

Apple adds game trailers

— but only for Mac games, which isn’t much via Delicious #

Google Answers on how to whistle loudly

— you just put your lips together and blow, hard! #

Correlating "cool cities" with blogging culture

— he uses Meetup, Upcoming.org, and Craig’s List as sources in his study #

Ask Mefi on overly accurate domain names

— growing list of one-page domains via Delicious #

Amazon adds uploading of user's product photos

— user generated media to complement user reviews via Jeremy Zawodny #

Foxylicious

— easily integrate your Delicious bookmarks into Firefox via Delicious #

Fun World, abandoned Disney World mod for GTA Vice City

— the Half-Life 2 engine would be perfect for a Disneyland mod #

Snopes on the Beach Boys' recorded sex sounds

— including an MP3 excerpt from 1969’s “20/20” album #
October 24, 2004

Something Awful's Misinterpreted Movie Posters

— if movie titles were the literal description of the poster via b3ta #

I'm Feeling Spendy

— put in a price, find a random Amazon product; another version here via b3ta #

Ashlee Simpson's disastrous SNL performance last night

— she walked off after the wrong lip-sync track was played, more details #
October 23, 2004

XM Radio launching wearable receiver next week?

— I’m sure people would pay for an XM-aware MP3 player via Simon Carless #

Forbes' list of top-earning fictional characters for 2004

via Simon Carless #
October 22, 2004

Flickr now lists related tags

— unbelievable, we were just talking about this idea today #

Socks the Cat, unreleased SNES game

— yes, that’s Bill Clinton on the cover via Simon Carless #

Video game censorship on the NES

— a history of Nintendo’s ridiculous content changes #

Some truly awful political chart design

— someone get them this book, stat! #

The Children's Scientology Pageant

— an all-kid ensemble humorously acts out the L. Ron Hubbard story via LiveJournal #

Video: Lie Girls

— phone sex parody of the Bush administration via Delicious #

Crash Ballet contest winners

— Coudal readers set NASA crash videos to music via 37signals.com #

LED Porn

— nicely designed and photographed via 217.172.178.173 #

Gizmodo's outstanding analysis of DVD's successor

— they predict a clear win for Blu-Ray over HD DVD via Nelson Minar #

Google volunteer translators strike back

— the message is perfect for CAPS LOCK DAY via Philipp Lenssen #

TODAY IS CAPS LOCK DAY

— RANDOM SILLINESS FROM THE MEFI PEANUT GALLERY via emptybottle.org #

Video: Conan O' Brien show on outsourcing

— they send a writer to an India tech support center via Octopus Dropkick #
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