September 15, 2004
Oprah gives a new Pontiac to every audience member
— they go ballistic for free soap, so this must have led to several deaths (via) #
Artist turns Scrambler ride into giant Spirograph
— also: she uses pinball machines to make kinetic paintings (via) #
Cincinnati Court rules all musical samples must be paid for
— "Get a license or do not sample," they ruled (via) #
Comment spam forged to appear from legit companies?
— one theory: companies are spamming to get their competitors blacklisted from Google #
Audio: President Bush covers U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
— this is a masterpiece of digital editing and public domain audio #
FlashBlock Mozilla extension uninstalled by Macromedia?
— update: this turned out to be false (via) #
Obsessive collection of telephone book covers
— strangely, I remember this creepy 1984 phone book (via) #
Hot or Not's $200,000 voter drive contest
— a brilliant idea, and I get $100k if you sign up from that link and we win (via) #
Why Adam doesn't recommend Firefox for normal users
— I commented about my uncle's weekend upgrade experience (via) #
TargetAlert, Firefox extension to show icons next to non-HTML links
— PDF icons next to PDF links, and so on (via) #