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September 15, 2004
Video: Greenskeepers' "Lotion" — great pop song inspired by Silence of the Lambs #
Gamespot's hugely improved reviews index — for example, PC games sorted by rating in the last year #
Oprah gives a new Pontiac to every audience member — they go ballistic for free soap, so this must have led to several deaths (via) #
Romanian photo gallery decays with every pageview — artsy, but clever (via) #
Adbusters files lawsuits against Canadian broadcasters — they won't air their ads #
Cameron's Foo Camp hack — also: here's why I wasn't updating my links for the last few days #
Trailers for Everyday Life (via) #
Image: Spam origin map (via) #
Firefox.com owner donates the domain to Mozilla foundation — an unselfish act, props to Kevin #
Gmail invite spooler — automated Gmail invite giveaways (via) #
"Godfather" horse head pillow — catching up on links I missed over the weekend (via) #
Megnut leaves tech to cook full time — I think this is wonderful, and so do others #
Video: Sin City preview trailer — a stylish comic book conversion, but the acting looks bad #
Quake IV preview scans — Raven's title will use the Doom 3 engine #
Waxy Links "via" Meta Aggregator — apparently, I have my own cult #
September 9, 2004
Cooking for Engineers — great recipe info design (via) #
Guardian UK on Dropcash — plus, some developers are using Dropcash to sponsor software features #
Diarists more likely to suffer from various ailments — well, that explains Livejournal (via) #
Snopes on the Big Burger — for people who refuse to heed Kliban's advice #
September 8, 2004
The Adventures of Superpup — obscure Superman spinoff from 1958 (via) #
Artist turns Scrambler ride into giant Spirograph — also: she uses pinball machines to make kinetic paintings (via) #
Meetup launches new site — better design, message boards, more flexibility for venues (via) #
Cincinnati Court rules all musical samples must be paid for — "Get a license or do not sample," they ruled (via) #
Gameboy Advance console mod (via) #
Save Betamax — call-in day to oppose the Induce Act #
Comment spam forged to appear from legit companies? — one theory: companies are spamming to get their competitors blacklisted from Google #
Kempa on Snerdles — robots that make superhero mosaics out of Nerds for nerds #
Audio: President Bush covers U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" — this is a masterpiece of digital editing and public domain audio #
Unix on the Gameboy Advance — this is a hugely geeky hack (via) #
Huge Ken Jennings Jeopardy spoiler — how many games he won, and his grand total #
September 7, 2004
Flash: Not My Type IV — animated typography, see the Flash storyboard way down the page (via) #
Register to vote via P2P — Bearshare adds voter registration to their P2P client #
FlashBlock Mozilla extension uninstalled by Macromedia? — update: this turned out to be false (via) #
Image: Should I Rip This? flowchart (via) #
Joel on the social aspect of UI design — as always, a great read (via) #
Obsessive collection of telephone book covers — strangely, I remember this creepy 1984 phone book (via) #
James Duncan is building a 3D chocolate printer — here's a video of it printing, sans chocolate #
Simon's new details of the Half-Life 2 code theft — including the IRC log that led to an arrest #
Slashdot launches Politics section — following the lead of Sensible Election (via) #
Wikialong, Wiki extension for Firefox — collectively doodling in the margins of the web (via) #
Gallina, Gmail-based blogging tool — a bizarre proof of concept (via) #
Turn your NES controller into a PC joystick — yet another great Torrone hack #
College textbooks available on BitTorrent (via) #
September 6, 2004
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) #
Japanese novelty and party goods store — OD finds some of the best items in the store (via) #
TiVo and Netflix team up to offer movie downloads — more in the Newsweek article (via) #
Merlin Mann's 43 Folders — Merlin's new site full of nifty productivity and software hacks #
10 real-life inventions that came from science fiction — $20 gets you a lot on Google Answers #
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