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September 22, 2004

Record companies double royalties while online music sites lose money

— Apple makes only $.04 per song, while the labels take $.62 or more via Mat Honan #

Brian's roundup of new social-network local listing services

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Video: Watermelon Love

— seducing the online consumer #

SpamAssassin 3.0 released!

— also: a new logo, better performance, and a better plugin model #

Star Wars DVD released on Usenet two weeks ago

— here’s the Star Wars NFO file from Sept. 11 #

Archive.org's Sabucat vintage movie trailers collection

— not public yet, but here’s the growing index via Simon Carless #

Navy sailor crushes son to death while playing Gameboy

— reminiscent of the Everquest neglect death via Game Tab #

Change Mac desktop images based on CPU load

— reminds me of the Ambient Devices line of aware devices via simiandesign.com #

Botball organizer buys 350 Gameboy Advances

— $40 for a pre-owned (non-SP) GBA is dirt cheap via Gizmodo #

Guitar 101's cover songs forum

— like karaoke for guitars, but with an extremely supportive audience via MetaFilter #

Us Weekly says Britney faked her wedding

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Dowser, interesting client-side search tool

— privately tracks your local search history across multiple search engines via Delicious #

Flickr gets positive review in Sun-Times

— they deserve all praise via sylloge.com #
September 21, 2004

Cat Stevens diverts DC-bound plane to Maine

— he was on the federal watch list #

Nellie McKay is lying about her age

— and the White Stripes weren’t really siblings; does anyone care? via Fimoculous #

Life Lessons from Super Mario Bros. games

— also: life lessons from the SMB1 instruction bookley #

Pongmechanik, outstanding mechanical tabletop version of Pong

— check out the photos, or watch the video for gameplay #

Dave Chappelle reunites the Fugees in a massive Brooklyn block party

— it was directed by Michel Gondry for a likely DVD release; Gothamist has first-person accounts via Octopus Dropkick #

Changing page layout for different resolutions

— check out the demo #

Gameboy DS set for $149 on Nov. 21

— also: the tiny PStwo set for $149 on Nov. 1 via adampsyche #
September 20, 2004

First Nintendo DS commercial in Japan

— also: nice wallpaper and a nice shot of the Developers Hardware via Delicious #

"I Found Some of Your Life" is gone

— I suspect it’s partly because of this excellent net research #

Emulation and the Video Game Industry, A White Paper

via Delicious #

Wired on Kahle vs Ashcroft

— saving orphaned works still under copyright via iptablog.org #

Projecting Middle-Earth onto a map of Europe

via wherethreadscomeloose.com #

Slate dissects how Ali G keeps conning his famous guests

— vague memos, fake websites, and fake companies via Mat Honan #

CoolGov

— new blog of interesting info culled from official US government sites via Things Magazine #
September 19, 2004

Wikipedia hits 1 million articles

— very impressive via joi.ito.com #

Katamari Damacy for sale starting Tuesday

— and at only $20, it’s a steal #

Doom III demo released

— 461 megs seems excessive for a trial version of anything #
September 18, 2004

The Kleptones, "A Night at the Hip-Hopera"

— one of the best mashups ever created, local mirror via Jason Cosper #

Visual history of one user's spam

— excellent charts from 1997 to present via Nelson Minar #
September 17, 2004

Jon Udell's badass bookmarklet to search library books via Amazon

— Santa Monica people can use Sirsi and this base URL #

Paul Smith's Typewriter Art

— some of the earliest ASCII art, I bet via Delicious #

Instant Replay Binocular

— brilliant idea, if a flawed implementation via Gizmodo #

Video: Pepsi Can Fu

— from this very good TV commercial blog via The Morning News #

Google Answers on nerds in pop culture

— from Woody Allen to Ken Jennings #

Torrone's howto on tagging photos with GPS coordinates

— another step in documenting your every move #

Video: Willful Infringement, Mickey and Me

— documentary of a video store owner’s copyright battle against Disney, and many other similar stories via Simon Carless #

Screenshots of "Wanda and the Collossus," the Ico pseudo-sequel

— IGN has more details about the game via Simon Carless #

Sony launching smaller PS2 next week

via Gizmodo #

Spread Firefox campaign passes 720,000 downloads, with 7 days left

— G4TechTV has the lead with over 17k referred downloads via MetaFilter #

Galactic Conquest, amazing Star Wars mod for Battlefield 1942

— look at those screenshots! via Slashdot #

Ask Mefi thread about the history of scientific discovery

— some very thought-provoking comments via Things Magazine #

Rat Haus Reality, odd rat-sized houses

— rodents of unusual size via Things Magazine #

I Found Some of Your Life

— blogger finds digicam memory card, posts photos online with fictional narration via The Morning News #
September 16, 2004

The Jig Is Up

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Rock stacking street art

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Baby names for bloggers

— these are almost as bad as the LOTR baby names #

Homeless use Internet to stay connected

— I like that the ex-con geek has “LYNX” tattooed across his knuckles via Delicious #
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