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September 16, 2004

Video: Slowtron's "How to BBQ A Man"

— end of summer silliness courtesy of Coudal #

New U.S. nickel design

— heads on money are getting bigger and bigger via adampsyche #

Google's 1999 hardware

— how quaint! via adampsyche #
September 15, 2004

Virtual Window project

— fake LCD windows, a la Back to the Future 2 via David Bisset #

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 Simon Carless #

Romanian photo gallery decays with every pageview

— artsy, but clever via The Morning News #

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 adampsyche #

Image: Spam origin map

via Nelson Minar #

Firefox.com owner donates the domain to Mozilla foundation

— an unselfish act, props to Kevin #

Gmail invite spooler

— automated Gmail invite giveaways via Boing Boing #

"Godfather" horse head pillow

— catching up on links I missed over the weekend via Things Magazine #

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 Delicious #

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 The Morning News #

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 progressiveruin.com #

Artist turns Scrambler ride into giant Spirograph

— also: she uses pinball machines to make kinetic paintings via MetaFilter #

Meetup launches new site

— better design, message boards, more flexibility for venues via Delicious #

Cincinnati Court rules all musical samples must be paid for

— “Get a license or do not sample,” they ruled via Delicious #

Gameboy Advance console mod

via Jason Cosper #

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 Slashdot #

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 Greg Allen #

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 Delicious #

Image: Should I Rip This? flowchart

via Delicious #

Joel on the social aspect of UI design

— as always, a great read via Delicious #

Obsessive collection of telephone book covers

— strangely, I remember this creepy 1984 phone book via John Walkenbach #

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 MetaFilter #

Wikialong, Wiki extension for Firefox

— collectively doodling in the margins of the web via Delicious #

Gallina, Gmail-based blogging tool

— a bizarre proof of concept via Delicious #

Turn your NES controller into a PC joystick

— yet another great Torrone hack #

College textbooks available on BitTorrent

via Leonard Lin #
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 Matt Haughey #

Why Adam doesn't recommend Firefox for normal users

— I commented about my uncle’s weekend upgrade experience via Simon Willison #

TargetAlert, Firefox extension to show icons next to non-HTML links

— PDF icons next to PDF links, and so on via Leonard Lin #
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