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September 7, 2004

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 #

Japanese novelty and party goods store

— OD finds some of the best items in the store via Octopus Dropkick #

TiVo and Netflix team up to offer movie downloads

— more in the Newsweek article via Kottke #

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 #
September 5, 2004

A Livejournal Grammar Lesson

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Simon Carless on O'Reilly's Gaming Hacks

— I’ve read the draft, and it’s excellent #

Detailed account of rock climber's infamous self amputation

— cute book title via MetaFilter #

Data Fountain

— international currency rates displayed with a Net-enabled water fountain via @acidzebra #

Jish quits blogging

— now who will I get to mediate between me and Ghyslain? via Anil Dash #

New version of MyTunes, the easy iTunes copying software

— the nag screen is only shown once now; thanks, Bill! via Boing Boing #
September 4, 2004

Darkguest, free and clean alternative to Evite

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NYT on the World Rock Scissors Paper Championships

— their FAQ is very entertaining via Delicious #

PBS special on the Video Game Revolution

— plus a nice site supporting the show via Slashdot #

Grand Theft Auto for the GBA confirmed

— top-down perspective sounds more like the original via Game Tab #

Fraud Frond

— gallery of cellphone towers disguised as fake trees via Boing Boing #

Star Wars, the Not-So-Special edition

— sarcastic and informative! via Delicious #

Jesus was a Jedi

— a Christian journal’s unusual cover story #

Adam Kalsey's new license plate

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Titanic, the Animated Movie

— a musical, with a kid-friendly ending via hitormiss.org #

gmail copy, Perl script to copy files to/from Gmail

— easy alternative to gmailFS via ntk.net #
September 3, 2004

Brilliant method of linking to excerpts of a large MP3

— with the Python source via Delicious #

Archie Does Revelations

— 1970s comics adaptation of a religious tract #

Image: Google Blog Google?

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Waxy.org 'Via' Links Aggregator

— very meta! read his justification for the hack via Delicious #

How to view and control your TiVo over the web

— with video and audio over Quicktime streaming server via pvr.blogs.com #

Ed Felten fact chects Wikipedia

— including the entry on himself #

Ico sequel announcement next week?

— the Japanese Sony site is counting down via Joystiq #

Bigha's Jasper laser

— incidentally, it’s one of the cleanest retail sites I’ve seen via 37signals.com #

MP3.com on Microsoft's four new digital music initiatives

via Magnetbox #

What's wrong with digital music stores?

via Magnetbox #

Cher's Hexadecimal Clock

via b3ta #

Baby name ideas from the Lord of the Rings

— Treebeard, Wormtongue, and Farmer Maggot are all nice via wherethreadscomeloose.com #
September 2, 2004

Software group falsely accuses Interactive Fiction archive of pirating Doom 3

— doom3.zip is a 114kb freeware DOS game from 1988 via Delicious #

Image: The Words Republican and Democratic speakers used

— lovely chart design from the NYT #

37signals web design tips for Christmas retailers

— good usability tips via Dave Shea #
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