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August 31, 2004

Brand mapping the presidential candidates

— what brands do Bush/Kerry supporters associate with their candidates? via Delicious #

Mac sightings in the movies, with makes and models

— obsessive “computers in media” lists are fun #

Fictional passwords and passcodes in movies

— not a long list, but a nice idea #

BBC rereleasing Hitchhiker's Infocom game online with illustrations

— you can play it online right now, with hints and a walkthrough via Simon Carless #

MovableType 3.1 released

— also: the MT Contest Plugin Pack and the new Professional Network via q.queso.com #

GBA price drops to $80

— Nintendo DS will launch on November 11th at $179 via Game Tab #

Engadget's interview with Jack Valenti

— also: Ed Felten’s debunking of the former MPAA head via Boing Boing #

Apple says new iMac G5 will run Doom III

— look for the last sentence under “A Place for Everything” #

Amon Tobin making soundtrack for next Splinter Cell game

— excellent choice for ambient gameplay via Simon Carless #

Adaptive Path's Extreme Usability series

— a clever Burning Man parody by Mule Design via Jeff Veen #

President Bush's nicknames for friends and foes

via The Morning News #

Friendster fires Joyce Park for blogging

— this is an unbelievably stupid move on their part via Boing Boing #
August 30, 2004

What if Simpsons characters mated?

— surprisingly good fan drawings via MetaFilter #

Ask Mefi poster performs mystery guitar riff, gets song identified

— neat trick, it’s like a manual search engine for music #

Liberated Games launches

— commercial games officially released for free by their creators via Slashdot #

NYT on eBay promoting dropoff stores

— great service, but 30% is a serious cut #

Collin Brooke on Wikipedia's reputation

— a Syracuse professor’s take on the controversy via Delicious #

Woman's skin grows over wedding ring

— impressive, but it’s no match for dad’s kidneys via @bijou #

History of the Apple.com homepage

— I linked to the 1995 version via Airbag Industries #

Scalable headlines in Flash

— here’s a funny side effect of the technique via Anil Dash #

Wikipedia's List of fictional companies

— also: fictional video games, brands, radio stations, and much more #

A Lesson Is Learned, a beautiful web comic

— surreal, but very funny via Jason Cosper #

Analysis of an artificial meme

— tracking of a small meme through social groups via Alf Eaton #

Kempa on palindromic music

 #
August 29, 2004

Justice Dept. censors Supreme Court quote

— the irony of the blacked-out quote is thick via Boing Boing #

Construction photos of the Chubu Airport in Nagoya

— here’s the Wikipedia entry #

Fimoculous is back!

— Rex Sorgatz’ site was a big inspiration for my own links blog #

Glassdog calls for nuanced anti-Bush bumper stickers

— liberal, but not dogmatic #
August 28, 2004

GmailFS, badass Gmail hack

— mountable Linux filesystem using Gmail for storage via Jeremy Zawodny #

Classic anti-piracy print ads

via @ponderance #
August 27, 2004

Video: VH-1's profile on Randy Constan, the Peter Pan guy

— he’s unhappy with the portrayal #

Old Men Crying

— Dan Rather tends to get weepy via Nelson Minar #

McSweeney's E-mail Addresses It Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone

 #

Memespread Analyzer, track keyword popularity in Usenet over time

— he was inspired by my old entry #

Acclaim files for bankruptcy

— another classic game studio dies #

Verisign loses Sitefinder case against ICANN

— lots of wonderfully thoughtful court rulings lately #

A morality tale of Spectrum ZX piracy and clones

— like it or not, piracy and emulation serve to preserve culture #

NYT on the movement towards computerized sewing machines

— “computers with needles and thread attached” #

Stiki Wiki

— WYSIWYG wiki with neat outgoing link previews via Leonard Lin #
August 26, 2004

Half Life 2 preloading begins

— the game is done! via Slashdot #

Paul Pfeiffer from the "Wonder Years" is a lawyer

— I bet he makes twice the yearly income of Fred Savage #

TiVo-like application for XM Radio under fire

— his software was C&D’ed by XM and the RIAA via Slashdot #

Video: Townsend's "Pour Some Sugar On Me," boy band take on Def Leppard

— the worst thing I’ve ever seen, made worse by the presence of Smashmouth #

Blog Torrent tracker beta

— the first PHP tracker that doesn’t need MySQL, but still too hard for most #

Interview with Downhill Battle's Nicholas Reville

— they renamed Battle Torrent to Blog Torrent #

Microsoft redesigns with standards

— well, almost there via David Ely #

Video: Bjork's Olympic performance

— without the annoying U.S. color commentary via adampsyche #

Lia's roundup of Marvel Swimsuit Specials

— the geekier precedent of Playboy’s upcoming girls of gaming #

ASCII-mode TV goggles

— distort an incoming video signal various neat ways via Eyebeam #

Dooce is having problems

— get well soon Heather, the Internet loves you via q.queso.com #
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