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August 27, 2004
— lots of wonderfully thoughtful court rulings lately #
— like it or not, piracy and emulation serve to preserve culture #
— “computers with needles and thread attached” #
— WYSIWYG wiki with neat outgoing link previews via Leonard Lin #
August 26, 2004
— the game is done! via Slashdot #
— I bet he makes twice the yearly income of Fred Savage #
— his software was C&D’ed by XM and the RIAA via Slashdot #
— the worst thing I’ve ever seen, made worse by the presence of Smashmouth #
— the first PHP tracker that doesn’t need MySQL, but still too hard for most #
— they renamed Battle Torrent to Blog Torrent #
— well, almost there via David Ely #
— without the annoying U.S. color commentary via adampsyche #
— the geekier precedent of Playboy’s upcoming girls of gaming #
— distort an incoming video signal various neat ways via Eyebeam #
— get well soon Heather, the Internet loves you via q.queso.com #
— not great quality, but it’s the whole thing #
August 25, 2004
— an old entry, now updated with 2004 data #
— buy drinks with your cellphone via futurismic.com #
— I can recognize a Torrone project from a mile away via Nelson Minar #
— over 1100 active users in the last 24 hours #
— what’s next, the Ladies of Marvel Comics? #
— the cleanups look great, but what about the new Jedi ending? via adampsyche #
— full conversion of original Doom for the Doom 3 engine, screenshots via doom3.filefront.com #
— just because it’s open doesn’t make it unreliable via Delicious #
— great trailer to a movie that doesn’t exist via MetaFilter #
— are you reading this, Luke? #
— and the purported copyright owners lost the song to the public domain! #
— only 200 spammers send 90% of spam, so this a good start via Slashdot #
— and someone gave them lots of money via Nelson Minar #
— from an academic journal on materials science and engineering via raygirvan.co.uk #
— an entertaining account of one attempt via Ev Williams #
— update: Q’s publicist says it’s fake via museumofhoaxes.com #
— “God bless the internet.” #
August 24, 2004
— the viral game pointed to pay phones today, which could activate “axons” on the website #
— adjusting for the population bias #
— he’s interviewed on the show tonight via marchdesign.com #
— one benefit of living in Sweden #
— like the Internet’s version of the Blair Witch Project via adampsyche #
— brilliant fan re-edit via Boing Boing #
— great list of trade secrets, more on Mefi via Matthew Baldwin #
— Simon Carless was the best editor of the best section of Slashdot #
— the JPL tutorial is nice, too via Boing Boing #
August 23, 2004
— new marionette movie, with political themes and graphic puppet sex via scrubbles.net #
— searches mish-mash of message boards, discussion lists, and blogs via Battelle Media #
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