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August 20, 2004

Flash: The Invisibility Game

— don’t miss the ending to level 12 via b3ta #

Movie: Red vs Blue's primer on Real Life vs the Internet

— funniest thing I’ve seen all month, from these guys via b3ta #

FoxyTunes, control your media player from Firefox

— Mac support is in development via @bijou #

Surowiecki on the Google IPO

— Wall Street retaliated from being removed from the process via Kottke #

Video: Interviews from FanimeCon 2004

— courtesy of Kwoon, an online Kung Fu series #

Cute… and Evil!

— Glassdog on Six Apart conspiracy theories #

Radio Userland adds Atom support

— very surprising; now Blogger should add RSS support via David Bisset #

Detachable phonecam lenses

— makes it possible to shoot good photos with crappy phonecams #

Time Travel Mutual Fund threatens Museum of Hoaxes

— I’m upgrading them from “hoax” to “scam” #

Build your own hoverboard

— here are some design ideas via @acidzebra #

Closeup prop photos from Back to the Future trilogy

— note the “Queen Diana” detail on the USA Today #

Vaporized alcohol comes to Manhattan bars

— order yours today for only $2995 via The Morning News #
August 19, 2004

Mister Donut desktop wallpaper

— the commercials are pretty damn cute, too #

Google Search: "hypertext links to this site, you must contact"

— more stupid linking policies via Simon Willison #

Video: "The Life Aquatic" trailer

— new Wes Anderson movie starring Bill Murray via Airbag Industries #

Fox News billboard gets Photoshopped

— worthy of the BLF #

Inquiry leads to Google Zeitgeist's removal of OS stats

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Khoi Vinh's outstanding redesign contest mockups

— his own site is amazing, highly recommended via Dave Shea #

MP3: NES-style cover of Michael Jackson's "Thriller"

— using the Konami VRC6 sound chip extensions for the NES via Simon Carless #

Queso's review of his Dropcash campaign

— he raised $450 in 13 hours, thanks to Metafilter #

Broadband users now the majority in the U.S.

— 63 million broadband vs. 61 million jealous dial-up users via Slashdot #

Cringely's advice for the newly public Google

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IPTA's great summary of the Grokster ruling

— Corante rounds up all the discussion #

Cory Doctorow on the EFF's historic Grokster win

— P2P developers aren’t liable for copyright infringement on their networks #

Brad Choate joins Six Apart

— they’re hiring too many smart, clever people #

Mozilla Sunbird 0.2 released

— the Mozilla Foundation is slowly rebuilding Outlook via mike.steinbaugh.com #

LA Weekly profile on Elizabeth Loftus, repressed-memory skeptic

via MetaFilter #

Playing "Halo" on the big screen

via Engadget #

Olympic athletes biting their medals

— the Yahoo search is currently broken in Firefox #

Donkey John

— Australian political commentary in the form of a Nintendo Game & Watch #

RSS Auction, excellent eBay-to-RSS generator

via Boing Boing #

Consensual hugging in Second Life

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Computer Chronicles episode on the Commodore 64

— including Skate or Die, the Koala Pad, and GEOS via Simon Carless #

Fitts' Law, designing navigation with large targets

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Google shares up 18%

via Battelle Media #

Videogame TV commercials

— someone get these on Archive.org! via Joystiq #

Top 25 sites requested on Bugmenot

— the biggest targets in the free registration wars #

Bugmenot creator responds to outage

— their host pulled the plug, so they’re moving soon via Boing Boing #

Nintendogs pet sim for the Nintendo DS

— pet the dog with the touchscreen? via Simon Carless #

Wired sponsors Creative Commons benefit concert

— with David Byrne and Gilberto Gil via Matt Haughey #
August 18, 2004

Toogle, text converter of Google Image Search

— takes the most popular image and converts it to ASCII art #

More details and screenshots of GTA San Andreas

— hundreds of hours of gameplay? yikes. #

Slashdot's 10 millionth comment

— “I don’t get it.” via Simon Carless #

MD5 algorithm proven insecure

— Chinese team generates collisions in a matter of hours via snarkout.org #

Flickr launches the Organizr

— built with the lovely new Flickr API #

Image: Yahoo News' horrific new skyscraper ads

— IE users are graced with gigantor banners #

Indie band Dios forced to change name by Ronnie James Dio

— will this affect Dio’s presidential campaign? #
August 17, 2004

Jaws in 30 Seconds Re-Enacted by Bunnies

via @ponderance #

Japanese children's books from the 1920s

— if only the images were larger via marchdesign.com #

RealNetwork launches anti-Apple blog, inspiring wrath

— they removed comments from the petition, and all the blog comments are from Apple fans via Darren Barefoot #
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