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August 9, 2004

Windows XP SP2 BitTorrent site

— BitTorrent meets the demand that Microsoft can’t fulfill #

Saskatoon paper's profile of Usenet kook Daryl Kabatoff

— I wrote about him back in 2002 #
August 6, 2004

Forbes thinks RSS is dumb

— read the “Worst” section of the Standard review via techlawadvisor.com #

Joggle Tellybot, UK TV listings over Jabber IM

— can we get one for the U.S. now? via Delicious #

Close-up photos of ENIAC

— one of the first computers, plus lovely desktop wallpaper via cis.upenn.edu #

Yahoo mocks Google's employee party

via Philipp Lenssen #

Americans blocked from online access to live Olympics coverage

— another argument for pirating the Olympics #

Publisher buckles, renaming Katie.com book

— the Internet wins! via David Ely #

Drew responds to Wired's Fark article

— also: is Fark a blog? I say yes #

Video: Macromedia Shockwave press kit from 1995

— cue massive wave of nostalgia #

Excellent review of Fraggle Rock DVD

— explains in loving detail why my 6-year-old self adored it via Simon Carless #

Review of Seth McFarlane's "American Dad" pilot

— it’s no Family Guy, local mirror here #

dbagg3, an Atom-powered feedreader

— the first step in something very good via Simon Willison #

Unabashed racist wins GOP primary in Tennessee

— his official website is beyond ignorant via adampsyche #

Video: Rockwell Automation's Retro Encabulator

— mine’s on back order via MetaFilter #

How not to buy happiness

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Insane bicycling videos

— “Drag Race NYC” is a suicidal ride through NYC traffic #

Image: Status Quo tattoo

— I’ll bet Harv was there via b3ta #

MeatShake, shakes made of meat

— nice jingle on this page via b3ta #

Vulnerability in PNG image format

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August 5, 2004

25 Years of the Brown Sisters

— reminds me of these family photos via Delicious #

Google Ads for pirating Doom 3 from Suprnova

— there’s no way Suprnova had anything to do with it #

Lunatic Christians debating whether Barack Obama is the Antichrist

— they blocked access to the original, so here’s the Google cache via emptybottle.org #

First Doom 3 mod pack released

— co-op single player mode and 32-player servers via evilavatar.com #

Wired on anonymous onion routing networks

— or download the code yourself #

Tartarus, a 3D shooter engine built within Second Life

— a multiplayer game built inside a multiplayer virtual world #

MT-Blacklist 2.0 review and screenshots

— moderating spam, auto updates, and much more via neilturner.me.uk #

Can a Mac SE bypass modern Mac network security?

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California Extreme classic arcade show is this weekend

— the first time I’ll miss it in five years, see the panorama #

Solar charge your iPod or GBA

via David Bisset #

Sippey joins SixApart

— they’re building a serious brain trust there #

Video: Documentary on the Firefly Press

— a vintage letterpress company in Portland via Todd Dominey #

Engineering inscriptions in the catacombs of Paris

— beautiful typography photos via Todd Dominey #

Register UK on the Katie.com saga

— lawyers are pressuring Katie Jones to give up the domain via Slashdot #

LA Weekly on the history of IMDB

via Delicious #

Rumors that Sun may soon own PHP

— unlikely, no more than IBM “owning” Linux #

PalmPSOne, handheld Playstation 1 mod

— a cleaner version of the PSP1 mod via Slashdot #

Longshot Presidential Candidates

— including HRM Caesar St. Augustine de Buonaparte #

New version of Bugmenot Firefox extension auto-fills form fields

— this is huge, and very cool #
August 4, 2004

Flash: Don't Let It Get Your Cursor

— a final silly link for the day via adampsyche #

Die-cast "Back to the Future" DeLoreans

— including versions from all three films! #

Thai fuel cell converts carbs to electricity

— it’s like Mr. Fusion for Krispy Kreme donuts via Mike Elgan #

IRC bots are handling Usenet binary reposts

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MS Newsbot biased toward MSNBC articles

— or: why Google News is a better news site #

File Sharing Purchase Database

— retail purchases that resulted from illegal downloads via Slashdot #

Carmack to open-source Quake III engine later this year

— exciting news via bluesnews.com #

Flash: Low Morale's "Creep" video

— absolutely gorgeous Flash work #

Wikipedia entry on company name origins

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Declan McCullagh on John Kerry's record on technology

— in this Wired scorecard from 2000, he scored the same as John Ashcroft #

FCC approves TiVo's heavily-DRMed show-sharing

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